Phil Willis MP - Member of Parliament for Harrogate and Knaresborough

Phil Willis MP (LibDem, Harrogate & Knaresborough) will be helping to highlight the Warm Homes Campaign on Friday 28th November.

Nearly 11% of households in Harrogate & Knaresborough live in fuel poverty* with an average of 38 Excess Winter Deaths between 2002 and 2007 **

“It is unacceptable that people are dying because of inadequate heating and insulation or because they cannot afford to heat their homes properly” said Phil Willis.

“We tend to think of Harrogate and Knaresborough as a wealthy area and therefore not affected by the credit crunch as much as others. However I know from my constituency surgeries that there are many people suffering debt problems.” so said local MP Phil Willis (LibDem, Harrogate & Knaresborough) in advance of the launch of Christians Against Poverty (CAP) on Friday.

“I welcome the launch of CAP’s debt counselling service as another means of helping the victims of the credit crisis.”

Phil Willis will be speaking at the event, giving a politician’s perspective on the credit crisis.

Mince pies and festive gifts will be the order of the day on Saturday 21st November when Harrogate & Knaresborough Liberal Democrats will be holding their Christmas Fair.

Phil Willis MP will formally open the event at 2pm after which visitors will be able to browse the many stalls, including cakes and home produce and sample the refreshments.

The Christmas Fair takes place at St Pauls’ Church Hall on Belmont Road off Victoria Avenue in Harrogate from 2pm to 4pm.

Phil Willis MP will today highlight the issue of Africa’s high rate of maternal deaths and the work of Harrogate based eRanger in a special Commons debate.

In Africa approximately 80% of people live more than 10kms away from a health centre and most have no means of transport.

eRanger, a Harrogate based company, have come up with a simple, low cost motorcycle ambulance which can be used in challenging and rough environments to help transport people to health care centres and bring medicine to remote communities.

It was an odd week to bring the curtain down on Act 2 of the ‘Great Expenses Saga” – the first Act of course being the revelations about the lax and incomprehensible system that had developed over the past 20 years.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
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No. 10 (08-09): 5 November 2009

NEW INQUIRY:
THE REGULATION OF GEOENGINEERING

Commons Committee to work in unique collaboration with US Congressional Committee

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
Select Committee Announcement
Committee Office, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA
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No. 08 (08-09): 5 November 2009

THE DISMISSAL OF PROFESSOR DAVID NUTT AS CHAIRMAN OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON THE MISUSE OF DRUGS

Phil Willis, Chair of the Science and Technology Committee, has written to the Home Secretary Alan Johnson MP, to ask for his account of the sequence of events leading to his decision to dismiss Professor Nutt.