{"id":1182,"date":"2016-04-27T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2016-04-28T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:52:56","slug":"michael-opens-sevenoaks-business-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Michael Opens Sevenoaks Business Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1185\" style=\"width: 4000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1185 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053.jpg\" alt=\"Biz Show_22-4-16_053\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2662\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053.jpg 4000w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_053-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael with representatives from the Sevenoaks Chamber of Commerce.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday, Michael opened the fifth annual Sevenoaks Business Show at the Stag Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>In his speech, Michael\u00a0spoke about the 600 new businesses that have been established in Sevenoaks since 2010 and the\u00a0constituency\u2019s historic low level of unemployment, which has fallen by sixty percent since 2010.\u00a0 He also referred to the Government\u2019s support for the \u2018South East Accelerator\u2019 with lower business rates and corporation tax.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1186\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_020.jpg\" alt=\"Biz Show_22-4-16_020\" width=\"310\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_020.jpg 4000w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_020-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_020-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_020-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Biz-Show_22-4-16_020-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 85vw, 310px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael speaking to attendees at the show.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael\u00a0concluded by saying: &#8220;This is the fifth annual show and each year there is more and more evidence of the incredible success of our local enterprises. \u00a0I\u00a0am always proud to be Patron of the Sevenoaks Town Partnership \u2013 but I am never more proud than when I open this annual Business Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following his speech, Michael\u00a0spent time speaking to each of the 32 businesses with a stall at the show and meeting a number of local apprentices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Michael opened the fifth annual Sevenoaks Business Show at the Stag Plaza. In his speech, Michael\u00a0spoke about the 600 new businesses that have been established in Sevenoaks since 2010 and the\u00a0constituency\u2019s historic low level of unemployment, which has fallen by sixty percent since 2010.\u00a0 He also referred to the Government\u2019s support for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Opens Sevenoaks Business Show&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8,11,6,475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}