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VIDEO: Justin Quizzes Minister About Extending The Severe Illness Criteria

VIDEO: Justin Quizzes Minister About Extending The Severe Illness Criteria

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson took to the floor of the house to ask a question of Disabilities Minister Tom Pursglove. Justin asked the question during DWP oral questions, asking whether the Minister would consider extending the severe illnesses criteria (SIC) to reduce the number of people requiring an assessment to access support. By extending the number of conditions included in the SIC to include conditions with a clear degenerative trajectory, such as motor neurone disease, it is estima...

VIDEO: Justin Speaks During Minister's Work Capability Assessment Statement

VIDEO: Justin Speaks During Minister's Work Capability Assessment Statement

North Swindon MP and former Disabilities Minister, Justin Tomlinson made a contribution during the Department for Work and Pension Secretary's statement regarding changes to Work Capability Assessments. The Work and Pensions Secretary was updating the House regarding proposed changes to the work capability assessment process. The changed aim to ensure that Disabled people assessed as having a limited capability for work are not held back from the opportunity to work. With the majority of long-te...

Swindon Advertiser Column - STFC Community Foundation Show Football's Power To Support Communities

Swindon Advertiser Column - STFC Community Foundation Show Football's Power To Support Communities

As a passionate football fan and avid follower of the game, I have seen the positive impact that football clubs can have on their local communities - including Swindon Town. The Swindon Town FC Community Foundation does incredible work to run a number of initiatives which benefit many different groups and people in Swindon. Earlier this year their fantastic work was recognised by the English Football League, as they were awarded EFL's Community Club of the Season for League Two – and I was honou...

Justin Goes Behind The Scenes At Stagecoach Depot

Justin Goes Behind The Scenes At Stagecoach Depot

North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson visited the Stagecoach Bus Depot to meet with Rachel Geliamassi, Managing Director of Stagecoach West. The visit began with a behind the scenes tour of the depot, during which Justin took the opportunity to meet the engineers who keep the buses going. Justin was particularly interested to hear about Stagecoach’s Trade Up Scheme, which allows drivers to upskill to engineering role. He spoke to Wayne, who took advantage of the scheme to transfer engineering after ...

Justin Visits Swindon Town FC Community Foundation Facilities

Justin Visits Swindon Town FC Community Foundation Facilities

Football fan and local MP, Justin Tomlinson, has visited the brand-new Swindon Town FC Community Foundation facilities next door to the County Ground. The facility was secured thanks to funding from a variety of sources including the Football Foundation, Government, and the Nigel Eady Trust. Founded in 1991, the club’s community foundation is run by its head Jon Holloway, who has transformed it into a thriving organisation which supports the local community and provides wonderful opportunities f...

Swindon Advertiser Column - Online Sales Tax Can Support High Street Regeneration

Swindon Advertiser Column - Online Sales Tax Can Support High Street Regeneration

This week I donned my walking boots and joined the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, local Cllr Jake Chandler and Crest for a walking tour of the Tadpole Garden Village Nature Park. This was an opportunity to view progress, identify future plans and to see first-hand the benefits for the environment, wildlife and local residents. The area forms part of the vital 13 mile environmental corridor between North Swindon and Blakehill Farm Nature Reserve, and is managed by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. The Nat...

Justin Visits TGV Nature Park

Justin Visits TGV Nature Park

North Swindon MP, Justin Tomlinson recently met with representatives from Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and Crest Nicholson on a walking tour around the Nature Park at Tadpole Garden Village. This was an opportunity to explore the progress at the park, identify future plans and to see first-hand the benefits for the environment, wildlife and local residents. The area forms part of the vital 13 mile environmental corridor between North Swindon and Blakehill Farm Nature Reserve, and is managed by the W...

Justin Welcomes Repairs To Asda Steps

Justin Welcomes Repairs To Asda Steps

North Swindon MP Justin tominson has welcomed news that repair work to the steps at the Orbutal Park has been completed. The steps have been broken and boarded up for years, with Asda being slow to repair them. Following much pushing from Justin, the steps have now been repaired and opened up. In addition to the steps, Justin also called for improvements to the bus lane - these were completed a copuple of years ago. Justin is continuing to press Asda to repair and open up the popular water found...

Swindon Advertiser Column - Good Luck To Our Incredible Lionesses!

Swindon Advertiser Column - Good Luck To Our Incredible Lionesses!

It was a tense 90 minutes in Sydney this week, as the Lionesses faced the hosts Australia and their raucous home crowd before progressing to the World Cup Final. A huge congratulations to the team for their excellent performance, and best of luck for the final on Sunday! It is fantastic to see the popularity of Women’s football continue to grow, from not being televised b at all to filling 80k capacity stadiums. We have seen this impact carried over to young girls in Swindon with Abbey Meads FC ...

1 Million Policing Hours To Be Saved Under New Approach To Mental Health

1 Million Policing Hours To Be Saved Under New Approach To Mental Health

The Government's new Right Care Right Person approach to how the police manage mental health inccidents is set to free up 1 million more policing hours. The new approach will see police only respond to mental health inccidents if there is a safety risk or crime. Instead inccidents that don't require police assistance will be referred to the correct partner agency. Estimates show that implementing the principles of Right Care Right Person could save around one million police officer hours each ye...