Andrew Turner

Housing Allowance has ‘backfired’ says MP

December 14, 2009 Business

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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Island MP – ‘first class job’

October 7, 2009 Business

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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MP – Urgent Review of Hospitals Needed

September 11, 2009 Featured

MP – Urgent Review of Hospitals Needed

Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, is supporting the Patients Association’s call for a review of basic training and dignity standards across the NHS.

Although Mr Turner has received very few complaints about care received atSt Mary’s Hospital on the Island, he is aware that there is a bigger national picture [...]

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

August 3, 2009 News

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 – ‘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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‘Silly idea’ – but needs watching says MP

May 13, 2009 News

Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, has been getting to the bottom of reports that the UK Border Agency, part of the Home Office, is seeking to impose an “e-Border” control system for people travelling from UK islands to the mainland. The Home Office’s Counter-Terrorism strategy ‘CONTEST’, published in March, outlined plans to introduce new [...]

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News from Vestas.

April 28, 2009 Business

Very worrying news’ from Vestas

Andrew Turner the Island’s MP has said that the news from Vestas Head Office in Denmark today is ‘extremely worrying’ for the Island. It was announced today that, due to the economic slowdown and falling orders for wind turbine blades, Vestas are to consult on redundancies which could lead to [...]

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