http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk Recent headlines from Geoffrey Cox QC MP en-gb It is a long time since the Conservatives could envisage assuming the government of our nation. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=477 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! http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=476 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. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=472 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. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=473 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. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=474 Geoffrey Cox met students from Bideford College recently as they embarked on a tour of the Brussels and Westminster Parliaments. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=471 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. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=470 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. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=469 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. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=475 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. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=468 Geoffrey Cox welcomed members and supporters of Tavistock-based mental health charity, "Make a Difference" to Westminster last week. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=467 Geoffrey Cox has launched a scathing criticism of the Government agency, Natural England in the House of Commons for failing to communicate properly with local people about the future of the Northam Burrows. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=466 Geoffrey Cox was present with legendary former jockeys, Bob Champion MBE and Peter Scudamore, and trainers Jimmy Frost and Martin Pipe, to launch the 5th "Horse Ride for Autism" on Sunday. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=465 Alistair Darling's budget is now three weeks old. But it already seems to have marked a turning point. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=464 Geoffrey Cox arranged for a group of the Friends of the Kathleen & May, together with the ship's owner, Steve Clarke OBE, to meet the Minister of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Margaret Hodge, last week in Westminster. http://www.geoffreycox.co.uk/search/article.php?id=462