Waveney MP Peter Aldous attends event on 'Getting Jobs of the Future to Your Constituency'
Peter Aldous MP for Waveney last week attended an Information Society Alliance (EURIM) reception held in the House of Commons focused on 'Getting Jobs of the Future to Your Constituency'.
The event which took place on Tuesday 6th July provided an opportunity for MPs and industry to discuss how to turn promises into reality: including expediting broadband roll-out, restarting economic growth and improving service delivery - all within current spending constraints.
John Whittingdale, Chair of the DCMS Select Committee, highlighted the importance of working with bodies like EURIM in scrutinising proposals that affect the UK’s creative industries.
Among the other material made available were analyses, by constituency of the proportion of voters without high speed on-line services. The national average is 18 per cent, but in the Waveney constituency 51 per cent of the population live in low speed areas.
Mr Aldous said:
“I found it most useful to discuss the potential for turning the problems facing the Coalition Government into opportunities for locally organised co-operation to improve services in the Waveney constituency where the quality of broadband provision is particularly poor . I intend to follow up on the contacts and see who is willing to help me turn words into action.”
The Rt Hon Alun Michael, MP for Torchwood (filmed in his constituency), and also chairman of the Parliamentary IT Committee and the UK Internet Governance Forum, opened the reception by explaining that the jobs of the future were coming to his voters via the cracks in time, but others were less fortunate.
The industry representatives ranged from BT to INCA, which supports local community broadband programmes and from EADS, one of the giants of Defence and Aerospace to Erudine, a rapidly growing innovate start-up which is championing the cause of SMEs.
Photo: Peter Aldous with Steve Burkitt of EADS at the 'Getting Jobs of the Future to Your Constituency' event.
