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 Manchester Congestion Charge Zone (23 June 2008) |
The Manchester Congestion Charging Zone is designed to regulatetraffic flows to make better use of our roads. This will lead togreater ease of use for...
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| Why I supported 42 days (16 June 2008) |
The House of Commons has voted for a measure which changesnothing in practice and nothing in principle. By allowing for thepossible future use of 42 d...
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| Proposed Post Office Closures (10 June 2008) |
The impact of the ‘Network Change Programme’ on High Peak postoffices was announced on June 10. Five post offices have beennominated for closure, ...
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| A Positive View of the Arts (2 June 2008) |
In the last few days I have seen some tremendous examples of howart can help people.In Glossop on Thursday I unveiled Vaughan Parker’s huge mural at...
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| A fair deal for temporary workers (26 May 2008) |
Working through an agency can be a convenient route into workfor many people, but I have been very concerned to hear how somepeople are let down by em...
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| Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill (19 May 2008) |
Whenever a free vote comes up in Parliament, not whipped alongParty lines, MPs should tell voters how they voted and why.I believe that the Human Fert...
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| Caring for vulnerable people (12 May 2008) |
As people live longer and the number of older people grows, theissue of how we should best care for older, infirm and disabledpeople is high on the ag...
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| Focus on Gaza (5 May 2008) |
The great and the good of the Middle East and the super powersare meeting to try to get the Road Map to peace ‘back on track’.Recently returned fr...
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| 10p issue resolved (27 April 2008) |
A government that is prepared to admit it when it makes amistake, and put it right, is a good government – as long as theneed does not arise too oft...
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| 10p Abolition was Mistake (21 April 2008) |
At a meeting of Labour MPs last December I told the Prime Minister that there would be a political price to pay for the abolition of the 10p income ...
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| Bedford Closure is part of bigger picture (14 April 2008) |
There are about a million people with disabilities who are not working today but would like the opportunity to do so. Some of them are on Incapacity...
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| Get Housing Benefits right (7 April 2008) |
Last Thursday I met the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to demand that the problem of housing benefits in High Peak is resolved and quickly...
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| Remembering the Women of War (31 March 2008) |
The Women’s Land Army and the Women’s Timber Corps, known as the Land Girls and Lumber Jills, worked on farms to feed the nation and fell timber...
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| 60 years of the NHS (24 March 2008) |
The National Health Service is one of Labour’s greatest achievements, available to all according to need and not the ability to pay. This year we...
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| Nice Budget, Darling (17 March 2008) |
Alistair Darling’s first Budget was a careful balancing act. The problems of the global economy are testing governments around the world but Brita...
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| Combating Child Poverty (10 March 2008) |
By the time you read this, Alistair Darling will have delivered his first Budget. I was one of 74 Labour MPs who wrote to the Observer last weekend...
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| Support for temporary and agency workers (3 March 2008) |
On Friday 22 February I stayed in London to vote for the Temporary and Agency Workers Bill. This is private members’ legislation designed to ...
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| Teaspoon's Travails (25 February 2008) |
Teaspoon is ten years old. She and her younger brother and sister are tiny. All three were born with the HIV virus already in their bodies. Their fa...
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| Convenient Health Care (18 February 2008) |
Family doctors in High Peak have been told by the British Medical Association (BMA) to campaign against the government’s call for more ‘user fri...
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| Keeping it in the Family (11 February 2008) |
My staff are the backbone of my office. They process hundreds of letters each week. They prepare my diary, my website, my publications. They carry o...
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In the last few days I have seen some tremendous examples of howart can help people.In Glossop on Thursday I unveiled Vaughan Parker’s huge mural at...
Working through an agency can be a convenient route into workfor many people, but I have been very concerned to hear how somepeople are let down by em...
Teaspoon is ten years old. She and her younger brother and sister are tiny. All three were born with the HIV virus already in their bodies. Their fa...