UK Risks Missing Brexit Boat

05 Feb 2018

From the moment Theresa May announced her intention to trigger Article 50, it’s been clear that we were in a race against time. But few seem to realize that we have less than two months in which to land the most important and complex deal in our post-war history. The reality…

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Stephen Kinnock And David Rees Statement On Cymer Afan Comprehensive

05 Feb 2018

On Friday Stephen Kinnock met with residents from the Upper Afan Valley about the proposals for Cymer Afan Comprehensive, following that he and David Rees AM met with Councillors Scott Jones and Nicola-Jayne Elsie Davies, and former Assembly Member Brian Gibbons. After the meetings Stephen Kinnock and David Rees issued…

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Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock Meets With Pensions Minister To Speak Up For Constituents About Changes To The BSPS On The Day We Learn Initial BSPS Transfer Figures

31 Jan 2018

Stephen Kinnock met with the Pensions Minister, Guy Opperman, for a frank exchange of views about the government’s handling of the changes to the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS). Last year, Mr Kinnock wrote to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions calling on the government to take action…

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Only By Speaking European Languages Will Britain Rebuild The Bridges Burned By Brexit

29 Jan 2018

Times article with Luciana Berger We take it for granted that public figures from the rest of Europe can speak flawless English, as Emmanuel Macron did in his interview on the Andrew Marr Show last Sunday. We expect the presidents and prime ministers of France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Sweden or Norway to be…

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No Place For Scandalous Child Poverty Figures In 21st Century Britain

26 Jan 2018

Nearly a third of children in Aberavon are living in poverty according to statistics published the End Child Poverty coalition. Local MP Stephen Kinnock has called the figures ‘scandalous’ and said ‘there should be no place for child poverty in 21st century Britain. Figures from the End Child Poverty Coalition show 4424…

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Stephen Kinnock Calls For Early-Warning System So Regulators Can Be More Proactive

24 Jan 2018

Aberavon MP, Stephen Kinnock, has said lessons need to be learnt from the creation of the British Steel Pension Scheme mark 2, and called for an early-warning system so regulators can be more proactive in tackling the unscrupulous behaviour of certain pension advisers witnessed in Port Talbot. Speaking in a Commons…

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MP Holds Constructive Meeting With New Prisons Minister

17 Jan 2018

Aberavon MP, Stephen Kinnock, has held a constructive meeting with the new Minister for Prisons, Rory Stewart MP, just days after his appointment to the role, over the proposals to build a prison in Port Talbot. Speaking after the meeting, Mr Kinnock said, “The meeting with the new Minister was…

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Aberavon MP Calls For Urgent Meeting With New Minister Over Prison Plans

11 Jan 2018

Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock has written to the new Minister for Prisons, Rory Stewart OBE MP, urging him to get up to speed on the proposals for a prison in Port Talbot and calling for an urgent meeting to discuss why the land in the Baglan Industrial Park is not suitable…

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Stephen Kinnock To Hold Third Annual Funding Fair

11 Jan 2018

Aberavon MP, Stephen Kinnock, is due to hold his annual funding fair in Taibach Community Education Centre at the end of the month. Now in its third year the event has grown to include 13 different advice providers and Mr Kinnock is encouraging local groups and organisations looking for funding…

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The European Economic Area Offers An Opportunity To Stay In The Single Market And Control Movement Of Labour

03 Jan 2018

Politics Home For almost eighteen months now the country has been grappling with the vexed question of how best to retain the benefits of the single market without having to accept the free movement of labour. We know that if we were to cut our economy off from the single…

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Cyrus RW

15 Dec 2017

Commenting on the news that Cyrus RW have been put into administration, Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock said: “It is disappointing to learn of Cyrus RW being placed into administration, and for all of those employed by the company this will be an incredibly worrying time. “The priority must now be…

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My Interview With Nick Clegg

14 Dec 2017

House Magazine The problem with writing anything about Brexit is that in the few days between first draft and pressing send the entire picture can change, multiple times. For example, when I sat down with Nick Clegg in Westminster on Monday 4 December, Theresa May was sitting down for her…

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Channel 4 News – British Steel Pensions

13 Dec 2017

I was interviewed on Channel 4 News about the unscrupulous and opportunistic financial advisers providing steelworkers with poor financial advice and ripping them off. I called for a crackdown on these vultures and that the Financial Conduct Authority the powers to crack down on these fraudulent pension advisers. We need…

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Aberavon MP Raises Concerns With Financial Conduct Authority Over British Steel Pension Scheme Scams

12 Dec 2017

Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock has contacted the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over worrying reports of opportunistic financial advisers providing steelworkers with poor financial advice and luring steelworkers into transferring millions out of pension funds. Mr Kinnock will be meeting with Mr Bailey next week and has said, ‘I am increasingly…

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Austerity Isn’t Working, Local Councils Are At Breaking Point, And The Pay Cap Needs Scrapping

22 Nov 2017

As the Chancellor gets to his feet today to announce the Budget, I have joined with Cllr Carol Clement-Williams, Cabinet Member for Finance at Neath Port Talbot Council, and Mark Fisher, Chair NPT Unison, to call on Philip Hammond to drop the Government’s austerity policies, ensure local government is funded…

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Covenant Is Final Nail In The Coffin For The Ministry Of Justice’s Plans For A Prison On Baglan Industrial Estate

01 Nov 2017

Stephen Kinnock has hailed a covenant on the land earmarked for a prison, as the ‘final nail in the coffin’ for the Ministry of Justice’s plans. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Aberavon MP called on Sam Gyimah MP, Minister for Prisons, to admit that the covenant’s protection of…

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Only a Labour no-confidence motion in the Tories can avert a Brexit disaster

24 Oct 2017

Guardian Brexit is often portrayed as just another episode in the long-running and seemingly endless Tory soap opera about Europe – who’s up, who’s down, and who is stabbing whom in the back this week. But the reality is that the outcome of these negotiations will define the future trajectory…

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We urge the UK government to halt the roll-out of Universal Credit, before it’s too late

18 Oct 2017

South Wales Evening Post Universal Credit (UC) is supposed to simplify and streamline the benefits system by putting Housing Benefit, Child Tax Credit, Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance and Working Tax Credit, into a single registration and payment mechanism. So far, so good. We have…

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Boundary Commission Wales Revised Boundary Proposals

17 Oct 2017

Commenting on the Boundary Commission Wales’ latest proposals for parliamentary constituency boundaries, Stephen Kinnock, Member of Parliament for Aberavon, said: “It is good to see that the Boundary Commission Wales has listened to our representations about splitting the Aberavon and Port Talbot wards, and that they have included both areas…

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Commons Diary October 2017

13 Oct 2017

House Magazine ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,…

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Healing the divides

09 Oct 2017

Progress, Written by Stephen Kinnock and Joe Jervis Labour’s next big social democratic project must be to unite our fractured nation Britain has so much going for it – economically, democratically and culturally. Yet as a country we find ourselves more divided and polarised than at any time since the second…

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