| Barry Gardiner MP for Brent North. |
Hello and welcome to the website of Barry Gardiner, Member of Parliament for Brent North and the Prime Ministers Special Envoy for Forestry.
I hope this website will enable you to learn more about what I am doing in Westminster and in Brent North on your behalf. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to get into contact with me.
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Barry welcomes the British Chinese community to Parliament
BrentNorth MP Barry Gardiner last week hosted a hugelysuccessful reception in the Houses of Parliament for theBritish Chinese community. The event demonstrated howparliament works and to encourage the Chinese communityto play a more active role in British politics. Secretary ofState for Communities and Local Government Rt Hon Hazel Blears alsospoke at the reception and afterwards took part in a livelyQuestion and Answer session....
On Wednesday afternoon secretary of state Ed Balls presented local MP Barry Gardiner with a mock ‘cheque’ for £1 million to improve Brent play areas. “Barry has told me so much about his desire to see some of the run down facilities improved for local children. He has been an incredible champion for local kids with his Move It programme and I know how much this means to him to see the money made available to Brent Council to bring his vision for the local area to reality.” Mr Gard...
Last Friday at the Brent Indian Association local MP, Barry Gardiner, teamed up with experts from the North London Breast Screening Service and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, to raise awareness amongst Brent’s Indian community of the National Breast Screening Programme. Speaking after the event Barry commented, “It’s not just women who suffer from breast cancer – It’s whole families. One woman in every nine, contracts breast cancer. But if detected early, there is a much better chan...
At an early morning ‘power’ breakfast with the Prime Minister local MP Barry Gardiner suggested ways to improve take up on the National Breast Screening Programme.
Over 1,000 girls in Year 10 and Year 11 from Kingsbury, Preston Manor, Claremont and Wembley High Schools are to receive an exciting array of sports training and physical activity sessions thanks to Brent North MP Barry Gardiner. Barry teamed up with the Fitness Industry Association and persuaded the Department of Health to fund the ‘go’ (girls only) programme in conjunction with Barry’s ‘Move It’ charity which already provides after school sports coaching for 3,000 pupils a...
This week at Prime Minister’s Question Time, Brent North MP Barry Gardiner highlighted the anguish felt by Brent residents at the rising cost of essential services. Speaking to a packed chamber, Mr Gardiner pointed out that despite a 40% real terms increase in funding to Brent Council under this government, disabled people in his constituency were “faced with a 214% rise in their cost of care, and a grieving family a 143% rise in the cost of burying a loved one.” Gordon ...
Brent North MP Barry Gardiner has joined forces with the Open Spaces Society to try to get Brent Council to honour its duty to protect public rights of way. Barry commented "The Council should never have allowed the golf course to compromise the Right of Way in the first place. We now have the situation where the council have already spent £25,000 on the existing path and estimate another £10,000 will be needed on legal fees in order to build the new path. This seems to be a great de...
Local MP Barry Gardiner took an early lead in the MP Skip2bfit challenge at the House of Commons last week; clocking up a staggering 145 skips in 2 minutes.Barry said “This is exactly the sort of thing I would love to see children in Brent North taking up. I formally issue a challenge to all primary schoolsin the constituency to meet with me in a skip off. There will be a prize for the skippiest pupil in Brent North who is able to record the most jumps against me in a head to head!” &nbs...
During the past week Barry brought a smile to the faces of governments in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville and Cameroon as he discussed ways of using the £50 million promised by Gordon Brown to protect the second largest rain forest in the world and raise thousands of local people out of poverty. Speaking during the visit Barry commented, “For me the most important meetings I had this week were not with Presidents and Ministers but with the Pigmy people and o...
Prime Minister Gordon Brown invited Brent North MP Barry Gardiner to a 7.30 breakfast meeting at No.10 earlier today to discuss his forthcoming trip to India. Mr. Brown leaves for a diplomatic summit with Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh later this week. “Gordon knows that in Brent North we have more people of Indian origin than in any other constituency in the country. He wanted to make sure that he was fully briefed on the issues that affect them when he spoke with the Indian Prime...
At a meetinglast Thursday with Home Office drugs minister Vernon Coaker, Brent North MP, Barry Gardiner, spoke of an entire generation of the Somali community in the UK being affected by the drug Khat. MrGardiner who took leading representatives of London’s Somali community to meet the Minister along with workers from Addaction the drug rehabilitation charity pressed for the drug to bebanned. The drug, which is imported in bundles of twigs and ferns, has to be chewed f...
The winner of Barry's School Christmas card competition has gone to Roe Green Junior School student Davina Rabadia aged 10. Barry commented, “This year I asked children to design my Christmas card on the theme of 'What Santa will see in Brent.' Davina’s card has a lovely bright use of colour and shows Santa flying over the Wembley Arch. But her Santa sees deeper into Brent and she shows the happy and smiling faces of all the different faith communities enjoying the Christma...
Yesterday in Parliament Barry hosted Claremont High School's launch of their West Side Story Production. Speaking after the event Barry commented, "We had to get special permission from Mr. Speaker for the young people from Claremont to be allowed to perform live music and dancing in the Palace of Westminster. Now we know why. They were so professional that many of the House of Commons staff just downed tools and came in to watch! It is clear that this tale of violent gang culture and ...
On Wednesday 7th November Barry took part in a Question and Answer session at Kingsbury High School on the issue of climate change. This photo shows the pupils holding up cards stating Barry's ten steps to stopping global warming, these steps include: Checking your tyre pressure, Boiling a cup not a kettle, Switching off your lights when you leave the room,
On Saturday 1st December Barry took a group of Brent North residents for a tour around Kew Gardens. They were joined on the tour by Tony Kirkham, the head of the arboretum at the Royal Botanic Gardens and a favourite on the TV show A Year at Kew. The group were lucky enough to tour the site with Tony who provided fascinating information about the trees in Kew Gardens . Kew Gardens is open all year round and as the Brent North residents would attest it is well worth a visit! ...
Barry was delighted to join with the Princess Royal in congratulating Brent Citizens Advice Bureau on 25 years of service to our community. Barry said "The dedication of their professional staff as well as their teams of volunteers have proven quite simply life saving for 100’s of people who felt that they had no where else to turn."...