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  Qwika - similar:Haltemprice_and_Howden_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
Welwyn Hatfield County constituency Welwyn Hatfield shown within Hertfordshire, and Hertfordshire shown within England Created: 1974 MP: Grant Shapps Party: Conservative Type: House of Commons County: Hertfordshire EP constituency: East of England Welwyn Hatfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Westmorland and Lonsdale County constituency Westmorland and Lonsdale shown within Cumbria, and Cumbria shown within England Created: 1983 MP: Tim Farron Party: Liberal Democrat Type: House of Commons County: Cumbria EP constituency: North West England Westmorland and Lonsdale is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament.
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 Welwyn Hatfield (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Welwyn Hatfield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The boundaries of the constituency match those of the Welwyn Hatfield local government district, with the exception of the ward of Northaw which is in the Broxbourne constituency.
Parliamentary constituencies in the East of England
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welwyn_and_Hatfield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)   (151 words)

  
 Hatfield, Hertfordshire - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - Hatfield, originally Bishop's Hatfield, is a town in the Welwyn ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hatfield, originally Bishop's Hatfield, is a town in the Welwyn Hatfield district of Hertfordshire, in the south of England.
Hatfield's aerospace and military production history remains today mainly in the form of name only - streets such as Comet Way; pubs such as the Airfield; the previously mentioned university buildings along with the massive A1 motorway junction (named Olding's Corner), the land being gradually turned over to retail, offices, and housing.
Hatfield is most famous for being the location of Hatfield House or Royal Palace of Hatfield, it is also regarded as being the birthplace of the Jet Airliner (the ill-fated De Havilland Comet).
www.sayvillenyus.com /profile/Hatfield,_Hertfordshire   (1013 words)

  
 Welwyn - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Welwyn
She passed through the South Welwyn Tunnel, saw light for a moment, and entered the North Welwyn Tunnel, of tragic fame.
Welwyn Garden City F.C. Welwyn Garden City rail crash
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Welwyn   (132 words)

  
 Parish Story
Welwyn Hatfield District Council have recently introduced fortnightly collection of old newspapers as a response to the ‘green’ agenda of environmentalists.
The Act of Parliament sanctioning the Dunstable branch was obtained in 1856 and construction was finished by 1860.
Sir Alfred became a JP on the Welwyn bench in 1899 and was its chairman from 1911 until the end of World War I. Sir Alfred died at Ayot Bury on 2 April 1931 at the age of 81.
www.welwyn.org.uk /aythis/aythis.htm   (22513 words)

  
 Cambridge Encyclopedia Article @ Canst.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Cambridge University constituency was abolished under 1948 legislation, and ceased at the dissolution of Parliament for the 1950 general election, along with the other university constituencies.
The important UK rail hub of Peterborough is also within reach of Cambridge.
Cambridge Midsummer Fair is one of the oldest fairs in the UK and at one point was possibly the largest medieval fair in Europe.
www.canst.net /encyclopedia/Cambridge   (3095 words)

  
 WELWYN HATFIELD GARDEN CITY COUNCIL FRAUD LIES AND DECEPTION AND SLOUGH ESTATES £48 MILLION AWARD OF DAMAGES
The people of Welwyn Hatfield tell me that she is not interested, because it is not her problem, but for people who live in the constituency, it
Even as recently as last month, the Labour group leader said on the front page of Welwyn Hatfield Times that she believed that Labour councillors would refuse to sanction the transfer of housing stock to meet the judgment against the council in the Slough Estates fraud.
In fact, it would be sensible irrespective of the court case, in the present circumstances, because transfer brings private investment to the stock and generates resources for the council, which it could use for the benefit of its tenants and the local citizenry.
www.bushywood.com /welwyn_hatfield_garden_city_council.htm   (2636 words)

  
 British Press Review
Sarah Teather, the youngest MP in the last Parliament at 29, retained the Brent East seat she won for the Lib Dems in a by-election in 2003.
Constituencies retained by the Lib Dems include Torbay, which was strongly contested by the Tories, and Cheadle, the country's most marginal seat.
Telecoms equipment group Marconi is to cut 800 of its UK workforce as part of a shake-up after the firm failed to win part of a key £10bn deal with BT.
www.britainusa.com /sections/articles_show_nt1.asp?a=28932   (4178 words)

  
 Published articles from Grant Shapps
When a Welwyn Hatfield resident, John Mitchell sent £15 to our cash-struck NHS Health Trust after he felt bad about missing his hospital appointment, he was amazed to have it returned with a note saying that the money wasn’t required.
Contrary to recent letters in the Welwyn Hatfield Times, I didn’t campaign on this issue at all during the last General Election because the expense and practicalities of rebuilding a swimming pool on the site so many years after the Labour council closed it down are simply immense.
In Welwyn Hatfield last May I was fortunate enough to gain almost 50% of the vote (out of the 70% of the electorate who went to the polls).
www.shapps.com /articles.html   (7164 words)

  
 Liberal Democrats : Sara Bedford PPC, Welwyn Hatfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sara Bedford was born in north London, and was educated at The Latymer School, Edmonton.
After living in Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth, she moved to Abbots Langley, where she lives with husband Matthew and their daughter Harriet.
Whilst at SKandF, she studied for a degree in Applied Chemistry at Hatfield Polytechnic (now the University of Hertfordshire) and was awarded a prize for her performance in her degree year.
www.libdems.org.uk /party/people/cllr-sara-bedford.html   (369 words)

  
 UK ID Card Debate in 1989   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
First, a constituent of mine came to me very distressed that, over the years, she had suffered a considerable amount of violence from her ex- husband.
The liberty that I am concerned about in my constituency is the liberty to travel safely on the Northern Line after 9 pm, to visit tower blocks and for the people inside them to leave them in safety, and to walk the streets in safety.
I must admit, however, that in recent parliaments that appears to have been forgotten, because we are churning out more and more legislation, even under a Government whose party has complained about the amount of restrictions continually being placed on individuals and on companies.
www.privacyinternational.org /article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-102304   (20370 words)

  
 Welwyn Hatfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Its comes from the two towns of Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield.
Set within the London Green Belt, the towns retain something of their own identities although they clearly function, increasingly, as dormitories for householders who work in London.
The Welwyn viaduct carries the railway mentioned above and is a locally important landmark that simultaneously represents a bottleneck restraining capacity over this strategic transport route.
welwyn-hatfield.mindbit.com   (143 words)

  
 Charles Walker - Member of UK Parliament for Broxbourne
The Broxbourne Constituency lies in the south east corner of Hertfordshire.
The constituency covers the whole of the Borough of Broxbourne plus the Northaw Ward of Welwyn Hatfield District.
The cross is one of 12 Eleanor Crosses erected between 1291 and 1294 to mark the overnight stops of the cortege of Queen Eleanor, wife of King Edward I. In 2012, Broxbourne will host the canoeing at the London Olympics.
www.charleswalker.org /constituency   (248 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Meet the MP: Grant Shapps
I also recall being distinctly unimpressed by some of the Members of Parliament of the day and wanted to have the opportunity of replacing at least one of them.
The truth is that people and organisations will respond to a letter from the MP in a very fast and efficient manner and usually pay some attention.
Welwyn Hatfield Conservatives, Maynard House, The Common, Hatfield, AL10 0NF
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4074370.stm   (519 words)

  
 FT.com / Home UK / UK - Up to one in three of the electorate could still switch allegiance after a campaign that has ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thanet South, former constituency of Jonathan Aitken, is a test of whether the Conservatives can take back a string of Kent seats lost in the 1997 landslide.
Shipley and Welwyn Hatfield, both held by junior ministers, are two easy targets the Conservatives must take if they are to do more than simply dent Mr Blair's majority.
In Redditch, the second most marginal constituency in the West Midlands, Jacqui Smith, an industry minister, is hoping she will not be punished for the collapse of MG Rover in nearby Longbridge.
www.ft.com /cms/s/d7d708ee-bd02-11d9-b1e3-00000e2511c8.html   (1499 words)

  
 Welwyn Hatfield MP Grant Shapps holds regular surgeries
Grant holds regular surgeries and moves them throughout the constituency so residents don't have to travel so far to see their Member of Parliament.
Not all MPs hold surgeries, but Grant Shapps considers them to be a vital part of his work for the community in Welwyn Hatfield.
My constituency office will let you know what time to come along and since surgeries operate on a first come, first served basis, you might expect to wait a time before being seen.
www.shapps.com /surgery   (361 words)

  
 Welwyn and Hatfield Amnesty Group
On 10 March 2006 the Welwyn Hatfield and East Herts AI Group, in association with the AI Youth Group at Monks Walk School, Welwyn Garden City, held a Human Rights Conference for 6th form students of 3 local schools.
One of the activities in the workshop sessions of the conference asked the students to "Imagine a world without violence against women" and to write their "Imaginings" on pieces of fabric to be attached to a banner.
Subsequently a member of the Welwyn Hatfield group has stitched the pieces together, with the words of the request.
homepage.ntlworld.com /petersi/welwyn.htm   (394 words)

  
 Peter Lilley MP
A map of the Hitchin & Harpenden constituency is included as Appendix 1.
With Harpenden close to the M1 motorway and Hitchin close to the A1, both towns have seen a spread of the industrial and commercial towns that their population serve.
Apart from a similar history and connections with the same county town, there is no other easy or obvious link, particularly as the journey from one end of the constituency to the other is difficult involving, for the main part, minor roads.
www.peterlilley.co.uk /constituency.php   (455 words)

  
 FT.com / In depth - Reflections on the key election results as they came in through the night
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw holds onto his seat with a reduced majority in Blackburn, the constituency with the third-highest number of muslim voters in the country.
On the day when data indicated that the UK economy slowed in the first quarter, leading analysts predicted that tax rises would likely be inevitable regardless of which party won the election.
The Irish justice minister insisted that his campaigning for an SDLP candidate in the UK general election is “in a personal capacity”.
www.ft.com /cms/s/5969b5c6-a2a7-11d9-b4e8-00000e2511c8.html   (10357 words)

  
 The Comet - part of Herts24
He was reselected as the Parliamentary Spokesman for Welwyn Hatfield in June 2002.
Welwyn Hatfield Conservatives strongly believe that people are better represented once they have actually been asked for their views.
Regular surveying is therefore carried out across the entire constituency in order to establish the most pressing concerns for constituents.
www.thecomet.net /flatfiles/infodesk/asp/mps/grant.aspx   (566 words)

  
 down with murder inc
Purdey believes that the root cause of BSE is an imbalance of magnesium and copper, exacerbated, in the case of the UK, by the use of a highly toxic pesticide known as phosmet.
In the Lancashire constituency of Blackburn, where the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, is defending his 9,249 majority, the vote-rigging allegations have intensified as polling day nears.
This campaign was not designed for the national dailies, who often complained that they didn't know where the Prime Minister was (unless tipped off by broadcast colleagues), and were not invited to the carefully orchestrated 'meet the people' events whose sole purpose was to generate television pictures and positive publicity in the local press.
www.declarepeace.org.uk /captain/murder_inc/site/neoelectionuk.html   (12886 words)

  
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To me it makes no sense - they're still exactly the same person as before, and their extra duties mean they'll have to neglect their constituency.
Probably because of a party leader's hugely increased public visibility, both in the media in general and at (or addressing) the Despatch Box in the Commons.
MPs have staff for the more routine matters and to pass up to the MP anything requiring his/her personal attention, so I suspect that only minimal changes need to be made to that arrangement when an MP becomes party leader.
www.ureader.co.uk /message/629750.aspx   (1556 words)

  
 Melanie Johnson, former MP, Welwyn Hatfield (TheyWorkForYou.com)
This data was produced by TheyWorkForYou from a variety of sources.
Melanie Johnson, former MP Former Labour MP for Welwyn Hatfield
Has voted in 51% of votes in parliament.
www.theyworkforyou.com /mp/melanie_johnson/welwyn_hatfield   (394 words)

  
 Grant Shapps, Welwyn Hatfield - HearFromYourMP.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The MP for this constituency is Grant Shapps, Conservative.
To discover everything you could possibly want to know about what your MP gets up to in Parliament, see their page on our sister site TheyWorkForYou.
We have sent this MP 1 message so far, asking them to send an email to their constituents.
www.hearfromyourmp.com /view/13450   (106 words)

  
 Battle to wipe son's DNA from database
Under current law, his DNA can be kept on the database indefinitely.
Welwyn/Hatfield MP Grant Shapps (Con), whose constituency includes Newgate Street Village, is one of the many high-profile figures to publicly question the database.
Broxbourne MP Charles Walker (Con) added: "I am extremely concerned about police forces covertly building DNA databases without the approval of Parliament.
www.propagandamatrix.com /articles/march2006/030306_b_DNA.htm   (394 words)

  
 UK ELECTION: FOR SOME, THE PARTY'S OVER
But in my constituency it didn't matter - they don't count the Tory votes in my area, they weigh them - it was a crushing victory.
Your ability to explain political events in the UK is invaluable to those of us who really want to understand them.
In the US we have a census every 10 years and the number of seats each state gets is determined by population with every state being guaranteed at least one seat.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1398130/posts   (2541 words)

  
 Members of Parliament 2005 -
There is also a list in alphabetic order of MPs' names.
Click on the constituency name for the election result.
Click on the MP's name to send an email to that MP (please use this facility responsibly).
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/mps.htm   (142 words)

  
 Harlow Encyclopedia Article @ Practised.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
East London and West Essex Guardian Series, UK -
HARLOW College is set to benefit from a 10m boost that will be used to build a higher education centre.
This page was last updated on: Sun Dec 10 01:55:04 2006
www.practised.org /encyclopedia/Harlow   (773 words)

  
 Contact Us - Welwyn Hatfield Labour Party - Web Site for Welwyn Hatfield Constituecy
Welwyn Hatfield Labour Party Web Site for Welwyn Hatfield Constituecy
This site is hosted by Copernicus Ltd, 59 Islington Park Street, London N1 1QB.
Promoted by Peter Watt, General Secretary, the Labour Party on behalf of the Labour Party, both at 16 Old Queen Steet, London SW1H 9HP.
www.welwynhatfield.labour.co.uk /ViewPage.cfm?Page=12804   (62 words)

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