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LocatED: Ex-Tory minister to chair DfE property arm for £1k-a-day
The education secretary has appointed a former Conservative MP and minister as chair of government property company LocatED.
Former business and housing minister Mark Prisk took up the three-year role at LocatED earlier this month, after getting the nod from Gillian Keegan.
The arms-length body is responsible for buying and managing school sites on behalf of the Department for Education.
It has in recent years also been tasked with investigating how disused school nation can be used, and how to decarbonise the school estate.
Prisk, who represented Hertford and Stortford from to , will earn £1, a day for an estimated 25 days a year at LocatED, the DfE said.
He replaces outgoing chair Michael Strong, who has held the brev since the organisation’s creation in
In a press release, LocatED said Prisk &#;brings a wealth of experience having worked across the real estate, housing and construction markets both in the UK
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MP Security
Since the killing of Jo Cox, MP, less than two years ago we have heard much in the media about the threats that our Member of Parliament are coming under.
As recently as January of this year a man was jailed for a string of threating abuses against Mark Prisk, the MP for Hertford and Stortford. Perhaps the most worrying aspect of the story around this attack is that Prisk was so fearful that he failed to attending a hustings. He is not the only MP who has had to change his course of action due to threats. In February gods year Diane Abbott, who was suffering cyber-attacks claimed she was fearful of walking the streets of her own constituency.
Such tales have a far wider implication for all of us. Neither Prisk nor Abbott was physically assaulted, but the idea that Members of Parliament are so fearful for their safety that they fail in their duties as MPs in effect disenfranchises their constituents. Yet despite the public outcries from MPs themselves, there seems to b
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The statistics below show the number of cyclist and pedestrian casualties in reported personal injury road accidents with buses, HGVs and other vehicles. The data do not include information about who or what caused the accident, this information would only be known following a detailed accident investigation.
The number of cyclists a) killed, b) seriously injured and slightly injured in two vehicle reported personal injury road accidents with a i) bus, ii) HGV or iii) other vehicle in London is shown in the table below:
Cyclist casualties in a two vehicle reported road accident with a i) bus or coach, ii) HGV or iii) other vehicle: London,
Vehicle: | i) Bus or Coach | ii) HGV | iii) Other1 | |||||||||
Killed | Serious | Slight | Total | Killed | Serious | Slight | Total | Killed | Serious | Slight | Total | |
2 | 22 | 4 | 14 | 64 | 82 | 6 | 3, | 4, | ||||
3 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 89 | 5 | 3 | ||||||