Geoffrey Cox has written to the Secretary of State Andy Burnham MP, urging him to reconsider new laws that are hitting traditional gaming arcades in seaside communities such as Westward Ho!
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Geoffrey Cox asks the Secretary of State for Health for an assessment of the effect of the NHS pension abatement rules on doctors who have been obliged to retire on the grounds of disability and who are re-employed by the NHS on a part-time contract.
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Geoffrey Cox asks the Health Secretary how many consultants with clinical excellence awards, who had retired on disability grounds and have been re-employed part-time by the NHS, have had to repay a part of their pension under NHS pension abatement rules.
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In a written question to the Home Secretary, Geoffrey Cox asks how many violent crimes were committed by people undergoing treatment by out-patient psychiatric services in each of the last five years.
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Geoffrey Cox is backing the NSPCC's call for an end to painful "distraction techniques", including jabbing a child in the nose, used to keep discipline among children in custody.
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Geoffrey Cox asks the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to ensure that sub-postmasters, whose post offices are threatened with closure, are not prevented from consulting their MP.
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The other day, Oxford University published a report that measured the level of exclusion of individual parishes or neighbourhoods from essential services, such as the distance by road to the local GP, a local store, and a primary school or post office.
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Geoffrey Cox asks the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families about the rules on the transferability of Criminal Records Bureau checks on teachers.
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SAVE OUR RURAL POST OFFICES CAMPAIGN
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