Rob, a former Shadow Higher Education Minister, has published a report entitled ‘Achieving Fair Access: Removing Barriers, Realising Potential’, as part of the Fair Access To University Group (FAUG) of Conservative MPs. The report makes a series of bold recommendations to enhance social mobility by increasing accessibility for disadvantaged students to the best universities, based on merit.
Rob is supporting the Which? Affordable Energy Campaign to help consumers spend as little as possible on energy. He dropped past the campaign organisation’s information stand at The Oracle shopping centre on Friday to find out how it’s going about tackling increasing prices.
Rob visited the Age UK shop in St Martin’s Precinct, Caversham last week to see how the shop is run and to talk about the adult care system.
Rob was the lucky holder of a golden ticket last week when he was invited to visit a chocolate factory in his constituency.
Rob on Monday congratulated Superintendent Stuart Greenfield and his team in the House of Commons on the successful Orts Road drugs bust, which has led to the conviction of the £4 million a year turnover drugs gang, totalling 34 years in prison.
Rob met with GCSE Citizenship pupils at Woodley’s The Bulmershe School on Friday and was quizzed on everything from tuition fees to the legal drinking age.
A Reading company that has made training local talent into a successful business model had a visit from Rob on Friday. He popped in to see for himself how Woodley-based Xact Marketing was doing and spent time meeting and chatting with the young team there.
Rob is supporting the launch of Chance to be Chancellor 2012 and is calling on schools and young people in his constituency to take up the challenge to learn about, and share their opinions on, Budget 2012. Run by the Citizenship Foundation, in partnership with Aviva, Chance to be Chancellor is open to all 14-18 year olds across the UK.
Rob has attended the parliamentary launch of Action for Children’s landmark report into child neglect. He added his name to the charity’s petition, signed by over 16,000 members of the public, calling on the Government to intervene early to prevent and tackle child neglect, and will be writing to the Secretary of State for Education, asking him to do more to help neglected children.
Rob has pledged to support the national charity Beating Bowel Cancer to save lives from the UK’s second biggest cancer killer. Rob attended Beating Bowel Cancer’s annual Be Loud Be Clear parliamentary reception last week where he found out the latest bowel cancer figures for his local area.
