Andrew Dismore has today welcomed the announcement from the Department for Education that they are to perform a u-turn on enforcing a prescribed list of languages that could be taught in Primary Schools. Stephen Twigg MP, Labours shadow Education Secretary told the Board of Deputies of British Jews in March that under Labour the plan would be scrapped. In March, […]
Read moreI promised to keep you up to date about developments concerning Avanti School’s plan to move to Broadfields and to the Fairway. This is not a campaign against Avanti itself: just that the location they have selected are not suitable either from the local residents’ viewpoint; or for that matter, for children attending the school and their parents. This may […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore AM, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden, today made a submission to Barnet Council’s Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee on bus services to Finchley Memorial Hospital Mr Dismore said: “So far, the Mayor and TfL have been utterly unresponsive to requests for additional bus services to Finchley Memorial Hospital. He has been similarly unresponsive to other […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden, has today published the response he has received from Government free schools minister Lord Nash, (attached). Mr Dismore said: I suggested to the Council, the Mayor of London and the Government, they should make available to Avanti part of the soon to be vacated land on the MOPAC owned […]
Read moreThe Barking to Gospel Oak line will be electrified following today’s announcement of a borrowing guarantee of £90m. Labour Assembly Member Andrew Dismore and campaigner for electrification welcomes the move and urges Mayor Boris Johnson and Transport for London to ensure work starts as soon as possible. Labour London Assembly Members wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne […]
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