Latest updates from Daniel

Welcome funding for overdue improvements at Shrewsbury station

Alongside working to secure a direct rail link to the capital from Shrewsbury, the town’s MP has long called on Arriva Trains Wales and Network Rail to improve Shrewsbury station and its surrounding facilities. The announcement from Arriva trains Wales of £200,000 for improvements at the station has therefore been warmly welcomed by Daniel Kawczynski, the Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham.

£24.6 million investment on broadband is great news for Shropshire

After years of lobbying and work between Central Government and Shropshire Council, Shrewsbury’s MP welcomed a contract that was signed on Wednesday 25th March along with BT that will see faster broadband speeds brought to Shropshire.

Shropshire attracts further interest from Waitrose

Daniel meeting John Morris (far left), Heather Jenkin of Waitrose and Dan Morris

Further to the recently opened Little Waitrose on Pride Hill, and the announcement of a £40 million Waitrose supermarket due to open in 2014, Shrewsbury’s MP met with the supermarket’s Director of Agricultural strategy to encourage them to become even further involved in the county.

Bovine TB in Shropshire continues to worsen

With the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs publishing the Bovine TB statistics for 2012, new incidents of the disease in Shropshire are increasing more than the national average.

From 2011 to 2012, the total number of new TB cases across Great Britain increased by 5.5%. In Shropshire however, the number of new incidents reported in 2012 increased by 16.4%.

Over 1900 cattle in Shropshire were slaughtered in 2012, meaning the total number slaughtered over the last five years has risen to over 9,000 animals.

Income tax cut for 35,904 people in Shrewsbury & Atcham

The Chancellor announced in the budget this afternoon that from April 2014, the amount people can earn before paying income tax - the personal allowance - will rise to £10,000.
Constituents of Shrewsbury and Atcham will be over £700 better off every year than when this Government came to office. Almost three million more of the lowest paid will pay no income tax at all.

Export seminar a great success

Last week, Daniel Kawczynski MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham co-hosted the successful ‘Achieve Growth through Exporting’ seminar with local accountants Whittingham Riddell, UK Trade and Investment West Midlands, and the Shropshire Chamber of Commerce.

Local Produce Market – Saturday 16 March 2013

Daniel Kawczynski is encouraging constituents to support the local produce market that is being held in Shrewsbury’s Square this weekend.

Daniel has been working closely with Stuart Jones from Asterley Events, who runs the popular Shrewsbury Farmer’s Market, in further developing the initiative which brings together a number of renowned food and drink producers from across the county.

New Parliamentary Delegation for Daniel Kawczynski MP

Shrewsbury & Atcham MP Daniel Kawczynski has been appointed, in a Written Ministerial Statement by the Prime Minister, to the Parliamentary delegation of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCEPA).

Support for HGV Road User Levy Bill

Daniel Kawczynski MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham has welcomed the new law to make foreign HGVs pay a levy to use our roads. The HGV Road User Levy Bill received Royal Assent last week and passed into law.

With British HGVs paying to use European roads, this Bill delivers fairness for British hauliers, and rights a wrong that they have faced until now.

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Closure of Copthorne Barracks

Daniel Kawczynski MP has expressed concern in Westminster today over the announcement by Defence Secretary Philip Hammond that Copthorne Barracks is to close by 2015.

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