Reading West MP, Martin Salter, has been working over the last year to ensure that Reading was chosen to be one of the next towns to benefit from the revolutionary pre-school reading scheme pioneered by country and western singer, Dolly Parton.

The battle to save Naomi House Hospice in neighbouring Hampshire has stepped up a gear. In fact, I’ve been undertaking the Parliamentary equivalent of a war on all fronts in an effort to get the Government to agree to establish a hardship fund to assist Naomi House following the freeze of £5.7 million assets due to the Icelandic banking collapse. Last week I led a cross-party delegation of MPs to put the case to charities Minister Kevin Brennan who seems supportive of the idea, but stressed that we’d have to get it past the Treasury.

Following strong lobbying from the Angling Trust, sea angling groups, and Parliamentary angling spokesman Martin Salter MP, Labour’s Fisheries Minister Huw Irranca-Davies has made clear the Government’s opposition to any attempt to use the EU Article 47 Directive to impose quota restrictions on catches made by recreational sea anglers.

Reading West MP Martin Salter chaired a special meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Gurkha’s rights in Westminster this week to discuss the campaign to attain settlement rights for the former Gurkha soldiers.

Reading West MP Martin Salter yesterday attended a celebration in the House of Commons to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the tenth anniversary of the minimum wage.

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