Reading West MP Martin Salter has called for an end to 084 numbers within all government departments. The price of calling a premium 084 number is often well above the equivalent rate for a local call.

Last week Reading West MP Martin Salter led a delegation of cross-party MPs to Cabinet Office Minister Kevin Brennan to make the case for a “hardship fund” to assist beleaguered children’s hospice Naomi House.

Labour’s Parliamentary spokesman for Angling, Reading West MP Martin Salter, was unanimously re-elected chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Angling Group at their AGM on Tuesday 24th March. Mr Salter, who is retiring from Parliament at the next general election, has pledged to carry on working for angling and the waterside environment.

Thank you Keith for your kind words and for asking me to host this historic visit of the Revd Jackson to my constituency here in Reading West.

I’m not one of Parliament’s regular foreign travellers but last Wednesday, due to bad diary planning, my carbon footprint expanded alarmingly. I woke up in Prague - an even more lovely city than Reading - as part of a Home Affairs Committee delegation ready to meet with the Czech parliamentarians and voluntary organisations concerned with the trafficking of young women and drugs across Europe.

Reading West MP Martin Salter said that he was “disappointed” that a Private Member’s Bill designed to eradicate fuel poverty had failed at its first Parliamentary hurdle on Friday 20th March. The Fuel Poverty Bill followed House of Commons Early Day Motion 1069 entitled “Fuel Poverty” which has been signed by 172 Members of Parliament, including Martin Salter.

Reading West MP Martin Salter and students from Prospect School, Thames Valley University, and Little Heath School took part last week in a visit to the notorious WW2 concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Reading West MP Martin Salter has endorsed a campaign to promote skipping and healthy eating in primary schools by taking part in the annual Parliamentary skipping contest.

Reading West MP Martin Salter marked World Glaucoma Day by joining Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and researchers from Moorfield’s Eye Hospital at a meeting in Parliament to discuss new technology that is being developed to improve sight-saving tests for glaucoma.

Reading West MP Martin Salter has taken part in an event to publicise WWF’s Earth Hour by turning off a giant light switch.