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.

Apologies for “going missing” for the last couple of issues but Tackle and Guns had some space problems and I lamentably failed to meet a copy deadline. This column will now be bi-monthly so hopefully I will still be able to keep T&G readers up to speed with developments in Parliament which affect shooting and fishing.

Reading West MP Martin Salter helped secure a historic change in the House of Commons rules last night to finally allow the young people of the UK Youth Parliament to use the Commons Chamber for their annual meeting. The motion, which originated from a proposal from Mr Salter to the House of Commons Modernisation Committee in 2004, was fiercely resisted by group of right-wing Conservative MPs who attempted to use filibustering tactics and Parliamentary procedure to block the measure.

Reading West MP Martin Salter, who is also chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Gurkha Rights, today joined actress Joanna Lumley and Gurkhas from across the country including Reading, in a demonstration outside the High Court where solicitors Howe and Co. are applying for a judicial order to force a decision from the Government on a new settlement policy for ex-Gurkha soldiers and their dependents.

Reading West MP Martin Salter has secured Ministerial endorsement of improvements in Reading’s children’s care services following a statement made to the House of Commons by Schools Secretary Ed Balls on Lord Laming’s report into child protection following the Baby P tragedy.

Reading West MP Martin Salter yesterday laid into a group of Conservative Members of Parliament who were seeking to block proposals to allow the UK Youth Parliament to hold its annual meeting in the Chamber of the House of Commons.