- 31st March 2010
Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, met in Parliament with Jeremy Hunt MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, to present the local petition signed by around 900 Reading people calling on the Government to stop their proposed Music Tax on charity and voluntary groups. read more »
- 25th March 2010
The Conservative and Green Party candidates in Reading West for the forthcoming General Election have joined forces to sign a Clean Campaign Pledge and will be inviting other parliamentary candidates in Reading West to also sign-up. read more »
- 24th March 2010
Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, has called into question the value of Reading's latest LDF consultation process following correspondence with Reading Borough Council's planning department regarding the Bath Road Reservoir site. read more »
- 16th March 2010
Parents and governors at All Saints Infants School in Reading, who are continuing their campaign to expand the school to take pupils upto year 6 and double the school roll to 120 pupils, had disappointing news regarding allocation of school places for children leaving All Saints at the end of the summer term. read more »
- 9th March 2010
Reading West Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, Alok Sharma, joined with Reading East’s Conservative MP, Rob Wilson, this week to express their concern as official Government figures have revealed that over 1,000 pupils every school day are being suspended or expelled from schools for physical assaults, verbal abuse and threatening behaviour on both pupils and teachers.
Across Reading, there were 390 suspensions for assaults and abuse – equivalent to 2 exclusions for each school day, in the last recorded year. read more »
- 8th March 2010
Alok Sharma, Reading West Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, joined with Reading East MP, Rob Wilson, this week to welcome major new policies from Conservatives to reform England ’s ‘broken’ planning system. A new system of devolved democracy and neighbourhood involvement will help deliver sustainable development across Reading. Government targets and unelected quangos will be scrapped, to be replaced with collaborative working and new incentives to promote and reward the building of local homes and new jobs. read more »
- 8th March 2010
Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, welcomed the announcement by Prudential’s property arm PRUPIM that it was dropping its Kennet Valley Park scheme to build 7,500 homes on the flood plain. read more »
- 24th February 2010
Yesterday evening at the public planning meeting held at Little Heath School, West Berkshire councillors rejected developer Blue Living’s planning application to build 750 homes on Pincents Hill together with a significant amount of commercial space. read more »
- 23rd February 2010
Public sector workers across Reading could become their own boss and deliver better services under new Conservative plans, backed by Reading West Parliamentary Candidate, Alok Sharma, and Reading East MP, Rob Wilson. Under bold proposals, public sector workers would have a powerful new right to form employee-owned co-operatives to take over the services they deliver. This will empower thousands of public sector workers across the Reading area. read more »
- 19th February 2010
Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, and local councillors Joe Mooney, Tony Linden and Emma Webster are asking local residents to turn out in force at West Berkshire Council’s planning meeting on 24 February, which will hear Blue Living’s planning application to build 750 homes and commercial space on Pincents Hill. read more »
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