Nick Brown MP

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 [...]

This summer marks the first anniversary of my appointment as Minister for the North East. It’s been a productive year. Making the case for job opportunities to be based within the region, for the area to build on its reputation as the UK’s centre and leader in green technologies, and doing what I can to [...]

The Government today announced that it is to hold a public consultation into the House of Lords decision that people living with pleural plaques are no longer eligible for compensation. My interest in this issue goes back a long way. Before my election to Parliament I worked in Newcastle as the GMB’s legal officer. Our Union [...]

I have known Gordon Brown for 25 years. We were elected to Parliament at the same time in 1983. In opposition we worked together on Labour’s Treasury team led by the late John Smith, and served in John’s shadow administration when he became leader of the Party in 1992. When John tragically died in 1994, [...]

On Monday 2nd June I attended the funeral of Tom Burlison. Tom had died at the age of 71 after a lifetime’s service to the Trade Union and Labour movement. I first met Tom thirty years earlier, when he was the newly elected Regional Secretary of the General and Municipal Worker’s Union, and I was [...]

As part of my role as Government Minister for the North East I’ve had the chance over the past year to see how much the region has changed and how forward-looking our new economic base is.   I’ve visited the New and Renewable Energy Centre out at Blyth – one of the world’s leaders in the [...]

Nick Brown is pleased to introduce East Newcastle’s very own humpback whale, Skiff. Nick has taken a keen interest in animal welfare throughout his time in Parliament, from the hunting ban to stopping fur farming, and is proud to make a contribution to IFAW on behalf of his constituents which will help to protect this [...]

An increasing number of people have contacted me recently about what action I’ve been taking to help alleviate poverty worldwide. Campaigns such as Make Poverty History have put to the fore our moral obligations to help those most in need around the world. Last year I sponsored Tom Clarke MP’s Private Member’s Bill which sought to improve [...]

The new Leader of the Labour Party has formed his first administration and has asked me to join it as the Minister for the North East and Government Deputy Chief Whip. It’s a great combination of jobs but I am particularly enthusiastic about the new Minister for the North East role. The job is new [...]

It’s 13 years since the Labour Party last had to choose a new leader and deputy. 2 years earlier, in 1992, I had supported John Smith for leader and Margaret Beckett for deputy. After John’s tragic and untimely death in 1994 I wanted Gordon Brown to stand for leader of the Labour Party, but he [...]