Martin Salter, MP for Reading West, has welcomed the publication of the final report by the Joint Committee on the Draft Marine Bill, of which he was a leading member, and called on the government to heed the committee’s recommendation to put a duty on the Secretary of State to establish marine conservation zones, rather than just enabling him to do so.

Reading West MP, Martin Salter, has warned government ministers about the environmental and economic threat posed by the construction of the Severn tidal barrage.

Reading West MP, Martin Salter, last week hosted a parliamentary reception to launch a WWF report on the dangers of climate change to the Thames Basin region.

Reading West MP, Martin Salter, is calling on Reading members of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) to resign en masse in protest over the news that the organisation formally supported the plans by Prudential to build 7,500 houses on the Kennet Meadows south-west of Reading.

Martin Salter, Labour MP for Reading West has today announced his support for the ‘7 out of 10′ campaign for men with prostate cancer.

Campaigners in Reading and West Berkshire were today celebrating the news that the Government has rejected the recommendations of the Panel looking at development potential in the South East to include Kennet meadows as a ‘strategic development area’.

Last week saw the ridiculous spectacle of the former Shadow Conservative Home Secretary contesting a by-election in his own constituency, caused by his own resignation following a disagreement with his own leader over the Tories’ approach to the pre-charge detention of terrorist suspects.

The All Party Parliamentary Angling Group in Westminster is organising a charity angling competition between MPs, a team from the Metropolitan Police and young people from the charity Thames21.

Martin Salter, Labour MP for Reading West has today signed House of Commons Early Day Motion (EDM) number 1634, Stop the Drop campaign against litter and fly-tipping.

Reading West MP, Martin Salter, has given his backing to a national campaign to prevent the exclusion of the ‘forgotten working poor’ by government and business.