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	Search: spoken by Shailesh Vara (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Shailesh Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by the NHS on external consultants in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) primary care trust and (b) strategic health authority; and for what reason the expenditure was incurred in each case.
		Shailesh Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was paid by the NHS in compensation in each year since 1997, broken down by (a) strategic health authority and (b) primary care trust; and for what reasons compensation has been paid during that period.
		Shailesh Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what steps she is taking to ensure that the 2012 Olympics benefit as many parts of the UK as possible in terms of (a) increased take-up of sport, (b) improved transport facilities and (c) increased tourism.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /search/?pid=11475&pop=1 (1160 words)

	Shailesh Vara - Member of UK Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire
		Shailesh Vara is the MP for North West Cambridgeshire and Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.
		Shailesh, or a member of his team, are always happy to help if the need arises, and can be contacted at the Westminster or constituency office.
		Shailesh Vara is seeking to introduce a Private Members' Bill in Parliament to clarify the rights of householders to protect
	www.shaileshvara.com (366 words)

	Shailesh Vara is shadow deputy leader of Commons
		Leading Conservative MP Shailesh Vara has been appointed shadow deputy leader of Britain's House of Commons, the first ethnic minority Tory to sit on the front bench.
		Vara is the Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire and was elected in May 2005.
		Vara has been involved with the Conservative party since the late 1980s and has held various posts at local, regional and national levels.
	ia.rediff.com /news/2006/nov/10uk.htm?q=np&file=.htm (246 words)

	CRE: Connections, Summer 2001 - The general election and beyond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Shailesh Vara came within a whisker of winning Northampton South for the Conservative Party on 7 June.
		Proud of his ability to 'get results,' Shailesh Vara gives the example of his role in getting a local school located where the residents wanted, not where the council was planning.
		The third would-be new boy, Shailesh Vara, for the Conservatives, was defeated in Northampton South.
	193.113.211.175 /publs/connections/conn_01su_election.html (1554 words)

	Order Book Part 2
		Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces have agreed to accommodate prisoners in their cells as part of the Home Office plan to cope with additional prison numbers; and how many cell spaces have been made available by each such force.
		Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) maximum police station cell capacity and (b) number of those cells unavailable for use in each force in England and Wales was in each year since 1997.
		Mr Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers are employed by each force, broken down by rank; and how many officers are expected to be recruited in each of the next five years, broken down by force.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200506/cmordbk2/61108o02.htm (242 words)

	Conservative Party - Profile
		Shailesh is the Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire and was elected in May 2005.
		Shailesh was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and Brunel University and qualified as a solicitor.
		Shailesh has been involved with the Conservative party since the late 1980s and has held various posts at local, regional and national levels.
	www.conservatives.com /tile.do?def=people.person.page&personID=34377 (404 words)

	Zee Gujarati to be encrypted on June 6 in UK \| Televisionpoint.com News
		At a glittering function held last night at the Advait Centre in Wembley to celebrate the launch, a special memento was presented to chief guest Shailesh Vara by Dheeraj Kapuria, head of International Operations, Zee Network to congratulate him on becoming the first Asian Gujarati MP in the House of Commons.
		Vara confirmed that his parents are already glued to Zee Gujarati.
		Among those who attended the function were singer Nirmal Udhas, the brother of well know singer Pankaj Udhas, Pravinbhai Amin, the president of National Congress of Gujarati Associations in the UK and C.B.Patel, publisher of Gujarat Samachar besides other journalists and dignitaries.
	www.televisionpoint.com /news/newsfullstory.php?id=1116747078 (522 words)

	The Hindu : Non-white Tories slug it out
		Vara accused Lord Taylor of "whingeing and carping from the sidelines'' instead of contributing to the party's efforts to improve its image among ethnic minorities.
		Vara was made vice-chairman of the party after he failed to win last year's parliamentary election and is seen as a sole non-white rising "star'' in the organisation struggling to rid itself of its "white, male and middle class'' image.
		Vara's interview was, indeed, a put-up job, it said: "His demolition job on Lord Taylor...will be seen at Westminster as an authorised put-down of a man who for years has used his media profile to challenge Tory attitudes on race...''
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2002/07/07/stories/2002070702601400.htm (304 words)

	YouGov Interview
		Shailesh Vara, a barrister once touted to be Britain’s first Asian Prime Minister, is running on the Conservative ticket.
		He said he must "apologise to Shailesh Vara and to the people of Northampton South, who will be deeply offended by what he has said.
		Just to rub salt in the wounds, although [the seat] is 80 per cent urban, the 20 per cent rural have shown themselves in the past to be quite racist in terms of their voting patterns.
	www.6bcn.freeserve.co.uk /yougov_interview.htm (1565 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - Transcripts
		On our panel: Hazel Blears is the Chair of the Labour Party, in which role she says her task, she doesn't say it's Herculean, it's just her task, is, I quote: "To rehabilitate party politics as a reputable, even honourable activity".
		Shailesh Vara was elected to parliament in 2005 and last month became Shadow Deputy Leader of the House.
		Tim Garden was a pilot who rose to become Assistant Chief of Defence Staff before moving on to other things, not least in the House of Lords where he now speaks on defence for the Liberal Democrats.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/news/anyquestions_transcripts_20061201.shtml (5411 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| 'Rising star' hopes for Westminster ascent
		Mr Vara says the issues he is pushing hardest - law and order, health and education - are the ones of most concern to people in Northampton.
		For his part, Mr Vara insists that despite the implications of Mr Clarke's statement, he has not detected even the slightest whiff of racism during his many stints canvassing around the town.
		Mr Vara is adamant that the high-level support he has enjoyed from the Tory leadership has been simply because he is contesting a key marginal seat.
	news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1346000/1346506.stm (728 words)

	BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews
		WATSON: Shailesh Vara ran Labour close in Northampton South in two-thousand-and-one; he's since been made a vice-chairman of his party.
		SHAILESH VARA: Again, I'm not going to talk about specific numbers, what I will say is that we as a party wish to reflect the nation at large, as Iain Duncan Smith said in his speech in Harrogate that if...
		VARA: Local autonomy is still a very strong feature of the Conservative party.
	www.bbc.co.uk /otr/intext/20020602_film_2.html (1876 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Since such predictions of high office invariably turn out to be self-defeating, Mr Vara, a 44-year-old solicitor who was born in Uganda, laughs at the suggestion.
		Mr Vara came to Britain with his family from Uganda in 1964 when he was nearly five, went to Aylesbury Grammar School and Brunel University and qualified as a solicitor.
		Mr Vara has clearly worked out that if he is to make his mark in national politics as a Tory, he cannot play the ethnic card.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/03/nelec803.xml (590 words)

	News India-Times.com, Online Edition
		Khabra and Vaz were among the eight Asian-origin MPs voted into Parliament in the May 5 elections, including debutante Shailesh Vara, a solicitor who was elected from the safe Conservative seat of Cambridgeshire Northwest.
		Vara became the first Asian vice-chairman of the Conservative party in 2001 and is the first ethnic Gujarati to be elected to the British Parliament.
		He came to Britain from Uganda as a boy in 1972 and this was his third attempt at becoming an MP.
	www.newsindia-times.com /nit/2005/05/13/special15-top.html (751 words)

	Shailesh Vara MP, North West Cambridgeshire (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Shailesh Vara MP Conservative MP for North West Cambridgeshire
		How Shailesh Vara voted on key issues since 2001:
		This MP's speeches are understandable to an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /mp/shailesh_vara/north_west_cambridgeshire (592 words)

	(UK)Nine out of 10 back MP's intruders Bill - Military Photos
		NINE out of 10 voters in a News online poll backed MP Shailesh Vara's bid to give stronger rights to people who confront intruders in their own homes.
		Currently those defending themselves and their property can use "reasonable force" - but critics say this is not clearly defined and has led to people being prosecuted when acting against intruders.
		Mr Vara said his Bill was not aimed at resolving the row caused by Tony Martin, the Norfolk farmer who shot a burglar in the back after a breakin at his house.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=100603 (873 words)

	Shailesh Vara - Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire
		Shailesh Vara - Member of Parliament for North West Cambridgeshire
		Copyright © Shailesh Vara and North West Cambridgeshire Conservatives, 2005.
		This site is promoted and published by N Guyatt on behalf of Shailesh Vara and North West Cambridgeshire Conservative Association,
	www.shaileshvara.com /accessibility.html (109 words)

	The Hindu : Tories woo ethnic minorities
		Shailesh Vara - have a chance of winning and if wishes were horses one of them could well ride into Downing Street one ``fine'' morning, which itself is a rare occurrence in this part of the world.
		Vara - a Ugandan Asian solicitor - got top billing at the last party conference where he spoke in defence of its stand on asylum seekers.
		The boast about a future Tory Asian Prime Minister comes even as the party is under increased pressure to stop ``pandering'' to racial prejudice amid reports that Tory activists in some areas were distributing ``racist'' literature in the run-up to the elections.
	www.hindu.com /2001/04/20/stories/0320000s.htm (463 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 20 Jul 2005 (pt 29) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I am particularly pleased that my parents are watching this today, not from the other side of a television screen but from the Public Gallery.
		Madam Deputy Speaker, you can tell from the look on their faces that my parents, Lakhman and Savita Vara, are delighted to be here rather than on the other side of a screen.
		There can be no better privilege for anyone than to represent their fellow citizens in this, the mother of Parliaments, and I am deeply grateful to the people of North-West Cambridgeshire for affording me the opportunity to represent them here.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/cm050720/debtext/50720-29.htm (1904 words)

	Foreign Office admits its mistakes hindered Asian tsunami relief Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		The Conservatives urged Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to be held to account for the mistakes.
		A Tory Shailesh Vara said Mr Straw should explain to MPs 'what the mistakes were, why they occurred and most importantly an assurance that they will never be repeated'.
		Initial information suggested, wrongly, that the worst-hit area was Sri Lanka so the only Foreign Office rapid response team on duty at the time was sent there rather than to Thailand.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20051125/ai_n15877843 (579 words)

	Pharmacy Choice - Pharmaceutical News - Ministers 'in dark' on hospitals at risk - December 25, 2006
		Health Minister Andy Burnham has revealed in an answer to Parliamentary questions that the DoH does not hold data on which hospitals are being reviewed at present by Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) around the country.
		Conservative backbencher Shailesh Vara asked how many reviews were being undertaken by SHAs into the level of services provided by hospitals in England and Wales; which hospitals were the subject of those reviews; and if the DoH had issued any guidance for the conduct of those reviews.
		Last night, Mr Vara, MP for Cambridgeshire North West, said: "The fact that the Department of Health does not know the hospitals under review is a severe abdication of responsibility.
	www.pharmacychoice.com /News/article.cfm?Article_ID=39843 (526 words)

	The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough - What’s new?
		Former Prime Minister, Sir John Major, visited the Great Fen Project in Cambridgeshire on Friday 21 October, in his role as Patron.
		He was joined by the MP for North-west Cambridgeshire, Shailesh Vara, and John Gummer, MP for Suffolk Coastal, who is involved with the Project.
		The Great Fen Project is an internationally important habitat restoration scheme, aiming to recreate 37 square kilometres of wetland between Peterborough and Huntingdon by reconnecting Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen National Nature Reserves.
	www.wildlifebcnp.org /whats-new-story8.htm (203 words)

	NRI, UK News-Yorkshire town faces a nasty election campaign- Blame it on the Asians
		Labour generally enjoyed the support of a majority of Asians, particularly NRIs but it has alienated a sizeable number of Muslims on the issue of Iraq war.
		Prominent among them are Shailesh Vara, vice chairman of the party who is contesting from North West Cambridgeshire, Jaswant Singh Birdi (Coventry North East), Rishi Saha (Brent South), Priti Patel (Nottingham North), Sandip Verma (Wolverhampton South West), Khalid Hussain (Rochdale) and Sudesh Mattu (Nottingham South).
		Though Iraq continued to haunt Prime Minister Tony Blair during the last one week of the campaigning, the main issues that attracted most attention are the National Health Service, economy, crime, education and asylum.
	www.nriinternet.com /NRIpoliticians/UK/News2005/Jan_/2_UK_polls_NRI.htm (509 words)

	Turkish Weekly Comment - Record Number of New Minority MPs in Britain
		The new ethnic minority MPs are Dawn Butler, Sadiq Khan and Shahid Malik for Labour and Conservatives Shailesh Vara and Adam Afriyie.
		The previous record for new fl and Asian MPs gaining seats in a general election was set in 1987 when the first four ethnic minority MPs of modern times were elected.
		With the election of Shailesh Vara and Adam Afriyie the Tories had broken away from the John Taylor experience of 1992 [when a fl Tory candidate lost in the safe seat of Cheltenham], Ms Ali added.
	www.turkishweekly.net /comments.php?id=1057 (2049 words)

	Keep and Bear Arms - Gun Owners Home Page - 2nd Amendment Supporters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A CAMBRIDGESHIRE MP is battling to get stronger rights for people who protect their homes from intruders.
		Shailesh Vara believes if he gets his new Private Members Bill into law it will clarify existing legislation and give people more security in their own properties.
		But despite support from other Tory MPs, Labour backbenchers, and representatives of smaller parties, Home Secretary John Reid has branded it "unnecessary and unhelpful".
	www.keepandbeararms.org /news/nl/disp.asp?d=12/19/2006 (1856 words)

	Cross Keys Homes
		PETERBOROUGH MP Shailesh Vara will visit a tenant’s home to mark the completion of improvements to more than 2,000 properties by Cross Keys Homes.
		Mr and Mrs Skipworth also had a central heating system, toilet, sink and new doors fitted under Cross Keys Homes’ improvement programme.
		Cross Keys Homes’ chief executive, Mick Leggett added: “I am delighted that Shailesh Vara will have the opportunity to see first hand how we are improving tenants’ lives.
	www.crosskeyshomes.co.uk /press_shailesh.htm (265 words)

	The black vote comes of age
		elected: Adam Afriyie and Shailesh Vara for the Conservatives and Dawn
		That is not to say that they don’t matter, they do, but a mature Black electorate is able to prioritise what is most important.
		The election of two Black Tory MPs Adam Afriyie and Shailesh Vara is
	www.blink.org.uk /print.asp?key=7347 (471 words)

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