Alison Seabeck

MP supports drowning prevention charity

Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, who was for nine years a qualified lifeguard, has signed up to support the UK’s drowning prevention charity in its work to reduce drowning and provide water safety education and lifesaving awards across the UK and Ireland.

Representatives from The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) made the trip to Parliament ahead of its annual national...

MP supports Deaf Awareness Week

Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, a sufferer of partial hearing loss herself, has shown her support for Deaf Awareness Week by attending a training session to understand the impact of deafness and improve communications skills to Deaf people.

The sessions, which were delivered at the House of Commons last week, were organised to improve the understanding of the different types...

Alison Seabeck MP celebrates Nurses’ Day 2014 with outstanding local nurse

Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, has celebrated Nurses’ Day 2014 with constituent and outstanding nurse Sarah Lewis at a reception held in Parliament.

Sarah Lewis, a Pain Management Nurse at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, won both the Nursing Standard Defence Nursing Award 2014 and the overall Nurse of the Year 2014 Award.

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MP hopes for better financial education in schools

Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, is encouraging more local schools to teach financial education this June, to give their pupils a head-start in financial education before it becomes a compulsory part of the new National Curriculum in September.

The move comes in advance of this year’s My Money Week (9-15 June), run by national financial education charity pfeg (Personal...

MP urges Plymothians to nominate local good causes

Alison Seabeck MP is supporting the initiative of Lloyds Bank Community Fund and is asking for Plymothians to nominate local good causes.

Ms Seabeck said: “There are so many fantastic small charities and non-profit groups in my constituency of Plymouth Moor View. Over the years I have seen extraordinary commitment by volunteers to improve their neighbourhood and other people’s lives....

MP organises dementia information session

Alison Seabeck MP is looking for members of the public to sign up to attend a Dementia Friends information session on Tuesday 15 April 2014.

The one-hour session, that will take place in Plymouth University at 2pm, is part of Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends programme, an initiative launched in February 2013 to help members of the public understand what it might be like to live...

Local MP highlights the importance of coding

Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, attended an event on Tuesday 25 March in Parliament run by Samsung Electronics and Code Club, the national network of over 1,300 volunteer-led after-school coding clubs, to discover more about Code Club’s work and its partnership with Samsung.

The programme aims to inspire more volunteers to run Code Clubs in schools across the UK. She...

Alison Seabeck MP delighted as additional seat capacity is promised for SW rail services

After continued campaigning to increase capacity on rail services from London to Plymouth, Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, was delighted to hear that First Great Western and the Department for Transport have confirmed that work will soon begin on increasing standard class capacity through converting some of their first class carriages.

The work, which will deliver almost 3,...

Alison Seabeck MP raises concerns about the impact of proposed changes to the Land Registry in Plymouth

On Tuesday Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, spoke in a Westminster Hall debate following Government Ministers announcing plans to launch a consultation on ending the Land Registry’s status as a trading fund. The consultation made two key recommendations: that HM Land Registry be separated into an office of the chief land registrar and a service delivery arm; and that the service...

South West ‘Open for Business’

Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, was delighted to be able to wave off the first 21.35 First Great Western train service from London Paddington to Exeter this week.

This added service came after questions from Ms Seabeck in the first meeting that MPs had with Government officials, after the storms left the Dawlish line hanging by a thread and Plymouth without a rail link....

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