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 …
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 …
Birmingham Northfield MP, Richard Burden, today looked forwarded to a weekend of Austin Centenary celebrations due to take place at Cofton Park and the Longbridge site in his constituency. Amongst other events planned, there will be a parade of 100 Austin and Longbridge built vehicles spanning the 100 years of production at the plant, which will travel from the centre of Birmingham out to the …
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) (Lab): Does my right hon. Friend agree that the manufacturing skills and tenacity of people in the west midlands have a great deal to offer in regard to future UK competitiveness, as he saw a couple of weeks ago at Rimstock plc in West Bromwich? That company is being assisted by the Rover taskforce to cope with the collapse of MG Rover, and is now winning …
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield) (Lab): I am grateful for the opportunity to introduce this debate on an issue of huge importance not just to my constituents but to the whole of the midlands and beyond. At the start, I congratulate my hon. Friend the Deputy Minister for Women and Equality on her appointment to the Front Bench. Last Friday I attended a meeting held by the administrators …
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.