Nick Brown MP

Nick today spoke at an event to celebrate the North East’s heritage in glass making.
The Glass North East exhibition features the work of lecturers, professors and graduates of the University of Sunderland, whose glass work rates among the best in the world. The collection of works highlights the range and quality of glass research being [...]

Nick today welcomed the news that thousands of families in the North East would get £75 extra towards the cost of their heating, as the Government pays out millions in Cold Weather Payments.
Around £200 million in payments has been racked up so far this winter, with just over £70 million of this over the cold [...]

Labour’s plans for a new National Care Service are a good start towards putting right a long-standing injustice. It’s not right that some older people should have to sell their homes to pay for care as they grow older.
The new plans are based on the same principles as the NHS. It will be a simple, [...]

Sarah Brown paid a visit to Seven Stories, the Centre for Children’s Books on Friday, visiting the region as a guest of Minister for the North East, Nick Brown.  The Prime Minister’s wife was given an exclusive tour of the museum’s exhibition galleries and Bookshop by Chief Executive Kate Edwards.
The visit was Sarah’s only cultural [...]

Last week Nick joined the Queen at Barras Bridge for the official opening of the Great North Museum. Over the past few years the old Hancock Museum site has benefited from a £23m upgrade. With everything from a planetarium to a lifesize T-Rex, the new exhibition is expected to bring 300 000 visitors a year, [...]

Last Friday a Bill was passed through the House of Commons which would have the effect of overturning the 2007 Law Lords decision to deny compensation for pleural plaques sufferers. To become law, the Bill must now pass through the House of Lords before the middle of November. This is by no means the battle [...]

This week, at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, Nick spoke at two fringe events.  At the Association of North East Councils meeting Nick and the rest of the panel discussed the push to grow our region’s economy around green energy and sustainable technologies. Later in the week Nick joined the Community Union, the G.M.B. [...]

Over the past month Nick Brown has been running a series of extra advice surgeries. Nick has held 19 events in all, in every part of the constituency. It’s been a chance to make sure that anyone who can’t make the regular weekend sessions is able to raise issues with Nick face to face.
The [...]

Nick Brown today joined Newcastle United players past and present in support of NewcastleGateshead’s bid to be a host city if England is awarded the 2018 World Cup.
On the day stars from Peter Beardsley to Steven Taylor backed calls to bring World Cup football to Tyneside, Newcastle East MP Nick Brown said: “St James’ Park [...]

Two years ago Nick Brown visited the Northern Kites project which has re-established the region’s red kite population for the first time in over 200 years. The project winds up this year, and Nick paid tribute to the progress it has made.

Nick said: “The success of Northern Kites has not just been about the birds. [...]