at the
Conservative Party Conference
Power to the people:
democratic reform in action
Sun 30 Sept, 6.00pm, Windsor Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Shadow
Leader of the House of Commons and Havard Hughes,
Campaigns Director, Electoral Reform Society
The state our children are in
Mon 1 Oct, 8.00am, Windsor Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Tim Loughton MP, Shadow Children’s
Minister, Mike Thompson, Child Base Ltd, Josie
Appleton, Manifesto Club
A nation fit for heroes?
Mon 1 Oct, 8.00am, Mortimer Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Dr Liam Fox MP, Shadow Secretary of
State for Defence
Are we on the road to nowhere?
Mon 1 Oct, 8.30am, Neville Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Theresa Villiers MP, Shadow Secretary
of State for Transport and Nick Brown, Chief Executive,
Serco Integrated Transport
Is the sky the limit?
Mon 1 Oct, 12.30pm, Beaufort Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Steve Norris, Chair Transport Working
Groups, Quality of Life Commission and Tim Jeans,
Managing Director, Monarch Airlines
What future for Maggie’s children?
Can we solve today’s generation clash?
Mon 1 Oct, 12.45pm, Full Circle Restaurant, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Chris Grayling MP, Shadow Secretary
of State for Work and Pensions and Mervyn Kohler, Help
the Aged
Green Cities or Green Belts?
Mon 1 Oct, 12.45pm, Nelson Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: John Gummer MP, Chair, Conservative
Quality of Life Policy Group, John Best, Chief Executive,
Milton Keynes Council and Director, IPPR
Greener, Better, More:
The race to build more green housing
Mon 1 Oct, 12.45pm, Sandringham Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Grant Shapps MP, Shadow Housing
Minister, Imtiaz Farhooki, Chief Executive NHBC, Denise
Chevin, Editor, Building Magazine
Energy supplies:
might Britain be held to ransom?
Mon 1 Oct, 12.45pm, Neville Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Alan Duncan MP, Shadow Secretary of
State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and
Denis Linford, Director of Regulation, EDF Energy
Refreshments provided at all events
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Building trust in brands:
why business needs to care about the
social agenda
Mon 1 Oct, 6.00pm, Nelson Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP, Chairman of
the Conservative Policy Review, Ben Clarke, Vice President
UK & Ireland, Kraft Foods and MT Rainey, Horse’s Mouth
Is prison overcrowding encouraging
more crime?
Tue 2 Oct, 8.00am, Windsor Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Nick Herbert MP, Shadow Secretary of
State for Justice and Juliet Lyon, Director of the Prison
Reform Trust
High knowledge economy, low
knowledge workforce?
Tue 2 Oct, 9.00am, Mortimer Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of
State for Innovation, Skills and Universities and
spokesperson from UFI
Can we trust the professionals?
Tue 2 Oct, 12.45pm, Windsor Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP, CoChair,
Conservative Public Services Improvement Policy Group
Place shaping – just the next fad or
the future for our communities?
Tue 2 Oct, 12.45pm, Mortimer Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Eric Pickles MP, Shadow Secretary of
State for Communities and Local Government and Carole
Souter, Heritage Lottery Fund
Whatever happened to education,
education, education?
Tue 2 Oct, 12.45pm, Beaufort Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Michael Gove MP, Shadow Secretary of
State for Children, Schools and Families, Jonathan
Kestenbaum, Chief Executive, NESTA, Sir Michael
Wilshaw, Mossbourne Academy and Jennifer Moses,
Chief Executive, Centreforum
Foreign affairs question time
Tue 2 Oct, 12.45pm, Sandringham Room, Hilton Blackpool
with Rt Hon William Hague MP, Shadow Foreign
Secretary
Combatting Islamist radicalism:
the way forward
Tue 2 Oct, 6.00pm, Beaufort Room, Hilton Blackpool
Speakers include: Paul Goodman MP, Shadow
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