Today Alok Sharma and Rob Wilson, MPs for Reading West and Reading East respectively, welcomed the Government’s Budget with its plan to reform the economy to support jobs and growth, and to take steps to help families with the cost of living – including an immediate cut in fuel duty.  read more »

On Friday 18th March local MP Alok Sharma joined young people participating in the Prince’s Trust Team Programme, based at the Madejski Stadium, to talk about the work of a Member of Parliament.  read more »

Alok Sharma and Rob Wilson, Reading West MP and Reading East MP respectively, joined Fairtrade Ambassador and five-time Olympic gold medallist, Sir Steve Redgrave, in Parliament in a bid to break the record for the world’s longest bunting.  read more »

Reading West MP Alok Sharma has welcomed a £3.7 million commitment from the Housing and Communities Agency (HCA) to support the creation of 76 new affordable homes in the later stages of the Dee Park regeneration scheme, adding to the £10.4 million the HCA put towards the project in March 2009.  read more »

Alok Sharma, Reading West MP, got on his bike this week to pedal with a Panda for WWF’s Earth Hour, the world’s biggest call for action to protect the planet.  read more »

The Save the Bath Road Reservoir (STBRR) Campaign Group took part in a meeting last Friday, facilitated by local MP Alok Sharma, with the CEO of Thames Water to discuss Thames Water’s future plans for the Bath Road reservoir site. The STBRR Group and Alok Sharma proposed strongly to Thames Water that, as part of formulating its future plans, the company should engage in a genuine consultation with local people about a more sensitive and less dense development.  read more »

Reading West MP Alok Sharma spoke at the Pincents Hill Inquiry last week which is hearing Blue Living’s appeal to reverse West Berkshire Council’s decision last year to reject the Blue Living planning application to build 750 homes and commercial space on the Pincents Hill site.  read more »

Reading West MP, Alok Sharma, and Reading East MP, Rob Wilson, saw firsthand the role community pharmacy plays in delivering expert public health services with a free blood pressure check at the House of Commons recently.  read more »

Responding to feedback from some constituents, Alok Sharma MP for Reading West is circulating a letter to local homes asking for their views on Tilehurst Parish Council’s plans to install a skateboard park on Turnhams Farm Recreation Ground on Little Heath Road.  read more »

On Friday 18th February 2011, Alok Sharma, MP for Reading West, visited Blessed Hugh Faringdon Catholic School and 6th Form Centre to open the school’s new 6th Form Common Room. The ceremony was also attended by Bishop of Portsmouth, Crispian Hollis, who blessed the new building.  read more »