Shadow Minister For Tyneside

Setting the Tyneside Test
As part of our revival plans David Cameron has asked me to be Shadow Minister for Tyneside. Instead of sitting cosily in London, I and my Business and Enterprise team will be in Tyneside, asking what our policies will do for the school leaver or the manufacturing business and using it to shape our policies.

I believe if we can get things right in Tyneside we can really do great things to stimulate business and opportunity all across Britain. And, I intend to test all Business and Enterprises policies through the experience of the area. I'm not just going to listen to people in business; I want to hear from people from every walk of life including school children, students, full time mothers and fathers, nurses, doctors and those in the voluntary sector.
I want our policy-making process to be a fruitful partnership between Tyneside and the Conservatives. I want Tyneside to be a measure of excellence. I want you to help us design Britain's future, and make everything pass the Tyneside test.

Alan's Tyneside speech at the Conservative party conference.

Newcastle Conservative Federation.

26th May 2008

 

Red tape blocks our new roads
The Department for Transport is spending less on roads and railways in the North East than it is on administration costs – and the cash available for the region is set to shrink by millions of pounds.


10th May 2008

 

North home losses double in two years
THE number of North East families losing their homes under a Labour Government is rising, with some parts of the region seeing the number of court orders for repossessions increase by more than 100%.

18th April 2008

 

Soldier’s fight for a family home
A SOLDIER from Tyneside who has fought in Iraq has appealed for help in his bid to move back to his home town and set up a family home.

18th March 2008

 

Northern Rock job losses
Responding to news that up to 2,000 job losses could occur at Northern Rock, Alan said:


14th March 2008

 

A change we can support
LET'S welcome the Conservative Party's Spring Forum to the North-East by supporting yesterday's call by Alan Duncan, Shadow Secretary for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, for the post office closure plan to be suspended.

23rd February 2008

 

Raw deal for city but now we have to make best of situation
NEWCASTLE has every right to feel that it has had a raw deal. Its economy and society were ripped apart by the demise of mining and shipbuilding in the 1980s.  
           

15th November 2007

David Cameron addresses North East economic summit.
In a speech to the North East Economic Forum, David Cameron will say:

26th October 2007

Alan visits Business in the Community
Alan was in the North East at the end of October and paid a visit to the North East branch of Business in the Community.

26th October 2007

We'd Invest in roads like the A1.

Alan was in Newcastle on Thursday 25th October in his role of Shadow Minister for Tyneside, to see the traffic problems effecting the A1.

30th September 2007

The Great North Run

Alan competed in the Great North Run on Sunday the 30th of September. It was the first time Alan had run it and his local paper kindly billed it as a 'half marathon race to be run by a half pint MP'.

18th September 2007

The International money markets have been playing a game of 'pass the parcel'...

Northern Rock has played a huge role in the economy of Tyneside; it has been a clear regional success story.

19th July 2007

'Brown shows his preference for central control'

By Alan Duncan MP, Shadow Minister for Tyneside.

The Newcastle Journal Ltd.

THIS week the Government announced that they were going to scrap regional assemblies.

3rd May 2007

The Financial Times follows Alan Duncan on a visit to Tyneside.

Oxford and Harvard educated, an oil trader and Tory MP for a leafy Midlands constituency; smooth operator Alan Duncan would seem an unlikely Tyneside street fighter. But put this man in Newcastles main shopping street, give him a few challenges.....

2nd May 2007

Alan Duncan opens leading brand new laboratory facilities at Northumbria Universities School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences.

The new labs opened by Shadow Minister for Tyneside Alan Duncan will support research and teaching in the areas of Photonic and Radio-Frequency, Microwave.....

26th April 2007

Tory Consultation claim sparks clash.

Shadow Minister Alan Duncan yesterday savaged a multi-million pound regeneration plan in the North-East as he stepped up efforts to secure a long-awaited Conservative revival in the region.

25th April 2007

A Conservative Council would cost you less says Alan Duncan.

Speaking on a trip to Tyneside Shadow Minister Alan Duncan has pointed out that if a Conservative Council was elected in Newcastle average council tax rated would fall by £200.

7th March 2007

DTI Team on listening trip to Tyneside.

Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary Alan Duncan, along with his front bench team, visited Tyneside on a two day visit this week.

5th March 2007

Test for Tories

Senior Conservatives are visiting Tyneside as part of leader David Cameron's plans to win the next General Election. Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary Alan Duncan MP, who is also Shadow Minister for Tyneside...

 

 

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