Nick Brown MP

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.
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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. [...]

Nick Brown has today revealed that he is to run a summer pilot campaign in his Newcastle East to increase the number of people claiming all types of benefits they are eligible for.
Nick said: “The average weekly amount of Pension Credit paid to eligible pensioners in Newcastle is worth £48.25 per week. We know there could [...]

The Government’s Marine Bill comes into the Commons today, and it is a landmark piece of environmental legislation. As part of the Government’s sustainable development strategy, the Bill will help to balance environmental needs with economic and social demands to help prevent marine habitats and species being damaged by human activity.
This move has been widely [...]

This week at the House of Commons I met with representatives of pensioners groups from the North East, who had come to London as part of an Age Concern lobby. This Government has a good record on making life better for our older citizens – but there is always more that can be done.
Since 1997, [...]

Nick  today met with a delegation led by Mr Naoto Kan, Deputy Prime Minister of the Shadow Cabinet of Japan.
Mr Kan was at the House of Commons to discuss Parliament and UK democracy, to inform his Democratic Party of Japan’s proposals for the Japanese general election expected later this year.

There was a good result for the campaign on Pleural Plaques last Friday when Parliament backed the first stage of a Private Member’s Bill which would overturn the Law Lords’ decision to deny compensation to people living with the condition.
Nick has been campaigning on this ever since the Law Lords decision two years ago, and the Evening [...]

Nick Brown MP today hit back at suggestions made by a senior Tory that consideration should be given to the closure of a North East airport. Lord Michael Bates has questioned the need for Durham Tees Valley airport.
Nick said: “Both Newcastle and Durham Tees Valley are successful, privately run Airports. Nearly 25% of the [...]

The Policing and Crime Bill going through Parliament contains tough new measures to stop gang related crime. Successful existing solutions such as Anti-Social Behaviour Orders have had a real influence – 65% of offenders stopped behaving anti-socially after the first intervention, and 86% after the second. Together with the record numbers of police on our [...]