Richard Burden MP has today welcomed the decision of the Commons Trade and Industry Committee to launch an Inquiry into the role of the Government and MG Rover, and has offered to give evidence if the Committee would find that helpful. The Longbridge car plant is in Mr Burden’s Birmingham Northfield constituency. In June last year, Mr Burden secured a special debate in Parliament in which …
Q8. [23746] Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) (Lab): My right hon. Friend will be aware that more than six months have passed since the collapse of MG Rover in my constituency. May I ask him to do two things? First, will he recognise the contribution that the taskforce set up by the Government has made towards helping the region and beyond to tackle the effects of that closure; and …
The Chair of Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group, Richard Burden MP, today issued the following statement:
“The comments made by the President of Iran on Wednesday were deplorable. They were shocking in the same way that it would have been disgraceful if anyone said that Palestine, or any other country and people should be wiped off the map.
Richard Burden MP will join the cousin of Rachel Corrie at a meeting in Westminster tonight to discuss the Corrie family’s ongoing battle for justice. Rachel Corrie was crushed by a bulldozer whilst peacefully protesting at the demolition of a Palestinian home in Rafah in the Gaza strip in March 2003. Her cousin Elizabeth will speak about the legal action which the family are pursuing against the …
2 days after Israeli troops left, Richard Burden MP, Chair of the Britain-Palestine All Party Group in Parliament, became the first British MP to visit Gaza. Mr Burden, who is on a short visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories, is being accompanied by Julia Wickham, the Director of Labour Middle East Council. Tomorrow he will meet with a number of Israeli spokespeople.
Richard Burden MP, whose Birmingham Northfield constituency includes MG Rover’s Longbridge car plant, has today issued the following statement in response to the news that Nanjing Automobile Company (NAC) has acquired MG Rover’s assets at Longbridge. “I am pleased that Nanjing and their UK partner, Arup, have indicated that they envisage significant motor manufacturing presence …
I was Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Northfield between 1992 and 2019 and a former Shadow Transport Minister. I now chair Healthwatch in Birmingham and Solihull, and the West Midlands Board of Remembering Srebrenica. I also work as a public affairs consultant. I am an effective community advocate and stakeholder alliance builder with a passion for human rights. I am a trustee of the Balfour Project charity and of Citizens Advice Birmingham, and a former Chair of Medical Aid for Palestinians.