Simon Hughes MP

My recent activity and upcoming events

I'm kept busy throughout the week with activities that relate to Bermondsey and Old Southwark, Parliament, Liberal Democrats and access to further and higher education. You can see what I'm up to currently below.

To see the business in the House of Commons for next week, please follow this link:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmfbusi/a01.htm

For Simon's recent parliamentary contributions, both oral and written, please follow this link: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201212/cmhansrd/cmallfiles/mps/commons_hansard_1067_home.html

Please note that all events are subject to change.

Week 18/5-25/5

Friday 18/5 - Simon will:

- Visit Jobcentre Plus in London Bridge.

- Visit the SportInspired & BITC Community Games at Elephant & Castle Leisure Centre.

- Meet with Beds & Bars Ltd at St. Christopher's Inn.

- Meet with the Olympic Dream Project.

- Visit St. James' CE Primary School.

- Speak at the opening dinner of the Oxford Network of Peace Studies (OxPeace) Conference: 'Disciplines of Peace' in Oxford.

Saturday 19/5 Simon will:

- See off St. James' CE Primary School's trip to Brighton at Blackfriars station.

- Hold a surgery for constituents.

- Visit the Elephant and Castle Leisure Centre redevelopment final exhibition at Elephant and Castle Leisure Centre, 22 Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SQ between 10am-5pm.

- Visit the second exhibition for Phase One of the regeneration of the Heygate Estate at E&C Consultation Hub, 182-184 Walworth Road, London SE17 1JJ between 11am-6pm.

- Speak at the Tamil Remembrance Vigil marking the third anniversary of the Mullivaikal massacre at Trafalgar Square between 6.30-7.15pm.

- Attend the Mayor's Charity Ball at Vinopolis.

Sunday 20/5 - Simon will:

- Say a few words and start the Breast Cancer Campaign Girls vs Boys 5K race at Southwark Park Bandstand at 10.45am.

- Attend a meeting about the Dr Alfred Salter statue at St Peter and the Guardian Angels.

- Attend the Southwark thank you party at Cafe Amisha, Amisha Court, 161 Grange Road, London SE1 3GH between 5-7pm.

Monday 21/5 - Simon will:

- Attend the debate on the Remaining Stages of the Local Government Finance Bill from 4pm.

Tuesday 22/5 - Simon will:

- Attend a meeting between Globe Academy and Lawson Tenants' and Residents' Association at Globe Academy.

- Meet with the University of the First Age.

- Attend Deputy Prime Minister's Questions at 2.30pm.

- Attend the Queen's Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.

- Speak at the Save King's Stairs Gardens Action Group meeting to analyse the Thames Tunnel Phase 2 Consultation Report at St Peter and the Guardian Angels Church social club, 72 Paradise Street, London SE16 4QD between 8-10pm.

Wednesday 23/5- Simon will:

- Attend Prime Minister's Questions at 12noon.

- Attend the Second Reading of the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill from 1pm.

- Visit the Million+/NUS Mature Students research report 'Never too late to learn' launch event.

- Visit a BBC Olympics reception.

- Attend the Southwark Annual Council (Mayor making) meeting at Southwark council offices, 160 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QH at 7pm.

Thursday 24/5 - Simon will:

- Attend the Cardiff Samaritans AGM in Cardiff.

Friday 25/5 - Simon will:

- Hold a surgery for constituents.

- Meet with London South Bank University (LSBU) at LSBU.

Week 11/5-17/5

Friday 11/5 - Simon will:

- Meet with the Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group at Southwark council offices.

- Visit Castle Day centre.

- Hold a surgery for constituents.

- Speak at an Osprey Estate Tenants & Residents Association meeting at Osprey Estate Tenants Hall.

Saturday 12/5 Simon will:

- Attend the Surrey Docks Farm Spring Fayre at Surrey Docks Farm, South Wharf, Rotherhithe Street, London SE16 5ET between 11am-5pm.

- Speak at the launch of the week-long Birkbeck in your CommUNIty to celebrate Adult Learners' Week at Cambridge House.

- Receive the Honorary Freedom of the Borough at the Civic Awards Ceremony, Presentation of Honorary Freedom of the Borough and Installation of Honorary Recorder of Southwark at St George's Cathedral.

- Attend the Robes Project fundraiser concert at St Peter's Church, Liverpool Grove, London SE17 2HH between 7-9pm.

Monday 14/5 - Simon will:

- Visit Draper House.

- Meet with the National Black Women's Network.

- Visit F A Albin & Sons Limited.

- Attend Southwark Lib Dems AGM at Southwark Council Offices.

Tuesday 15/5 - Simon will:

- Attend a meeting of Southwark Pensioners Action Group at Southwark Pensioners' Centre.

- Chair a meeting of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues: Cyprus - Tired of Talking? In Committee Room 14 in the House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA at 6.30pm.

- Attend a Hacked Off reception.

Wednesday 16/5 - Simon will:

- Chair the South Bank Partnership at Coin Street neighbourhood centre.

- Attend the open day at Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT between 10am-2pm.

- Host a meeting of stakeholders about Tower Bridge Road at Woolfson & Tay book shop.

Thursday 17/5 - Simon will:

- Meet with Norman Lamb, Minister for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs, Eleanor Laing, Valerie Vaz and John Healey re maternity rights and pay in surrogacy cases.

- Speak at a GlobalNet21 event: 'Failed Politics Leads to Religious Revival'.

- Celebrate his birthday.

Week 4/5-10/5

Friday 4/5 - Simon will:

- Attend various media commitments.

Saturday 5/5 Simon will:

- Attend the FA Cup final between Liverpool and Chelsea at Wembley Stadium.

- Attend a Sierra Leonean party in honour of Julius Maada Bio, leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party and presidential candidate in Sierra Leone's upcoming elections at the KLM Centre.

Sunday 6/5 - Simon will:

- Appear on Sunday Politics on BBC1 at 12noon.

- Attend Tom Brake's 50^th birthday party in Carshalton.

Tuesday 8/5 - Simon will:

- Meet with John Hayes, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning about Southwark College.

- Speak at K+ Widening participation at King's College London University launch event in Covent Garden.

Wednesday 9/5- Simon will:

- Respond to the Queen's Speech.

Thursday 10/5 - Simon will:

- Host the Southwark Pensioners Parliament in the Attlee Suite at Portcullis House, London SW1A 2LW at 9.30am-12noon.

- Meet with Chloe Smith, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and the UK Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance about Sustainable Biodiesel.

- Attend The Hospital Saturday Fund AGM in City of London.

Week 27/4-3/5

Friday 27/4 - Simon will:

- Attend a meeting about a memorial for Albert Mckenzie, at the Oxford and Bermondsey Youth Club.

Saturday 28/4 Simon will:

- Participate in The Big Ride at Park Lane, Mayfair at 11am.

- Watch Millwall's final game of the season against Blackpool at The Den.

Sunday 29/4 - Simon will:

- Attend the polling day training session at the campaigns office in the Blue between 5.30-7.30pm.

Monday 30/4 - Simon will:

- Hold a surgery for constituents.

- Appear on Daily Politics on BBC2 at 12noon.

- Attend a lunchtime reception with Heads of Mission from across Europe as part of Foreign and Commonwealth Office 's Leadership Conference at the FCO.

- Attend the Rose Theatre Trust board meeting at The Rose Theatre.

Tuesday 1/5 - Simon will:

- Attend St Joseph's RC Primary School's Centenary celebrations at St Joseph's RC Primary School.

Wednesday 2/5- Simon will:

- Speak at the Lib Dem Christian Forum meeting for youth workers in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft.

- Attend the Dodson and Amigo Tenants and Residents Association meeting at Amigo TRA Hall.

Thursday 3/5 - Simon will:

- Campaign locally on polling day. If you are available to help us with either knocking on doors or taking numbers at polling stations, please give the campaigns office a call on 020 7237 8444 and ask for Elizabeth.

Week 20/4-26/4

Friday 20/4 - Simon will:

- Meet with the Olympic Dreams Project.

- Meet with the London Bubble Theatre Company.

- Attend a briefing on welfare reform from council officers at Southwark council offices.

Saturday 21/4 Simon will:

- Attend the Enfuse London Conference at LSBU.

- Attend the Great Southwark Dragon Quest starting at Red Cross Garden, Redcross Way, London SE1 1EX at 12.30pm.

- Attend the Bonamy and Bramcote TRA's St George's Day Celebrations at Ilderton School, Varcoe Road, London SE16 3LA between 12.30-4pm.

- Attend the St George Festival Fun Day at St George the Martyr Church crypt, Borough High Street, London SE1 1JD between 2-5pm.

- Attend the Sands Films open studio and talk at Sands Films Studio, 82 St Marychurch Street, London SE16 4HZ after 2pm.

- Attend the Friends of Surrey Docks Farm social event at Surrey Docks Farm.

- Attend the Queensborough St George's Day party at Queensborough Community Centre.

- Attend the Quay players 15th Anniversary party at 186 Tooley Street, City of London SE1 2TZ between 7-11.30pm.

Sunday 22/4 - Simon will:

- Volunteer at the Virgin London Marathon Water Station 12 run by Downside Fisher Youth Club on Tooley Street sometime between 7am-3pm.

- Visit Time and Talents to cheer on Marathon runners at The Old Mortuary, St Marychurch Street, London, SE16 4JE between 8.30am-2pm.

- Attend the Community Day at Borough Market between 12noon-4pm.

Monday 23/4 - Simon will:

- Hold a surgery for constituents.

- Attend a lunch hosted by Arab Ambassadors in Belgravia.

- Ask a Work and Pensions Question in the House of Commons.

- Meet with The Brilliant Club.

- Speak at the launch and private view for Sokari Douglas Camp's exhibition 'All the world is now richer'.

- Attend the London Leader's Campaign Summit Meeting at Ministry of Sound.

Tuesday 24/4 - Simon will:

- Speak at the House of Commons Vaisakhi 2012 celebrations.

Wednesday 25/4- Simon will:

- Attend the Thames Festival briefing for the Diamond Jubilee River pageant and launch of the new Corporate Friends Scheme in Wapping.

- Attend the Guy's Nurses' League plaque dedication service at Guy's Chapel, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas' Street, London SE1 9RG at 3pm.

- Participate in a Q&A session with young people from Centrepoint.

- Attend the last Borough and Bankside Community Council Meeting before its merger at St George the Martyr, Borough High Street, London SE1 1JD at 7pm.

- Attend Reverend Dr Giles Fraser's induction as parish priest at St Mary's Church, Kennington Park Road, Newington, London SE11 4JH at 8pm.

Thursday 26/4 - Simon will:

- Meet with the Assistant of the President of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

- Attend the service to commemorate the 450th Anniversary of St Olave's & St Saviour's Schools Foundation at Southwark Cathedral.

- Speak at the launch of Lloyd Banking Group Social Entrepreneurs Programme.

- Meet with Theresa Villiers, Minister of State for Transport, for a briefing on the impact of the London 2012 Olympics on transport at London Bridge.

- Attend the Imperial War Museum Foundation launch of First World War Galleries: Centenary Campaign at the Imperial War Museum.

- Attend a celebratory dinner to mark the 450th Anniversary of St Olave's & St Saviour's Schools Foundation in Westminster.

- Attend the last Bermondsey Community Council Meeting before its merger at St James' Church, Thurland Road, Bermondsey, London SE16 4AA at 7pm.