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Toby Perkins MP Visits Local Lottery-Funded Projects In Chesterfield

Toby Perkins MP Visits Local Lottery-Funded Projects In Chesterfield

Chesterfield MP, Toby Perkins experienced first-hand the results of over £2.7 million in good cause funding from the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) since 2007 when he visited two projects benefitting local people. Big Lottery Fund Head of Region for the East Midlands, Mick McGrath, accompanied Toby Perkins MP on the visit to see two groups [...]

Derby Road Residents turn to MP after losing car parking spaces

Derby Road Residents turn to MP after losing car parking spaces

Worried Chesterfield residents have enlisted the help of their local Member of Parliament, Toby Perkins, after their parking spaces were sold to Tesco. This followed the decision to allow the opening of a brand new Tesco Express store on the site of the former Angel public house on Derby Road, at which local people had [...]

Local transport charity gets MP backing for government grant

Local transport charity gets MP backing for government grant

Chesterfield Community and District Transport, a locally based charity which delivers bus services for hundreds of elderly and disabled members of the community, has warned that a government decision to axe vital grants could lead to its closure. Local Member of Parliament, Toby Perkins, is writing to the Coalition to demand that charities such as [...]

David Miliband visits Chesterfield

David Miliband visits Chesterfield

 Toby Perkins MP welcomed David Miliband to Chesterfield on Monday 23rd August as part of his Labour Party leadership campaign. David and Mr. Perkins spoke in front of around 150 Labour Party members and supporters at the impressive Market Hall in Chesterfield town centre after an informal meeting with councilors and party officers. David spoke about [...]

Toby Perkins with Eric Morton

MP Toby Perkins hails “cutting edge” Orthopaedic Wing at Chesterfield Royal

Labour Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, Toby Perkins, visited the new cutting edge orthopaedic wing of Chesterfield Royal Hospital during his meeting with Chief Executive Eric Morton. Mr. Perkins hailed the new project as “a top class addition to a great local hospital” and vowed to bring pressure to bear on the Coalition Government to [...]

Toby with Marion

Hunloke Gardens will not be defeated by vandals, says community

Community volunteers and the local MP have warned mindless vandals that they won’t give up on their award winning community-based facility after a nighttime attack. Mr. Perkins met with Marion Wilcockson and volunteers at Hunloke Community Gardens, who have worked tirelessly over many years to make the site into such a focal point of the [...]

Toby Perkins MP Visits Local Lottery-Funded Projects In Chesterfield

Toby Perkins MP Visits Local Lottery-Funded Projects In Chesterfield

03 September 2010

Chesterfield MP, Toby Perkins experienced first-hand the results of over £2.7 million in good cause funding from the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) since 2007 when he visited two projects benefitting local people. Big Lottery Fund Head of Region for the East Midlands, Mick McGrath, accompanied Toby Perkins MP on the visit to see two groups [...]

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Derby Road Residents turn to MP after losing car parking spaces

Derby Road Residents turn to MP after losing car parking spaces

03 September 2010

Worried Chesterfield residents have enlisted the help of their local Member of Parliament, Toby Perkins, after their parking spaces were sold to Tesco. This followed the decision to allow the opening of a brand new Tesco Express store on the site of the former Angel public house on Derby Road, at which local people had [...]

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Expenses Update – August

01 September 2010

One of my pledges during the election was to publish monthly any expenses claimed, so that there would be complete transparency for constituents to understand what costs were associated with my role as their MP and to allow them to scrutinise those expenses as soon as possible after the event. Many of you will be [...]

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Local transport charity gets MP backing for government grant

Local transport charity gets MP backing for government grant

01 September 2010

Chesterfield Community and District Transport, a locally based charity which delivers bus services for hundreds of elderly and disabled members of the community, has warned that a government decision to axe vital grants could lead to its closure. Local Member of Parliament, Toby Perkins, is writing to the Coalition to demand that charities such as [...]

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David Miliband visits Chesterfield

David Miliband visits Chesterfield

25 August 2010

 Toby Perkins MP welcomed David Miliband to Chesterfield on Monday 23rd August as part of his Labour Party leadership campaign. David and Mr. Perkins spoke in front of around 150 Labour Party members and supporters at the impressive Market Hall in Chesterfield town centre after an informal meeting with councilors and party officers. David spoke about [...]

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The Big Sell Out could lead to a ‘lost generation’

25 August 2010

Toby Perkins, Labour Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, has congratulated A-Level students for achieving the best ever results nationally. However, Mr. Perkins has warned that the Coalition Government is undertaking one of the biggest and most dangerous gambles with the lives of young adults in living memory. The Tory and Lib Dem coalition has reduced [...]

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Welcome

I am Toby Perkins, Labour's Member of parliament for Chesterfield. I was elected on May 6th 2010.

I hold regular surgeries in Chesterfield and Staveley so that constituents can meet me and I can take up their concerns. If you want to make an appointment, then please contact my office.

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