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Hundreds of parents in part-time work in Bristol could lose around £4,000 a year from this April, following a change to tax credit rules being introduced by the government. Kerry McCarthy Labour MP, for Bristol East, is urging the Government to reconsider a little-noticed change to tax credit rules which means thousands of families will ...
The MP for Bristol, Kerry McCarthy MP, has lent their support to Carers UK’s national carers’ rights campaign, urging people caring for ill or disabled loved ones to access all the support they are entitled to. The focus of Carers Rights Day 2011 is making sure that carers have clear information and advice about the ...
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City MP, Kerry McCarthy, has been granted a special debate in Parliament this Tuesday to discuss the drastic shortage of Primary School places in Bristol. Kerry is holding the debate to highlight the looming crisis in Bristol’s primary schools and will call upon the Department for Education to step in and provide emergency funding. Over ...
Yesterday Shadow Business Secretary, John Denham, joined local MP Kerry McCarthy to meet with small business owners and trader’s to discuss how the Government and Local Council’s can help support small businesses. John Denham’s visit to Bristol comes after it was revealed last week that Bristol has the most number of vacant business premises in ...
Yesterday in Liverpool, Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East, joined the Shadow Transport Secretary, Maria Eagle to back Better Transport’s ‘Save our Buses’ campaign, raising awareness of the impact of the Government cuts to our local bus services. Research conducted by the Better Transport Campaign shows that over 70% of the 88 local authorities in ...
Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East, has called upon the Government to postpone its plans to introduce Police Commissioners and to reconsider the stringent and deep budget cuts it has imposed on Police Forces throughout the Country. Estimates suggest Elected Police and Crime Commissioners will cost £100 million – equivalent to 600 full time police ...
The holy month of Ramadan is a time when many community organisations and mosques benefit from the generosity of Muslim people. Many charities are also raising desperately-needed funds to help the people affected by the famine in East Africa at this time.The MP for Bristol East, Kerry McCarthy, and the Charity Commission, the independent regulator ...
Local MP, Kerry McCarthy is inviting young Bristol men to fill the gap on the bone marrow register and donate blood stem cells to help save the lives of cancer victims. The Bristol MPhas joined other politicians in pledging to recruit at least ten men each between the ages to 18 and 30 to join ...
Kerry McCarthy MP has attacked plans by the Government to introduce a cull of badgers in the South-West of England The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Caroline Spelman, has announced plans for a cull of badgers in South-West England, with two pilot schemes in unidentified areas trialling what has been dubbed ”the Big Society badger ...
Kerry McCarthy is backing The Wildlife Trusts’ Petition Fish campaign to protect our seas and the amazing wildlife it supports, by signing a scale on a Petition Fish at a launch event in the Parliament this week. Petition Fish is The Wildlife Trust’s new campaign to put pressure on the UK, Scottish and Welsh Governments ...
The award-winning Bristol local charity, Creative Youth Network, is promoting a new evening programme of arts events at its...
Hundreds of parents in part-time work in Bristol could lose around £4,000 a year from this April, following a...
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