North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry, who has been campaigning for the Government to take action on lead and metal theft, has welcomed the announcement by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, that the Government is going to introduce legislation to tackle the problem by making it a new criminal offence to prohibit cash payments to purchase scrap and by significantly increasing the fines for all offences under the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964.
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On Friday 20 January, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry opened the new dyslexia classroom at Banbury School.
Following the Government’s HS2 annoucement, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry has sent a letter to the Secretary of State for Transport regarding compensation.
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 14 July 2011, Official Report, column 458W, on illegal immigrants, how many overstayers have been identified by e-border checks in each of the first nine months of 2011; and how many of those overstayers have now been removed. [87740]
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much he has allocated to investment in carers services within the baseline allocations for primary care trusts in 2012-13; and how much he plans to allocate in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15. [87960]
On Friday 16 December, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry visited the Bicester Rotary pop-up shop in Crown Walk. The shop which has been there for a number of weeks with a number of local groups joining in to show just what Bicester has to offer.
