Re-elect Gordon Marsden

Labour Party candidate for Blackpool South

Welcome to the website of Gordon Marsden, MP for Blackpool South and Shadow Minister for Further Education, Skills and Regional Growth

On this website you'll be able to find all the latest information on the work Gordon has been doing both here in Blackpool and nationally at Westminster, as well as information on all his current campaigns.

Gordon Marsden MP will be holding one of his regular advice surgeries on Friday 21st June 2013, between 4:00pm and 6:00pm at his constituency office, 304 Highfield Road. To book an appointment, please call 01253 344143.

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News

• Care and Support Bill needs proper funding

  Following on from last week’s successful National Carers Week Gordon today called on the Government to ensure the Care and Support Bill receives adequate funding in the upcoming spending review next Wednesday.

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• Protect Our Local Pubs

  Gordon has called on residents and visitors to back local pubs at a visit to The Pump and Truncheon on Bonny Street joined as the campaign to give them statutory safeguards reaches its height.

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• Access for All at Sandcastle Waterpark

  Gordon Marsden MP did the honours of cutting the ribbon on the new £75,000 Wet Room which is equipped with a H-track hoist system, adjustable sink, toilet, full adult size changing bed and a range of accessibility aids.

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• Gordon Praises RNLI Volunteers

  Gordon has praised the hard work and commitment of volunteers at the Royal Nation Lifeboat Institution during a visit for Volunteers Week 2013.

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• Government cuts causing A and E care crisis

  Sweeping Government cuts in Blackpool’s local authority budgets and £1 billion taken out of elderly care as a result are a major cause of the crisis in Accident and Emergency figures

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Gordon in the House of Commons

• West Coast Railway Line | Transport | Written Answers

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what guidelines his officials have issued for the basis of growth in additional services on the West Coast Main Line from 2014 to 2016. More >>

• West Coast Railway Line | Transport | Written Answers

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the punctuality and performance on the West Coast Main Line in 2012. More >>

• Railways: Blackpool | Transport | Written Answers

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what modelling his Department produced in assessing Virgin Trains' proposals to operate direct rail services between London Euston and Blackpool North... More >>

• Railways: Blackpool | Transport | Written Answers

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what discussions officials in his Department held with Network Rail about Virgin Trains' proposal to provide a direct train line service between... More >>

• Railways: Blackpool | Transport | Written Answers

  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations (a) he and (b) officials in his Department made to Network Rail prior to its refusal of Virgin Trains’ proposal to provide a... More >>

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