Campaign Successes

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27/01/2010

MP's campaign success on balanced communities

Roberta's campaign to get balance in communities was today proved successful as the Government announced its plans to improve standards in the private rented sector and implement ‘Use Classes Orders' to give councils more powers to determine how properties can be used.
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22/01/2010

Roberta discusses Market Place plans with English Heritage Chair

Roberta has met with Baroness Andrews, the Chair of English Heritage, to discuss our very special heritage in Durham and how we can better protect it.  In particular they discussed the changes to the Market Place in the City Centre, and why Roberta believes the plans do not do enough to protect and preserve our historic City.
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09/12/2009

More Free School Meals to be served up thanks to Pre-Budget Report

North East MPs Roberta Blackman-Woods (City of Durham) and Sharon Hodgson (Gateshead East and Washington West) have welcomed today's announcement that 500,000 more pupils across the UK will be entitled to a free school meal. Chancellor Alistair Darling used his assessment of the nation's finances to reveal that Labour would extend existing pilots of universal free school meals to every region as well as increasing support for working families, lifting another 50,000 children out of poverty.
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