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13 March 2006 : Parliamentary Question 
Geoffrey Cox questions the Trade and Industy Secretary about hotels and other establishments barring 999 calls and calls for legislation to require direct connection to the emergency services by dialing 999 or 112 from any telephone. | more |
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9 March 2006 : Press Release 
Five years after the Prime Minister offered hope to farming communities by acknowledging that supermarkets had “pretty much got an armlock” on them, Geoffrey Cox has called on the Government to match its rhetoric with action. | more |
Geoffrey Cox calls for the PM to support investigation into supermarkets. 8 March 2006 : Parliamentary Question 
During Prime Minister's Question Time in the House of Commons, Geoffrey Cox called on the Prime Minister to support the Federation of Small Businesses call for an investigation into the practices of supermarkets by the Competition Commission. | more |
MP Encourages Towns in Torridge and West Devon to achieve Fair Trade Status 7 March 2006 : Press Release Speaking at the start of Fair-trade Fortnight Geoffrey Cox expressed enthusiastic support for the campaign to ensure better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. | more |
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2 March 2006 : Parliamentary Question 
Geoffrey Cox questions the Foreign Secretary about human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and in particular recent reports that the Mugabe regime has begun to confiscate the passports of dissidents. | more |
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2 March 2006 : Parliamentary Question 
Geoffrey Cox asks the Health Secretary for a breakdown of new NHS dentists by nationality. | more |
MP Praises Prince’s Trust activities in Abbotsham 2 March 2006 : Press Release 
Local Member of Parliament Geoffrey Cox has commended the North Devon Prince’s Trust Team for its work in Torridge and West Devon, most recently at St Helen’s School, Abbotsham. | more |
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1 March 2006 : Parliamentary Debate
During a debate in the House of Commons on dentists, Geoffrey Cox raises concerns about the lack of NHS dentists across the country with no dentists accepting NHS patients in Torridge and West Devon. | more |
MP meets Farmers to Discuss Rural Crisis 28 February 2006 : Press Release 
Over 40 farmers from the Holsworthy and Okehampton and Hatherleigh branches of the NFU congregated at the Halwill Junction village hall last week for a question and answer session with MP for Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox. | more |
Campaign to Save Appledore Shipyard 28 February 2006 : Press Release 
Geoffrey Cox has called upon residents of Torridge and West Devon, and those living in the South West, to join the campaign to save one of England’s last operation shipyards- DML in Appledore. | more |
MP speaks out on rural neglect in the South West in Health Inequalities Debate 24 February 2006 : Press Release 
On the anniversary of the outbreak of Foot and Mouth in Devon, Geoffrey Cox has denounced the Government’s failure to recognise, and take urgent action to redress, the plight of rural communities in the South West | more |
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23 February 2006 : Press Release Geoffrey Cox, Conservative Member of Parliament to Torridge and West Devon, has strongly endorsed a local company’s bid to secure a Government shipbuilding contract and intends to raise the campaign to bring the valuable work to the South West. | more |
Tackling Health Inequalities debate 16 February 2006 : Parliamentary Debate Geoffrey Cox raises his concerns that the data on which funding decision were made took no account of rurality factors. | more |
Tackling Health Inequalities debate 16 February 2006 : Parliamentary Debate During the debate, Geoffrey Cox asks the Government to acknowledge and deal with the fact that the funding formula is biased towards urban areas. | more |
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16 February 2006 : Speech
In a major speech in the House of Commons, Geoffrey Cox highlights rural health inequalities and the absurdities of applying a single funding formula to both urban and rural areas. | more |
Article for the North Devon Journal 14 February 2006 : Article
In Torridge, we are very fortunate indeed to have dentists who are committed to NHS dentistry. Where others have been discouraged and have eventually given up and gone over to private work, they have continued to make a go of a bad system. | more |
MP Urges Residents to Respond to Windfarm Plans 14 February 2006 : Press Release 
Residents of Bradworthy, West Purford, Abbots Bickington and Sutcombe are being urged by their local Member of Parliament, Geoffrey Cox, to express their views on plans to erect four 125 metre wind turbines on farmland near Wheelers Cross. | more |
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14 February 2006 : Parliamentary Question Geoffrey Cox questions the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs about outstanding payments under the Single Payment Scheme. | more |
MP urges Home Secretary to Support Youth Rehabilitation Charity 13 February 2006 : Press Release Geoffrey Cox has called on the Home Secretary to examine his department’s ‘spectacular failure’ to provide guidance to organisations which are working to rehabilitate young people who have recently been released from prison | more |
Geoffrey visits Mary Tavy School 9 February 2006 : Photo 
Geoffrey visits Mary Tavy School | more |
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9 February 2006 : Parliamentary Debate 
During a debate on the Government's five-year strategy to reduce reoffending, Geoffrey Cox welcomes voluntary and private sector work with offenders, but calls on them to receive precise and clear guidance. | more |
MP Visits Bideford Police Station 8 February 2006 : Press Release 
Torridge and West Devon MP, Geoffrey Cox, has paid a visit to Bideford Police Station to meet neighbourhood beat managers and to discuss issues relating to the policing of Bideford, Westward Ho! and Northam. | more |
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31 January 2006 : Press Release 
Geoffrey Cox invited three children from Torridge and West Devon to London in December, to meet him at the Houses of Parliament and to attend a Christmas tea party, hosted by Cherie Blair, at 10 Downing Street. | more |
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31 January 2006 : Press Release 
Geoffrey Cox, has congratulated the leader of the West Devon Borough Council, Cllr Dick Eberlie, for drawing attention to the serious problems farmers are experiencing with the Rural Payments Agency in claiming Single Farm Payments. | more |
Article for the North Devon Journal 31 January 2006 : Article As you drive along the A386 next time, have a look in Merton at Barometer World. | more |
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31 January 2006 : Photo 
Tea at No. 10 | more |
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30 January 2006 : Parliamentary Question Geoffrey Cox asks the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how much public money was spent on Mediation Awareness Week. | more |
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30 January 2006 : Parliamentary Question Geoffrey Cox asks the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs about Government funding for mediation and dispute resolution services. | more |
MP Demands Action to Save Community Transport Sc 24 January 2006 : Press Release Torridge and West Devon MP Geoffrey Cox, has written to the Government demanding that safeguards are put in place to protect community transport projects. | more |
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24 January 2006 : Press Release 
Torridge and West Devon MP Geoffrey Cox met dentists from Great Torrington and Bideford last week to discuss the threats to NHS dentistry in Torridge posed by the new dental contract, which dentists are being compelled by the government to adopt. | more |
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23 January 2006 : Parliamentary Question Geoffrey Cox questions the Trade and Industry Secretary about estimated premiums Renewable Energy Systems would receive on electricity generated at the proposed wind farm at Den Brook. | more |
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23 January 2006 : Parliamentary Question Geoffrey Cox asks the Trade and Industry Secretary about grants awarded to Renewable Energy Systems Groups. | more |
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23 January 2006 : Parliamentary Question
Geoffrey Cox asks the and Industry Secretary about premiums the Government offers to companies running wind farms. | more |
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23 January 2006 : Parliamentary Question Geoffrey Cox questions the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry about the costs of grants to companies for the construction of wind farms. | more |
MP Urges Minister to Rethink TB Testing 18 January 2006 : Press Release Torridge and West Devon MP Geoffrey Cox has called on the Government to rethink the timing of its plan to require cattle in TB hotspots to be tested for the disease before they are moved. | more |
Article for the North Devon Journal 17 January 2006 : Article The resumption of parliament after the pleasures of Christmas and New Year recess (it was good to watch Bideford AFC beat Barnstaple 7-0!) brings a fresh consciousness of the privilege it is to be your MP | more |
Ofsted Offices (Refurbishment Expenditure) 16 January 2006 : Parliamentary Question Geoffrey Cox questions the Education Secretary over refurbishment costs of Ofted offices in Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester, | more |
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14 January 2006 : Press Release Local Member of Parliament, Geoffrey Cox, has announced that he is to relocate his constituency office to Bideford. | more |
MP Launches Probe into Government Subsidies for Wind Farms 13 January 2006 : Press Release
Geoffrey Cox, Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon, has launched a probe into the amount of public money the government is spending subsidising companies who develop wind farms. | more |
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12 January 2006 : Press Release 
Geoffrey Cox, Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon, has concluded his Christmas Tour of the constituency. | more |
Article for the North Devon Journal 3 January 2006 : Article 2006 broke in mists and warm weather on the edge of Dartmoor where we live. So far, save for the brief icy snowfall in November, we have not yet had the cold winter so often predicted. | more |
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23 December 2005 : Photo 
Geoffrey helps Torridge Poverty Action Group serve Christmas lunches at St Mary’s Church, Bideford | more |
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23 December 2005 : Photo 
Geoffrey helps Torridge Poverty Action Group serve Christmas lunches at St Mary’s Church, Bideford | more |
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22 December 2005 : Photo
Geoffrey visits the Royal Mail sorting office | more |
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21 December 2005 : Photo 
Geoffrey visits Holsworthy Hospital at Christmas | more |
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21 December 2005 : Photo 
Geoffrey visits Holsworthy market | more |
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21 December 2005 : Photo 
Geoffrey visits Holsworthy market | more |
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21 December 2005 : Photo 
Geoffrey visits residential homes and hospitals at Christmas | more |
Bio-energy Capital Grant Scheme 19 December 2005 : Parliamentary Question Geoffrey Cox questions the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry about draw-down of grants awarded to large scale electricity generator projects under the bio-energy capital grant scheme. | more |
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15 December 2005 : Parliamentary Debate
During a debate following an urgent question to the Government on Bovine TB, Geoffrey Cox raises his concerns that a 12-week consultation on a badger cull is delaying decision-making. | more |