News Guardian Articles - Alan Campbell MP for Tynemouth

Brexit not the only challenge facing our country

With all the noise and discord of Brexit it’s possible to think there are no other important challenges facing the country. There are and few more important than the future of the NHS. The Governments NHS Long Term Plan set out ambitions to improve treatment and care, showing how the…

Happy New Year to you and yours

There wasn’t much goodwill in Parliament before the recess but at home it’s a different matter. Whether its donations to foodbanks like the Bay Foodbank or the Christmas Concert at St Edward’s to fundraise for homelessness. Or the brave Boxing Day runners raising funds for Woodlawn School. Or our overstretched…

Have your say on Fire services

In my last column before Christmas let me wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. As we settle down to the festivities spare a thought for the emergency services who are working through to keep us safe and well. And as their lines get…

More to fishing than the catch

Even with the great uncertainty about what will happen after any deal to leave the EU the Government still needs to put in place alternative arrangements. So it was that the Fisheries Bill passed its first stages in the Commons last week as Ministers seek a new framework for managing…

Time is running out

Churchill said the reward of victory is responsibility. Yet what followed the First World War was hardly a land fit for heroes and two decades later Europe was plunged into a second civil war – that’s why Churchill was so keen on increasing European cooperation. So it’s ironic that at…

Too little, too late

It seems appropriate that in the week before Bonfire Night the Chancellor’s Budget has proved to be a damp squib. It wasn’t as if there hadn’t been plenty of hype beforehand. The Prime Minister had announced an end to austerity, her Chancellor spoke only of austerity coming to an end.…

Schools need proper funding

The opening of the new Backworth Park Primary School provided a timely reminder of the importance of a good environment in which children can learn. Strong leadership, excellent staff and supportive governors and parents all matter and they need and deserve the best schools we can provide. What is also…

The thin blue line is getting thinner

I recently signed up for Northumbria Police’s “Give a Day to Policing” an excellent initiative designed to keep MP’s up to speed with policing in their area. My “day” was in three parts. The first was spent with the Safeguarding Team and I visited a specialist unit in Newcastle where…

Tough times for Public Sector

In usual times Parliament would be looking towards an autumn budget but these are not usual times. The expected economic fall out from Brexit means the Chancellor has yet to set a date for his Statement. There is however no shortage of advice. Many constituents have contacted me about an…

Concerns raised over medical supplies

My colleague Mary Glindon was absolutely right to raise concerns over NICE plans to limit access to drugs on cost grounds. But there are other concerns worrying people with some long term conditions. There are 4.6 million people living with diabetes in the UK. In the next fifteen years a…

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