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In November I visited Nigeria as part of a delegation of the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group. The visit was supported by independent international research centre Chatham House’s Africa programme.

The packed agenda included visits to rural villages which had no clean drinking water as well as a meeting with…

Events attended include:

08/09 – Sanctuary Housing event, Gasgoyne Estate 16/09 – Robert Levy memorial event 17/09 – Hackney Peace March 23/09 -28/09 – Labour Party conference 02/10 – Petchey Academy opening 06/10 – Tesco Computers for schools presentation 06/10 – World Hospice day walk, St Joseph’s Hospice 06/10 – Daubeney School fair 14/10 – Haci Bektasi Veli…

Meg joined forces with Breast Cancer Campaign on ‘wear it pink’ day on Friday 27 October as part of breast cancer awareness month. Last year fun loving “pinkies” raised £1.69 million. The target this year is £2.1 million.

Meg said, “Every year over 13,000 women in the UK die from…

Meg has hit out at a national TV programme which has branded Hackney the worst place to live in Britain.

“I don’t believe these people have ever even been to Hackney. There is so much to celebrate – green spaces, a National Trust property, the canals and waterways, the forthcoming…

MPs’ offices are entitled to money to pay for staff and office running costs. These are rather confusingly called expenses but they do not go into the pocket of MPs and can only be spent on actual costs. Some expenses are taxable.

Below is a detailed breakdown of my parliamentary…