http://www.islandmp.org Conservative Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_202.php Island MP Andrew Turner is gearing up to lead an Islandwide campaign to fight proposals that will divide the Isle of Wight into different Parliamentary constituencies..Under plans announced last week by the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg MP, part or parts of the Island will be merged with one or more mainland constituencies.The Isle of Wight has a strong common identity, and has had f Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:10:14 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_201.php Eric Pickles MP, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has today announced the abolition of the Regional Planning Strategies which covered planning policies for all English council areas outside London. The move is designed to give more power to local people when planning for the housing needed in their areas. The Regional Strategies, introduced by John Prescott whose Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:23:04 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_200.php Andrew Turner apologised today for unusually long delays in the service given by his office recently. He explained that MPs only receive a new computer system after an election and because his office was one of the first to be changed over after the election in May there have been a number of teething problems which have led to delays in dealing with correspondence.Mr Turner said :Our old Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:54:59 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_199.php The Islands MP, Andrew Turner, has pledged that he will not give up the fight for the Islands unique status to be recognised in any forthcoming boundary review of constituencies. The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg MP, announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the number of MPs would be reduced to 600. On current figures that would lead to constituencies with an average number of 75,7 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:11:55 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_198.php Andrew Turner has today welcomed the news that the Government is set to proceed with a massive 364m investment in Island roads under a Private Finance Initiative PFI. Due to the very difficult state of the nations finances, a large number of public spending commitments have been axed. All spending decisions made this year by the outgoing Labour Government were scrutinised carefully by th Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:48:06 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_197.php Members of Parliament for the largest and the smallest constituencies in the UK united yesterday, to make clear that any redrawing of constituency boundaries to create a smaller House of Commons with fewer MPs should take particular account of the needs of Island communities. A debate was called yesterday by the Islands MP Andrew Turner in response to suggestions that there could be one MP repr Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:36:46 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_196.php Following the release of official figures detailing freight and passenger movements to and from the Isle of Wight, Andrew Turner, the Islands MP is supporting a wideranging debate on the impact that high levels of traffic and people have on the Islands infrastructure and services. Statistics compiled by the Department for Transport include the Isle of Wight for the first time, and show tha Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:31:29 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_195.php Dona Ratcliff, election agent for the Conservative Candidate, Andrew Turner, has expressed her disappointment that a number of campaign posters have been vandalised.Although this has been a relatively isolated problem, Mrs Ratcliff has heard reports of damage caused to posters supporting the candidates of both main parties.Mrs Ratcliff said:This is very childish and rather disappointi Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:10:33 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_193.php Andrew Turner, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for the Isle of Wight today slammed the decision of Red Funnel to withdraw their Green, Silver and Gold travel cards that gave year round fixed price travel for vehicles. Red Funnel plan to introduce a new single card that only gives a discount against published prices. Mr Turner believes this will lead to huge price increases for many travel Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:41:03 +0100 GMT http://www.islandmp.org/press_release_item_192.php Following the final Prime Ministers Question Time of this Parliament, Andrew Turner, the Islands MP, has expressed his astonishment at the Prime Ministers suggestion that Conservative plans not to implement a planned rise in National Insurance contributions NIC is equivalent to withdrawing 6 billion from the British economy. Labours plan to increase NI contributions has been widely cri Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:04:02 +0100 GMT