North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry is urging his constituents to take part in a poetry competition he has organised to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

On Saturday, the Shadow Chancellor admitted that if the Labour Party were in Government, they would not deviate from the tough decisions that George Osborne and David Cameron are making in an effort to cut the deficit.

North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry has welcomed the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in today’s Autumn Statement that the Government is going to build a new railway link between Oxford, Milton Keynes and Bedford that will create an estimated 12,000 new jobs.

North Oxfordshire MP, Tony Baldry, has written a letter to Greg Barker MP in the Department of Energy and Climate Change regarding solar power and feed-in tariffs.

Following a letter to Sir Jonathan Michael, Chief Executive of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust regarding the possibility of setting up a work academy specifically for care workers, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry has spoken out about his delight from the positive response he has received.

On Monday, the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) announced the full 70-day route of the Olympic Flame in the lead up to the Olympics next summer.

North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry has written to Shadow Transport Minister, Maria Eagle, MP attacking Labour’s most recent proposal for the route for HS2 as “unworkable” and “impractical”.

After months of organising, the Bloxham Faith Fest – a literary festival with a theological slant – will be taking place this weekend. Boasting a wide array of high-profile speakers, this will be the first year for the Faith Fest, which will take place in the heart of Bloxham at St’ Mary’s Church.

In an answer to a Parliamentary question, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry discovered from Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Bob Neill MP that there is about a year’s worth of housing where planning permission has been granted but construction has not yet commenced.

Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): I spent time with Oxfam in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984. It is difficult to describe the horror of famine—its scale, one’s helplessness, the Martian-headed skeletons of marasmus, the swollen bellies of kwashiorkor, and the glassy eyes of children one knows, notwithstanding all efforts, will be dead by tomorrow. Then and now, these famines of biblical proportions kill fellow human beings slowly, painfully, and desperately. It is the death of their humanity and a collective test of ours.