News - Justin Tomlinson

Justin Tomlinson MP Hosts Global Education Breakfast

Oct 25, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP and Claudia Winkleman at an Education for Girls event held earlier this yearJustin Tomlinson MP, Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Education for All, this week hosted a breakfast event in Parliament with the Global Partnership for Education.The event was an opportunity for the Global Partnership for Education to share their report ‘The Case For Investment 2011-14’ with MPs and Peers and for the APPG to promote its encourage MPs and Peers to join. ...

Justin Tomlinson MP Brushes Up On DIY Skills On A Visit To B&Q In Swindon

Oct 25, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP with the B&Q Swindon team in the 'How To' CentreJustin Tomlinson MP today heard about diversity in business at a visit to B&Q in Swindon. With three store business models operating across the chain, the Swindon ‘Extra’ store is at the larger end of B&Q’s ‘warehouses’, offering a variety of extra services.Nationally, B&Q are harnessing new technologies to reach customers, using QR codes, scannable by smart phone, on leaflets and by products to link inst...

Justin Tomlinson MP Visits Intel In Swindon

Oct 25, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP with (L to R) Peter Gibson (Intel, Global Public Policy), Tristan Wilkinson(Intel, Sales and Marketing), Danny Arati (Intel, Corporate Affairs Group),Graham MacDonald (Intel Global Public Policy)Justin Tomlinson MP today visited Intel’s Swindon base to meet with their public policy team. The team presented a broad overview of the structure of Intel as an organisation, its markets and its products. The meeting was a fantastic opportunity to discuss the key role of the Swindon ...

Justin Tomlinson MP Speaks At Business Breakfast

Oct 25, 2011

Justin Tomlinson speaking at a business event earlier in the yearJustin Tomlinson MP joined his South Swindon colleague Robert Buckland MP at a business breakfast organised by local businessmen. Held at the Blunsdon House Hotel, the breakfast event was a great opportunity for a wide range of local businesses to raise concerns with their MPs and discuss ideas as to what would help their businesses grow.Discussion centred around business rates on empty property but also touched on aspects of plan...

Justin Tomlinson MP Hears Breast Cancer Voices On Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day

Oct 19, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP with Liz Carroll, Director of Policy and Research at Breast Cancer Care at the Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness EventJustin Tomlinson MP attended a Westminster reception to mark the UK’s second Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day and hear the concerns and experiences of women living with secondary breast cancer.Minister of State for Care Services Paul Burstow MP and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Breast Cancer Annette Brooke MP both spoke at the event, wh...

Justin Tomlinson MP Challenges MPs At Chess in Schools Event

Oct 18, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP with Garry Kasperov, former World Chess Champion at the chessin schools eventJustin Tomlinson MP revisited his days as school chess champion to take on today’s chess champions and other MPs at a parliamentary chess event organised by Rachel Reeves MP. The event was in support of Chess in Schools and Communities (CSC), a charity that aims to get children in state and inner city schools playing chess and promote its educational and social benefits.CSC organise community chess ...

Justin Tomlinson MP Supports Modernisation of The Great Western

Oct 18, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP surveys Network Rail plans to modernise the Great Western railwayNetwork Rail were today in Parliament to inform MPs about their plans to modernise and upgrade the Great Western rRailway over the next decade. As MP for North Swindon, Justin Tomlinson attended to hear about the benefits these plans will have for Swindon.In a programme of 13 major projects, seeing an investment of £5bn, Swindon will directly benefit from five of them. The redoubling of the Swindon-Kemble line...

Justin Tomlinson MP Takes The Pledge To Make A Difference

Oct 14, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP takes the pledge at the CSV event in Westminster withPete Waterman and Rachel BurdenJustin Tomlinson, MP for North Swindon, is taking the pledge to encourage people throughout Swindon to give time to benefit the local community, after joining pop mogul Pete Waterman and BBC Radio Five Live presenter, Rachel Burden in the build up to CSV Make a Difference Day, the biggest single day of volunteering on Saturday 29 October 2011.Pete Waterman and Rachel Burden have given MPs acro...

Justin Tomlinson MP Judges Students' Ideas For Swindon

Oct 14, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP with the winning team from Swindon CollegeJustin Tomlinson MP joined his South Swindon colleague Robert Buckland MP in judging the ideas young people have about how Swindon can be improved as part of an X-Factor style panel event. Organised by Swindon Borough Council as part of Local Democracy Week, the event at Nova Hreod School was a fantastic opportunity for local students to put forward their ideas about how Swindon can be improved to their elected representatives. The e...

Justin Tomlinson Celebrates Local Businesses In Countryside Alliance 'Rural Oscars'

Oct 13, 2011

Justin Tomlinson MP with Blunsdon Cllr Doreen Dart at the BlunsdonVillage ShopThe seventh annual Countryside Alliance Awards are now open to public nomination and Justin Tomlinson MP is urging the local community to go online and get nominating.The Countryside Alliance Awards, nicknamed the 'Rural Oscars', were bourne of a need to support and promote rural communities. They celebrate people going the extra mile to ensure that rural Britain's food and farming industry, small business...