Mark Garnier, Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest, today offers his sympathy to those affected by last week's announcement that Carpets of Kidderminster Ltd will undergo a phase of restructuring that includes 50 job losses.
Mark today joined Cllr Nicky Gale and a big local crowd to help tidy up Oldington and Foley Park. The morning was organised by Nicky Gale and Wyre Forest Community Housing, and was joined by over twenty local residents and schoolchildren. Wyre Forest District Council helped support the event. Mark has joined in a number of these events in the past. "I think it is very important that people take an interest in their local community" says Mark, "and these big tidy ups are one way of doing it."
Mark met with residents of Kidderminster’s Farfield, suffering as a result of their road being used as a rat-run to avoid the Chester Road South / Comberton Road traffic lights, as well as unwelcome parking for commuters using the railway station. The problem has been ongoing and Mark will be returning with highway engineers to look into the issue and secure a solution.
Traders on Kidderminster's Comberton Hill have had their livelihoods under threat from unwelcome council plans. As part of plans to redevelop Kidderminster's station, the council wanted to remove a number of 30 minute parking bays outside shops opposite the station entrance, thus depriving the business of passing trade.
Readers are aware of the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in Wyre Forest, but e-mails to me suggest there is still some confusion to what is going on and why. The background to all this is the Wyre Forest Schools Review. About ten years ago, the Labour government ordered that Wyre Forest deal with falling standards,
Mark Garnier, Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest, welcomes the recent announcement that at least £1 million of Lottery good cause funding is to be channelled into the Horsefair, Broadwaters and Greenhill areas of Kidderminster.
Wyre Forest’s MP, Mark Garnier, is delighted to have been elected to one of the 13 seats on the hugely influential Treasury Select Committee. In a change from the previous arrangement, where seats on this committee were in the gift of the party whips, MPs are now voted onto the committees by their colleagues.
Mark Garnier MP's maiden speech in the House of Commons in full. Recorded on 3rd June 2010. You can find photographs from the speech here and the full text of the speech here.
Mark Garnier, Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest, has made his Maiden Speech in the House of Commons. He paid tribute to the outgoing MP for the constituency and spoke warmly of Kidderminster, Stourport, Bewdley and the rural areas that surround them. The full text of the speech can be found here.
