News

23rd February 2010

On Friday Rugby Conservative Association held it's Annual Dinner and Mark was thrilled to welcome former Government Minister Edwina Currie to Rugby as the Guest of Honour.

9th February 2010

Damian Green MP, the Shadow Minister for Immigration was in Rugby on Friday and spoke on the important issue of how a Conservative Government will handle immigration in the United Kingdom.

4th February 2010

Damian Green MP, the Shadow Immigration spokesman will be in Rugby tomorrow evening (Friday 5th February). He will be speaking at a Wine Reception being organised by Rugby Conservatives. For more information please email us or phone 01788 579499.

19th January 2010

Rugby's Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, Mark Pawsey has this week launched a new campaign to bring a comprehensive high-speed broadband internet connection throughout the Rugby constituency. The campaign includes uses a short, simple but effective survey to assess peoples Internet speed which can be found here.

7th January 2010

It is my strong personal belief that current Home Office policy is intrusive, damaging to policing, and illegal - innocent people should not be on the DNA database indefinitely. Please help the Conservative Party to reverse this by joining our campaign: http://www.myconservatives.com/campaigns/return-my-dna

5th January 2010

Rugby people have condemned the Government’s attitude concerning the Armed Forces in a poll conducted by Rugby Conservatives. Nearly 80% of those asked felt that the proposed cut to the funding of the Territorial Army was a mistake, and over 70% felt that the Government does not do enough to help wounded or returning service personnel.

12th November 2009

Mark Pawsey, Parliamentary Candidate for Rugby Conservatives, will be meeting with Chris Gibb, Chief Operating Officer of Virgin Trains at Rugby Station on Wednesday 18 November 2009, where he will be shown the recent investment in Rugby's rail service.

29th October 2009

A survey undertaken during October has shown that many people in Rugby are highly sceptical of the new plans proposed by the Government to introduce large scale vetting are barring schemes throughout both the public and private areas of peoples lives. 62.5% of people questioned said that they felt that the Government intruded to far into their personal privacy.

29th October 2009

Mark Pawsey, Parliamentary Candidate for Rugby, this week issued a stark warning that Gordon Brown's changes to Housing Benefit rules are harming the most vulnerable tenants and reducing the availability of affordable accommodation. Last year, Labour Ministers introduced a new 'Local Housing Allowance'. The key change was for Housing Benefit to be paid directly to the tenant rather than as previously to the landlord.

12th October 2009

Mark Pawsey has responded to the determination of the Schools Adjudicator, Dr Elizabeth Passmore, concerning admission arrangements to Rugby's secondary schools: "The decision of the Schools Adjudicator to stick with the decision of 24 October 2008 is a step in the right direction in that it improves access to Rugby's secondary schools for Rugby's children and parents compared to the position that has existed since 1989.

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