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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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Glenda Arranging Veteran Badge Ceremony |
Glenda is urgingHampstead and Highgate's Veterans to claim their Veteran's LapelBadge. The HM Armed Forces Veteran's Badge, which was launched in2004, is designed to be worn on civilian clothing to enable thepublic to recognise veterans in their community and thecontributions they have made. Anyone who has enlisted in the HMArmed Forces is eligible to receive the award. Inluded are also theCyprus ...
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Hampstead and Highgate: a review of families receiving working tax
credits |
Glenda has recently done someresearch into the situation with regards to families receivingworking tax credits and benefits. Our figures show that thereare 17,200 children in families who are receiving working taxcredit - nearly a third of these children are under five years old,and then a third between 5 and 10 years old, and then the lastthirs between 11 and 16 years old.Glenda is surprise...
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Glenda Speaks in the House about Post Offices |
The Tory Amendment against the Post Offices closures Bill was debated in the House on the 19th March. Glenda spoke up clearly about her resistance to the three proposed closures in Hampstead and Highgate: "I should like to reassure my right hon. Friend that I have no intention whatever of voting for the Conservative amendment, which comes from a party that when in government had a...
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Post Office Closures: Update |
4th March 2008 It is now two weeks since the Post Office Ltd announced the closure of 171 post offices across London, three of which are in Hampstead and Highgate. We are strongly apposed to these closures, particulary in light of a recent sub-post office closure in Haverstock Hill. We really believe that these closures will affect the most vulnerable people in our community, particularly tho...
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Post Office Closures |
The Post Office announced in a document that was launched on 19th February that it will be closing three post offices in Hampstead and Highgate. This comes as part of a larger move to close 171 post offices across London in an attempt to cut costs and reduce the accruing debt of Royal Mail. As a constituency we have already lost the sub post office on Haverstock Hill, and Glenda comments...
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Fuel Poverty in Camden |
The issue of 'fuel poverty' is on the agenda this week, and is being raised tomorrow at Prime Minister's Questions (16th January). During the winter of 2005 - 2006 there wer more than 24,000 excess winter deaths in England. More than 90% of winter deaths occur in the pensioner population. Figures produced by the Warm Homes Campaign 2007 (the annual fuel poverty campaign organised by the natio...
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Recycling in Camden |
Defra (the Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs) have published the municipal, waste statistics for all local authorities in 2006 / 2007. Overall, these show that: 83% of local authorities collected less household rubbish than in 2005 / 2006. 94% of authorities recylced and composted more of their houshold waste then in 2005 / 2006. 88% of disposal author...
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Constituency Crime in 2007 |
We have just received an update on the situation of crime in Camden. The Metropolitan Police released some figures in December 2007 which indicate that overall the crime rate around Camden is on the decrease, including all types of hate crime, which are down compared with this time last year. However, there has been a noticable increase in gun-enabled crime which has raised by 7.1% (140 ...
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