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Extract From Liaison Committee Session with the Prime Minister
(July 2008)
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| Q260 Dr Starkey:Prime Minister, I want to focuson just one particular aspect of the situation in Israel/Palestine.I accept and I think we all welcome the fact that there do seem tobe a number of very positive moves across the... |
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NHS at 60 (July 2008)
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| This week is the60th anniversary of the founding of the NHS by ClementAttlee’s Labour Government. In common with many, I and my familyhave relied upon the NHS and its high quality care, at key pointsin our lives. Inde... |
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Diploma Study (June 2008)
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| InMilton Keynes, as elsewhere, students are currently sitting theirG.C.S.E and ‘A’ Level exams, and many will soon have to makeimportant decisions about their educational future. For some, thedecision to... |
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Broadasting Bad Health (May 2008)
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| Broadcasting BadHealth For a nationthat will proudly host the Olympic Games in 2012, the fact thatBritain faces a serious obesity problem is not welcome news: withan estimated one in five men and a quarter of women... |
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Milton Keynes Bus Services (March 2008)
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| Iknow from feedback from my constituents that buses are a key issuefor many, particularly pensioners and young people, since publictransport is often the only way they can get around Milton Keynesindependently. Bus services i... |
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Fair Trade Fortnight (March 2008)
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| FairtradeFortnight took place this year on 18th February –9th March and in Milton Keynes I joined with the Mayorand other civic dignitaries in a Fairtrade breakfast at the sust!Fairtrade store in the Food Centre. After tuck... |
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Virtual Reality at Milton Keynes College (February 2008)
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| Last Friday Milton Keynes Collegestudents were the first to play a new virtual reality computergame, developed by local firm Logicom and supported by the NationalEnergy Foundation and the government’s Climate Challeng... |
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Human Trafficking (January 2008)
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| There are somesubjects that everyone knows exist but are rarely actuallymentioned – either in Parliament or elsewhere. One such issue hasrecently emerged from obscurity – although only for 30 seconds inthe House of Common... |
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Evidence shows that more focus is needed on private rented housing (Dec 2007)
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| Much of the public debate about housing has concentrated on owner occupiers and the increasing problems for young people in buying their own home, or on the pressure on social rented housing and the overcrowding and homele... |
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Improving Housing to help tackle Climate Change (Dec 2007)
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| Climate change is back at the top of the agenda, with negotiations starting soon in Bali on international action to stop global temperatures rising more than 2 oC over the next decade. Last week Gordon Brown committed the ... |
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Milton Keynes comes to Westminster (Nov 2007)
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| Last week, Milton Keynes came to Westminster. The big event a celebration of Milton Keynes 40th birthday, organised by the Council and sponsored by both MPs. The great and good of Milton Keynes gathered at the House of Com... |
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The 'British Identity' in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-national society (Oct 2007)
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 Dr Phyllis Starkey spoke at an academic conference on citizenship and identity in Clermont-Ferrand in France at the end of September, along with her husband Dr Hugh Starkey, a lecturer in Citizenship at the Institute ... |
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We can beat Anti-Social Behaviour if we work together (Oct 2007)
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| Antisocial behaviour is one of the most pressing issues my constituents raise with me both on the doorstep and through correspondence. People are not willing to tolerate noisy neighbours, graffiti, vandalism, intimidation ... |
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Making Council Tax Fairer - Especially for Pensioners (Oct 2007)
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| Reform of Council Tax has been put on the agenda recently by the Lyons Review of Local Government and by a report published in August by the Select Committee chaired by Milton Keynes MP, Dr Phyllis Starkey. Council ... |
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Milton Keynes epitomises Gordon Brown's vision for Britain (Oct 2007)
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| Listening to Gordon Brown’s speech at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth last week, I was struck by how well his vision, of a Britain of aspiration where all are encouraged to aim high, coincides with the wishes ... |
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Plans for more Affordable Housing endorsed in South East Plan (Sep 2007)
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| Housing is the issue most often mentioned to me by constituents. Whether it is concerns that their children will never be able to afford to buy their own home locally, families in overcrowded Council flats desperate to tra... |
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Water Management for New Housing (Aug 2007)
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| The last week of Parliamentary business before the summer break was dominated by two different types of deluge. The heavy rains and the unprecedented flooding from the Severn and Thames reminded everyone of just what damag... |
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Re-engaging People with Politics (Jul 2007)
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| Elections are the most obvious time for politicians and people to engage in our political system, and here in Milton Keynes the local election campaign seems to have been particularly prolonged with the Council elections i... |
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G8 progress on Africa - Two years on from Gleneagles (Jun 2007)
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| Two years ago the Live 8 and Make Poverty History campaigns urged world leaders to do more for Africa: to write-off debts, make trade fairer and help tackle HIV/Aids. Here in Milton Keynes, hundreds of people, including yo... |
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10 Years of Tony - The legacy in Milton Keynes (May 2007)
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| Nationally, the newspapers, radio and TV have been full of retrospectives assessing the legacy of the ten years that Tony Blair has been Prime Minister, following his announcement of his resignation as Leader of the Labour... |
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