News Archive
July 2014 Report
Thursday, 7 August 2014
Parliamentary Business
Data retention bill
The Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill () was hurriedly introduced to Parliament in mid-July. The timetable for discussion of the bill was appallingly rushed.
The coalition had been aware of the need to do something since April when an EU directive was struck out…
SAVE OUR SURGERIES
Thursday, 7 August 2014
GP surgeries in Hackney and elsewhere are threatened by government changes to the funding for them.
Only last week the Royal College of General Practitioners () has warned that GPs are likely to turn away patients over 50 million times next year and that a lack of investment has brought…
June 2014 Report
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Parliamentary Business
Queen's Speech
I spoke in the Queen's Speech debate about the need for affordable housing and quality childcare.
Other members of the House of Commons were visibly shocked when I laid out the cost of housing to buy and rent privately in Hackney. The reality is that anyone…
Meg to hold broadband roundtable
Wednesday, 23 July 2014
On Thursday 31 July I will be holding a roundtable to discuss the problems with broadband in Shoreditch and Tech City.
As I have said to the Prime Minister in the past month, broadband is a national embarrassment and action is urgently needed. In Tech City, the much trumpeted European…
Meg Demands Action From PM On Slow Shoreditch Broadband
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
In Prime Minister’s Question Time today, Meg raised the problems experienced by one third of businesses in the Shoreditch Tech City area who can’t get fast broadband.
In response, David Cameron promised that action would be taken by Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport.
Meg…