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Bradford MP David is urging Bradford residents to join the Big Switch Campaign which aims to use the combined switching power of thousands of consumers to negotiate a better deal from electricity and gas companies.

David has also signed a Parliamentary Motion calling on Parliament to support the initiative led by consumer magazine, Which? and action group, 38 Degrees.

Bradford MP and member of the Business Select Committee, David Ward, has met the Bradford weaver supplying fabrics to leading fashion labels.

William Halstead are weavers of mohair and worsted for mens and womens suitings, supplying fabric to Prada, Simon Spurr, Calvin Klein and Louis Voutton. They have just returned from a showing thier spring/summer collection in Milan.

Bradford MP David Ward has welcomed the opening of a £50m summer schools programme, announced by the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, last September. The fund is designed to help up to 100,000 of the most disadvantaged pupils with the transition from primary to secondary school.

In Bradford, there around 19,000 children eligible for this fund. Head teachers will be able to design and run summer schools, targeting pupils who will benefit the most. The funding could be used for activities such as:

Bradford MP David Ward has called for the closure of the Music and Drama Service in Wakefield to be delayed to allow time to find a way of keeping the service open.

The Wakefield based collection holds more than 500,000 items of music and 90,000 copies of plays, making it one of the largest collections of performing sets anywhere in the UK. It is available not only to individual users, schools and music and drama groups in the Yorkshire and Humber area but also to organisations and groups outside of the region on a pay per use basis.

Bradford East MP, David Ward, is urging businesses, shops and services in Bradford and across the country to ensure they have fully operational hearing loops to substantially improve their accessibility for customers with hearing loss.

The MP has lodged an Early Day Motion (EDM) in Parliament calling for better hearing loop provision following research by Action on Hearing Loss - formerly RNID - which found that eighty six per cent of surveyed businesses in the UK are at risk of being inaccessible because of problems with, or absence of, hearing loops. The main problems were that the loops were not switched on, in working order, or staff didn't know how to operate them.

David Ward MP and Baroness Kramer will meet with business leaders in Bradford to discuss issues local businesses face in relation to finance and banking.

Business leaders from across Bradford will have a chance to discuss issues facing Bradford businesses at a meeting with Bradford East MP David Ward and the Susan Kramer at the Bradford Chamber Business Park, New Lane, Laisterdyke. The discussion will be around finance and banking for business with a particular focus on micro financing, access to finance in particular for start-up businesses.

David Ward MP and Baroness Kramer will meet catering apprentices training at Bradford College.

Late last year, David Ward launched his campaign to recruit 100 new apprentices in 100 days ahead of the National Apprentice Week (February 6^th -10^th). On Thursday Baroness Susan Kramer and David will visit Bradford College to speak to the catering apprentices.

David Ward MP has backed Big Energy Week campaign, which aims to help consumers to save on their energy bills.

The campaign, which is organised by the Citizens Advice Bureau and other leading charities will offer advice on switching energy suppliers and making sure you are on the cheapest tariffs, as well as tips on the best ways to save energy. It will run until 21^st January.