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Local news, Campaigns & features,
Education, Debt and credit unions,
Featured content

 


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How to find us, Helpful resources
Local links, APPGs, About Damian
Parliament, school trips, PMQs, etc

News and local issues

Unemployment figures for East Hampshire: April 2013

Long-term care and the Queen's Speech

Saving on next winter's energy bills starts in summer

Unemployment figures for East Hampshire: March 2013

Family Nurse Partnership extended

Hospitality major source of employment in East Hampshire

Income tax cut for East Hampshire residents

Response from Thames Water on Tideway Tunnel

Damian supports immigration reforms

Many working families to benefit from tax-free childcare

Damian supports Prostate Cancer UK

Fuel duty rise scrapped in Budget

Unemployment figures for East Hampshire: February 2013

National Apprenticeship Week: 11th-15th March

Around East Hampshire


Petersfield on the Map ... and the Map on Petersfield!


At Treloar's School with Minster for Disabled People, Maria Miller


At the opening of Shipwright's Way

Visiting East Meon primary school

Community First East Hampshire launches new volunteer video

At Alton Tennis Club

Grayshott FC & Cricket Club get Olympic legacy

With the Liphook business initiative

At Alton College for National Apprenticeships Week

Meeting apprentices at the Taro Centre

Public Meeting in Steep

With the local NFU

Damian Speaks at Community First AGM

Visiting Bordon Junior School

Visiting Chawton C.E. Primary School

Damian welcomes "East Hampshire's own super scenic highway", Shipwright's Way

Dunhurst Junior School Visit

Meeting Elizabeth FitzRoy Support

Visit to Community First, in Petersfield

Speech at East Hampshire Citizens' Advice 2010 AGM

Celebrating East Hampshire's army of volunteers

Visiting the Enterprise Printing business at Treloar's

 

If you are involved with any local business, charity or organisation that you would like me to visit, please get in touch.

Campaigns & causes

 

Speaker's Parliamentary Placement Scheme - Corinne's story

Damian remembers the victims of the Holocaust

Supporting Save the Children's Yuletide Sweaterfest!

Big Energy Saving Week 2012

How Jam Jar Banking could help more families

Seven Key Truths about Social Mobility ... and my Con Home article, plus coverage from the Mail, New Statesman, Evening Standard and others

Unlocking local leadership on climate change: perspectives from coalition MPs (Green Alliance)

Luke's World

Speaking out with Cancer Research UK

Carers' Week 2011 (pictured)

Supporting Cholesterol testing

Speaking in the debate on global poverty

On the cost of the Internet, and privacy:

Uncovering government spend on Internet biasing (BBC)

Westminster Hall debate on privacy

Observer article

 

Education


Putting questions to Michael Gove in the Select Committee

Money alone is not the answer - Telegraph TV

On GCSE reform

Damian backs competitive sports drive
(the Today programme interview is here)

Breaking the Postcode Link to University Places

New Teachers and the Three R's

Questioning Examiners on Standards

Free Schools and the Labour Party

How the English Baccalaureate can help

Damian Champions Maths and Science in Schools

GCSE's - How many and which ones?

Westminster Hall speech on school standards, May 2011

Jamie's School Nightmare

Raising the Flag at Petersfield Infant School

Select Committee Meeting with Office of the Schools Adjudicator on Faith Schools Admissions

Speech to State Boarding Schools conference, Jan 2011

Article on young people not in work or education

Commons speech on Higher Education funding

Damian previously sat on the Education select committee. Major projects included investigations on Ofsted and Behaviour & Discipline and Youth Services.

Current / recent enquiries include:
What makes a great teacher?
The exam system
Child protection
Services for young people
Participation in education and training by 16-19s
The English Baccalaureate
 

Debt & credit unions


Damian Addressing the All Party Parliamentary Group on Credit Unions
 

Lobbying the minister on debt management plans, with fellow MPs

Damian chairs the All-party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Credit Unions, and is a vice chairman of the APPG on Debt.

Credit Unions and offender rehabilitation

International Credit Unions Day 2012 speech

Damian welcomes regulatory reform for credit unions

On Jam Jar Banking

Credit unions: a real alternative to the door-step lenders (article from Con Home)

New Statesman article on payday lenders

Nudging Towards Good Financial Choices

Damian Speaks about Debt Management Plans in Parliament

Credit and Debt Management: Speech in the House of Commons February 2011

Consumer Credit Regulation: Westminster Hall speech

Article: Credit Unions and the Big Society

Damian's video message for International Credit Unions Day, October 2010

Damian Introduces My Money Steps

Credit Unions and the Big Society' (article from House magazine)

Time to Reform Consumer Credit (article from Crossbow; see pages 10-11)

 

Featured content: Seven Key Truths about Social Mobility

Featured: Teaching English in Rwanda

Featured: Damian opens debate on disadvantaged children

 

   
   

 Diary

Advice Surgeries
by appointment only

 

Friday 7th June

Alton

 

Friday 21st June

Bordon & Petersfield

For details of venues and how to book, please see 'Info' page

Open Meetings

Next open meetings:

Fri 7 June at 7pm
Kingsley Centre

Fri 19 July at 7pm
Petersfield Community Centre

Please come along and make a point or ask a question.


Petersfield open meeting, Dec 2010

 

 Can I help?

Please write to me at:
Damian Hinds MP
House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA

or email:
damian.hinds.mp@parliament.uk

or phone: 0207 219 7057.

If your case is urgent, please email and phone as well.  Before getting in touch, you could try the Resources panel on the Info page, to see if your issue can be more quickly dealt with direct.

For complex cases on benefits, housing, CSA and healthcare matters, it may be better to meet face to face.  I hold regular surgeries in Bordon, Alton and Petersfield, and on a rotation basis around some of the larger villages. The schedule is on the Info page of this web site.  To book an appointment, please contact Beverley on 01420 84122.

As an MP please note that I am unable to take up issues connected with planning applications.
 

 In Parliament

Maiden speech

Other Commons speeches & questions

Westminster Hall debates

Recent written questions

Written questions by subject

Oral Questions by Date

Oral Questions by Subject

 

 Groups

2020 Conservatives
2020 Conservatives
 

All-party group on
Social Mobility

 

 


At the East Hants 'My 2012' games

 


Supporting the campaign for maternal health in Africa

 

Young People's Debt Meeting in Parliament



At the (re-)opening of Buriton's chalk pits



Summer Fair at the Sustainability Centre, East Meon


With SpongeBob Square Pants in Petersfield!
 


Breakfast meeting local farmers, April 2011


 

 

 Twitter

 

 

 Media

Sky News Online - Meet the New MPs

Guardian feature on Character and Resilience Summit

Daily Mail: The decline in Saturday jobs

 

 

 You Tube

Campaign 2010

Party Conference Report 2009

Teaching English in Rwanda

Back on the Drain Gang - Rwanda


 

 In pictures

Damian supports Friends of the Earth's 'Bee Cause'

 

Cycling the new Shipwrights Way route!

 

Damian at a 'Families and Schools Together' event in Westminster

 

Damian supports Prostate Cancer UK's Quality Checklist initiative

 

Damian celebrates release of Royal Mail's Jane Austen stamps

 

Damian visits Farnham and Alton Talking News

 

Damian celebrates the Post Office winning the DVLA contract

 

At the Open University/Speaker's House reception

 

With Carl Tantum MBE at the tree-planting ceremony to mark his retirement

 


Guide Dogs campaign - 'with the Stig'!

 


Campaigning on A3 road noise

 

Recording a short story for Talking Books for the Blind at Party Conference 2011

 

Interview with WhizzKids at Party Conference in Manchester