David Ruffley MP this week supported Conservative party proposals for a radical scheme to avoid the need for old people to use up their life savings and property to pay for residential care. The Conservative plan is for a three-year partnership scheme between Government, the insurance industry...
David Ruffley MP warned this week that the revaluation of properties for council tax, starting next year, was a 'ticking tax timebomb' that threatens to send council tax bills in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket soaring. By contrast, Conservatives have pledged that they will stop the...
David Ruffley today delivered his speech in the House of Commons on the Woolpit/Elmswell traveller issue. This was a special Adjournment Debate that the Speaker, Michael Martin, granted David after his intervention in August calling for this emergency debate.
The West Suffolk Branch of the Alzheimer's Society, of which David Ruffley is Patron, is holding a 'Memory Walk' at Nowton Park, Bury St Edmunds on Sunday, 19 September commencing at 10.00 a.m.
The "Know Your Numbers!" campaign runs from 13-19 September
David Ruffley MP this week announced that the Conservatives will abolish university tuition fees. Conservatives' radical plans will boost higher education funding, scrap tuition fees, reduce student debt and provide for an extra £21 billion investment in universities. Local Conservatives...
David Ruffley will this week be raising the important issue of the travellers camp at Woolpit and the inability of our planning laws to deal with Suffolk concern about the system.
David Ruffley has written to John Pope, Managing Director of First Eastern Counties Buses, following a deluge of complaints from constituents about the unreliability of the bus services in Bury St Edmunds and dissatisfaction with the new timetables.
David Ruffley MP this week warned that Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket and local residents of the surrounding villages were finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet due to rising property taxes and utility bills. The warnings comes amid new research highlighting how much extra a typical...
David Ruffley expressed concern this week at new figures published by Royal Mail on its performance in delivering letters. The latest performance results show that in the three months from April to June 2004: