Primates are not pets
Angela is an enthusiastic supporter of the 'Primates are not pets' campaign launched by IFAW (International fund for animal welfare). She is seen here at the launch with Jane Goodall, the world renowned anthropologist and expert in primate behaviour as well as animal welfare minister Jim Knight.
On January 10 th Angela was delighted to support the second reading of the Animal Welfare Bill. This is the most far reaching reform of the laws surrounding protection of animals for a century. For more information click here.
National Recognition for local film makers
The creative talent of Wallasey's young people gets national recognition at the annual First Light Film Awards run by the UK Film Council.
Angela with the award winning young Wallasey film makers at their moment of triumph in London's Leicester Square. For Story click here
Angela meets all sides in the battle over New Brighton’s proposed £70 million redevelopment.
As developers Neptune submit their planning application for their ambitious £70 million plans to redevelop 60 acres of New Brighton’s seafront vociferous campaigners both for and against the plans have met with local Wallasey MP Angela Eagle.
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Angela
Eagle speaks in Parliament about bus services in her constituency
of Wallasey.
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By Angela Eagle MP. A Catalyst working paper.
Drawing on her experiences as a minister in the first two Labour governments, Angela Eagle argues that a permanent social democratic transformation of society will be achieved only through a radical deepening of democracy that engages with the complex and dispersed nature of social power today.
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Here are some speeches that Angela has made in Parliament.>> HERE
To explore further, you can go to Parliament's own website>HERE where you will find a great deal of information. On Parliament's home page you will find a button for Hansard. Every word that is spoken in Parliament is written down and published each day. These volumes are called Hansard. On Parliament's website you can search Hansard for speeches by a particular MP, like Angela Eagle, or on a particular topic. HERE
Here you can read Angela's maiden speech that was made in the House Of Commons on the 11th of May 1992.>> HERE
Angela has taken up a private members Bill on Equality which went through the House of Lords on 9th April 2003. It would create a Single framework for Equality law in the UK. The Equality Bill, which was sponsored by Lord Lester of Herne Hill, would extend, simplify and consolidate existing protections. It seeks to eliminate discrimination and promote equality between different people regardless of their racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, marital or family status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, age or disability. It also contains powers to offer protection against harassment or victimisation and well as direct or indirect discrimination. If enacted, the Bill would be a long overdue modernisation of existing protections.>>MORE
Our NHS Saving more lives
Treating more patients, quicker than ever before.
Since 1997 our National Health Service has had a tripling of resources to help it improve the care it gives to all those in need.
Here Angela is visiting the brand new children's A&E which has recently been opened at Arrowe park hospital. It caters specifically for the needs of children and ensures that special attention can be paid to their needs. The local trust hospital funded the unit whilst an extra £200 000 was raised by the jellybean appeal to buy extra child friendly furnishings like the dinosaur bed in the photograph.
Overall, the NHS has more staff working in newer state of the art buildings and in new preventative community health care services. Effective techniques for managing chronic illness at home coupled with new day care wards specialising in diagnostics and testing has prevented the need for admissions to hospital In the first place. Extra funding has meant more research into disease and the purchase of cutting edge equipment and facilities.
There are many other examples of improvements in local services. Here are just some of them:
Clatterbridge oncology centre now has nine Linux scanners which deliver radiotherapy. This has slashed waiting times for treatment in line with the national requirement and ensured that cancer sufferers are receiving much faster treatment. Moreover these new machines have digital technology which can scan and model tumours in 3D and then ensure that radiotherapy is delivered with pinpoint accuracy. The old machines which were inherited in 1997 relied on staff sticking lumps of lead on the laser to direct the therapy! This meant that more healthy tissue was destroyed and worsened the side effects of treatment.
It has 20% more staff treating more patients faster than ever before.
Some Facts:
In the Wirral NHS Trust since 1997 there are:
34 extra consultants
72 extra doctors in training
288 extra nurses
109 extra qualified technicians
4 extra qualified midwives
273 extra nursing assistants
1094 fewer people in are now waiting more than 13 weeks for inpatient treatment at Wirral NHS Hospital Trust than they were in 1997. !,670 fewer people in Wirral as a whole are waiting longer than 13 weeks for treatment.
For Wirral Primary Healthcare Trust between 2000 and 2008 there will be an increase in Income of £78, 273 000
For Wirral NHS Hospital Trust between 2004 and 2008 there will be an increase in revenue allocation of £176,000 000
As a result of improvements in treatment and preventative health care, life expectancy in Wirral has risen since 1997 for women by 1.2 years from 79 to 80.2 and for men by 2.4 years from 73.1 to 75.5.
Our local NHS, saving more lives treating more people quicker than ever before
If you would like more information go to www.betterwithlabour.co.uk
Angela Introduces Equality Bill
Angela used the Ten Minute Rule Parliamentary process to introduce a Bill which would require all public sector authorities to prevent sex discrimination. This public duty to promote equality already applies for race and will soon apply for disability too.
Angela said “I thought it was about time to do the same for women and men.”
Praising Barbara Castle for pioneering sex discrimination legislation 28 years ago Angela pointed out that the current law only compensates victims after they have suffered illegal discrimination but it has not worked to prevent it happening in the first place.
She went on to explain how a positive duty could ensure that all services to the public were much more closely aligned with people’s needs. For the full text of her speech click here.
Angela’s Bill was given an unopposed second reading.
Labour Party Conference 2004.
Angela’s Conference Diary.>>HERE
New Wave Labour Launched
Angela Eagle MP and 14 other founding member MPs launched their New Wave Labour group on Monday 24th November 2003 with a letter to the Independent. To find out more about New Wave Labour click >>HERE
POSITIVE ACTION
A FAIR DEAL FOR WOMEN
Did you know that since 1918 4,531 people have been elected to serve as MPs in the House of Commons and only 252 of them have been women?
In this new pamphlet, Angela explores why this distortion of democracy has come about and more importantly, what needs to be done to change it !!
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