Welcome to my website. I hope you will find it informative and helpful. I update this site regularly so I hope that you will come back soon to keep in touch with what is going on in our community.
Pakistan flooding disaster appeal
Over 1,600 people are reported to have died and 20 million people are believed to have been affected by the terrible floods in Pakistan. In the aftermath there is now a serious risk to survivors from potentially deadly diseases, including cholera, which can spread as a result of contaminated surface and drinking water.
The money is being raised which will help fund the life-saving work in Pakistan of the DEC’s Members which are the lead UK aid agencies and their partners.
If you would like to donate, then please click
here, or phone 0370 60 60 900
Changes in our local health services
When changes to our local health services were suggested by local doctors, nurses and midwifes in a set of proposals called A Picture of Health, Clive immediately wrote to thousands of people across the constituency to find out what they thought of the proposals. He received an overwhelming response.
In response to this Clive organised a public meeting on the Coldharbour estate where people worried about the changes could come and speak directly to hospital and clinical workers across the spectrum as well as senior management of local NHS Trust and PCTs.
One of the proposals was to replace Queen Mary's A&E department with an Urgent Care Centre which would be able to treat most of the cases which currently came to the A&E. The doctors and nurses who came up witht hese proposals say they decided on this course of action after several experts declared the present set up to be unsafe because causality doctors are not seeing enough patients to build up their expertise.
Cases which would have come by blue light ambulance to Queen Mary's would now go to either other local A&Es or specialist centres where they receive expert treatment.
Many of the proposals contained in A Picture of Health have now been adopted.
Clive then wrote to everyone who had responded to his earlier letter to explain to them that he was going to visit the Urgent Care Centre at Queen Marys and video a meeting with Michael Chuter, the chair of the Greenwich Teaching Primary Care Trust, who has been involved with these changes since the beginning of the process.
Clive invited his constituents to send him any questions they would like to put to Mr Chuter. Once again the response was overwhelming and it is the constituent's questions that make up this interview.
If you would like to see this interview, please click here.
MP's expenses
Clive has been shocked and outraged by some of the media revelations about MP's expenses. Clive does not have a second home and has never made any claim for expenses to do with his home here in Eltham.
Clive has now published on his website every expense claim with receipt he has made over the last four years. "This information will be provided by the House of Commons in a couple of months time, but MPs need to be as transparent as possible so I wanted to get it online so that constituents can access it as soon as possible", explains Clive.
To see Clive's views on the expenses scandal and to see details of his claims for the last four years, click here.
He has also provided links to the House of Commons website page that gives the the overall sums of money that he is allocated by Parliament to cover the cost of his travel and to run his constituency office. Clive receives no allowances or expenses for a second home.
To see the Members’ Allowance Expenditure of Clive Efford 07/08, click here.
To see the Members’ Travel Expenditure 07/08, click here.
Click on any of the links below to find out more details
Real help now
During these difficult times it is vital that people get up-to-date information about help available to them. We must learn the lessons of past recessions when people were left to cope on their own.
Click on the links below to find out what help is available:
Help with keeping your home.
Help with skills and training.
Help with jobs and benefits.
Help for people on a low income.
Help with money problems and debt.
Help for employees.
Help for pensioners.
Help with buying a new home.
Real help for businesses now
The government has taken practical steps to help businesses through this global recession.
Click on the links below to find out what help is available.
Help with business finance.
Help with managing you business.
Help with investing for the future.
Biography
It is a great honour to be a Member of Parliament and in particular to represent the area in which I live with my family. As a local resident I share the same concerns as other people living in the constituency.
Pre Budget Report
During these difficult financial times it is important that people know that their MP and their government is doing everything possible to help see the country through the problems it faces and to help those who are affected by the global financial crisis. That is why I have prepared briefings on the Chancellor’s Pre Budget Report.
The Queen’s Speech.
The Queen's Speech set out the programme of government legislation for the next Parliamentary session. It included vital Bills to improve our banking system and to help the country come through the current financial difficulties stronger and fairer.
Homeowner Support Scheme
The number of repossessions is rising although the numbers affected remain small. The new government-backed Homeowner Support Scheme will provide help for those at risk of repossession.
Surgeries
I try to be as accessible as possible. I hold eight surgeries each month. My regular walkabouts bring together residents with council officers, the police and others to find on-the-spot solutions to local problems.
What's On
I have now added a What's On page which I hope will become a real community hub. If you know of any event, no matter how big or small that you want advertised on this page then please let me know the details and I will include it.
Most of all I hope that you use it to let me know what you think.
Clive Efford
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