Justin Tomlinson

Justin Tomlinson

North Swindon

Justin Tomlinson MP Supports 'Know Your Numbers' Week

Justin Tomlinson MP Supports 'Know Your Numbers' Week

Justin Tomlinson MP is backing the warning issued by UK charity the Blood Pressure Association to Swindon residents that ‘Ignorance isn’t always bliss’ as it urges everyone to get their free blood pressure check during this year’s Know your Numbers! Week (12-18 September).Health professionals across Swindon are taking part in the event and will be offering free blood pressure checks for all adults at a variety of convenient local ‘Pressure Stations’ (see below). Last year 70% of people in Wiltsh...

Justin Tomlinson MP Joins Swindon Tamil Association To Promote Healthy Hearts

Justin Tomlinson MP Joins Swindon Tamil Association To Promote Healthy Hearts

Justin Tomlinson MP, Honourary President of the Swindon British Heart Foundation, joined the Mayor of Swindon to inaugrate a project to promote healthy living and a healthy heart.  The Swindon Tamil Association won the opportunity to host the project in a competition by using the South Indian Dance (Bharathanatyam) as a form of exercise.The audience joined Anusha Subramanyam in her demonstration of dance before Dr Shymala Ratnanandan and Dr Michael Natarajan explained the importance of healthy l...

Justin Tomlinson MP Announces Engagement

Justin Tomlinson MP Announces Engagement

As featured in the Swindon Link - I am delighted to announce my engagement to Jo Wheeler, having proposed whilst we were on holiday in Hong Kong.  We are hoping to marry in 2012 and are very excited about the wedding plans.The full article: http://www.swindonlink.com/news/love-at-first-sight-brings-mp-justin-together-with-jo  

Justin Tomlinson MP Welcomes Further Boost To Apprentices

Justin Tomlinson MP Welcomes Further Boost To Apprentices

Justin Tomlinson MP Meeting Honda Apprentices In ParliamentToday the Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced a £25m fund to support up to 10,000 Advanced and Higher Apprenticeships to boost to skills in Britain.  The fund is central to the ambition of building a vocational route that equals the academic one, increasing social mobility and expanding opportunity for all.The fund will support the expansion of apprenticeships up to degree equivalent in companies, especially SMEs, where there is unm...

What Do Young People Think About Debt Event

What Do Young People Think About Debt Event

Justin Tomlinson MP hosted a Parliamentary event on "What do Young People Think About Debt", jointed hosted by the APPG on Debt and Personal Finance and the APPG on Financial Education for Young People. The event gave MPs the chance to talk to a range of young people including Primary and Secondary aged students and young people from the Cardinal Hume Centre, which supports homeless people under 25.As well as speaking to the young people, MPs joined them in playing pfeg financial education games...

Justin Tomlinson MP, Swindon Town Centre Speech

Justin Tomlinson MP, Swindon Town Centre Speech

We in Swindon have had our challenges. For the past five years there has been an annual drop in footfall in the town centre of about 22%. Swindon has dropped 10 places to 65th in the league table for the best places to shop, with our neighbouring competitors Bristol in 12th place, Reading in 15th, Bath in 22nd, Cheltenham in 27th and Gloucester in 107th. In 2010, 17% of retail units were empty and local Labour politicians had seemingly given up on any hopes for town centre regeneration. But fear...

Justin Tomlinson MP Joins Cancer Campaigner To Support Life-Saving Cancer Research In The South West

Justin Tomlinson MP Joins Cancer Campaigner To Support Life-Saving Cancer Research In The South West

North Swindon MP, Justin Tomlinson, is joining forces with South West cancer campaigner, Hannah Stainer, to support Cancer Research UK.Together they are highlighting Cancer Research UK’s work in the South West and backing the charity’s bid to make the region and the UK a thriving environment for medical research.The campaigning duo met Cancer Research UK’s doctors, scientists and supporters – including South West researchers from the Bristol Cancer Research Centre based at the University of Bris...

1st Annual Expenses Published

1st Annual Expenses Published

I made a promise at the last election that I would do my bit towards rebuilding public trust in politics and politicians, which was so damaged during the last Parliament. Since then, I’ve done a lot to deliver on that promise. I have sold my business, allowing me to focus solely on my role as the Member of Parliament. I have become the first Swindon MP to rank in the highest category for Parliamentary speaking, voting and questions. I publish details of all my meetings, events and visits.And now...

Justin Tomlinson MP Signs A Scale To Protect Our Seas

Justin Tomlinson MP Signs A Scale To Protect Our Seas

Justin Tomlinson MP is supporting The Wildlife Trusts’ Petition Fish campaign to protect our seas and the amazing wildlife it supports. He has shown their support by signing a scale on a Petition Fish at a launch event in the House of Commons.Justin Tomlinson MP said: “As an island nation, we have a strong connection to the sea and the thousands of plants and animals it sustains. A healthy and productive sea also provides us with oxygen to breathe and food to eat. The creation of Marine Protecte...

Justin Tomlinson MP Visits Coleshill - A Training Base For 'Churchill's Secret Army'

Justin Tomlinson MP Visits Coleshill - A Training Base For 'Churchill's Secret Army'

Tom Sykes, Coleshill Auxiliary Research Unit & Justin Tomlinson MP Justin Tomlinson MP visited the vital historical project that’s underway at Coleshill near Highworth, where some very exciting discoveries are being made.The area was used during the war as a training base for ‘Churchill’s Secret Army’. Ordinary civilians were taught sabotage tactics to be used in the event of a German invasion. They would melt back into their communities undercover, and then use their new-found skills to wreak h...