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Mike Gapes
Labour and Cooperative Party MP for Ilford South

A local man with a national voice

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   Working for you in Ilford and Parliament
  • Health debate
    The Conservatives put down a motion on Healthcare in London today . This merely called for " a more effective public consultation" on the "reconfiguration proposals across London" put forward by the NHS bureaucracy. This did not go nearly far enough and is no guarantee that a Tory Government will...
  • Nuclear Weapons and Non Proliferation
    Mike Gapes intoduced and concluded a major three hour debate in Parliament on Thursday. The debate was called by the Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss its Report "Global Security: Non Proliferation" Follow the link to read MIke Gapes speech and the debate in full http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm100304/halltext/100304h0001.htm#10030452000001 You can watch it here...
  • Tribute to Michael Foot
    speaking in a Parliamentary debate on Thursday Mike Gapes MP said "Finally, I place on the record my great sadness at the death of Michael Foot. I was in Brussels last Monday and Tuesday with the Foreign Affairs Committee at the UKRep offices, and on Monday evening I went to...
  • Column for Ilford Recorder 25 February 2010
    As a Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament I welcome renewed interest in ideas of co-operation and mutualism. Firms where members of staff have a big ownership stake and say in decisions create happier workers. Worker co-operatives and employee owned businesses like the John Lewis partnership thrive across a range...
  • Holocaust Memorial Day
    Holocaust Memorial DayHere is part of a letter I just received from Karen Pollock of the Holocaust Memorial Trust "Thank you for your support over recent weeks, which has contributed to one of the most successful and widely observed Holocaust Memorial Days since it was established in 2001. It has sent out...
  • Column for Ilford Recorder January 28 2010
    I am working with Councillors of all parties and with Lee Scott MP in a joint campaign to save services at King George Hospital. I am delighted that Redbridge Council unanimously adopted a motion to reject the misguided proposals of the London region NHS bureaucracy. We are now...
  • Column for Ilford Recorder 31 December 2009
    Columns written at the end of the year are supposed to be reflective. But as I write this I am in a combative mood. Locally I am angry that once again Redbridge Council has failed to grit any streets and pavements in Ilford South so that the predicted heavy snow...
  • BBC RadioPM programme
    I was interviewed this afternoon on BBc radio 4 PM programme about the release of the British hostage Peter Moore in Iraq and UK/Iran relations. Follow the link to listen http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qskw...
  • Saving Lives
    Saving LivesAt a House of Commons event on 15 December Mike Gapes, MP for Ilford South pledged support for the work of the British Red Cross and its renewed vision for the next 5 years. Known as Saving Lives, Changing Lives, the strategy sets out the ambitions and priorities,...
  • Save King George Hospital - special report
    I have produced this special report to alert constituents to the new threat posed to the future of services at our local King George Hospital. In 2006 and 2007 our magnificent united community campaign was able to stop the previous misnamed “Fit For the Future” plans to downgrade services at...
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