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11 October 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Armed Forces: Internet

Mark calls on the Secretary of State for Defence to issue guidance on the use of military computer networks to access social networking sites. full story

11 October 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Defence Equipment

Mark Pritchard calls on the Defence Secretary to discuss with the US the development of a hyper-sonic mass technology joint capability. full story

11 October 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Falkland Islands: Military Bases

Mark Pritchard asks the Defence Secretary about future plans of the size of the garrison on the Falkland Islands. full story

11 October 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Future Large Aircraft

Mark Pritchard asks about the A400M entering into service with the RAF. full story

11 October 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Ukraine: NATO

Mark Pritchard asks the Secretary of State for Defence about Ukraine's application to join NATO. full story

11 October 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Unmanned Air Vehicles

Mark Pritchard calls on the Secretary of State for Defence to publish the conclusions of research on the combat effectiveness of miniature unmanned aerial vehicles in conflict zones. full story

7 October 2009 : News Release

Click here for more MP meets top health boss

Wrekin MP, Mark Pritchard, has met with Ian Cumming, Chief Executive of the West Midlands Health Authority. full story

6 October 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Shelve parking review, says MP

Wrekin MP, Mark Pritchard, said that a parking review currently taking place in Wellington should be “shelved”. full story

6 October 2009 : News Release

Click here for more UK Coal Decision

Wrekin MP, Mark Pritchard, has expressed his “deep concern” that the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has given the go ahead for UK Coal to mine 900,000 tonnes of coal from a site near New Works. full story

4 October 2009 : News Release

Click here for more MP visits Hadley Post Office

Wrekin MP, Mark Pritchard, has officially opened Hadley post office's new charge free ATM cash machine - which means that residents throughout Hadley will no longer have to pay a fee for withdrawing their cash. full story

1 October 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Black hole found in health budget, says Wrekin MP

Wrekin MP, Mark Pritchard, is to hold an urgent meeting with Ian Cummins, the Chief Executive of the West Midlands Health Authority next week, to ask the Authority to “repay” up to £7 million the MP believes was taken “by stealth” from local Primary Care Trust healthcare budgets over the last five years. full story

23 September 2009 : Article Published in Telford Journal

Click here for more Cutting services will cost lives

Plans to cut essential acute services from the Princess Royal Hospital will cost lives. full story

21 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more French should do more, says Wrekin MP

Mark Pritchard has accused the French government of “a dereliction of duty” over the French authorities “refusal” to take action against up to 1500 hundred immigrants camped at Sangatte, near Calais. full story

18 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more MP pays respects at new national war memorial

Wrekin MP, Mark Pritchard, will attend the unveiling of a new national war memorial in memory of Polish Forces who died in World War II. full story

18 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Downgrading A&E would cost lives

Wrekin MP, Mark Pritchard, has said he will prove with “empirical evidence” that moves to downgrade accident and emergency services at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford will end in lives being lost “unnecessarily”. full story

17 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Hospital case to be taken up with Ministers

Mark Pritchard is to raise the plight of the loss of services at the Princess Royal Hospital directly with Andy Burnham MP, the Secretary of State for Health. full story

17 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Business News

Mark Pritchard paid a visit to Donnington based Maxsys Limited to hear about the company's fuel saving and environmental technology. full story

15 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Lives at risk, says MP

Mark Pritchard, said he will “fight with all his might” plans by Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Hospital Trust to cut overnight paediatrics and 24 hour Accident & Emergency cover from the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, which he claims will put “Telford & Wrekin and East Shropshire lives at risk”. full story

13 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Urgent action needed over student loans

Mark Pritchard, has written to Peter Mandelson, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Minister with oversight of government agency, the Student Loans Company, asking him to "personally intervene" to sort out the massive backlog of unpaid student loans for Shropshire students. full story

7 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Avoid repeat of delays, says MP

Mark Pritchard has written to the bosses of London Midland Trains telling them that train services this Sunday “should not repeat the mistakes of last weekend” – when thousands of passengers throughout the Midlands were left without trains to travel around the region. full story

4 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Call to halt respite cuts

Mark Pritchard calls for further consultation before any decisions are taken by Telford & Wrekin Primary Care Trust about reducing respite care for families whose children suffer severe physical disabilities. full story

4 September 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Urgent Parliamentary Statement call by MP

Mark Pritchard has called for an urgent Written Parliamentary Statement from Transport Secretary, Lord Adonis, asking for a full investigation of the circumstances leading up to the cancellation of scores of London Midland train services on Sunday because ‘volunteers’ could not be found to man train services. full story

31 August 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Missing People

In a written question to the Home Secretary, Mark Pritchard asks about the numbers of adults and children reported missing in 2008 who remain unaccounted for. full story

19 August 2009 : News Release

Click here for more MP helps launch fight for Post Office

Mark Pritchard has joined local residents in Leegomery in calling upon the Post Office to re-open its facilities at Leegomery Centre and shopping area. full story

11 August 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Put military first, says MP

Mark Pritchard, has written to Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth MP, calling on the government to allow Councils powers to give priority to serving and ex-servicemen when allocating affordable and social housing. full story

9 August 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Peace Process Talks

Mark Pritchard MP recently met with Lebanese President, His Excellency President Sleiman, and Prime Minister Hariri in Beirut to discuss the Middle East Peace process. full story

9 August 2009 : Photo

Click here for more De-Mining in Beiruit

Mark meets members of the Mine Action Group (MGA). The British based NGO helping to make safe old Israeli mines and munitions. full story

9 August 2009 : News Release

Click here for more De-Mining in Beiruit

Mark meets members of the Mine Action Group (MGA). The British based NGO helping to make safe old Israeli mines and munitions. full story

2 August 2009 : News Release

Click here for more Caravan sales up at local business

Salop Caravans of Shifnal have reported a 30% increase in caravan sales in July. full story

20 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Topical Question: Armed Forces and Elections

Mark Pritchard calls on the Government to ensure that all our armed forces fighting in Afghanistan are able to vote in the UK general election. full story

20 July 2009 : Speech

Click here for more Afghanistan

Mark Pritchard pays tribute to our troops in Afghanistan and calls on the Government to ensure that they are given the equipment and training that they need. full story

20 July 2009 : Speech

Click here for more MP presents petition to Parliament

Mark Pritchard presents a petition opposed to UK Coal’s proposals for surface mining in Huntingdon Lane and New Works full story

20 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Crown Prosecution Service: Expert Evidence

Mark Pritchard questions the Solicitor-General about progress made by the CPS in its evaluation of appropriate standards for expert witnesses in criminal trials. full story

20 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Armed Forces: Training

In a question to the Secretary of State for Defence, Mark Pritchard asks when he will announcce the maingate timetable for the Defence Training Review Programme. full story

20 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Senegal: Overseas Aid

Mark Pritchard asks the Secretary of State for International Development about about aid provided to Senegal in 2008. full story

20 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Opencast Mining: Planning Permission

Mark Pritchard asks the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government about the number of opencast mining planning applications he has approved or refused in the past year. full story

19 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Sport (Young People)

Mark Pritchard condemns the selling-off of four sports fields which prevents young people from having access to sports and addressing the important issue of obesity. full story

19 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Afghanistan

Mark Pritchard calls on the Secretary of State for Defence to discuss with his Chinese counterpart the involvement of Chinese nationals in fighting UK armed forces in Afghanistan. full story

19 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more RAF Regiment Field Squadron

In a question to the Secretary of State for Defence, Mark Pritchard asks when he expects to announce the UK basing arrangements for the new RAF Regiment Field Squadron. full story

19 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Arabic Language

In a question to the Foreign Secretary, Mark Pritchard asks about increasing the number of Arabic speakers in the Department. full story

19 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Human Rights

Mark Pritchard calls on the Foreign Secretary to discuss with the Association of Tour Operators the introduction of a traffic light system to classify foreign tourist destinations as having good, fair or bad human rights records. full story

19 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Health Services: Buildings

Mark Pritchard questions the Secretary of State for Health on the use of portable buildings for provision of medical and clinical services in acute hospitals. full story

15 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Nuclear Power Stations: Construction

In a question to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Mark Pritchard asks when the first of the new nuclear power stations is expected to start producing energy for the National Grid. full story

14 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Circuses: Animal Welfare

Mark Pritchard questions the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs about the future use of wild animals in travelling circuses. full story

14 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Primates

Mark Pritchard calls on the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to bring forward legislation to prohibit the keeping of primates as pets. full story

13 July 2009 : Parliamentary Debate

Click here for more Health Care (Shropshire) debate

Mark Pritchard tells MPs that it is vital that local acute hospitals retain their 24-hour, seven-days-a-week accident and emergency facilities so that patients are not rushed by blue light all the way to Shrewsbury. full story

12 July 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Dead Bodies: Identification

Mark Pritchard questions the Secretary of State for Justice about unidentified remains of people who died in the last 10 years. full story

24 June 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Cross-Border Transport Networks

Mark Pritchard calls on the Government to meet Arriva Trains Wales to persuade them to provide more carriages to deal with dangerous overcrowding on the service from Wales to Shropshire and on to other parts of the UK. full story

24 June 2009 : Parliamentary Question

Click here for more Open-cast Mining

Mark Pritchard calls for a Parliamentary debate on open-cast mining and the inequalities that exist between England, Scotland and Wales on the permitted distance between an open-cast mine and someone's home. full story

9 June 2009 : News Release

Click here for more MP offers support to AGA

Mark Pritchard recently showed his support for AGA employees by visiting their foundry in Coalbrookdale and finishing workshop and display area in Ketley. full story

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