Serving the People of North East
Bedfordshire
Welcome to my web site
As MP for North East Bedfordshire my main job is to represent the constituents of the area, and I hope you will find this website helpful in seeing what I do and where I have been in the constituency in recent weeks. You can also find contact details for my team, and details of advice centre appointments.
If this is your first visit, you can find more information about me here, and use the toolbar on the left to navigate around the site. If you want to see a larger version of any of the photos you see around the site, just click the thumbnail to see the full image.
The current concerns regarding EXPENSES have been well documented by the Press. I have information on my Biography page regarding the issues, and you can access my regularly updated claims for the current year here.
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| Current News |
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| Boost for famers as MP praises “innovation and production” in North East Bedfordshire |
| 3-2-2010 |
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North East Bedfordshire MP Alistair Burt, speaking in the House of Commons last week, praised the efforts of his constituents in the food and farming businesses in recent years and said that the renewed concerns about food security for the future were likely to place even greater responsibility on those involved. |
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| Unemployment figures still startling says MP |
| 3-2-2010 |
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North East Bedfordshire MP Alistair Burt, commenting on the latest unemployment figures for his constituency released at the end of January, has said that they continue to make “startling reading”. The figures show that in the last year the number of unemployed claimants in North East Bedfordshire rose by 51.7%, and the change from 1997 to date is 118.1%, a figure which gives the 15th largest rise out of nearly 650 Parliamentary constituencies. |
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| New Yarl’s Wood put on hold |
| 26-1-2010 |
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North East Bedfordshire MP Alistair Burt has learned from the Home Office that its plans to build a second Yarl’s Wood have been put on hold until the new financial year. This is a backtracking from the Government’s original intention to announce last autumn to go ahead with a new removal centre at either Yarl’s Wood or Oxford. |
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| Commons motions swirl around First Capital Connect |
| 21-1-2010 |
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MPs at Westminster are putting further pressure on First Capital Connect to improve its services after the disruption over the past few months. North East Bedfordshire MP Alistair Burt is supporting a Commons Motion signed by sixteen of his colleagues designed to bring to the Government’s notice the recent failings of the company, and putting them on notice in relation to their franchise. |
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| Onshore wind farms “not the best answer to Bedfordshire’s green energy needs” says MP |
| 19-1-2010 |
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North East Bedfordshire MP Alistair Burt spoke on behalf of local residents opposed to the construction of three wind turbines on Airfield Farm, Podington, at the Public Inquiry in Bedford’s Harpur Suite, last week. The inquiry, which resulted from Bedford Borough Council’s decision to refuse permission to Nuon to build the turbines, was attended by Mr Burt who had been involved on behalf of constituents for nearly four years. |
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| Latest Press Releases |
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| Weekly Diary |
- Alistair's regularly updated diary can be viewed here
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| Articles |
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| January 2010 Biggleswade Chronicle |
| A small world with a big heart |
| Two weeks have now passed since the devastating earthquake hit Haiti and disasters like this remind us of how small the world is today. It is hard to imagine how we would feel if London had been hit by a similar event; but that is the scale of the tragedy that the Haitian people are coming to terms with....
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| January 2010Times & Citizen |
| PARLIAMENT – A FRESH START WITH 2010? |
| 2010 will be a year of change at Westminster: a general election for change or more of the same, and the chance to draw some sort of line under the expenses issue, and begin what I believe should be a Parliament long process of re-building trust with the public. ...
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| November 2009 Comet |
| Rememberence Day - Letter to the Comet Editor |
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| In Parliament |
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Click here for recent appearances in Parliament, and links to
Parliamentary questions. |
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| Advice Centres |
- Appointments available on 01767 313385
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