After a busy week and some technical problems, this is pretty late to post about an event last Tuesday - but it’s not every week that we get a visit from the Prime Minister.
Rishi Sunak came to Kings Hill to visit Kent Scientific Services, one of KCC’s hidden jewels. KSS provides testing and analysis to both public and private sector bodies, and its laboratory is particularly important given the volume of imports that come through our Kent ports (though its service are also used further afield).
The Prime Minister had launched a campaign against illegal vapes, and in particular their sale to under 18s, and visited KSS accompanied by the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Chris Whitty. KCC’s head of Trading Standards, Steve Rock, briefed our visitors on his team’s work in this area, including having seized half a million illegal vapes being brought into the country. Then KSS head Mark Rolfe took them to the laboratory to see the work that KSS does in testing and establishing the contents of illegal vapes.
The Prime Minister and Chief Medical Officer were impressed by what they saw. After the tour of the laboratory, local MP and Security Minister Tom Tugendhat, Matt Boughton, Leader of Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council and I were able to update the Prime Minister on local issues.
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