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Daniel Greenhough Office of Catherine McKinnell MP

Daniel Greenhough Office of Catherine McKinnell MP. Newcastle CVS 20 February 2012. Newcastle MPs. Nick Brown – Newcastle East Former Chief Whip, Minister for North East Catherine McKinnell – Newcastle North Shadow Minister for Children and Young Families Chi Onwurah – Newcastle Central

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Daniel Greenhough Office of Catherine McKinnell MP

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  1. Daniel GreenhoughOffice of Catherine McKinnell MP Newcastle CVS 20 February 2012

  2. Newcastle MPs • Nick Brown – Newcastle East Former Chief Whip, Minister for North East • Catherine McKinnell – Newcastle North Shadow Minister for Children and Young Families • Chi Onwurah – Newcastle Central Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation & Skills

  3. MP’s role MPs represent constituents by : • Contributing in Parliament • Taking up individual cases • Speaking in the media • Campaigning on specific issues

  4. Parliament • Questions to Ministers (written and oral) – including the Prime Minister • Debates – initiating debates, speeches, interventions. • Early Day Motions • All Party Parliamentary Groups eg APPG on multiple sclerosis, international anti-corruption

  5. Working together through Parliament • MPs can use parliamentary questions to raise issues and obtain information useful to voluntary organisations • MPs can raise the cases of individual organisations (or service users) in debates • APPGs work with many voluntary organisations • Tours and visits to Parliament

  6. Individual casework • Make contact with agencies on behalf of individuals • Strict protocol that MPs can only take up the cases of constituents • Data protection of paramount concern

  7. Working together on casework • Collaborating on individual cases • Sharing briefing information about cases or trends • Potential for joint surgeries on particular issues

  8. Media • Commenting on constituency, city or regional issues • Events : meeting service users • What’s the story? • What’s the image? • Real life examples

  9. Working together through media • Building profile eg supporting campaign / launching report • Highlighting issues / experience of individuals • Ongoing campaigns

  10. Ongoing campaigns • Apprenticeships • Economic development • Front bench policy – including adoption and looked-after children

  11. Communications • Email/post but follow-up by phone • MPs normally in constituency on Fridays / recesses • Briefing : who, what, when, where, why? • Constituency-level information

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