Brooks Newmark is the ConservativeMP for Braintree. He was elected in the 2005 general election, beating the Labour incumbent, Alan Hurst. The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Braintree is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or Democratic Socialist political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... Alan Arthur Hurst (born 2 September United Kingdom. ...
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BrooksNewmark questions the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions about the short timescale given to employers to implement the new age discrimination regulations.
BrooksNewmark today met with the Health Minister, Andy Burnham MP, together with David Bullock and Andrew Pike from Mid Essex Hospitals Trust, to discuss the future of the Trust's PFI project.
BrooksNewmark has joined the growing number of MPs who have answered a call to donate a day's salary to the compensation fund set up to help over 150,000 families who have lost money in the collapse of the Farepak Christmas Savings Club.
BrooksNewmark: In fact, through clever devices, the Chancellor has been using off-balance sheet financing, which has increased so that today it is almost£1 trillion, compared with the £486 billion of on-balance sheet borrowing.
BrooksNewmark: The reason why a more competitive tax base has worked in the Republic of Ireland is that lowering tax has resulted in more tax revenue being collected.
BrooksNewmark: It might help the Economic Secretary to know that there is something called the Laffer curve, and the evidence seems to show that, as Ireland has become more tax-competitive, its Government have raised more tax revenues.