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Author Archives: Teresa Pearce MP
Teresa Pearce MP supports ‘Dental Check by One’ campaign.
Teresa Pearce MP is supporting the “Dental Check by one” campaign which seeks to promote good dental habits for children and families across Erith and Thamesmead. In the UK, over 141 children per day, some just a year old, are … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Press Notices, Quotes
Tagged British Society of Paediatric Dentistry, Children, Dental Check By One Campaign, Dental Hygiene, Health, Parents
Teresa Pearce MP backs campaign to end rough sleeping for good
Teresa met with the housing charity St Mungo’s at the launch of their new report “Home for Good” she also met and spoke with Leo who is an ex client of St Mungo’s who explained how he had manged … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, News, Press Notices, Quotes
Tagged Home for Good, St Mungo's
Scientist from Erith and Thamesmead joins Teresa in parliament
Dr Simon Cork, a scientist from Erith, swapped the lab bench for the green benches when he joined Teresa Pearce MP in parliament last week. Teresa Pearce MP met with Dr Cork who works at Imperial College London as part … Continue reading
Posted in Health, House of Commons, News
Teresa Pearce MP urges Government to implement childhood obesity plan without delay
Teresa Pearce MP has met with the Obesity Health Alliance, a coalition of over 40 leading charities, medical royal colleges and campaign groups to discuss childhood obesity. Currently, 22.6% of children in England start primary school with excess weight or … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Health, Press Notices, Quotes
Tagged Childhood Obesity, Healthy Eating, Obesity Health Alliance
Teresa speaking about the failure of Universal Credit on the BBC this weekend
Posted in News, Press Notices, Videos
Tagged BBC, BBC Sunday Politics, News, Universal Credit
Teresa welcomes “important milestone in the fight for step free access at Erith Station” FREE ACCESS AT ERITH STATION”
Erith and Thamesmead MP Teresa Pearce has welcomed the announcement by Southeastern and Network Rail that Erith is one of the 22 stations submitted to the Government for potential funding under the Access for All scheme. The Access for All … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, News, Press Notices, Quotes
Tagged Access for all scheme, Erith, Erith Station, Step Free Access
Teresa Pearce meets with conservationist Bill Oddie to call for urgent ban on trophy hunting imports
Teresa met last week with Bill Oddie to discuss the shocking new figures that show that nearly 400 hunting trophies from endangered animals have been imported into Britain in recent years. This includes almost 1 ton of elephant tusks. … Continue reading
Teresa Pearce MP welcomes NHS decision to help tens of thousands more people with type 1 diabetes
NHS England has announced that from April 2019 the Freestyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system will be made available across the Country. The monitoring system, works via a sensor attached to the skin, allowing people to check their blood sugar … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Press Notices, Quotes
Tagged CCG, flash glucose monitoring, Freestyle Libre Monitoring system, Health, NHS, type 1 diabetes, World Diabetes Day
Teresa Pearce MP attends Remembrance Day events across the constituency
This weekend, it was a privilege to lay wreaths at ceremonies across the constituency in Remembrance Day services in Thamesmead, Erith and Plumstead.
Posted in Events, Local events, News, Press Notices
Tagged Armistice, Remembrance Day 2018
Teresa Pearce raises the tax gap with the Prime Minister at PMQs
Yesterday I asked about the tax gap at PMQs. In 2014 I wrote to HMRC and the then Chancellor to ask how much tax was unpaid on letting income from private landlords. In 2015 they wrote back to say it was approximately … Continue reading
Posted in News, Press Notices, Speeches
Tagged HMRC, housing, PMQ, private landlords, social housing, tax