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6th March 2010

Dealing with a Noisy Neighbour

Conservatives in Stoke Park and Bridge have taken the lead in dealing with the nuisance neighbour Southern Cement, which is owned by a Spanish Company.   The noise from Southern Cement has been going on for three years and increasing in both frequency and duration as the operation expanded.  The Labour dominated South West Forum had constantly put it on their agenda but with little positive action.  Conservative councillor Nadia Cenci and Conservative Bridge ward activist James Spencer decided that a more assertive approach was needed.

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23rd February 2010

Modernising Housing Services

The Conservative led Ipswich council is looking to modernise Housing services by redeploying resources from the current housing offices in order to: • Spotting small problems before they become serious by increasing the number of Estate Officers by 70% having them on the beat rather than behind their desks • Finding out the real issues by having every tenant personally visited by a housing officer at least once a year, with vulnerable tenants being visited more often • Making the services accessible to those who work by allowing the full range of housing services to be available outside normal office hours, rather than close at 4pm Richard Pope, the housing portfolio holder for Ipswich and Conservative councillor for Stoke Park, said

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4th January 2010

Conservatives in talks to modernise Ipswich Buses

Conservative-led Ipswich Borough Council is in talks with the leading bus company, Go-Ahead, to improve Ipswich Buses.
 
The involvement of Go-Ahead which has a policy of local management and local identity for its bus routes would bring greater commercial expertise and buying power to Ipswich Buses.

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4th October 2009

Ben's investigation reveals over £220,000 paid out in compensation by Suffolk PCT

“£220,000 is a huge amount of money which could make a real difference to frontline care – it could, for example, pay for over 5,000 breast cancer mammograms.”
 
Ben Gummer, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Ipswich, has today released figures, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which reveal that Suffolk Primary Care Trust has paid out in excess of £220,000 in compensation to patients and staff since April 2007.

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8th August 2009

Transport : Practical policies not pipedreams

Tanya De Hoedt, the new Transport portfolio holder for Ipswich and the Conservative councillor for St. John's ward has hit the ground running by meeting with residents of Wherstead Road to see how Ipswich can better reflect their concerns.

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4th August 2009

Ben Gummer condemns government's port tax grab

 
Ben Gummer today condemned the government's back-dating of tax for port companies.
In 2008 the Valuation Office Agency realized that they had made an error in their calculation of the business rates owed by companies operating in ports.  The agency decided to backdate their tax demands to April 2005, even though the error was their own.

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8th July 2009

Anger that Suffolk is to foot bill for heart care information campaign

Thousands of pounds from Suffolk’s healthcare budget will be spent on an information campaign designed to reassure people about heart attack care, it emerged today.
The move is designed to restore trust in the health service which has been forced to apologise for failing to tell patients about the significant changes to their healthcare.

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7th July 2009

Ben Gummer welcomes review that gives new hope for heart attack care

Heart campaigners were marking the latest step forward in the heart care saga yesterday as heart tsar Professor Roger Boyle demanded a review of the proposed plans.
The u-turn comes as Professor Boyle ordered that a thorough audit of previously untested journey times was carried out, in response to fears that long delays before treatment would put patients at risk.

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29th June 2009

Ben fights for Ipswich in heart attack debate

Ipswich has made its voice heard over heart attack care during a heated debate about the best way to save Suffolk lives.
The event, organized by Ipswich Evening Star and prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate Ben Gummer, attracted nearly 200 people.

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12th June 2009

Ben Gummer praises Heartbeat Campaign

More than 20,000 voices have joined the campaign against a move that would see emergency heart attack victims forced to travel outside of the county for treatment.
A staggering number of concerned residents, from Ipswich to Leiston, Felixstowe to Stowmarket, Hadleigh to Woodbridge, are calling on the Government to rethink their plans.

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