Nick Brown MP

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today the Government announced that the Post Office Card Account contract would be renewed. Over 25,000 people use the Post Office Card in Newcastle alone, so this is a good decision for our area and it’s the right decision for the Post Office network as a whole. Given the difficulties we’ve seen recently with the banks, [...]

Nick today spoke at a Parliamentary Lobby run by the GMB union to get justice for the victims of pleural plaques. Nick has repeatedly made the case within Government for the 2007 Law Lords decision that denies compensation to pleural plaques sufferers to be overturned, and earlier this month made a submission to the Government’s conultation on the issue, which you can read here.

The consultation on restoring compensation to pleural plaques victims shuts today, and you can read Nick Brown’s response in full below. Since the consultation was announced at the start of the summer, Nick has been working hard to encourage as many of his constituents as possible to take part, and at present has received over [...]