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17.06.2009 Support for SOAS Cleaners
15.06.2009 Healthcare Insurers’ Discrimination against Jewish Community
10.06.2009 Diane Applauds Law Lords Decision on Secret Evidence
04.06.2009 Time for the UK to Begin a “New Era of Trust”?
22.05.2009 Concern for Afghan Women and Children
13.05.2009 Diane Condemns Policing of G20 Protest
08.05.2009 Diane Joins Children's Centres Celebrations
30.04.2009 Call for New Direction in Afghanistan

09.06.2009 Knife Crime Parliamentary Debate
08.06.2009 Oakington Immigration Removal Centre parliamentary debate
20.05.2009 London Metropolitan University Parliamentary Debate
12.05.2009 Police Crowd Control Parliamentary Debate
20.04.2009 Oral Question to the Minister for the Olympics
19.03.2009 Parliamentary Debate: Tuberculosis and Hackney
03.03.2009 Latin America
24.02.2009 Oral Question to the Foreign Office

17.05.2009 Of Derek Walcott and Smear Campaigns
03.04.2009 G20 Vision of Hope
26.02.2009 School Exclusions
15.01.2009 Harold Pinter and Hackney's Creative Force
08.01.2009 Hazel Blears has Missed the Point
04.12.2008 Diversity in Hackney
01.11.2008 If Obama Wins, We All Will, Too
23.10.2008 Wiping Out Child Poverty

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I would like to put on record that I do not have a second home. I have one home and it is in Dalston. Everyone will have read in the newspapers and seen on television about MPs claiming for: food, fixtures, fittings, furniture, plasma televisions, gardeners, bags of manure, clearing out your moat etc. But you can only make these types of claims if you are claiming for a second home in the first place. Because I do not have a second home, I cannot claim for any of these things. So, all the fixtures and fittings in my house are paid for out of my basic salary.

I believe that the whole system of MPs expenses needs cleaning up. In particular we need to do away with the second home allowance in its current form. But, even if we do bring in the necessary reforms, I believe that it will take a long time to win back the faith and confidence of the public.

The Diane Abbott Rap

St Paul's and St Michael's School - Year 4 Performing their Diane Abbott Rap

Events

Dalston: The Next Property Hotspot?

Dalston has been recognised as a great place to live in London. This article in the Independent explains how people are flocking to Hackney to take advantage of the range of cultures and vibrant nightlife.

Dalston: Property Hotspot