tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53412472021821609472024-03-14T07:30:28.227-07:00John McDonnell MPJohn McDonnell MP representing Hayes and HarlingtonJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-91231171381851613112014-03-31T07:08:00.001-07:002014-03-31T07:08:09.438-07:00Johnson and Puddifoot Put 200,000 local jobs at Risk with Madcap Airport Closure Scheme.
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for Hayes and Harlington including Heathrow, has described Boris Johnson’s plan
to close Heathrow Airport as “madcap threat to over 200,000 local jobs.”</span><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reacting to the plans by
Conservative politicians, Boris Johnson and the Conservative leader of
Hillingdon Council, to close Heathrow airport, John said “ I think that
Boris Johnson and Cllr Puddifoot have taken leave of their senses. This madcap
scheme threatens 200,00 local jobs. Whilst we don’t want another runway we certainly
don’t want to put at risk the livelihoods of so many local families. We want a
better not bigger Heathrow. For the leader of the local council to put at risk
so many local jobs is a dereliction of his duty to represent our local
community and demonstrates just how out of touch he is with reality. If he gets
his way our local economy will collapse and I doubt if there is a local family
that won’t be hit hard by his policy. I can’t understand what his motive is.
Some have suggested that he is looking to be appointed by Boris Johnson to a
London-wide post. Surely he wouldn’t sacrifice the jobs of so many local people
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-76863097264707592572014-01-20T15:53:00.000-08:002014-01-20T15:57:47.332-08:00Let's Establish a People's Parliament.<h1 itemprop="name headline ">
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The media and main political parties are serving us up rubbish, so we are opening up parliament's rooms for truly public debate<br />
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There are meeting rooms in parliament. Let's use them and bring some real politics to the place.'<br />
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Are we really going to allow the debate in the runup to the general election be dominated by the bigotry of Ukip against migrants, the vile hounding of anyone on benefits by the Tories, and the timidity of many in the Labour leadership about saying anything of purpose and principle?<br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/12/benefits-street-poverty-porn-british-fury" title="">Benefits Street</a> is just the latest example of the poison pouring daily out of our televisions, radio phone-ins and papers like the Sun and Mail – poison that is dictating the electoral agenda of the political strategists of the main parties, and manipulating the fears and insecurity of people in order to smokescreen the corporate kleptocracy that we inhabit.<br />
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It degrades and demeans us all if we allow this politics to dominate and go unchallenged. Anyone with any claim to decency has a responsibility now to stand up against this debased politics.<br />
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One way of taking a stand is to positively determine to engage in real politics and cut through the crap served up to us by this coalition of the craven.<br />
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With months to go before the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/general/general-election-timetable-2015/" title="">next election</a> we should be entering a period of intense debate about the state of the country and the politics we want. This hasn't taken off yet, and usually the last place to look for this is in parliament itself, with its sterile knockabout politics.<br />
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So how do we liven up the political debate in the runup to the election, while also giving it some depth?<br />
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When I was part of the left that took control of the Greater London Council in the 1980s, I was worried at how lacking in radicalism the incoming Labour group on the GLC actually was. So, in order to generate the ideas needed to stimulate and sustain a radical administration, we decided to throw open the doors of County Hall to anyone who wanted to convene a meeting to generate support for a policy or a campaign.<br />
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We turned it into a People's County Hall where meeting rooms became the forums for groups across the capital to debate and promote an idea for the future of London. The concept really took off, and virtually every day groups were meeting to develop their ideas into policies. You could open a committee room door at County Hall and bump into a group of people arguing about anything from bus fares policy to community arts and policing. There were heated arguments, hilarious moments when high-flown theoretical analysis imploded, and also examples of magnificent creativity.<br />
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This was politics at its rumbustious, exhausting, enjoyable – and at times infuriating – best. Isn't that the sort of feverish political debate we need to influence the period in which party manifestos are being formulated?<br />
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Just like at the GLC's County Hall, there are meeting rooms in parliament. Let's use them and bring some real politics to the place. Let's make the place a People's Parliament.<br />
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Since I first suggested this, lots of people have responded with proposals on what to discuss and who to talk to. So over the next couple of months we're making a start by hosting a number of gatherings in parliament on a wide range of issues that people have suggested.<br />
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People are posing hard case questions. After <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/oct/30/robert-webb-russell-brand-vote" title="">Russell Brand's proclamation of the no-vote strategy</a>, people want to know what sort of democracy we need then. In the week we are about to see the return of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/15/david-cameron-bonus-cap-royal-bank-of-scotland" title="">bankers' obscene bonuses</a>, and people are asking how they have got away with it and how we can wrest control of our economy from these tax-evading looters. As the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/21/david-cameron-fracking-green-investors" title="">prime minister gives his full backing to fracking</a> while homes are still being dried out from the floods, people are asking what will it take to wake people up again to climate change fears.<br />
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The aim is to break through the defeatism that is overpowering even those political parties, movements and individuals that have traditionally stood up for change.<br />
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The discussions are open to anyone. Check out the information on the website <a href="http://thepeoplesparliament.me.uk/" title="">www.thepeoplesparliament.me.uk</a>, or on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/@pplparliament" title="">@pplparliament</a>. Come and have a say.</div>
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-40590994850934151112014-01-19T13:28:00.002-08:002014-01-19T13:28:52.060-08:00The Poor Law Mentality Raises Its Ugly Head<span style="font-size: large;">There has been a lot of comment in the media about the programme "Benefits Street." This show was just another in a long line of interventions by the media at the behest of politicians aimed at hounding people on beneifits. Last year when the Mail and Express launched yet another attack on poor people and there was a threat to remove certain benefits from people, I wrote the following article for the Citizen, which is a journal produced by the Scottish Campaign for Socialisim. It is just as releveant nearly a year on in response to the latest assault on the poor embodied in "Benefits Street." </span><br />
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When recessions begin to bite and unemployment and poverty mount, there has to be someone or something to blame. Initially it’s anyone or anything other than the real culprits or the real causes.<br />
For three centuries the philosophy of the Poor Law has been drilled into the working class psyche. This dictates that unemployment and poverty are personal failings. It’s not the economic system that’s at fault or the distribution of wealth or power in society. There must be something lacking in the individual if he or she can’t support themselves and their family.<br />
Poor Law morality determines that if people are poor because they are physically or mentally incapable of supporting themselves; they are to be pitied and become the grateful recipients of charity. On the other hand, if they are physically able and not working, they must be consciously avoiding work and therefore have to be chided, sanctioned and forced into employment.<br />
Cast doubt on the assertion that poverty is a personal failing, then the whole question arises that if it’s not the individual to blame it may be the system.<br />
This is exactly the collective thought process that British society went through during the last great capitalist economic crisis which caused the decade-long depression of the 1930s and produced the Second World War.<br />
Two iconic scenes from Ken Loach’s recent film, “The Spirit of 45,” capture the discussions amongst the air raid wardens resting on their bunks between raids and troops returning from war, as they decide that it’s not the individual but the system that needs changing if the scourges of the pre-war unemployment and poverty are to be beaten.<br />
This generation struggled to throw off the Poor Law ideological burden of personal guilt for poverty. After the experience of mass unemployment in the 30s, people understood better that the precarious existence they lived was caused by a system that held them in insecurity and limited their own and their children’s chances in life.<br />
The catch phrase of the time of “Never Again” reflected the determination of working class people to secure change and never to return to the poverty and deprivation of the 1930s. The expression “We are all in this together,” stolen by the present day Tories, reflected not only the social solidarity of the times but also, more importantly, an understanding of the need to move forward to a new future collectively.<br />
The Welfare State was created to reflect this collective approach. The Attlee Government ensured that nobody was to be excluded from universal access to the benefits of the Welfare State. In this way society would be bound together in a joint venture to improve the<br />quality of life for everyone.<br />
This universal inclusivity secured much greater support and afforded much greater protection for this new social settlement for the future than if any class or group was excluded or singled out.<br />
The Fabian Society’s report “The Solidarity Society” was published in 2009 to commemorate the centenary of the Minority Report that was written by Beatrice Webb to the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Law. The Fabian report explains just why this concept of universalism was so central a foundation stone of the new welfare state. It cites three factors.<br />
The first is that universal institutions are an expression of the core ideal of social equality and express our common membership of society and equality of status. Universal institutions do not differentiate between people whilst targeting and means testing make it all too easy for the disadvantaged to be stigmatised and treated as the undeserving.<br />
The second is that empirically and possibly counter-intuitively, universal benefits are generally more effective at getting the help to where it is needed and overcoming problems of low take up. Apart from the administrative simplicity of distributing universal benefits, targeting divides the population into recipients and non recipients and helps create a perception that it is not respectable to claim benefits. The result, for example, is that that one third of pensioners do not claim the pension credit they are entitled to and one half do not claim their council tax benefit.<br />
The third factor is that universalism shapes the support for the welfare policies. Targeting leads to segregation and a sense of “them and us.” The more a benefit is targeted, the more it becomes associated with a stigmatised group and the more its popular legitimacy is undermined. Whilst the wider coverage of a universal benefit can tap into middle class self interest as a source of support for the welfare state and align the interests of middle income groups with those on lower incomes.<br />
The mass support for a universal welfare state was so deep that it outlasted the Attlee government and meant that no Conservative Government for three decades felt able to challenge it.<br />
It also meant that Thatcher, and every neo-liberal since, came to understand that a frontal assault on the welfare state would not succeed because it would be met with opposition from a wide coalition of supporters from across society and most classes. Instead an incremental chipping away at the universal nature of the welfare state might enable a reactionary government to divide and rule.<br />
This has been the exact policy of the neo-liberals in government over the last three decades pursued either consciously by Conservatives governments or, if we are being charitable, unwittingly by New Labour’s Blair and Brown. It’s worth recalling that means testing was extended by the Blair and Brown administrations with a vengeance and the concept of deserving and undeserving poor began to creep back into public policy under them.<br />
An economic crisis makes it that much easier for right wing governments to dismantle the universality of the welfare state with the beguiling argument that the fewer resources available need to be spent on the poorest. This line of thought then leads almost seamlessly to a conclusion that these scarce resources must also be targeted at the most deserving.<br />
With often the best of intentions, Labour politicians become drawn into the debate about the rationing of resources and invidiously into distinguishing between those in need and those that deserve assistance.<br />
It is then that we discover the Poor Law morality of blaming poverty on the individual and not the system is quite shockingly not far beneath the surface. The irony is that there is no reason for Labour to even be drawn into this debate. There is no shortage of resources in<br />
Britain, the seventh richest country in the world. Consequently there is no reason why anyone should live in poverty in our country and there is no insurmountable barrier or lack of a mechanism for mobilising these resources to provide for a fully funded welfare state, providing and distributing its services and benefits on a universal basis.<br />
The introduction of a few simple mechanisms for redistributing wealth and raising the resources to invest to create jobs in our economy would largely obviate the need for much of this unnecessary debate between universalism and targeting. It only appears relevant when there is an apparent shortage of resources. All socialists should keep repeating “there is no shortage of resources.”<br />If this sounds unrealistic, then simply note that when the banks needed the equivalent of a large welfare benefit payment, the Bank of England and the Government found £1.3 trillion virtually instantly .<br />
There is a standard checklist of how to raise these resources that includes amongst many others tackling tax evasion and avoidance, and introducing a wealth tax, a financial transaction tax on speculation and a land valuation tax.<br />
As our people experience the ravages of the bedroom tax, the new council tax poll tax, the Atos led assault on benefits and the increasing use of benefit sanctions, it is the ideal time for Labour to commit itself not just to reverse these iniquitous attacks but also to a return to a welfare state in which we are all genuinely in this together.<br />
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-45921970162449592312014-01-15T16:31:00.001-08:002014-01-15T16:32:33.259-08:00Please Help this Appeal <h1>
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"Can you help get Matilda walking? Girl who can't use her legs launches £25,000 appeal for her best friend</h1>
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<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Casey Burke, four, has helped launch a drive to raise money so her friend Matilda Duncan can have a pioneering operation</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Both girls suffer from cerebral palsy and were born prematurely</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Pioneering spinal operation will be carried out on the NHS - but Matilda's family must raise £25,000 to pay for pre and post operative care</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Casey is asking for 25,000 people to each pledge £1 to pay for treatment</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Visit <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/walking-Matilda" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">www.justgiving.com/walking-Matilda</a> to donate to the fund"</span></b></li>
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-41464417554254510732014-01-09T09:52:00.002-08:002014-01-09T09:52:42.910-08:001 in every 59 Hillingdon Households Under Repossession Threat
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have expressed my worries about the
threat of repossession that is looming over the heads of so many of my
constituents as the housing charity Shelter has revealed that Hillingdon is on
the national top 20 areas for court actions by mortgage companies and landlords
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nationally 1 in every 105 households in England are at risk
of eviction or repossession, according to new statistics released by Shelter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The charity has identified hotspots up and down the country
where people face the highest likelihood of losing their home, as part of its
emergency fundraising appeal to help homeless children this Christmas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The research, based on recorded court proceedings, found
that the London borough of Newham has the highest risk of repossession or
eviction in the country. Here as many as 1 in every 35 homes are at risk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The research highlights the extent of the capital’s housing
crisis, with London boroughs –where affordable housing is in particularly short
supply – dominating the top twenty.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Shelter report identifies that on the latest figures
there were 1694 court claims by mortgage companies and landlords in Hillingdon
issued between October 2012 and 30<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> September 2013. This is one in
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These figures are truly shocking and
demonstrate how the economic recession has hit local families really hard. It
is devastating that so many local families are faced with the threat of losing
the very roof over their heads. As the chief executive of the housing charity,
Campbell Robb, said it is a frightening reminder that homelessness can happen
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,905<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 35<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Barking and
Dagenham<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,956<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 36<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Haringey<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,758<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 37<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">4<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Brent<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,876<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 38<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">5<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Southwark<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3,021<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 40<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">6<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hackney<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,549<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 40<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">7<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lewisham<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,509<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 46<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">8<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Greenwich<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,177<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 46<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">9<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Enfield<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,520<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 48<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">10<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Waltham
Forest<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,995<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 49<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">11<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lambeth<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,621<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 50<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">12<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tower
Hamlets<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,973<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 51<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">13<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Croydon<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,784<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 52<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">14<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ealing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,277<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 54<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">15<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Islington<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,626<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 58<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">16<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hillingdon<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,694<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 59<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">17<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nottingham
UA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">East
Midlands<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2,117<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 60<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">18<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Luton UA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">East of
England<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,241<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 60<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">19<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Westminster<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,728<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 61<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">20<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Salford<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">North West<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,685<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 61<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Redbridge<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,607<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 62<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">22<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Peterborough
UA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">East of
England<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,183<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 63<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">23<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Newcastle
upon Tyne<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">North East<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,869<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 63<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">24<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wolverhampton<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">West
Midlands<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,620<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 63<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">25<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hammersmith
and Fulham<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">London<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,277<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 63<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">26<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Manchester<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">North West<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3,186<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 64<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">27<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 132.95pt;" valign="top" width="177">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oldham <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 121.25pt;" valign="top" width="162">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">North West<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.4pt;" valign="top" width="94">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1,382<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 68.85pt;" valign="top" width="92">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1 in 65<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 29;">
<td style="background: silver; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 56.75pt;" valign="top" width="76">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Slough UA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">South East<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Stevenage<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">East of
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">South
Tyneside<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Figures are based on possession claims issued in
county courts between 1 October 2012 and 30 September 2013 (Ministry of
Justice), compared with the number of households in the area (Census 2011). </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">A possession claim is the first stage in a
process which can end with the loss of a home.</span></div>
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and Repossession Hotspots 2013 Data’</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Children in temporary accommodation figures for
Britain compiled from: </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The England figure<span style="color: #1f497d;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/264825/201309_ID_reported__Grossed_EnglandLonTOT__data_for_public___6_December_2013.xls"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial;">published
by the DCLG</span></a></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Scotland figure published by the Scottish
Government</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Wales figure, estimated by applying an
average number of children in a homeless household (derived from information
published by the Welsh Government) to the number of households with children in
TA in Wales (also published by the Welsh Government).</span></div>
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-45991565720597602122014-01-04T09:24:00.001-08:002014-01-04T09:24:15.273-08:00Weekly Show with Kaashif Awan on Hayes FM on Monday I will be doing my weekly show with Kaashif Awan on Hayes FM this coming Monday (6th January) between 10am and 12 noon. You can listen to Hayes FM on 91.8 FM locally and on the internet.<br />
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Kash and I will be discussing the week ahead in Parliament. It's the first day back with a debate on new legislation to regulate the Water Supply industry and a possible ministerial statement on the Government's proposals to tackle abuses in cosmetic surgery. Possible further statements are expected on the deteriorating situation in Syria and its impact on Iraq. Coming up later in the week are also debates on housing and the control of gambling machines in bookies. <br />
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We will also be talking about some of the local stories in our area. Plans are already under way for the campaign locally and across London to deal with the renewed threat of the 3rd runway. Local concerns have also been expressed about the plans by <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Crossrail
to demolish and replace Hayes Station and some residents have been up in arms about the litter build
up on our streets over Christmas holidays. Skateboarders have also voiced their criticisms of the new skate park constructed by the council who it seems failed to follow the advice of the skateboarders themselves. More positively we want to promote the service to assist local residents recycle food waste
introduced by council.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Hayes FM is in need of many more volunteers to assist this community radio station. If you are interested in any aspect of the work of the station from presenting, production, news research, music and drama performance or assisting with the administration and fund raising, please just contact me. Full training will be provided on all these roles to volunteers by Hayes FM.</span>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-67983763465103605482013-12-23T18:20:00.001-08:002013-12-23T18:53:03.350-08:00My Recent Activities in Parliament.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let me wish you all a very Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have decided to publish a quarterly newsletter of my activities in Parliament and in the local community. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These are just some of my main speeches in Parliament since I returned in September after my illness. It doesn't include the numerous questions and other interventions I have also made. If you would like to receive my newsletter by email directly please drop me an email and I will make sure that you do. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In addition to these speeches, last week I also challenged the Prime Minister at Prime Minister's Question Time about his past statements opposing Heathrow Airport Expansion and his commissioning of the Davies Report, which has recommended potentially two new runways at Heathrow. I reminded him that many local people supported him at the last election because of his statement "No ifs, no buts, there will be no third runway at Heathrow airport" but that now as a result of his Davies Report many felt that they had lost faith in him as someone who kept his word. Needless to say, I received a fairly meaningless reply.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25432914">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25432914</a></span></o:p></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am extremely concerned at the risk to our community and have convened a public meeting on Thursday 16th January at 7pm at William Byrd School in Harlington to discuss this threat and what we as local residents can do about it. Please do come along.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These are the other main speeches I have made in Parliament since the new session started.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">August <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">29<sup>th</sup>:
<u>Commons vote on Military Intervention in Syria</u> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I
spoke in the Chamber to make it clear that I would not support any motion that, in
principle, supports military interventions in Syria that can only do more harm
than good. I questioned the Prime Minister as to why Great Britain, as a sovereign
independent state, should automatically fall in line with American foreign
policy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I
called on colleagues to learn from the Experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan, to
remember that military intervention does not just cost lives but undermines the
credibility of peace settlements, international institutions we look to secure
peace in the world, and to focus on conflict prevention and resolution rather
than military aggression. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130829/debtext/130829-0001.htm#1308298000503"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130829/debtext/130829-0001.htm#1308298000503</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">September<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">11<sup>th</sup>:
<u>Transparency of Lobbying </u></span><a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131009/debtext/131009-0003.htm#13100979000740"><span style="background: white; border: 1pt windowtext; color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0cm;">Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I
spoke extensively during second reading, report stage and third reading and
strongly opposed the gagging bill for its attempt to block community organisations campaigining and its biased prejudice against trade unions
and trade unionism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130911/debtext/130911-0002.htm#13091143001813"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm130911/debtext/130911-0002.htm#13091143001813</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">October<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">22<sup>nd</sup>:
<u>Immigration Bill</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">When the Home Secretary made her first statement to the Commons on this Bill I
questioned her on the practicalities and the deeply concerning and xenophobic
implications of this Bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asked </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">what sanctions, fines or prison sentence would be given to a
doctor or nurse whom treats, or a vicar who marries, a disqualified adult, the
Home Secretary was unable to provide an adequate response. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131022/debtext/131022-0001.htm#13102262000295"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131022/debtext/131022-0001.htm#13102262000295</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">22<sup>nd</sup>:
<u>Anti Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Bill</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">At
the report stage of this Bill I supported amendments to strip it
of its most draconian powers that would inevitable lead to injustice. The Bill
gave provisions for the Police t</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">o prosecute someone on the basis that they could commit a
crime in the future. That is a burden of judgment placed on a police officer or
others that is almost impossible to determine.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I spoke out in favour of the right to
protest and called on the House to ensure people have the right to express
their views. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I fear that this Bill if made law will result in injustice.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">28<sup>th</sup>: <u>Local
Audit and Accountability Bill </u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At second reading I addressed three issues: The first was the
Bill’s failure to acknowledge the fears about corruption and lack of probity in local government, the
second, its failure to address the structural and procedural breakdown of accountability
of councillors and council officers and the third, the new code of practice for council newspapers to prevent councils campaigning on issues of local concern.</span></div>
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Bill </u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I tried to use this Bill to protect the pensions of workers whose jobs had been privatised and their pensions cut. I reminded MPs that they have</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
a moral responsibility that is separate from government. When Governments give
promises to people, Parliament has a role in ensuring that they are adhered to.
I tabled a new clause to urge the government </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to recognise that railway workers whose jobs had been privatised had lost pension benefits depite all the promises of previous Governments.I called on
the government to send out a message that
Governments had a responsibility to abide by its commitment to protect people’s pensions.</span></div>
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Speed Rail Preparation Bill </u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I tabled amendment
23 on the link between the network and Heathrow, an issue I raised on behalf of
my constituents in each debate we have had on High Speed 2.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="stpa_o141"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="131031-0003.htm_para6"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="13103165000682"></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">My
background is in supporting rail expansion and investment. In Hayes and
Harlington we have a railway estate and a large number of railway workers and,
in addition, I chair the RMT trade union group in Parliament. When the idea of
high-speed rail was first proposed it was welcomed in our constituency for a
number of reasons. One was that if we could get railway journeys below four
hours, that would take pressure off Heathrow airport and reduce the need
short-haul flights into Heathrow. That assisted in our campaign against the
expansion of Heathrow.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="stpa_o142"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="131031-0003.htm_para7"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="13103165000683"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">However
when the route was published, every Member south of Birmingham could assess its
impact on their constituency, except me, because the link to Heathrow was not
included. The route of the link to Old Oak Common was published, but then we
were told that there would be a direct link at some stage, the options would be
published, there would be a consultation, a preferred option would be
considered, compensation arrangements for those affected would be discussed and
then this House would made a considered decision. I raised my concerns in the Commons chamber </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that constituents now have no idea what impact the route will
have on them because, following the introduction of the Davies commission, the
whole timetable and consultation process for the link to Heathrow have been
deferred until after the next election. </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">11<sup>th</sup>
<u>Offender Rehabilitation Bill </u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I made it clear in this debate that I am deeply worried about the privatisation of the probation service. I have no confidence that private companies will be able to supervise effetively ex offenders who have committed a range of serious crimes. i believe that the general public will be put at risk. I threatened ministers if any of my constituents are hurt by
probation privatisation I will do all I can to stop them holding public office
again</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131111/debtext/131111-0002.htm#1311119000193"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131111/debtext/131111-0002.htm#1311119000193</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">20<sup>th</sup> <u>Regulation
of Refractive Eye Surgery<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I introduced a Bill to regulate
refractive eye surgery, including laser eye surgery. The purpose of the bill is
to tackle current failings within the industry. There are too many stories of
people having their eyesight damaged as a result of this surgery and too many
reports of high pressure sales tactics used by companies to persuade people to
buy laser eye surgery without enough explanation of the risks involved and then
not enough aftercare when things go wrong. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131120/debtext/131120-0002.htm#13112092001816"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm131120/debtext/131120-0002.htm#13112092001816</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">20<sup>th</sup> <u>Defence
Reform Bill<o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I spoke out against
ideologically motivated and unworkable Tory plans to privatise defence <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>procurement. I challenged the Secretary of State that surely the
concept of competition is stretched to absurdity when there is only one bidder.
We risk demoralising the staff we employ at the moment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">On
the 10<sup>th</sup> of December the Defence Secretary was forced to abandon his
dangerous plans to privatise procurement, which I welcomed but explained in the Commons chamber that </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">there are 16,000 workers whose futures are still vulnerable
following the Secretary of State’s statement.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">16<sup>th</sup>
<u>Care Bill</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">I spoke on a number issues that have been raised with me by constituents. The first
concern raised centred on the regulation of carers who are recruited as a
result of direct payments. In our constituency, the borough has moved
progressively towards direct payments, where the individual recruits carers on
the open market. I raised the concern that these carers are included in the regulation
system of the Care Quality Commission, which is not currently the case.
Secondly I brought up the issue that the Bill should cover the whole range of
abuse by carers should be covered by the Bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thirdly I raised the issue </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">of assessment and reassessment drawing on
the extreme difficulties some in our community face during the process of
assessment. </span></div>
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stress and, as a result, people with substantial needs are
not being addressed—those with moderate needs, which are still significant and should
be within the system, are being ignored completely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">17<sup>th</sup> <u>Local
Audit and Accountability Bill<o:p></o:p></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">At
report stage </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I tabled new clauses to the Bill to draw attention to some of
the issues raised by the Transparency International report surrounding
corruption in local government. It is critical that we maintain the confidence
of the general public in the administration of local government. I think that
Transparency International has helped us greatly. Given the lack of data on
corruption in local government collected at national level or any other level,
Transparency International looks at the systems implemented to make sure that
corruption does not take place.</span><br />
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23rd <u>General PreRecess Debate</u><br />
I raised a number of issues including Heathrow expansion, the cuts to local Policing and the Fire Fighters strike planned for Christmas Eve. I appealed to Ministers to meet with the Fire Brigades Union to negotiate a settlement to this dispute.<br />
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-43605465595055305472013-12-06T09:38:00.002-08:002013-12-06T09:38:37.259-08:00Chancellor's Autumn Statement I raised with the Chancellor in his Autumn Statement yesterday the issue of the return of the bonus culture in the City of London. I am worried that Bankers' pay has risen by 35% in the last year whilst most people have had their pay cut, frozen or at best a 1% increase, not even matching inflation. We appear to be returing to the casino economy practices in the City that caused the economic crisis. <br />
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<b><b>John McDonnell</b> (Hayes and Harlington) (Lab):</b> Whatever one’s view of the past, there are worrying signs that the bonus culture is returning to the City, with large payouts, share distributions and high dividend payments disguising what were formerly bonuses. Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer make it clear that the Government stand ready to introduce further measures to control the bonus culture? I believe that they would have the support of the whole House in doing so.<notus-date day="5" month="12" textmonth="Dec" year="2013"><a class="anchor-column" href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="column_1123"> </a></notus-date><br />
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<a class="anchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="st_o244"> </a><a class="anchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="13120554000431"> </a><a class="anchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="131205-0002.htm_spnew37"> </a><a class="anchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="13120554001022"> </a><b>Mr Osborne:</b> I find myself in agreement with the hon. Gentleman. He put his question in a very measured way. We do not want to see a return to the uncontrolled bonus culture. We now have a much tougher regime in respect of the transparency of bonuses and clawback, which means that if things go wrong in trades or for a bank, they can get the money back that they have paid people in bonuses. We will take measures to tackle things such as dual contracts, as I mentioned briefly in my statement and as is set out in the document. People who work in the financial industry often split their contract so that they can claim that they are only working for part of the time in the UK to avoid tax. Where there is egregious tax avoidance, we will take steps. I agree with him that the banking system as a whole must be cognisant of the times in which it lives.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-32525418516114393752013-12-06T09:25:00.001-08:002013-12-06T09:40:25.449-08:00Powerday Planning Application for Tavistock Road, West DraytonI spoke at last night's packed public meeting in St Matthews Church in West Drayton organised by the local residents' association to oppose the planning application by Powerday for a massive recycling operation on Tavistock Road.<br />
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Over 150 people attended and expressed their worries about the impact of this development so close to a residential area. People's main concerns were the increase in heavy traffic in an already congested road network, a worsening of air pollution in one of the most air polluted areas in the country and the increase in noise and dust from the site.<br />
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All the local councillors, John Randall the MP for Uxbridge and I confirmed our opposition to this planning application. It was reported that a contract had just been signed by the West London Waste Authority to transport local waste by rail to a recycling centre in Bristol. <br />
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Local residents have submitted a petition of over 3000 signatures and over 200 letters to the council opposing the planning application. I have expressed my opposition as well.<br />
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The Council's Planning Committee meets on Tuesday 11th December at 8pm at the Civic Centre in Uxbridge. Local residents are urged to attend to show their opposition to this proposal.<br />
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If the Council rejects this application it will go the the Mayor for London for his views and if Powerday appeals it will go to the Secretary of State for him to set up a planning appeal inquiry.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-39067131356791153672013-12-05T09:45:00.000-08:002013-12-05T09:45:53.756-08:00Hayes FM – on the lookout for volunteers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hayes
FM, our major West London local community radio station, is
re-launching at its brand new studios at Rosedale College in Hayes in
February next year and we're on the hunt for volunteers to help run
it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To
prepare for the re-launch we are looking for more volunteers to help
in researching, producing and presenting programmes as well as
helping sell advertising and raise funds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Could
you consider volunteering or is there anyone you know who could be
interested? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There
is training provided for all the roles we need volunteers to fill and
support as people go on air for the first time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Also
would you or an organisation you know be interested in broadcasting
its own programme on Hayes FM? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
particularly need presenters for daytime shows and programmes for
daytime broadcasting. There are opportunities for pre-recording
programmes as well in order to suit the times you or your group could
be available.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If
you are interested in joining us at Hayes FM, please drop me an email
and I will arrange for Hayes FM to contact you to discuss how you can
become part of our team.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hayes
FM is not just a community radio station, it provides training and
opportunities for many young people to gain the confidence and
experience to gain employment or go on to further training. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Best
wishes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: medium;">John
McDonnell MP and Chair of Hayes FM</span></span></div>
Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13422254703358717511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-38779950340121315852013-09-06T06:38:00.000-07:002013-12-02T01:38:33.358-08:00Statement from John McDonnell MP<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9wpxU5Sw_M/UoTgWHvOrGI/AAAAAAAACEA/0pAYRxwizLI/s1600/Generic%2BPost%2BImage-796283.png"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9wpxU5Sw_M/UoTgWHvOrGI/AAAAAAAACEA/0pAYRxwizLI/s320/Generic%2BPost%2BImage-796283.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5946124078674783330" /></a></p>Back in May I experienced chest pains for several days but had a busy schedule of meetings in the constituency and activities in Parliament and so continued on working until after speaking at a public meeting I suffered severe pains and my wife insisted that she take me to hospital.
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<br>I visited the Accident and Emergency Unit at Hillingdon Hospital and was diagnosed as having a minor heart attack. I was promptly taken by ambulance to Harefield Hospital where I was operated on successfully within 24 hours.
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I am now on the hospital's rehabilitation programme and feeling well and increasingly stronger.
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<br>Last week I returned to Parliament to speak in the debate on Syria and this week I am back in my constituency office and raising further issues in the Commons.
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<br>I want to thank the doctors, nurses, paramedics and other staff at both Hillingdon Hospital and Harefield Hospital and my own GP, Dr Verma, for the excellent care and treatment they provided to me. They were all extremely warm and caring, whilst providing the highest possible professional treatment. This was the NHS at its finest.
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<br>I have written to the Chief Executives of both hospitals to pass on my praise and thanks to these wonderful NHS staff. I have also agreed to revisit Harefield Hospital this month to speak at the hospital's annual seminar on treating heart attacks.
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<br>I tried to return to work soon after my heart attack but this proved to be too soon and I had a setback. However during my period of recuperation my colleague, Helen Lowder, who manages my constituency office, and her team of staff and volunteers have worked incredibly hard to respond to the needs of my constituents and to deal with local issues as they have arisen. I wish to place on record my thanks to Helen and her team for their hard work and dedication.
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<br>As people have become aware of my illness I have received numerous cards and messages of support. I wish to thank all those individuals and organisations who have sent their best wishes and offered their support. Many religious groups have not only expressed their hopes for a speedy recovery but have also mentioned me in their prayers. I am grateful for this kindness.
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<br>I have really missed not being at the heart of community activities over the last three months and I am looking forward to getting fully back into action, especially working with local people and local community groups.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-63115929593219645402013-06-18T06:56:00.000-07:002013-11-18T04:56:32.740-08:00Hillingdon Council Rips Out Hedges at Botwell Common/Lake Farm<span style="font-weight:normal;"></span><iframe style="background: grey;" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/a2ti_pT5zjo" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="310" width="550"></iframe><br> <br> Hillingdon Council has ripped out the historic hedge that was the border between Lake Farm Country Park and Botwell Common.This act of appalling environmental vandalism has destroyed the habitat of the local birds just at nesting time contrary to the legislation protecting these habitats at this time of the year. <br> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-4460963685391056062013-05-03T06:58:00.000-07:002013-11-18T04:56:32.738-08:00“Why is the Council seizing much more land than it needs to build school on Lake Farm?"The Council is being forced to consult on how much land it is
<br>appropriating to build a new school Botwell Common and Lake Farm. In the
<br>consultation papers it is revealed that the Council is seizing at least
<br>50% more land than it originally said it needed in its planning
<br>application for the new school.
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<br>Local MP, John McDonnell, commented "The only reason the council is
<br>trying to seize so much more land is that it must have a hidden agenda
<br>to build on more of our country park. Is there a hidden plan for housing
<br>or a secondary school on the park or both? Are we witnessing another
<br>sell off and asset stripping exercise in the south of the borough by
<br>these Uxbridge and Ruislip councillors? We are demanding answers."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-35626998428405997982013-05-03T06:57:00.000-07:002013-11-18T04:56:32.736-08:00Guru Nanak's New Primary School Plans Means Council Has No Need to Build on Lake FarmGuru Nanak School has now applied to the Council to build a new fourth
<br>form of entry primary school on its site in the same ward as the council
<br>plans to build a school on Botwell Common and Lake farm.
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<br>The pupils that have been accepted to attend the new Guru Nanak Primary
<br>School are overwhelmingly drawn from the local Hayes area.
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<br>The new school is to be built on the existing school site surrounded by
<br>existing school buildings and although technically on green belt land,
<br>it is land not open to the public and not in the country park area.
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<br>Local MP John McDonnell commented
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<br>"I am reluctant to see any area of green belt built upon but allowing
<br>this school to go ahead on land that is already on the school site,
<br>surrounded by school buildings, is inaccessible to the general public
<br>and not in a country park, means that the council has no need to build
<br>on our Botwell Common and Lake Farm country park. This development could
<br>save our country park. I am urging the council even at this late stage
<br>to drop its plans to destroy Botwell Common and Lake Farm Country Park.
<br>This new school means that there will be enough school places in the
<br>area. There is now simply no need to destroy our park. To press ahead
<br>now means that the Council must have a hidden agenda for the Lake Farm
<br>site."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-8209550237074859302013-04-22T06:58:00.000-07:002013-11-18T04:57:12.314-08:00Betrayed by BorisWe have now learnt that Boris Johnson mayor for London has given the go
<br>ahead to Hillingdon council to build on Lake Farm Country Park and
<br>Botwell common. We await the outcome of the secretary of state's
<br>decision which is expected this week.
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<br>I convened a meeting on Saturday 20th April at which local residents
<br>expressed their fury at the Mayor for London's decision. Boris Johnson's
<br>decision flies in the face of his earlier commitments to protect the
<br>green belt and his statements opposing school developments on green belt
<br>land.
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<br>This is a disgraceful betrayal of our local community by Boris Johnson.
<br>He has broken every promise he gave to us before he was re-elected that
<br>he would protect our green belt. He has also contradicted his recent
<br>statements against building schools on the green belt and using school
<br>developments as an excuse to build on our cherished open spaces. Our
<br>local residents, local councillors and I are committed to campaigning
<br>against the threat to our green belt.
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<br>It was also revealed at the public meeting that the council has
<br>submitted a formal proposal to appropriate a much bigger piece of the
<br>Lake Farm and Botwell common than originally planned for the new primary
<br>school. I am really worried now that the council is taking a much larger
<br>proportion of our country park than was first proposed. I fear that they
<br>now have plans to build on another section of the park for a secondary
<br>school. The council starts its consultation on secondary school
<br>expansion in September. It is too much of a coincidence that they now
<br>want to appropriate such a sizeable increase in the land take of our
<br>country park. Consultation on this appropriation of the land ends on the
<br>30th April. No local residents have been written to and only a small
<br>advert has been written in the gazette. I am urging local residents to
<br>write in objecting to this land grab by the council.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-20915914610914786002013-03-06T06:59:00.000-08:002013-11-18T04:56:32.732-08:00Council Forces Through Plans to Build on Lake Farm and Botwell CommonLast night the Council convened a special Planning Committee at short
<br>notice to force through its plans to build on Lake Farm Country Park and
<br>Botwell Common. The Planning meeting degenerated into near chaos as
<br>information contained in the Council's reports recommending the
<br>development was comprehensively challenged by local residents and local
<br>Labour councillors.
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<br>The Councillors heard that there was no need for a new school to be
<br>built on this green belt land as pupil numbers could be catered for in
<br>the new Guru Nanak Free School to be opened later this year in the samee
<br>ward,. In addition a Governor from the new Rosedale Primary School
<br>repeated the Governors' and School Headteacher's offer to expand this
<br>school by a further form to assist in preventing the need to build on
<br>the green belt. It was revealed atht the old Hayes Swimming Pool site
<br>could also accomodate a new 2 form of entry school, thus avoiding the
<br>need to build on Lake Farm and Botwell Common. All this was rejected by
<br>the Conservative councillors on the committee, not one of whom lives in
<br>the Hayes area.
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<br>The campaign against this disastrous destruction of our green belt is
<br>now moving on to lobby Boris Johnson to call this planning application
<br>in for him to determine as it flies in the face of his policies to
<br>protect the green belt. I will be joining local residents at 1pm at City
<br>Hall next Tuesday to deliver our letters to him urging him to intervene
<br>to save our park from these local vandal Conservative councillors. Come
<br>and join on Tuesday.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-2079446365740042302013-03-04T06:59:00.000-08:002013-11-18T04:56:32.729-08:00Planning Committee Meeting To Decide on Lake Farm on Tuesday 5th March at 7pmThe Council has convened a Council Planning meeting tomorrow night to
<br>determine its planning application to build on Lake Farm Country Park
<br>and Botwell Common. The Council is seeking to force this application
<br>through despite all the opposition from the local community.Local
<br>residents will be meeting outside the Civic Centre at 6.15 to
<br>demonstrate our opposition to this attack on our local park and green
<br>belt. Come along and join us. The Planning Committee will be held at 7pm
<br>in the main Council Chamber and is open to the public. Come to the
<br>Committee to show your concern at what the council is doing to destroy
<br>our open spaces.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-8495065591141276132013-02-06T07:01:00.000-08:002013-11-18T04:57:12.316-08:00Cuts in Local Police<span style="font-weight:normal;"></span><iframe style="background-color: grey; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;" src="//www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12405" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="310" width="550"></iframe><br> <br> There was a debate in Parliament today on the future of the Metropolitan Police Service. This follows the publication of figures that showed that since the election in 2010 London has lost over 1100 Police Officers. The Mayor for London is undertaking a consultation this month on his strategy for Policing in the capital. I am worried that we have already seen Policing cuts in our area and we face a threat to our local Police Safer Neighbourhood Teams that have been successful in our community in getting more Police Officers on our streets. I spoke in the debate to draw attention to our local fears for Policing in our area.<br> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-22457304433243110062013-01-31T07:03:00.000-08:002013-11-18T04:57:12.309-08:00High Speed Rail: Government's Preferred Route to HeathrowAlthough the Government has yet again delayed its decision until 2015 on
<br>the way in which HS2 will link up with Heathrow and whether there will
<br>be a spur from HS2 to the airport, it has shown us what its preferred
<br>route would be. This is the map of the route.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-34659788484823881842013-01-29T07:04:00.000-08:002013-11-18T04:57:12.311-08:00High Speed 2 Announcement: Government Delays Decision on Heathrow Spur Link Until 2015<span style="font-weight:normal;"></span><iframe style="background-color: grey; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;" src="//www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=12326&st=15:27:31.8670000" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="310" width="550"></iframe><br> <br> Because of yet another Government delay my constituents are faced with the worst of all worlds. This continuing uncertainty is unacceptable. It is certainly no way to run a railway or a transport policy. I called on the Government in Parliament today to bring forward the Davies Commission report on airports so that this report can rule out Heathrow expansion once and for all and then the Government can be honest about its plans for linking HS2 with Heathrow.<br> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341247202182160947.post-33692452095303156932013-01-27T07:05:00.000-08:002013-11-18T04:56:32.734-08:00Volunteers Undertake RSPB Bird Count on Lake Farm<span style="font-weight:normal;"></span><iframe style="background-color: grey; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%; background-clip: border-box; background-origin: padding-box; background-size: auto auto;" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QrdFoby1_zI" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="310" width="550"></iframe><br> <br> On Saturday (26th January 2013)local volunteers undertook the annual Royal Society for the Protection of Birds bird count on Lake Farm. We found the country park teeming with bird life including a sparrow hawk, a lesser spotted woodpecker, skylarks and many blue tits and great tits, robins, thrushes, magpies, gulls and of course hundreds of pigeons. This wonderful display of bird life in the park makes it all the more important that do not allow the council to build over this park and disturb and destroy the habitat of so many birds forever. We must do all we can to protect this site so that generations to come will be able to enjoy the sight of so many beautifiul birds in this country park as we do today.<br> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0