N ews
and local issues
Could the
Rural Economy Grant Scheme Help Your Business?
Government Responds to High Street Review
Damian Backs Local Work Experience Providers
Grayshott Gets Olympic Funding
Damian Visits Petersfield Apprentices
Alton Home Energy Centre Opens
Could You Be Police Commissioner?
National Apprenticeships Week
Damian Signs Book of Memorial
Around East Hampshire
At Treloar's School with Minster for Disabled
People, Maria Miller
At the opening of Shipwright's Way
Community
First East Hampshire launches new volunteer video
Damian to Hold Public Meeting in Steep
Visiting the NFU in East Hampshire
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
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
On the Budget and the
need for fiscal tightening
Education
Putting questions to Michael Gove in the Select Committee
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 sits on the Education select committee. Major projects
have included investigations on Ofsted and Behaviour &
Discipline and Youth Services.
Current / recent enquiries include:
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.
On Jam Jar Banking
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)
United Savings & Loan - East Hampshire's credit union
Featured
content : Damian opens debate on disadvantaged children
Featured
content: Teaching English in Rwanda
Diary
Advice Surgeries
by appointment only
Friday 18 April
Bordon & Petersfield
Friday 4 May
Alton & Four Marks
Friday 18 May
Petersfield
For details of venues and
how to book,
please see 'Info' page
Open Meetings
Please come
along and make a point or ask a question.
Friday 18 May 2012
Grayshott Village Hall - 7.30pm
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 .
Maiden speech
Other Commons speeches & questions
Westminster Hall debates
Recent written questions
Written questions by subject
Oral Questions by Date
Oral Questions by Subject
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
At the Feather Down campsite in West Worldham ... amazing
Sky News Online - Meet the New MPs
Campaign 2010
Party Conference Report 2009
Teaching English in Rwanda
Back on the Drain Gang - Rwanda
Recording a short story for Talking Books for the
Blind at Party Conference 2011
Interview with WhizzKids at Party
Conference in Manchester
Supporting Breast Cancer "Wear it
Pink" Campaign
Furniture Helpline Volunteer Awards
in Bordon 2011
Pulling the first pint of Alton's Pride at
Stranger's Bar at the Commons
Planting Trees with the Woodland
Trust, near Bentworth
Meeting the Hampshire Police Federation to discuss policing
issues
At the skate park, Petersfield
(minus BMX)
Whizz Kids event, with Eliza Perkins
and Lucy Davies
Education Select Committee hearing
'Save the Pub' with Lib Dem MP Greg
Mulholland ..... and a Hobgoblin
Visiting a local hi-tech employer
With the Hampshire Air Ambulance service
Speaking at a Credit Unions event
Taking evidence on the school behaviour and discipline enquiry