Martin Salter, MP for Reading West, has signed up to a Charter for Action for Prostate Cancer as part of the recent Prostate Cancer Awareness Week.

Reading West MP, Martin Salter, used a speech in the House of Commons yesterday to highlight the hypocrisy of the Conservatives tabling a motion calling for a halt to the current post office closures programme whilst refusing to guarantee to match the current level of government subsidy required to keep even a reduced network in business.

At the weekend I agreed to take part on a Radio 5 Live discussion on MP’s allowances and the funding of accommodation in London through the Additional Cost Allowance (A.C.A.).

Labour’s Angling Spokesman Martin Salter MP has backed Fisheries Minister Jonathan Shaw in his decision not to proceed with a sea angling rod licence at the present time.

Last week Reading West MP Martin Salter convened a meeting between parents from the Whitley area and Reading Borough Council Education officers together with the heads of the John Madejski Academy (JMA) and Prospect College to try and find a way forward following the news that 46 children from Whitley Excellence Cluster schools were unable to obtain a place at JMA this year.

Labour MP for Reading West, Martin Salter today described the Budget as good news for pensioners, low income families and the environment.

Conservative Mayoral Candidate for London and Henley MP Boris Johnson was exposed as having a conflict of interest between his two roles when giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into ‘Policing in the 21st Century’ on Tuesday 11th March.

Martin Salter MP will be joining Environment Agency officials and local Councillors and campaigners to explain to the Minister the flood risk that would result from PRUPIM’s proposal to build 7500 homes within the functional floodplain of the Kennet Meadows.

I see that the local Conservatives are getting themselves in a flap over the news that it is the Tory councils in Berkshire that are forcing up Council Tax bills by the highest amounts.

There has been a lot of nonsense written in some of the angling press suggesting that the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is intrinsically anti-angling.