News - Justin Tomlinson

Local MP Welcomes Recognition Of Local Carers

Jun 12, 2013

To celebrate the launch of Carers Week, 10-16 June 2013, local MP, Justin has joined forces with actress Lynda Bellingham, to recognise the contribution that carers in Swindon make on a daily basis. In a photocall in Westminster, Justin, pledged his support to carers across Swindon as part of the national awareness campaign, Carers Week. The week is an opportunity to celebrate the 6.5 million carers across the UK and raise awareness of the impact that caring has on people's lives. In 2013 Carers...

Justin Backs Calls For Better Awareness Of Sleep Apnoea

Jun 12, 2013

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson is calling for better awareness of the respiratory condition obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), as well as better sleep services to help diagnose and treat those affected by the condition. The call follows Justin Tomlinson’s attendance of a special parliamentary briefing, in which he was given privileged advanced access to new analysis conducted by the British Lung Foundation showing that high predicted prevalence of OSA coincided with low access to services in man...

Swindon Advertiser Weekly Article - 24th May 2013

Jun 12, 2013

I was truly shocked this week by the awful events in Woolwich. To run down a British soldier on a London street and then kill him in such a violent way is a completely monstrous act. The perpetrators will cite religion and British foreign policy as their justification. True they see British forces as occupiers rather than liberators and true they follow the Quran, but the truth is neither is any more than a cowardly attempt to justify such animalistic behaviour. Indeed, the first man to lay f...

Justin Visits Swindon's Britannia Majorettes

Jun 11, 2013

Justin Tomlinson MP visited Ferndale Primary School one evening to see the Britannia Majorettes, a junior military style brass instrumental marching majorette troupe, rehearse their routines. The group of girls, aged from 5-16, meet once a week to practice their marching and music, tying it all together into an engaging and impressive display. The Majorettes aim to build confidence in young girls who are particularly shy or come from challenging backgrounds. One of the parents who help run the ...

Justin Tomlinson MP Welcomes Business Minister To Swindon

Jun 11, 2013

Justin Tomlinson MP welcomed Business Minister Michael Fallon MP to Swindon. The Minister came to see some of the Town’s success stories and to discuss how best to secure sustained regional and local growth. He also came on invitation from Justin to visit the Head Office of Oak Furniture Land. The company, who has seen record growth and are opening multiple new stores every month, chose Swindon as their base due to the Town’s skilled workforce and excellent transport links. The Minister was ...

Justin Tomlinson MP Thanks Local Volunteers

Jun 05, 2013

Justin Tomlinson MP has today expressed support for the fellow local residents who dedicate some of their time to volunteer in Swindon. Now in its 29th year, volunteering week gives us an opportunity to recognise and celebrate volunteers and the incredible contribution they make to us in Swindon. They are an essential part of any community, with many depending on their dedication, energy and hard work. Justin regularly meets with local charities and the armies of dedicated volunteers that kee...

Justin Speaks Out On Future Of High Street

Jun 05, 2013

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I congratulate Simon Danczuk on raising this important subject. It is one on which I am passionate, because my parents ran shops, so after school I often played behind the shop counter. We had wool shops—so I wore ill-fitting jumpers well past the time when it was socially acceptable—and a series of hairdresser's shops, which were ultimately wasted on me. I am also the vice-chair of the all-party groups on town centres and on retail. ...

Justin Delivers Books And Games To Penhill Youth Club

May 29, 2013

Justin Tomlinson MP today visited the Chippenham Close Youth Centre in Penhill to drop off a bundle of toys, books and games to get the new youth club there set up and started. The goodies included a Wii, 7 games, colouring books, childrens' books, toys and tea and biscuits for the community kitchen. The £250 Justin used to buy all the things was donated by First Great Western who are always happy to support local charities and community groups in the towns they serve. Local community journalis...

Justin Attends Opening Of Moredon Community Garden

May 29, 2013

Justin Tomlinson MP joined 98 year old resident Joyce at the opening of the Moredon and Rodbourne Cheney Library Community Garden. The garden has been lovingly created in an old overgrown area out the back of the Library by volunteers including local children who are part of the Moredon Young Wardens. The Wardens have also made a mosaic out of scraps of tiles donated by a local business to decorate the wall of the garden. Justin said "This is a fantatsic addition to this local library and I am ...

Swindon Advertiser Weekly Article - 17th May 2013

May 21, 2013

Last week I set out the content of the Queen’s Speech – the changes that the Government plans to make over the next 12 months. Yet it is important to qualify this. The Speech represents the ideas that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have agreed upon. Each Party has its desires that did not make it onto the Government programme because the other Party refused. The most important commitment for the Conservative Party, blocked from being Government policy in this way, is a referendum...