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He cites the impact on family life as his motive for the decision.
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington is Chair of Conservative Friends of International Development (CFID), Mark Simmonds is MP for Boston and Skegness (Deputy Chair of CFID) and Fiona Hodgson, former president National Convention and a Patron of CFID. Follow CFID on Twitter. We launched Conservative Friends of International Development last year at a packed event at conference. In […]
By Jonathan Isaby Last month Andrew Lansley wrote exclusively for ConHome here about the Government's Health and Social Care Bill. The Bill had its Second Reading in the Commons yesterday, during which new Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams gave her maiden speech and David Miliband gave his first full speech as a backbencher […]
It's not that regularly that Private Member's Bills attract front page tabloid attention, but today is an exception. The Daily Express has splashed with the news that children under eighteen are to be banned from using sunbeds which emit ultra-violet light under a Private Member's Bill introduced by Labour MP Julie Morgan which passed its […]
It was time for questions to the Health Department yesterday. Perhaps the most noteworthy question came from Mike Penning (pictured right), who spoke in light of the revelation that in 2007-08 criminal sanctions following cases of assault in the acute sector rose by thirteen per cent. Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley asked about sport in […]
By improving early diagnosis and treatments, this Government is on track to save more than 5,000 lives a year.