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Westminster Report Listening to Corby & East Northamptonshire GET IN TOUCH with TOM Tom Pursglove MP’s LET ME KNOW YOUR VIEWS House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA ! I am very keen to hear your views and concerns as part of my ‘Listening Campaign’. t: 0207 219 8043 Westminster Report Please take just a few minutes of your time to let me know what issues matter e: [email protected] most to you and return your completed form to TOM PURSGLOVE MP, CENCA, w: votepursglove.co.uk EAST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE EDITION FREEPOST NAT20178, CORBY, NN17 1BR. fb.com/TomPursgloveMP 1 What three national issues are of most concern to you? CAMPAIGNING FOR Dear Constituent, BETTER BROADBAND Climate Change Crime Defence It’s a huge honour and a privilege to be your Member of Parliament for Corby and East The lack of broadband coverage in some Economy Education Environment areas is a source of great frustration to Northamptonshire. At the end of my first year in Parliament, welcome to my Westminster many of my constituents, especially as Report for 2015-16, where you can find out more about what I’ve been doing as part of Europe Family Foreign Affairs recent figures show that 90% of homes in my ‘Listening Campaign’, both in Parliament and the constituency, over the last year. Health Housing Immigration the UK now have access to a superfast connection. For the remaining 10%, As always, if I can ever be of any help to you, please feel free to contact me at any time Jobs Transport including villages such as Denford, Lutton using the following details: and parts of King’s Cliffe, it is vital that Address: Tom Pursglove MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA What local issue concerns you most in East Northamptonshire? we keep campaigning for this important Telephone: 020 7219 8043 utility, and I will continue to take up local Email: [email protected] 2 broadband challenges that are raised with me, and meet regularly with BT, I also hold weekly advice surgeries in both Corby and East Northamptonshire, and as I Making my Maiden Speech in June 2015 Northamptonshire County Council, and said in the run up to the General Election, I remain committed to being Corby and East - the most nervous I’ve ever been! Ministers, to ensure that connectivity Northamptonshire’s voice in Westminster and not Westminster’s voice in the constituency. is achieved as soon as possible. I also continue to make the argument that new Now, for some of what I’ve been getting up to! I strongly support the right of local communities to determine the developments should have appropriate broadband coverage in place from day With best wishes, 3 scale and nature of development in their area. Do you support my one – this is now a crucially important utility calls for developers to respect the views of local communities and from both a life and work perspective and it walk away when the answer is ‘NO’? should be installed as standard. Tom YES NO Tom Pursglove MP PRIMARK Member of Parliament for Corby Do you have any further issues or concerns that you would like me 4 to be aware of? In recent and East Northamptonshire Discussing issues and concerns at months, I have one of my weekly advice surgeries. At the Women’s Tour start line in Oundle last year. been in regular communication with Primark, regarding their new warehouse RUSHDEN LAKES – at Islip. Whilst THE FIGHT AGAINST UNWANTED good for jobs, a number of Woodford and WELL UNDER WAY, OVER-DEVELOPMENT: Denford residents contacted me with I produce a fortnightly Westminster Report that I send out electronically, concerns about landscaping and lighting AND ON ITS WAY! 5 to keep local people up-to-date with the work I am doing as your MP. around the warehouse. PROTECT OUR VILLAGES Would you like to receive it? As someone who first supported the campaign In light of these concerns, I set up a Protecting our rural areas against unwelcome over-development has as a local councillor, I was delighted when YES NO If Yes, please provide your email address below. meeting with all interested parties, and been one of my top priorities as your local MP, and an issue which the Rushden Lakes development got the was impressed by the way in which has dominated my postbag. In East Northamptonshire, we have seen green light back in 2014. This development is Primark were willing to listen to the many unwanted planning applications come forward and I have done A year into the role, how do you think I am doing as your local MP? arguably the biggest single investment East concerns of residents, and attempt to everything I can to help support the objections of the many brilliant 6 Northamptonshire has ever seen, bringing new Excellent Good Average Terrible alleviate their concerns. To my mind, local campaigns launched to oppose them, including in Brigstock, shops including Marks & Spencer and House it is essential that businesses are Stanwick and Yarwell. I have also been actively supporting the excellent of Fraser to our area. An estimated 1,900 good neighbours and I will continue to local campaigns against the unwanted cold store at Kettering Energy PLEASE ENTER YOUR DETAILS BELOW, TEAR OFF PAGE AND POST BACK monitor progress around mitigating the new jobs will be created for local residents Park and the proposals for Fineshade Wood. Alongside this work, in environmental impact of this development. and it will also bring new leisure facilities too, NAME Westminster, I continue to make the case that the planning system complementing the retail offer. I was pleased I also visited the site to see it first-hand. should respect the wishes to raise local excitement about Rushden Lakes ADDRESS This new unit is bringing around 650 jobs of local residents during Prime Minister’s Questions to the local area, with more at peak times, – to my mind, if an back in September and I invited and I invited the Employment Minister, application is refused POSTCODE PHONE/MOBILE him to the opening, which is the Rt. Hon Priti Patel MP, to the opening, by the Council, anticipated to take place early which will happen later this year. then the developer in 2017. EMAIL should listen to this With work now picking up pace on judgement and let HOW WE USE YOUR DATA: Some data we receive from you will probably comprise personal data about you and may include sensitive site, the Prime Minister agreed with the matter rest there. personal data. The types of information we may collect about you will probably include your name, address and contact information and information about your ethnic origin, political opinions, and religious, philosophical and other beliefs. The data you provide will me that you simply do not get £50 be retained by Tom Pursglove MP and Corby and East Northants Conservative Association (“the data holders”) in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and related legislation. The data holders will use the data we collect for the following million investments come forward purposes: (i) to improve our understanding of political life in the United Kingdom; (ii) to compile and provide anonymous statistics about TOM PURSGLOVE (SINCE JOINING) voters in the United Kingdom; (iii) to facilitate our operation as a political party; (iv) contact you in the future by telephone, text or other without economic confidence in the means, even though you may be registered with the Telephone Preference Service, without asking for further permission. Your data will Debates spoken = 103 Voted = 96.50% area, and I will ensure he receives Visiting the fantastic King’s Cliffe Active project not be sold or given to anyone not connected to the Conservative Party. If you do not want the information you give to us to be used in these ways, or for us to contact you, please indicate by ticking the relevant boxes: Post Email SMS Phone. Promoted by his invitation through the post! - a remarkable community run sports facility. Robert Gough on behalf of Tom Pursglove, CENCA, Cottingham Road, Corby, Northants, NN17 1SZ. Printed by DATS Print Services Ltd, LAST LABOUR MP (IN FINAL YEAR) 30 Victoria Street, Irthlingborough, Northants, NN9 5RG. Debates spoken = 49 Voted = 78.25% THIS REPORT HAS BEEN PAID FOR WITH THE HELP OF LOCAL SUPPORTERS *Independent figures as at 3rd May 2016 AT NO COST TO THE TAXPAYER Member of Parliament for Corby & East Northamptonshire TOM PURSGLOVE MP Listening to Corby & East Northamptonshire Keep up to date with what I am doing, visit votepursglove.co.uk WINNING THE PROGRESS ON RAIL ENTERPRISE ZONE BID SUPPORTING FIGHT AGAINST ELECTRIFICATION SAVE OUR PLAYING FIELDS! LOCAL UNWANTED In October 2015, I was delighted A major ongoing issue throughout my first year as your Member of Parliament, to hear the Secretary of State for has been the proposed selling off of playing field land in Oundle. Working POLICING WIND FARMS Transport’s announcement that work with the Oundle Recreation and Green Spaces Group, I have raised this issue will commence on the electrification regularly on the floor of the House of Commons, and presented two Private of the Midland Mainline. Members’ Bills - informed by the Oundle experience - which have sought to As part of Network Rail’s Route Upgrade change the law around the process of selling off playing field land, so that Plan, they will be delivering a programme local communities have a greater say, and indeed a veto, over these decisions. of work to enhance the Midland Mainline Taking local business leaders to Downing In Oundle, the school playing field land which Northamptonshire County Council is between now and 2023.
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