FAO Janet George....MP letters

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I got a reply today
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It says
Dear Tankey,
Thank you for your email of 21st January.
I am most grateful to you for bringing this equine disease to my attention and also for highlighting your concerns about the lack of checks in place to prevent horses with this disease from entering the UK.

This is something that should definitely be brought to the Government's attention and I have therefore written to the Secretary of State for Envoironment, Food and Rural affairs, the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, to ask what the government is doing to prevent this disease from spreading further, and I will be in touch again as soon as I receive his reply.
With best wishes
Yours sincerely
Greg Clark


I think that is a really positive response and I will let you know what Trevor MacDonald invites me for an interview
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I used your email template thingy
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Excellent response, just goes to show that a well written letter can have some effect.
Well done Janet for the composition, & Tanks for her C & P skills !!
 
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Excellent response, just goes to show that a well written letter can have some effect.


[/ QUOTE ]Err, actually , I think you will find that my social interacting skills had something to do with it
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Oh well done! Who else has had positive replies from their MPs (and if you HAVEN'T written/e-mailed yours, why not??)

And who HASN'T had a reply! We need to keep the pressure up on Defra to make sure this doesn't happen again - maybe in the height of summer when it would spread like wildfire!
 
Mine said

Dear brighteyes

Thank you for your email of 21 January.

I very much appreciate the time and trouble you have taken to send me such a detailled submission about your concerns with reference to the two cases of Equine Infectious Anaemia which has occurred in Wiltshire.

You raise some very important issues about our ability to deal with this condition which I understand has no antidote. I have taken particular note of the points you have made about horse passports.

I will without delay make personal representation on your behalf to Hilary Benn the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and ask him to respond in detail to the issues you have raised.

Thank you for drawing my attention to the matter

Yours sincerely

Michael Jack
(signed - this was a letter)

Copied exactly by me for on here.
 
Oh well done all of you, this needs to be addressed and quickly.

How do I find out who my MP is so I can write to them?
 
I have done but I am in three areas on the Lincs/Norfolk and Cambs border so shall I email all three areas. Sounds silly but our address is Lincs, but all services list us as cambs, and my council is Cambs as well.

Confused I am totally.
 
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I have done but I am in three areas on the Lincs/Norfolk and Cambs border so shall I email all three areas. Sounds silly but our address is Lincs, but all services list us as cambs, and my council is Cambs as well.


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To find your MP, go to http://findyourmp.parliament.uk/ - enter your postcode. It will tell you your MP - and give you his contact details.
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I think Hilary Benn will be advised that as the Horse was moved from France to England DEFRA is not required to carry out checks mainly because of the tripartite agreement of health checks. When the horse is imported into the EU the country they first come into is responsible. He will also say the new bill introduced by the goverment will help address these problems. He is not willing to accept that the horse industry through rates pays a large amount of tax he just dismisses this as general taxation refusing to accept that horses are livestock in other EU countries and do not pay this tax. He needs reminding that DEFRA said all horses must have applied for a passport by Feb 2005 and at least 10% of horses still do not have passports and DEFRA has done nothing about it. There has been very little enforcement of this legislation so why pass more for people to ignore.
 
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