Nick Brown MP

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. [...]

At the start of the new term Nick visited Walker Technology College to see their Ministry of Defence cadet training centre. Walker Tech was one of only six schools nationwide to be awarded the scheme two years ago, and Nick was delighted to see how well the scheme is working.
Nick and Cllr David Wood, the [...]

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 has criticised threats to cut the North East’s development and training funding. The Lib Dems have suggested they would cut money used to support One NorthEast and other regeneration groups, while at the same time slashing the budget for the export guarantee credit department.
Minister for the North East Nick Brown said the cuts [...]

Nick Brown has welcomed today’s announcement of Government funding for a scheme to build the world’s biggest wind turbines  in Walker. The Department for Energy and Climate Change’s move to award a £4.4m grant to American green energy firm Clipper Windpower has been hailed as a key step in the rebirth of the shipyards on the banks of [...]

Housing Minister John Healey visited Newcastle today and joined Nick Brown on a tour of the Byker Wall.
Newcastle City Council had a bid rejected for PFI cash to upgrade the area in July, with the Housing Department saying at the time that the bid had failed to meet “any of the required criteria”. Mr Healey [...]

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 [...]

Over 2000 new council houses will be built in every region of the country following a £127m Government cash boost announced today. But Nick Brown has criticised Newcastle City Council for failing to even put in a bid for a share of the money.
47 councils across the country were told today that they would receive [...]

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 promised to find a way forward for refurbishments to the Byker Wall after Newcastle City Council’s bid for PFI funding was rejected.
The Council had applied for PFI cash from the Homes and Community Agency to help fund a £210m revamp of the Byker Wall. But a letter from Housing Minister John Healey [...]