E-mail from David Lidington
Posted by David Lidington, MP for Aylesbury, at 14:12, Thu 8 March 2007:
Welcome to my update on my work as your Member of Parliament.
It has been a busy few weeks, including a couple of trips to Belfast in my role as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, meeting the Chief Fire Officer, local charities and other organisations, and also spending some time helping the Conservative candidates campaign for the Assembly elections.
In Bucks, I am very glad that funding has been found for CCTV in Princes Risborough. I think it will be very important in cutting crime and anti-social behaviour and have been lobbying councils for its installation for over a year. It’s good to see Wycombe District Council and Princes Risborough Town Council working together to achieve this success.
I was very impressed by my recent visit to the PACE Centre in Aylesbury. The Centre provides activities and education to children from 6 months to 12 years old with cerebral palsy and other motor disorders. It offers an invaluable opportunity to the children but is now full. I spoke to the head about her plans to build a bigger centre and extend its work to older children. Over £2 million is needed and I really hope the fundraising is successful.
I was also pleased to look around Booker Park School, which is a new school in Aylesbury combining the old Kynaston School and Stoke Leys School, with younger Park School pupils due to relocate there in the near future as well. The new school is a huge step forward and it really is a blueprint for special education in the 21st century.
I have also visited St Joseph’s Catholic School and the Grange School in the last few weeks and had talks with the local Mental Health NHS Trust and the Bucks branch of the Country Land and Business Association.
The constituency letters and e-mails continue to flow in. Most are about individual problems, with housing, immigration, tax credits and the CSA as the main subjects of complaint. I’ve also had a number of e-mails from nurses about the Government’s decision on their pay and from local church members about the proposed regulations to ban discrimination on the grounds of sexual discrimination.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can ever be of any help, and do feel free to fill out my short polls at www.telldavid.com.
David Lidington
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