The departure of of Suarez from Liverpool is more understandable than that of Damian Green, Nick Hurd or Dominic Grieve.
The Telegraph’s Andrea Leadsom story helps to show how the join between executive and legislature is under pressure as never before.
By Jonathan Isaby Yesterday saw MPs debating the merits of the Big Society on a backbench motion moved by Dover's Tory MP, Charlie Elphicke, which stated its support for the Big Society, "seeking stronger communities where power is decentralised and social action is encouraged." "The big society has been "much discussed in the media", yet […]
Nick Hurd MP is Minister for Civil Society. Tim Montgomerie kicked off the New Year with a call for a “revolution in how taxpayers money reaches voluntary organisations”. His concern is that too many charities have become dependent on income from the State and in that process have become bland and out of touch with […]
By Jonathan Isaby Yesterday the Private Member’s Bill being championed by Chris White, the MP for Warwick and Leamington, had its Second Reading Debate. In short, the Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social Value) Bill aims to promote social enterprise in a national social enterprise strategy and in local authority sustainable community strategies. It would […]
Nick Hurd is MP for Ruislip Northwood and shadow Cabinet Office minister covering the portfolio of charities, social enterprises and volunteering. The Sustainable Communities Act 2007 exists because of Conservative support. David Cameron launched the draft Bill in November 2006 and I took it through Parliament as a Private Member's Bill in 2007. It is […]
This written answer to Shadow Charities Minister Nick Hurd from 21 April suggests that the Government isn't tightening its belt like it should: "To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Fareham of 4 February 2008, Official Report, column 894W, […]
Questions were put to the Cabinet Office / Duchy of Lancaster yesterday. Members were swift to express their deep sympathy to David Cameron and his family over the death of Ivan. I add my own. Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Nick Hurd posed a question about charities. (Naomi House, to which he refers, is a children’s […]
Nick Hurd is MP for Ruislip-Northwood and heads up the Climate Change Working Group of the Conservative Party’s Quality of Life Policy Group. He provides a second YourPlatform rebuttal of Nigel Lawson’s recent case for adapting to climate change. Peter Franklin wrote the first last week. Nigel Lawson argues that climate change risk is uncertain […]
Nick Hurd is the Minister for Civil Society and the MP for Ruislip Northwood Pinner The contrast could not have been starker. This summer, my TV screen had been full of riots and looting. Like many I was shocked, not least by how disconnected the mostly young people seemed to feel from the wider community. […]