Mark Alcock Shadow MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton

Mark Alcock at the House of Commons

I hope you find this site informative - As the Shadow MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, I will be updating this site with all the news you need about how Oldham West & Royton Liberal Democrats and I are holding your MP to account, as well as our campaigns and plans for better representation for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton in Parliament. If you have any questions or concerns, or even if you just want to say hello, and to help our campaign to have a Liberal Democrat MP after the next General Election, I encourage you to contact me by one of the methods below:

Get in touch:

Finally if you have any issues you would like to raise or any questions you want to ask me please get in touch.

By email: mark@markalcock4our-mp.org.uk

By telephone: 01706 880018

By Mobile 07545 545060

Best wishes

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Mark Alcock Shadow Liberal Democrat MP for Oldham West & Royton, including Chadderton.

Latest Chadderton Prison News

Quote from MEN 6th November 2009, full article below...

Quote from MEN 6th November 2009, full article below...

Please click on image to sign our petition against Labours Chadderton Prison Plan.

Please click on image above to sign our petition against Labours Chadderton Prison Plan.

STOP THE 100,000 TONNE A YEAR INCINERATOR IN CHADDERTON

Cllr Mark Alcock has sent a letter and petition form to all the houses in the South and Central Chadderton wards alerting people to the potential plan for an 100,000 tonne a year 'Energy from Waste Plant' (incinerator) behind Lidl and McDonalds off Broadway on the site of the Rugby Mill and surrounding land.

Today 13th October 2009 at a meeting of the Joint Committee today members were advised that a revised plan has now been submitted by the landowners.

The site has been reinstated in consultation proposals put forward as part of the Greater Manchester Waste Joint Development Plan.

Legal advice had also been received stating that it would be inconsistent with established procedures to refuse to seek public views on the proposal.

A formal consultation period is now set to run from November 13, 2009, until January 8, 2010.

if you have not signed the petition yet,

Incinerator

Picture of an Incinerator


Mark Alcock signs Tuition Fees pledge

Thu 4th Mar 2010

Local Shadow MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, Mark Alcock has promised to lend his voice, and his vote, to a student led campaign against future tuition fee hikes.

University students

Local Shadow MP committed to beating cancer - Alcock

Thu 4th Mar 2010

Local Shadow MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, Mark Alcock has joined hundreds of MPs across the country in signing up to Cancer Research UK's Cancer Commitment, aiming to make UK cancer outcomes among the best in Europe in the next ten years.

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LOCAL SHADOW MP JOINS BREAKTHROUGH BREAST CANCER TO ENSURE OLDER PATIENTS ARE GIVEN EVERY CHANCE TO BEAT BREAST CANCER

Tue 2nd Mar 2010

Local shadow MP Mark Alcock joined forces with Breakthrough Breast Cancer on 2nd March, as the charity launched the Breakthrough Breast Cancer Every Chance campaign to tackle the barriers that limit equal access for older patients to breast cancer treatments and care.

Breakthrough Breast Cancer

Over 3,000 emergency hospital admissions a year for children with diabetes - Alcock

Mon 15th Feb 2010

Latest figures reveal that last year there were more than 3,300 [1] cases of children in England admitted to accident and emergency departments with a potentially fatal diabetic complication, warns leading health charity Diabetes UK.

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ALMOST 5,000 INNOCENT PEOPLE ADDED TO GREATER MANCHESTER DNA DATABASE SINCE COURT RULING - Alcock

Tue 9th Feb 2010

Almost 5,000 innocent people have been added to the DNA database in Greater Manchester, many in Oldham Borough, in the 12 months since the practice was declared unlawful by the courts, according to research from Shadow Liberal Democrat MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, Mark Alcock and the Liberal Democrats.

Mark Alcock outside the Houses of Parliament (photography: Mark Alcock)

SCRAP ID CARDS AND PUT MORE POLICE ON OLDHAM BOROUGHS STREETS - Alcock

Mon 8th Feb 2010

Shadow Liberal Democrat MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, Mark Alcock today called for ID Cards to be scrapped, and for more police to be put on the beat instead, as he outlined the Lib Dems' plans for policing in Greater Manchester.

Greater Manchester police

MOD consultant's £84k bonus 'insult' to frontline troops - Alcock

Wed 27th Jan 2010

A Ministry of Defence (MOD) consultant has received a bonus payment of over £84,500 - for cutting down on departmental waste - new figures show.

British Army as NATO soldiers on Supercat vehicles (photography: Courtesy of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) under waiver of Crown Copyright)

GREATER MANCHESTER HOSPITALS HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER VETERANS HAVE RECEIVED PRIORITY TREATMENT - ALCOCK

Fri 15th Jan 2010

The Government's scheme for giving war veterans priority NHS treatment is being ignored by most Greater Manchester hospitals according to research from the Liberal Democrats.

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Mark Alcock Calls on the Government to Repay VAT to Mountain Rescue Heroes

Thu 14th Jan 2010

Following weeks in which Mountain Rescue Teams across the country have been providing vital emergency support to help deal with the adverse conditions caused by blizzard like weather, Shadow Liberal Democrat MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, Mark Alcock has called on the Government to show their appreciation by delivering some much needed financial support to the organisation.

6,000 Oldham pensioners will miss out on Cold Weather Payments says Mark Alcock

Thu 14th Jan 2010

Up to 1.7m pensioners will miss out on Cold Weather Payments triggered by the recent weather, according to analysis of Government figures by the Liberal Democrats.

Nick Clegg Launches the Lib Dem Four Step Plan to a fairer Britain!

Mon 11th Jan 2010

Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg launched the Lib Dem plan for a fairer Britain, contacting members and supporters with the following announcement:

Nick Clegg & Vince Cable (photography: Mark Alcock)

GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE FORCE'S £3.1 MILLION HIRE CAR BILL - ALCOCK

Mon 4th Jan 2010

Greater Manchester Police Force has spent £3.1 million over the last five years on hire vehicles, according to figures uncovered by Liberal Democrat MP Andrew Stunell.

Greater Manchester police

NORTH WEST NHS BUREAUCRATS RISE BY A FIFTH IN FIVE YEARS - ALCOCK

Sun 20th Dec 2009

The number of bureaucrats hired by the NHS has increased by a fifth over the last five years, according to new figures obtained by Shadow Liberal Democrat MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, Mark Alcock.

NHS Screening Plan

"Brown must keep prescription charge promise" - ALCOCK

Wed 16th Dec 2009

Local Shadow Liberal Democrat MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, Mark Alcock is urging Gordon Brown to keep the promise he made over a year ago to abolish prescription charges for people with long-term conditions in England.

INNOCENTS TO REMAIN ON DNA DATABASE FOR SIX YEARS - Alcock

Wed 18th Nov 2009

Commenting on the Government's decision to retain profiles of innocent people on the DNA Database for six years, rather than the twelve years announced previously, Shadow Liberal Democrat MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, Mark Alcock said:

Mark Alcock pledges to "do his bit" for British Armed Forces

Wed 11th Nov 2009

Shadow Liberal Democrat MP for Oldham West & Royton including Chadderton, Mark Alcock, has pledged to do his bit for the British Armed Forces family.

Titan prison fears 'based on fantasy'

Thu 5th Nov 2009

AN MP has accused a councillor of 'scaremongering' over claims that a prison could be built in Oldham.

Mark Alcock signs up to the 10:10 campaign

Fri 30th Oct 2009

WHAT IS 10:10?

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Profoundly worrying that violent crimes not recorded - Huhne

Fri 23rd Oct 2009

Commenting on the police inspectorate's finding that one in three decisions to record a violent incident as no crime having taken place were wrong, from a sample of 479 decisions, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said:

Chris Huhne

Government has shied away from action on shocking fuel poverty figures - Hughes

Wed 21st Oct 2009

Commenting on the latest Government figures showing the number of people in fuel poverty rose to 4m in 2007, Liberal Democrat Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary Simon Hughes said:

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