Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - MP for the Cotswolds and Shadow Minister for International Trade and Development

MP raises issue of council tax precepts

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, MP for The Cotswolds, spoke out in Parliament yesterday (30 January) about the decision by Cirencester Town Council to increase their Council Tax precept, the Council's share of Council Tax, by 4.7% in the coming year and the proposal by the Gloucestershire Branch Police Superintendents' Association for the Gloucestershire Police Authority increase their precept by 2.9%. read more »

MP calls on Government to help improve trading links with Brazil

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calls on the Foreign Office to do more to promote trade with Brazil. read more »

Foreign Office Questions: US-Pakistan relations

admin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:00:00 +0100

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calls on the Government to use our strong relationship with the US and Pakistan to help improve relations between those two countries, who are both important to the future of Afghanistan. read more »

MP calls for car parking improvements at Kemble railway station

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:00:00 +0100

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calls for the retendering of the First Great Western franchise to allow sufficient capital investment to improve the car parking at Kemble. read more »

Foreign Office Questions: Sudan

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:00:00 +0100

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown asks the Foreign Secretary for his assessment of the situation in Sudan and considerable increase in violence in the disputed states of Abyei, South Kordofan and Unity. read more »

International Development Questions: South Sudan

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:00 +0100

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown asks the Secretary of State for International Development about plans to give assistance the new Government when it forms in South Sudan. read more »

Defence Questions: Cyber-security

admin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown questions Government policies on encouraging innovative solutions from the private sector to help the public sector with regard to cyber-security. read more »

Transport Questions: Rail Electrification

admin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calls for the Kemble to Swindon rail to be added to the Great Western main line electrification project in order to support diversions when the Severn tunnel is closed during the process. read more »

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Questions: Common Agricultural Policy

admin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown calls on the Government to ensure that reforms to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) ensure that Europe plays an important role in enabling agriculture to feed the world and moves away from structural faults that encourage practices such as growing crops that no one wants. read more »

Foreign Office Questions: South Sudan

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:00:00 +0000

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown asks the Foreign Secretary what role the UK can play in helping a form a new Government in south Sudan. read more »