Articles by Iain Wright MP
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It was a privilege to have the Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, visit the town last week to meet with people from Hartlepool who had served in the countrys Armed Forces.
The Minister met with Veterans (in appalling weather, if you remember last week) at the restored Heugh Gun Battery. [...]
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The people of Hartlepool are the towns greatest asset. One of the great things about my job as Member of Parliament is the opportunity to meet with many, many of the great characters of the town. Ive said it many times before but Ill keep on saying [...]
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Banking services coming to Hartlepool
Iain Wright MP has welcomed Government moves to back a secure future for the Post Office. There will be more banking services for local people following an overwhelmingly positive response to the Governments consultation on the future of the Post Office.
The Government is to provide £180 million of new [...]
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£100 million to plug potholes
The Big Freeze that hit Britain this winter inflicted massive damage on our road network. Snow, ice and plummeting temperatures not only made it the severest winter in 30 years, they also left a moonscape of pitted and potholed roads to be repaired up and down the country.
Councils have been [...]
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Corus in the Teesside area has been in the news for the last few months, very often for the wrong reasons.
The mothballing of the plant at Redcar is a devastating blow for that town and the surrounding area. I know that Vera Baird and the late Ashok Kumar have [...]
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Hartlepool Corus site awarded £200 million contract
Town MP Iain Wright has welcomed the news that Corus in Hartlepool has secured an order for work on a prestigious new pipeline from Total E&P UK Ltd worth nearly £200 million.
The order, for the Laggan-Tormore offshore gas field development in the region West of the Shetlands, will see over [...]
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Health Secretary announces £464 million new hospital for Hartlepool
Iain welcomes Health Secretary Andy Burnham to Hartlepool.
Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Health, today gave the go-ahead for the building of a new £464 million hospital to serve the people of Hartlepool, Sedgefield, Easington and Stockton.
On a visit to Hartlepool, the Health Secretary confirmed that Government money is [...]
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Tourism is growing in importance for the British economy. A recent survey showed that the industry is worth about £115 billion to the British economy and supports close to 3 million jobs. It is forecast to grow quite markedly in the next decade, to about 9 per cent [...]
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Iain chairs debate at local school
Iain chaired a school debate this week about the rights of children around the world.
The event took place at Eldon Grove Primary School where sixty Year six pupils staged a House of Commons style debate. The school is currently bidding to achieve the Rights Respecting School Award from Unicef, [...]
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CREDIT CARD REFORMS GOOD NEWS FOR LOCAL CONSUMERS SAYS IAIN
Iain Wright today welcomed the Governments agreement with the credit and store card industry as good news for local people.
The agreement means that, in the future, consumers most expensive debt like withdrawing cash on a credit card will be able to be paid off more quickly, there will [...]
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I wrote last week in my column about the Veterans Minister coming to Hartlepool and meeting with people from Hartlepool who had served in the Armed Forces.
Id written that Hartlepool is a strong military town and I certainly had evidence of that in the days after my column was published [...]
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Veterans Minister visits our troops
Iain and veterans minister Kevan Jones with land girl Florence.
It was a privilege to have the Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, visit the town last week to meet with people from Hartlepool who had served in the countrys Armed Forces.
The Minister met with Veterans (in appalling weather, if you [...]
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MP Welcomes New Support for Asbestos Victims
Iain today welcomed a multi-million pound package of vital help that the Government is extending to individuals whose health has been put at risk due to exposure to asbestos.
This includes action to help people with asbestos related diseases to claim compensation, increase their upfront payments, and work towards a [...]
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Last week Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, came to Hartlepool to see what is being done about tackling unemployment in the town.
Unemployment is devastating. Being in a job is not only positive in terms of providing you with an income, but all the evidence suggests [...]
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SHOPPERS URGED TO SWAP FOR FAIRTRADE BY HARTLEPOOL MP
Iain is encouraging shoppers in Hartlepool to buy Fairtrade products during this Fairtrade Fortnight (22nd February 7th March).
Iain welcomed Government plans to boost funding for the Fairtrade labelling system and urged shoppers in Hartlepool to look for the Fairtrade Mark on food, gifts and other products in the shops.
Over [...]
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SHOPPERS URGED TO SWAP FOR FAIRTRADE BY HARTLEPOOL MP
Iain is encouraging shoppers in Hartlepool to buy Fairtrade products during this Fairtrade Fortnight (22nd February 7th March).
Iain welcomed Government plans to boost funding for the Fairtrade labelling system and urged shoppers in Hartlepool to look for the Fairtrade Mark on food, gifts and other products in the shops.
Over [...]
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At the weekend I watched Gordon Browns interview with Piers Morgan. Like many people in the town who will have watched the actual programme, Id seen the advance trailers, which seemed to suggest that the Prime Minister had wailed and sobbed on national television when speaking of the death [...]
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TOWN MP BACKS CAMPAIGN TO SHOUT OUT FOR A SURE START
Iain has this week given his backing to a new campaign in support of Sure Start Childrens Centres, which provide universal services for all families and children under five.
The Shout out for a Sure Start campaign was launched this week by the charity 4Children and the popular childrens TV [...]
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How would you like to produce electricity for your home, do it in a way that is kinder to the environment, and get money from the National Grid into the bargain?
That doesnt seem to be a bad deal. The Government last week announced details which would ensure that households [...]
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Iain urges Hartlepool to join celebrities and make the global poverty promise
Iain is urging people across Hartlepool to join celebrities like Davina McCall, Mariella Frostrup, Richard Wilson and Meera Syal by signing up to support a new campaign against global poverty on the fifth anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Make Poverty History speech in Trafalgar Square.
In a campaign video released today, [...]
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