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Time Is Running out’ for Vitamins!

March 9, 2010 News

Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, recently joined celebrity actress Jenny Seagrove and Totland resident Chris Whitehouse to urge the Prime Minister to block a bid by the EU to ban thousands of vitamin & mineral food supplements, used safely in the UK for decades.

As they launched the Time Is Running Out campaign, campaign group Consumers for Health Choice [...]

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Island MP – Regulation for Island’s NHS must be more flexible

March 5, 2010 Featured
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Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has called on the Government to review the level of regulation for the Island’s NHS Primary Care Trust. He brought the issue to the attention of the Minister of State for Health, Michael O’Brien MP, in a debate yesterday in Westminster Hall. The Island’s PCT is unique in that it combines [...]

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Turner ‘shocked’ at Iraq Revelations

February 3, 2010 Featured

Following the first day of Claire Short MP, the former International Development Secretary, giving evidence to Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry, Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has expressed his shock at some of the information that has emerged.

Mr Turner was one of 15 Conservative MPs who voted against the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.  At the time [...]

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Response to Bad Weather – ‘Too Slow’

January 20, 2010 Featured
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Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has welcomed the relaxation in EU driving regulations for heavy duty vehicles but says the response to the extreme weather was ‘too slow’. The Department of Transport announced on Monday January 11th that bulk milk tankers, and those involved in the distribution of road salt, heating oil and animal feed [...]

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Andrew Lansley MP to visit Island

January 19, 2010 Business
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The Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley CBE MP is to visit the Island on Wednesday 20th January. His visit is at the invitation of the Island’s MP Andrew Turner who asked him to come and see how the Island’s health service has responded to the re-organisation of the former NHS Trust and Primary Care [...]

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Housing Allowance has ‘backfired’ says MP

December 14, 2009 Business
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Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has supported the homeless charity Crisis in calling for Housing Allowance rules to be reformed to give tenants the right to choose for rent to be paid directly to their landlords.  Mr Turner claims that the new system of Local Housing Allowance, which automatically makes payments to claimants, [...]

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Christmas Card Winner

December 3, 2009 Featured

Island MP Andrew Turner has congratulated this year’s winner of his Christmas Card Design Competition whose design was selected from hundreds of entries by three independent judges.

The winning entry was from Maddy Squires, aged five from Gurnard Primary School on the theme of The Three Wise Men.  She wins the main prize of a book [...]

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MP – Government should ‘open the books’

November 13, 2009 News
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Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP has called for measures in the Sustainable Communities Act to be implemented in full, to demonstrate how much public money in total is being spent on the Isle of Wight and in other areas across the country.  Section 6 of the Act (which became law in 2007) requires the Government to [...]

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Island MP’s response to Kelly report

November 10, 2009 News
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Andrew Turner has given his response to the report on MPs’ Expenses by Sir Christopher Kelly and the Committee on Standards in Public Life.  Mr Turner welcomed the report which, he says, contains many sensible proposals.  He hopes that the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) will implement the recommendations in full as part [...]

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MPs’ claims

October 13, 2009 Business
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Sir Thomas Legg Enquiry

Island MP Andrew Turner has issued a statement following the provisional conclusions of an audit into all MPs’ claims conducted by Sir Thomas Legg, a former civil servant.

In a letter he received last night, Mr Turner was asked for more documentation.

Mr Turner said today:

“All my claims were supported by documentary evidence but I [...]

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Island MP – ‘first class job’

October 7, 2009 Business
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Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, was praised this week from the platform of the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.  Sir George Young, the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons was speaking about Conservative proposals to cut the cost of politics, which include a commitment to reduce the number of MPs by 10%.  [...]

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Island MP – Refusing to support ‘scam’ damages claim

September 9, 2009 Business
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Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has refused to refer a complaint to the Parliamentary Ombudsman in respect of a prisoner at HMP Albany who wants to claim compensation for the loss of his personal details by the Home Office. Mr Turner was approached by Swain & Co, a firm of solicitors in Hampshire who [...]

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Local Company Heeds MPs Call

September 7, 2009 Business

Cowes based company Vikoma has responded positively to Andrew Turner’s suggestion that grants paid to companies to enable them to develop on the Isle of Wight should be repaid in full should the business be relocated elsewhere.  The Island’s MP made the suggestion following the closure of the Vestas wind turbine manufacturing plant at St [...]

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Poll results would make ‘interesting reading’ for the Ferry Companies!

August 3, 2009 News
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Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, says that the results of his on-line poll into Islanders’ attitudes and experiences of cross-Solent ferries have thrown up a number of results that he would be happy to discuss with the ferry companies.  The MP is conducting the poll to provide further evidence to the Office of Fair Trading [...]

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MP investigates law and order on the Isle of Wight & Hampshire

July 23, 2009 News
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Island MP Andrew Turner is taking an in-depth look at the ‘thin blue line’ – policing on the Isle of Wight and Hampshire.

For 22 days over this summer and the following months he will be looking at front-line policing and the behind-the-scenes organisation and decision taking. In a varied programme he will be learning [...]

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MP – ‘I’ve Nothing to Hide’

June 22, 2009 Business

Andrew Turner has responded to the widespread concern about the ‘blacking out’ or ‘redaction’ of information on the expenses details published by the House of Commons yesterday.

The Islands’ MP explained that the redaction of the information was done by the House of Commons Authorities and not in response to a request from him – other [...]

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