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Bulletin from Greg Hands M.P. #334 Date: Friday, 27 April 2012 16:59:04 United Kingdom Time From: To: Greg Hands M.P. news@greghands.com
In this edition:
Greg Hands M.P.s Diary Website of the Week: www.notkenagain.com Hands in the papers: Boris Johnson orders rethink over Thames supersewer Hands: 17,000 gain from the biggest State Pension rise in history Gun offences halved in H&F, as overall crime falls again Free one-to-one personal coaching sessions in Chelsea Library Diamond Jubilee events in Hammersmith & Fulham TfL pinpoints Olympic tube "hotspots" this Summer Community advertisement: Bishop Creighton House How to contact Greg Hands M.P.
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Stephen Greenhalgh, leader of Hammersmith & Fulham council, said: We are delighted Boris has called for this additional consultation. The supersewer is a costly white elephant that will blight our riverside and disrupt the lives of millions of Londoners for years. Greg Hands, MP for Chelsea and Fulham, said: I strongly agree with Boris that we need to have a proper re-assessment of the supersewer. In February, I led a delegation of Fulham residents to see the Mayor, and they told him the devastation this project would bring, and it is a common sense approach to now assess whether the full 4.1 billion project is necessary and affordable. A spokesman for Mr Livingstone said: Despite personally signing off the proposed London supersewer sites earlier this month, Tory Boris Johnson has now cynically demanded a review of sites. This is a clear electioneering ploy by the Tory Mayor. A Thames Water spokesman said: We will remain accountable to the Mayor, Ofwat, Defra and most importantly, our customers, on the cost of the scheme. The Economist magazine today backed Boris Johnson, saying he deserves a second term. It said he had been a good mayor rather than a great one but on the big issues, his instincts are right.
Hands: 17,000 gain from the biggest State Pension rise in history
Greg Hands M.P. has welcomed the biggest ever cash rise in the Basic State Pension, which came into effect this month. The Governments new triple lock guarantee on the Basic State Pension ensures it rises every year with inflation, earnings or 2.5 per cent whichever is the highest. This month, it has risen by 5.30 a week, some 275 a year. As a result of the triple lock, pensioners will be an average of 15,000 better off over the course of their retirement. It follows the Governments decision to protect benefits for pensioners, including winter fuel payments, free prescriptions and eye tests, free bus travel and free TV licences for older the over 75s. This occurring despite the record budget deficit and debt inherited from Labour. Commenting, Greg Hands said: Thanks to the Conservatives in government, seventeen thousand pensioners in Chelsea and Fulham are getting the largest ever increase in the state pension. For 13 years, Labour promised to restore the link between earnings and the State Pension, but did nothing. This resulted in older people getting paltry pension increases as little as 75 pence one year. But the Conservatives in government have guaranteed that pensions will always rise by the highest measure, whether thats inflation, earnings or 2.5 per cent.
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