http://www.tombrake.co.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Tom Brake MP en-GB Tom Brake MP http://www.tombrake.co.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Tom Brake MP 2010-02-09T05:52+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000792/local_mp_commits_to_safeguard_the_legacy_of_holocaust_survivors.html Last Wednesday Tom Brake MP pledged his commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day by signing a Book of Commitment in the House of Commons to honour those who perished in the Holocaust. 2010-02-03T10:50+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000791/brake_calls_for_gordon_brown_to_keep_his_prescription_charge_promise.html Tom Brake MP for Carshalton and Wallington has added his support to a campaign urging Gordon Brown to keep a promise he made over a year ago, to abolish prescription charges for people with long-term conditions in England. 2010-02-02T17:15+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000790/tom_brake_mp_warns_of_deadly_carbon_monoxide_risk.html Tom Brake MP has urged Sutton residents to protect themselves against the deadly threat of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. New research shows that 76% of households in the South East are putting themselves at risk of poisoning by not having an audible Carbon Monoxide alarm. Carbon Monoxide is a highly poisonous gas that has no colour, taste and smell, making it impossible to detect without an alarm. 2010-02-02T16:21+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000789/local_pensioners_miss_out_on_cold_weather_payments.html Up to 1.7m pensioners will miss out on Cold Weather Payments triggered by the recent weather, according to analysis of Government figures by the Liberal Democrats. 2010-01-26T16:34+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000788/new_group_for_older_people_in_sutton.html Older people in Sutton will have something to look forward to in March 2010 as 'Contact the Elderly', supported by Carshalton and Wallington MP Tom Brake, plan to launch a new monthly social get-together for a small group of socially isolated people over the age of 75. 2010-01-26T15:47+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000787/mps_call_for_suttons_school_places_for_suttons_pupils.html Sutton MPs Tom Brake and Paul Burstow spoke in a debate in Parliament last week on Sutton's Schools for Sutton's Pupils. 2010-01-26T15:47+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000786/sign_the_st_helier_hospital_cheque_takes_another_step_forward.html A long running campaign to get the Government to 'Sign the St Helier Hospital Cheque' took another step forward today at a meeting at the Department of Health. The Borough's two MPs Paul Burstow, Tom Brake met with local Health Minister Mike O'Brien and Mitcham and Morden MP Siobhain McDonagh to make sure work was on track to get Treasury approval for the plan. 2010-01-22T11:56+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000785/shp_makes_the_grade.html Sutton's MPs Paul Burstow and Tom Brake have welcomed today's announcement that Sutton Housing Partnership (SHP), which manages Sutton Council's properties, has been awarded two stars by the Audit Commission and a downpayment of £5 million on an investment programme of £112.5 million. 2010-01-21T12:05+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000784/women_in_sutton_hit_hard_by_the_recession.html Local MP Tom Brake has expressed his shock at a report in the Evening Standard which shows a steep increase in the number of women claiming jobseekers allowance in the London Borough of Sutton. 2010-01-21T11:19+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000783/fifth_anniversary_of_givers_gain.html Last week MP for Carshalton and Wallington Tom Brake attended the fifth anniversary breakfast of the Givers Gain Business Networking Organisation. 2010-01-19T17:35+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000782/free_course_helps_improve_career_prospects.html A free training initiative to help local people improve their career prospects was held on Friday at Carshalton Baptist Church. 2010-01-19T15:35+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000781/brake_criticises_government_over_alsarraj_case.html Tom Brake MP criticised the Government last week over its failure to promptly issue the travel documents that would allow local man, Mr al-Sarraj, to come back to the UK to be reunited with his British wife. 2010-01-19T14:05+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000780/fcc_customers_face_more_delays.html As commuters struggled into work again this week due to the weather, First Capital Connect Customers who rely on the Thameslink route were disproportionately effected due to damage to the fleet. 2010-01-18T11:50+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000779/mps_plead_case_for_fair_deal_extra_cash_to_stop_primary_school_cramming.html The borough's two Liberal Democrat MPs, Paul Burstow and Tom Brake, led a delegation today (14th Jan) to lobby Schools Minister, Vernon Coaker, to release some of the £30 million he has left to help Council's cope with a rising birth rate. The MPs pressed the Minister to help the borough cope with the increased demand for primary school places that will start to hit the borough from September 2011. 2010-01-15T10:21+00:00 http://www.tombrake.co.uk/news/000777/tom_brake_helps_celebrate_twenty_years_of_success.html Local MP Tom Brake is celebrating twenty years of Razzmatazz in Wallington and the many successes the event has had. 2010-01-12T16:03+00:00