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A healthy guarantee for Hackney

Tuesday, 25 April 2006

Meg Hillier, MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch questioned health minister Patricia Hewitt on health finance.

The Trust is lending 3 per cent of its budget this financial year to support primary care trusts elsewhere in London.

Meg pointed out that both Hackney’s Homerton hospital and Primary Care Trust have…

Ivy Street Centre

Thursday, 6 April 2006

The Ivy Street centre is an under 5s drop in centre based in an old pub in Ivy Street, Hoxton.

For 25 years the centre has provided this service to parents and childminders who drop in with their children. Many of those I met had long connections with the centre…

Monthly reports

Thursday, 30 March 2006

It is a privilege to be the Labour and Co-operative MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch. My monthly report which is one of the ways I am accountable to you.

If you would like to receive my monthly report by please e-mail hillierm@parliament.uk including your full name and address.

March…

Homes for Hackney

Tuesday, 28 March 2006

Hackney has more families living in overcrowded homes than the cities of Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool and Bradford.

Hackney South and Shoreditch MP Meg Hillier put further pressure on Ministers to address the housing problem. In an adjournment debate in Parliament Meg said the government must fund more family homes.

Meg…

Can you teach me Turkish?

Monday, 20 March 2006

As MP for a constituency in which at least 60 languages are spoken I am hoping to learn a few words of some of the most widely spoken languages in Hackney. I will invite a small group to meet me for tea in the House of Commons to teach me…

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