Press release · 2003
Claim Your Child Tax Credit
How Child Tax Credit was introduced to families in Newham in April 2003.
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The Archive
Press releases, speeches and diary notes from the constituency website that used this domain between 1998 and 2003. Each item is kept with its real date; contact details and the names of private individuals have been removed.
From the archive. Between 1998 and 2003 this domain carried the constituency website of the Member of Parliament for East Ham. This page keeps one of its items as a historical record, with the original date restored. East Ham Ledger, which publishes the site today, is an independent magazine and has no link to any MP, party or Parliament; contact details and the names of private individuals have been removed, and lost pictures have been replaced with credited photographs of the places concerned.
Press release · 2002
Housing Benefit for Pensioners
The 2002 change that let pensioners claim Housing Benefit once every five years instead of every year.
Press release · 2001
Tackling Child Poverty
A 2001 call to families in East Ham to check the tax credits and benefits they could claim.
Press release · 2001
Back to School
A day of visits to four schools serving East Ham, from Manor Park to the NewVIC sixth form college.
Press release · 2002
A New Learning Experience
The launch of Discover's outreach programme for nursery children at St Stephen's Nursery in East Ham.
Press release · 2002
Lathom's Sporting Success
Lathom Junior School receives Sport England's Active Mark Gold award.
Press release · 2001
Question Time at St Winefride's
Pupils at St Winefride's Catholic Primary School put their questions on housing and world affairs.
Press release · 2001
The Zebra Crossing Poems
A book of poems by pupils of Selwyn Primary School, published by Eastside Community Heritage.
Press release · 2001
Sure Start in Little Ilford
The Sure Start programme approved for families with young children in Little Ilford.
Press release · 2001
Maternity Care at Newham General
New ward beds and scanning equipment for the maternity unit at Newham General Hospital.
Speech · 2001
Citizenship and Democracy
A talk to pupils of Ellen Wilkinson Primary School on citizenship, Parliament and the work of an MP.
Speech · 2002
Citizenship in the Classroom
A speech to a TELCO assembly at Stratford Town Hall on citizenship education and turnout in Newham.
Speech · 2001
The Challenge of Globalisation
A talk at Plashet School on interdependence, international aid and trade.
Speech · 1999
Refugees and Public Services
Opening a conference at Stratford Town Hall on health and access to services for refugees.
Press release · 2002
Pupils Tour Parliament
Year 6 pupils from Ellen Wilkinson Primary School on a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament.
Press release · 2002
A Constituency Website Launches
The launch of the constituency website that once used this domain.
Archive note
Advice Surgeries in East Ham
What the old constituency advice surgeries were, and how to reach an MP today.
Index
Speeches and Articles
Speeches given in East Ham and Stratford between 1998 and 2002, kept in the archive.
Portrait
Introducing East Ham
A 2002 portrait of the constituency: Docklands, Green Street, schools and the new rail links.
Press release · 2001
Meeting East Ham's Mosques
Representatives of East Ham's mosques meet their MP a month after 11 September 2001.
Speech · 1998
Small Firms and Innovation
A 1998 speech at the University of East London on small businesses and the East London economy.
Press release · 2002
Mobile Phone Theft
Tougher sentences for mobile phone robbery, and why it worried schoolchildren in Newham.
Press release · 2002
A Post Office for North Woolwich
The campaign to reopen a post office in North Woolwich after the old one closed in 2000.
Press release · 2003
Local Pharmacists' Concerns
East Ham pharmacists on the Office of Fair Trading's plan to lift limits on NHS dispensing.
Photo archive
The Photo Archive
Captions from the photo gallery of the old constituency website, 2002.
Photo archive
The Photo Archive
Captions from the photo gallery of the old constituency website, 2002.
