- Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Ned Ludd No More
Read more >>Reading West MP Martin Salter has today launched his revamped website at www.martinsalter.com.
- Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Thames Lock Keeper Cottages
Read more >>Martin successfully campaigned to prevent the disposal by Thames Water of lock keepers’ cottages along the Thames.
- Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Tackle and Guns Article
Read more >>The Labour Government has made good its promise to Britain’s 3 million anglers to update and overhaul our fisheries legislation when it announced in the Queen’s Speech that the long awaited Marine Bill was to be included in this years legislative programme.
- Friday, January 16th, 2009
Salter Disappointed with Third Runway Decision
Read more >>Reading West MP and Labour’s Vice Chair for the Environment Martin Salter has declared his continued opposition the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport whilst welcoming the decision to abandon “mixed mode” which would have seen flight numbers rise by 60,000 a year by 2015.
- Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Westminster Diary
Read more >>Parliament returned on Monday to hear a statement from the Foreign Secretary David Miliband on the appalling slaughter in Gaza and the attempts by the Government to secure an immediate ceasefire though a British sponsored resolution of the United Nations Security Council.
- Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Settlement Rights for Gurkha Servicemen
Read more >>Martin was recently elected chair of a new All Party Parliamentary Group on Gurkhas’ Rights and is campaigning for the Gurkhas to be given the same settlement rights to live in the UK as other foreign nationals who have served in the British army.
- Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Saying NO to the Third Runway at Heathrow
Read more >>As Labour’s Vice Chair for the Environment, Martin is spearheading the campaign against the building of a third runway at Heathrow Airport which would add to traffic gridlock, and increase air and noise pollution for thousands of households west of London.
- Monday, January 12th, 2009
Salter Welcomes Announcement on Dispensing Services
Read more >>Reading West MP Martin Salter has welcomed the announcement from the Department of Health that changes to dispensing services proposed in the Pharmacy in England White Paper have been abandoned.