News - Justin Tomlinson

Justin Tomlinson MP Puts The Pressure On

Apr 05, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP for North Swindon is lending his support to The Stroke Association’s Know Your Blood Pressure campaign and is urging the people of Swindon to get their blood pressure checked in a bid to raise awareness of the dangerous link between high blood pressure and stroke.Justin Tomlinson MP had his blood pressure tested this week at a Parliamentary Know Your Blood Pressure event hosted by The Stroke Association. With annual Know Your Blood Pressure day fast approaching on the 9th Apr...

A Conservative Budget For Growth, Jobs & Families

Mar 24, 2011

Key measures in the Budget to boost growth include:Immediate Fuel Duty cut and scrapping of Labour’s annual fuel duty hikes£250m to help 1st time buyers250,000 new apprenticeships and 100,000 work placementsCuts in corporation tax and extension of small business rate relief to boost new job creationIncome tax thresholds increased, taking 1.1m low paid out of tax altogether and helpingall workers keep an extra £326 of their hard earned moneyIncreased Bank Levy, greater contribution from non-doms ...

Swindon To Kemble Gets The Green Light!

Mar 24, 2011

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP, confirmed in today's Budget Statement that the Swindon to Kemble redoubling project has finally been given approval by the Government.It had been thought, following the Comprehensive Spending Review, that Government funding would not be available until 2014 at the earliest. However, after the announcement by the Government that the electrification of the Great Western Mainline would take place it became clear that diversionary routes, incl...

Justin Tomlinson MP Supports, 'Let's Get Cooking' Club At Haydonleigh Primary School

Mar 24, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP today joined students and parents at Haydonleigh Primary School, 'Let's get cooking' club.Now in the fourth year of a £20 million, five year Lottery funded programme, there are nearly 4,000 school–based let’s get cooking clubs in every local authority across England, with over 400 clubs based in London. So far more than 750,000 people have developed their cooking skills through the programme. Which is on track to achieve its target of teaching new cooking skills t...

Entrepreneurs From Swindon Attend Barclay Seminar

Mar 24, 2011

MP for Swindon North, Justin Tomlinson speaking at the Barclays 'Driving the business forward' event in Swindon.Credit: Professional Images With the country increasingly reliant on the private sector to create growth in the economy, the new Barclays business event in Swindon could not have come at a better time.21 local businesses attended a business seminar on Friday to hear first hand from local MP Justin Tomlinson and Managing Director of The Directors Centre and business guru Robert...

Justin Tomlinson MP Supports FairFuelUK Campaign

Mar 15, 2011

North Swindon MP, Justin Tomlinson, today urged the Government to implement a fuel duty stabiliser in the forthcoming budget and to take action to help limit the impact of rising fuel prices locally.Justin said: “Motorists find themselves paying ever higher prices at the pump. It is especially serious for those where cars are essential, either for getting to work, doing the weekly shop, or even enjoying a weekend out with the family.”And he added: “Small businesses are also exceptionally vulnera...

Justin Tomlinson Supports TIGA Submission To HM Treasury

Mar 15, 2011

Jeremy Holt, Founder, Swindon Museum of Computing & Justin Tomlinson MPTIGA, the trade association representing the UK games industry, today called on the Government to recognise the importance of the highly skilled, high tech South West games industry in its future growth strategy in the forthcoming Budget. TIGA made the call in its Budget submission ‘Budget for Growth: Powering the Video Games Sector to Support the Economic Recovery’.The UK games industry is a vital sector within the creat...

MP Joins Local Firm's Fight Over £42,000 Insurance Row

Mar 14, 2011

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson has stepped in to help a local company whose insurers are refusing to compensate them for a burglary which left them £42,000 out of pocket.Thamesdown Marketing Services were burgled in October last year, but Aviva won’t pay compensation even though Thamesdown has a comprehensive policy costing £5,600 a year.Thamesdown’s Managing Director Paul Parkin said, “I think it’s an outrage that a large Insurance Company like Aviva are happy to take your money, but when it...

Local MP In Fairtrade Fortnight Bunting Record Bid

Mar 14, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP this Thursday joined Fairtrade Ambassador and five time Olympic gold medallist, Sir Steve Redgrave, in Parliament in a bid to break the record for the world’s longest bunting.The world record attempt is to mark this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight and to highlight the Fairtrade Foundation’s ‘Great Cotton Stitch-Up’ campaign - a drive to end unfair European cotton subsidies. West African cotton producers are some of the poorest farmers on the planet and yet, last year, had to compe...

Justin Tomlinson MP Calls For Young Care Leavers

Mar 14, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP for North Swindon is backing the launch of a national campaign calling for children in care to be given better financial support as they leave the care system. The On Our Own Two Feet campaign, led by children’s charities Action for Children and Barnardo’s, is calling for savings accounts to be set up to help young people as they leave care, by their corporate parent – the government.The new targeted, savings account proposed by the charities would be more cost effective too....