Alok Sharma, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, met recently with the Kennel Club to voice his support for the Kennel Club’s campaign to ban electric shock collars in the UK.  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, hailed the ruling in the courts yesterday which concluded that Gurkha veterans who were refused visas to settle in the United Kingdom because they retired from the regiment before 1997 were treated unlawfully and the policy used to reject them was misleading.  read more »

Alok Sharma joined a fund raising walk and coffee morning in the Reading West constituency held on Saturday 27 September in support of Macmillan Cancer Support which was organised by Nicki Woodward, recent recipient of the Purley Villager of the Year Award.  read more »

Residents of Wigmore Lane, Theale who use a short access road owned by EWS Railway to gain access to their garages contacted Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, a few weeks ago having been informed by EWS that the annual access charge was to be increased from £80 + VAT to £250 + VAT.  read more »

The Government was today criticised by Reading East MP, Rob Wilson, and Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, Alok Sharma, for its cuts to Council tenants’ rights to buy their home.  read more »

Reading West Conservatives recently organised a local petition calling on the Government to deliver a fair financial deal for the Gurkha veterans and equal settlement rights in line with Commonwealth citizens.  read more »

Residents raise concerns about traffic & parking, housing for the elderly and local amenities - Sharma asks for financial viability of regeneration project to be scrutinised.  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West constituency, and local Conservative councillors have pledged to carry out a full survey of all households likely to be affected by any proposed development at Pincents Hill.  read more »

Alok Sharma, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, and fellow Conservatives launched a local petition calling on the Government to take immediate action to help those hit hard by the rising cost of fuel and energy bills.  read more »

Alok Sharma, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Reading West, who recently launched a Cost of Living Survey sent to thousands of homes across the Reading West constituency and last week called on the Government to take urgent action to help those most badly hit by the rising cost of living, especially pensioners and hard-pressed families, gave his strong support this week to new Conservative proposals to help less well-off families with their energy bills.  read more »