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Children's health services

8 Feb 2012
In his press article this week, Dave raises the relocation of some children's health services away from Gateshead.
He is asking for people to contact him with their views before he makes his own submission, but also gives details of a public meeting and how constituents can find out more.

Let's fix the big six energy fix

1 Feb 2012
Dave writes this week of a campaign to stop energy companies over-charging customers and coining in excessive profits.
The campaign urges the government to impose a levy on excess profits of the type employed by governments of all colours in the past and is urging people to sign up to the campaign on-line.

The eyes have it

29 Jan 2012
Nearly two million people have sight loss and this could double within a generation as the population ages.
Dave is stressing the importance of regular eye tests that could prevent blindness for many and are free to people 60 and over, all children under 16 and those on low incomes.

Incompetent drivers and remembering the Holocaust

25 Jan 2012
Dave is calling on people to sign an e-petition to remove unsafe drivers from the roads.
He also recalls the Holocaust and writes that remembering that bigotry and persecution led to the murder of six million people is essential for making sure such atrocities never happen again.

Make IT Happy

18 Jan 2012
Dave has written to all local schools urging them to enter an IT competition.
Pupils aged 9-11 can enter and win thousands for the winning school as well as the chance to attend an awards ceremony in Parliament for regional finalists.

Plaque victims not forgotten

14 Jan 2012
Dave says that those suffering from pleural plaques, for whom he has campaigned vigorously, have not been forgotten.
Despite the fact that there has been little progress recently and that the government now says the evidence does not support compensation.

Clean windows

13 Jan 2012
Dave has defended spending money on cleaning the windows of his office in Blaydon.
He says that the building is now 100 years old and part of the town's heritage and as such need to be cared for. He explains the £150 cost over six months by pointing out the difficult access and the need for specialists.

Even more bleeding

14 Dec 2011
Dave says there are more people on the dole and growth is being strangled.
In his press article this week, he cites comparison with a medieval doctor whose only cure is to bleed the patient even more.

Gutter press faces moral judgement

7 Dec 2011
Dave writes this week of the rottenness has enveloped large parts of the national media.
He recounts some of the wicked things that the Leveson Inquiry has brought to light and hopes that it will find a fair solution based on morality.

Stopping the Health Bill

8 Feb 2012
As the Health and Social Care Bill is debated again in the House of Lords, Dave has responded to constituents who continue to express concern about the changes.
He has had a huge number of contacts from constituents expressing their concerns and has pledged to keep on pressing the government to recognise the concerns which many constituents have about this the changes which will come about from the Health and Social Care Bill.

Region's rise reversed

8 Feb 2012
As a quarter of the UK's economy, the North just a few years ago was second only to London in terms of increases in the numbers of people in work and self-employment as well as VAT registered companies.
Writing in the local press, Dave says that this has gone into sharp reverse with the North-south gap is widening with job losses four times higher here than down south as the coalition borrows even more to pay the dole bill.

Coalition U-turn on MOTs

6 Feb 2012
Dave says a coalition U-turn shows that backbench MPs and public pressure can sometimes work.
Justine Greening, the Transport Secretary, has made a government U-turn on the frequency of MOT tests.

Cuts threaten anti-racist football charity

2 Feb 2012
Dave has voiced his concern about funding threats to the charity, "Show Racism the Red Card".
As the government cuts support to the voluntary sector, charities such as this face a very uncertain future.

Firefighters paying for deficit

31 Jan 2012
Dave has attacked pension proposals for firefighters.
They are facing a pension contribution increase from 11% to 16% for no extra pension and it is argued is in effect a 5% pay cut.

Get warm grants before they go!

28 Jan 2012
Dave is urging people to apply for grants to make their homes warmer before the money stops.
He says that local people should take advantage of unused funds in the Government's Warm Front energy scheme to help make their homes warmer and cut their energy bills this winter before the money dries up at the end of March.

PM errors at PMQs

26 Jan 2012
Dave has highlighted errors the Prime Minister made in his answers at Prime Minister's Questions yesterday.
Quoting official figures, Dave says the PM gave incorrect facts about employment measures, bank lending, the number of children in workless households and the amount of Disability Living Allowance paid to disabled children.

The Prime Minister David Cameron during PMQs

Never again

19 Jan 2012
Dave this week signed a Book of Commitment in the Commons to remember the Holocaust.
Events to mark the Holocaust are taking place around the country in the run-up to Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday 27 January, and Dave says it is important to remember that bigotry and persecution led to the murder of six million people and it is essential for making sure such things never happen again.

Dave signing a Book of Commitment in the Commons

Patients before profit

16 Jan 2012
In a Commons debate on the NHS, Dave has said that profits should not come before patients.
He accused the government of starting the privatisation of the NHS and he pointed out the effects of energy privatisation, asking is this what we want for our NHS?

Fair on Taxes and Energy

18 Jan 2012
Everybody should pay their taxes, and big companies should not get favoured treatment from HMRC.
Dave writes this week about tax avoidance by big companies and the Big Six energy companies in particular. He says prepayment customers should be on the cheapest tariff and no child should be left cold this winter.

Call to curb 'Pubcos'

15 Jan 2012
Dave is backing calls by a committee of MPs for fairer rents for pub tenants.
The Commons Backbench Business Committee is calling for a statutory code of practice to govern the relationship between the companies that own pubs and the landlords that run them.

Dave at the Black Bull pub as a long time supporter of local pubs

Backing for HS2, not for Astor

13 Jan 2012
Dave is backing the government's plan for high speed rail.
But he also condemned comments by Conservative Peer Lord Astor who said northern Labour MPs were backing the line because they relished the idea of despoiling the Chiltern Hills, a mainly Tory area.

Thanks from the troops, and to you

11 Jan 2012
Dave salutes the work of the team who organised more than 1400 Christmas Care parcels for service men and women overseas.
The bulk went to Afghanistan but some went to the Falklands. Dave writes in the local press how he felt privileged to support this.

Taxpayers subsidising rail shareholders

9 Jan 2012
As rail fares soar above inflation, Dave has called for a return to British Rail.
The taxpayer pays for about 40% of the cots of the railways but the profits go to the shareholders of the privatised rail companies.

Too far, too fast; now too little too late

4 Jan 2012
Dave writes that the government cut too much too quickly with disastrous effect, and now they are backtracking a little but too late as we head for another recession.
He challenges the idea the idea that 'the state' is the problem and argues it is part of the solution.

'Sweetheart' tax deals slammed

20 Dec 2011
Dave has called the revelations that billions have been lost to the taxpayer a shocking indictment of the tax system.
This comes after the Commons Public Accounts Committee reported that HMRC failed to handle tax negotiations with some big companies properly.

Give an alarm for Christmas

17 Dec 2011
Dave is urging people to buy a carbon monoxide alarm for Christmas.
The dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning are being highlighted as families start to come together for Christmas as part of a campaign to boost the use of audible alarms to stop preventable deaths.

North-East jobless now worst in UK

15 Dec 2011
As unemployment continues to rise, Dave says he thinks it will even worse.
In the three months to October 12,000 jobs in the North-East went and at 11.7%, the region's jobless rate is the worst in the country and the worst since John Major was PM.

Scorn for Chancellor's 'headcount' comment

7 Dec 2011
Dave has poured scorn on the remark by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in which he referred to the 'headcount' of job losses.
In a Commons speech on the economy, Dave pointed out that these are men and women, flesh and blood - people with kids, with mortgages, with debt, and with holidays, cars and Christmas to pay for, and they face a future with no hope because this Government put the interests of the market before the interests of the people.

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