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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 CORBY EDITION FREEPOST NAT20178, CORBY, NN17 1BR. fb.com/TomPursgloveMP What three national issues are of most concern to you? 1 CAMPAIGNING FOR Dear Constituent, Climate Change Crime Defence BETTER BROADBAND 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 Northamptonshire. At the end of my first year in Parliament, welcome to my Westminster Economy Education Environment areas is a source of great frustration to Report for 2015-16, where you can find out more about what I’ve been doing as part of my Europe Family Foreign Affairs many of my constituents, especially as ‘Listening Campaign’, both in Parliament and the constituency, over the last year. recent figures show that 90% of homes in Health Housing Immigration the UK now have access to a superfast As always, if I can ever be of any help to you, please feel free to contact me at any time using Jobs Transport connection. For the remaining 10%, the following details: including parts of the constituency, it is Tom Pursglove MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA Address: 020 7219 8043 vital that we keep campaigning for this [email protected] Telephone: What local issue concerns you most in Corby? important utility, and I will continue to take Email: 2 up local broadband challenges that are I also hold weekly advice surgeries in both Corby and East Northamptonshire, and as I raised with me, and meet regularly with said in the run up to the General Election, I remain committed to being Corby and East Making my Maiden Speech in June 2015 BT, Northamptonshire County Council, Northamptonshire’s voice in Westminster and not Westminster’s voice in the constituency. - the most nervous I’ve ever been! and Ministers, to ensure that connectivity is achieved as soon as possible. I also Now, for some of what I’ve been getting up to! continue to make the argument that new developments should have appropriate With best wishes, I strongly support our steel industry. Do you support my campaign to broadband coverage in place from day 3 keep all the options on the table to help secure its future and protect it one – this is now a crucially important utility for generations to come? from both a life and work perspective and it Tom should be installed as standard. Tom Pursglove MP - Member of Parliament for Corby & East Northamptonshire YES NO Visiting the Corby steelworks. Do you have any further issues or concerns that you would like me KETTERING GENERAL TOM STANDING UP FOR 4 to be aware of? HOSPITAL URGENT This was followed by a visit with Councillor Beattie and the Rt. Hon Anna Soubry MP, CARE HUB OUR STEEL INDUSTRY the Minister of State for Small Business, Along with my two colleagues in North Industry and Enterprise, where we met with Since my election last year, I have also fundamental to ensuring our national both senior management and union leaders Northamptonshire, Peter Bone MP, and taken a significant interest and security. You never know what the future to discuss the broad challenges facing the Philip Hollobone MP, and indeed my role in parliamentary activity on holds and it is unacceptable to rely upon industry, whilst also receiving a briefing on predecessor, I have been very supportive the UK steel industry, and in my the prospect of importing steel during any the Corby site in particular. We also had of the plans for a new Urgent Care Hub period of national crisis or emergency. As a tour and met some of the 600 workers. I produce a fortnightly Westminster Report that I send out electronically, at Kettering General Hospital - a project first week in Westminster, before such, I have been working very hard on a I even had an office, I became Crucially, the Corby site is a viable business, 5 to keep local people up-to-date with the work I am doing as your local which has rightly united politicians on all cross-party basis to try and resolve some and there is a strong plan in place to help MP. Would you like to receive it? sides in our area. KGH has seen increasing Vice-Chairman of the APPG on of the challenges facing the industry, both improve matters further – it will, however, attendances at A&E, making the need Steel and Metal Related Industry. through the APPG, working with the unions, require both time and investment to see YES NO If Yes, please provide your email address below. for a new, innovative, solution even more As one of very few Conservative industry and Ministers, and locally, with it through; the importance of which I have Councillor Tom Beattie, the Leader of Corby pressing. Working together, we met with members with a steelworks in my regularly stressed to Ministers during their constituency, I have been very Borough Council, and Margot Parker MEP, discussions. A year into the role, how do you think I am doing as your local MP? Ben Gummer MP, the Parliamentary the UKIP MEP for the East Midlands. My Under Secretary of State for Quality at the outspoken on this matter, both in 6 Excellent Good Average Terrible work has particularly focused on the unfair Throughout, I have been clear that nothing Department of Health, last year, to discuss the House of Commons chamber and uncompetitive ‘dumping’ of steel on should be ruled out, and that all the options the plans, which I have also raised regularly and in meetings with Ministers. our market, business rates, and energy should be kept on the table to help secure PLEASE ENTER YOUR DETAILS BELOW, TEAR OFF PAGE AND POST BACK in the House of Commons - if built, this The steelworks is a very important costs, all of which are placing a real strain the future of our steel industry. I stand NAME innovative Urgent Care Hub would bring employer in Corby, and our steelmaking on the operational costs and viability of the by that position. This is not a matter of A&E, urgent care, social care, mental health heritage goes right to the heart of our industry. In essence, we must ensure that left or right, or of ideology – more one of provision and GPs, all under one roof. Rest town. We simply cannot afford to lose our steel industry is able to compete on a pragmatism, and arguably, right and wrong. ADDRESS level playing field and secure its future. assured that I will continue to make the the highly skilled jobs that the industry To secure the future of the industry, not case for this important development, and provides. As I have long maintained, it is Following the announcement that Tata only do we have to tackle the day-to-day POSTCODE PHONE/MOBILE do all I can to help secure much-needed Steel were selling their UK operations back challenges of dumping, energy costs and investment in KGH. in March, I hand-delivered a letter to 10 business rates, but we must also ensure EMAIL Downing Street urging the Prime Minister to that it has a truly stable footing. Corby is a intervene urgently to ensure the Government proud steel town and those employed at played a full role in helping to convene the site, and the wider community, are very HOW WE USE YOUR DATA: Some data we receive from you will probably comprise personal data about you and may include sensitive personal data. 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