Alok Sharma, the Member of Parliament for Reading West, on Friday 1 March welcomed the official opening of a new Al-Murad DIY superstore on Stadium Industrial Estate in Reading.  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Member of Parliament for Reading West, has welcomed the significant progress that has been made in the campaign to set up a new secondary school in West Reading and praised members of the West Reading Education Network (WREN) for their hard work in trying to make the new school a reality.  read more »

Reading West MP Alok Sharma visited the Indian Community Association (ICA) in Norris Road on Friday 22nd February to celebrate their success in winning a £10,000 grant from the Big Lottery Fund.  read more »

On Friday 22nd February Alok Sharma, Member of Parliament for Reading West, met with members of the 9th Tilehurst Guides along with their Unit Leader, Holly Skeet. The girls asked to meet with Alok so that they could explain that their participation in the Craftivist Collective’s Jigsaw Project, “I’m a piece.”  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Member of Parliament for Reading West, recently met with local film makers and actors who have produced a new film, based in Reading, titled “Love me till Monday”. The feature, which is filmed around the Reading area, follows the story of a girl trying to find love between the office and her home life. The film looks at how a generation of twenty-somethings go in search of love.  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Member of Parliament for Reading West, has welcomed the confirmation by Tesco that it will be opening its new distribution in the Reading West constituency in May, bringing 1,150 jobs to the local area.  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Member of Parliament for Reading West, last week joined the Prime Minister David Cameron, who led a trade delegation to India on a three day visit between 18 – 20 February 2013 which covered Mumbai, Delhi and Amritsar.  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Member of Parliament for Reading West has welcomed the Government announcement that Reading will be included in the next batch of cities to be devolved new powers as part of the ‘City Deal’ initiative.  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Member of Parliament for Reading West, has together with local councillors and the Environment Agency, organised a public meeting for residents in Purley to discuss flooding-related issues.  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Member of Parliament for Reading West, last week met in Parliament with Tim Smith MBE, Business Director and Margot Tomkinson-Smith, Communications Manager at Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (TVB LEP) to discuss business concerns about broadband provision in Berkshire and has called for further action to improve the coverage of access to superfast broadband in the sub region.  read more »