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Do you agree with building a third runway at Heathrow Airport?
Ruth Kelly has announced a consultation period for the addition of a third runway to Heathrow Airport. This will have a beneficial effect on local and national economies, but it will also have an impact on the envioronment. Do you think it should be built?
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 New Fleet of Thameslink Trains |
TheDepartment for Transport has announced that they have started theprocurement process for a new fleet of trains for the ThameslinkProgramme. The new trains will be a step forward in design and willbe consistent with the department's Technical Strategy, inparticular the objective of having lighter vehicles that will bemore energy efficient and have less impact on the track, with aconsequent savin...
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| Camden wins Pathfinder Initiative |
We have had a letter this week from Ed Balls MP, the Secretary of State for the Department of Children, Schools and Families, announcing that Camden has been selected to be one of the first wave of the 20 play Pathfinders that will start this April. We will receive capital funding of around £2 million (weighted by child population, deprivation and taking into account regional variations in bu...
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| Latest Metropolitan Police Environmental Update |
We have just received an update from the Metropolitan Police about their five-year Environmental Strategy, which includes objectives and targets to co-ordinate the activities of Safer Neighbourhoods teams to tackle such issues, when they are prioritised by the local community. The MPS also produces an annual Enviornmental Report with the Metropolitan Police Authoirty (MPA) which covers va...
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| Hampstead to Benefit from Access for All |
The Department for Transport has announced that the new Access for All scheme is providing an extra £35m per year from 2008 until 2015 to enable provision of an obstacle free, accessible route to and between platforms at stations. The investment means that this money will be ring-fenced to help a total of 92 stations in England and Wales, and 8 in Scotland to be targetted for Access All fundi...
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| Network Rail Improvements |
We have received notification from Network Rail that there are planned works in our constituency later this year as part of a wider project to upgrade the North London Line Railway. This is a £300m scheme to be delivered by Network Rail as part of the Olympic Delivery Authority's transport plans for 2012. It will enable more frequent and longer trains by the end of 2011 on the following...
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| 2007 Secondary School Achievement Tables |
The 2007 Secondary school achievement tables (Key Stage 4) were published on 10th January 08. These reflect GCSE and equivalent results for all maintained secondary schools, CTCs, Academies and independent secondary schools. This year's tables include a new science indicator showing the percentage of students who achieve at least two A*s in GCSE science. The tables are ava...
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| Increase in Budget for Primary Care Trusts |
The Department of Health has announced its revenue allocations to Primary Care Trusts for 2008 - 2009. All PCTs will receive an increase of 5.5%, a total cash increase of £3.8 billion, bringing to total revenue allocations to £74 billion. 82% of the total NHS revenue budget will be issued direct to PCTs compared to 72% in 1996 - 1997. Overall, the Department of Health has treble...
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| 2007 Primary School Achievement and Attainment Tables |
We have been informed by Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, the Secretary of State, that the 2007 Primary School (Key Stage 2) Achievement and Attainment Tables were published on 6th December 07. The Tables show the Key stage 2 results for each state primary school. This year's tables include a new KS1-KS2 'contextual value added' measure. This measure enables comparison of the progress made by ...
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| Half Price Bus and Tram Travel |
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has launched a scheme which means that up to 250,000 of the least-well-off Londoners can now benefit from half price bus and tram travel. The initiative entitles all Londoners on Income Support to receive half-price bus and tram travel, including lone parents, carers, long-term sick people and disabled people. These means that those Londoners o...
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| Hampstead Heath Station |
We have been informed recently that Hampstead Heath station is to be moved from Zone 3 to Zone 2 effective from this month (January 08). This will reduce many local fares, and will restore the station to the zone it was in prior to privitisation in 1996. The decision will be welcomed by our constituents for whom the existing zone of the station has been an issue of some significance since the ...
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| Royal Mail Christmas Club Scheme |
15th November 2007 - Royal Mail is launching a new Christmas Club Scheme. This product will offer a secure and convenient way to save for Christmas 2008 and features additional membership rewards that will increase their spending power. Customers will be able to start saving money at any of our 14,000 Post Office branches from January next year. Post Office managing director, Alan Cook, ...
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We have had a letter this week from Ed Balls MP, the Secretary of State for the Department of Children, Schools and Families, announcing that Camden has been selected to be one of the first wave of the 20 play Pathfinders that will start this April. We will receive capital funding of around £2 million (weighted by child population, deprivation and taking into account regional variations in bu...
The Department for Transport has announced that the new Access for All scheme is providing an extra £35m per year from 2008 until 2015 to enable provision of an obstacle free, accessible route to and between platforms at stations. The investment means that this money will be ring-fenced to help a total of 92 stations in England and Wales, and 8 in Scotland to be targetted for Access All fundi...
We have received notification from Network Rail that there are planned works in our constituency later this year as part of a wider project to upgrade the North London Line Railway. This is a £300m scheme to be delivered by Network Rail as part of the Olympic Delivery Authority's transport plans for 2012. It will enable more frequent and longer trains by the end of 2011 on the following...
The 2007 Secondary school achievement tables (Key Stage 4) were published on 10th January 08. These reflect GCSE and equivalent results for all maintained secondary schools, CTCs, Academies and independent secondary schools. This year's tables include a new science indicator showing the percentage of students who achieve at least two A*s in GCSE science. The tables are ava...
The Department of Health has announced its revenue allocations to Primary Care Trusts for 2008 - 2009. All PCTs will receive an increase of 5.5%, a total cash increase of £3.8 billion, bringing to total revenue allocations to £74 billion. 82% of the total NHS revenue budget will be issued direct to PCTs compared to 72% in 1996 - 1997. Overall, the Department of Health has treble...
We have been informed by Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, the Secretary of State, that the 2007 Primary School (Key Stage 2) Achievement and Attainment Tables were published on 6th December 07. The Tables show the Key stage 2 results for each state primary school. This year's tables include a new KS1-KS2 'contextual value added' measure. This measure enables comparison of the progress made by ...
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has launched a scheme which means that up to 250,000 of the least-well-off Londoners can now benefit from half price bus and tram travel. The initiative entitles all Londoners on Income Support to receive half-price bus and tram travel, including lone parents, carers, long-term sick people and disabled people. These means that those Londoners o...
We have been informed recently that Hampstead Heath station is to be moved from Zone 3 to Zone 2 effective from this month (January 08). This will reduce many local fares, and will restore the station to the zone it was in prior to privitisation in 1996. The decision will be welcomed by our constituents for whom the existing zone of the station has been an issue of some significance since the ...
15th November 2007 - Royal Mail is launching a new Christmas Club Scheme. This product will offer a secure and convenient way to save for Christmas 2008 and features additional membership rewards that will increase their spending power. Customers will be able to start saving money at any of our 14,000 Post Office branches from January next year. Post Office managing director, Alan Cook, ...