MP for Newcastle North
Newcastle North MP, Catherine McKinnell, challenged Work and Pensions Ministers in the Commons today (11th March) on the discriminatory impact of the Coalition’s new, single tier, state pension. Around 430,000 women born between April 1952 and July 1953 will retire before 2017 and will therefore not be eligible for the new single tier state pension. Continue Reading...
Newcastle North MP, Catherine McKinnell, challenged Work and Pensions Ministers in the Commons this afternoon on the discriminatory impact of the Coalition’s new state pension. Around 430,000 women born between April 1952 and July 1953 will retire before 2017 and will therefore not be eligible for the new single tier state pension. They will draw Continue Reading...
Local MP Catherine McKinnell has condemned the government’s economic plan after figures released today revealed that almost 40% more women in the North East are currently claiming out-of-work benefits than when the government came into power – a higher increase than in any other part of the UK. Ms McKinnell, who is Shadow Exchequer Continue Reading...
Newcastle North MP Catherine McKinnell met 18 student midwives dressed in vintage-style cornflower blue 1950s midwifery outfits this week after they pedalled into Westminster to highlight the Royal College of Midwives’ epetition for 5,000 more midwives. Inspired by the BBC Television series Call the Midwife, the first-year midwifery students cycled a six-mile route to Continue Reading...
NEWCASTLE North MP Catherine McKinnell has accused the prime minister of being “completely out of touch” with the fears and uncertainties faced by women across the north east. The Shadow Children’s Minister quizzed David Cameron about the latest grim regional figures which show that rising unemployment is hitting women well over twice as hard as Continue Reading...