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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Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock Cautiously Welcomes News Of Joint Venture

20 Sep 2017

Commenting on today’s news of the joint venture between Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel, Stephen Kinnock, Member of Parliament for Aberavon, home of the Port Talbot steelworks, said: “In principle I welcome this news as it brings together two giants of the European steel industry, creating the sort of scale and synergies…

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Cross party group of politicians joins forces with community campaigners to protest against proposed Baglan Prison

18 Sep 2017

The cross-party group will be hosting representatives from the Ministry of Justice at a public meeting that has been organised by Stephen Kinnock MP. The meeting will be taking place on Wednesday 20th September at 7pm, in the Aberavon Beach Hotel. Attending to give updates will be Stephen Kinnock, MP…

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Stephen Kinnock Expresses His Disappointment As Minister Turns Down Invite To Public Meeting

06 Sep 2017

Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock has expressed his disappointment after Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah MP turned down the invitation to attend a public meeting on the proposed prison in Port Talbot. In the first questions in Parliament after the summer recess, Mr Kinnock said, ‘The Minister’s plans to build a prison…

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Squaring Our Brexit Circle

31 Aug 2017

LabourList AN EEA / EFTA-BASED TRANSITION DEAL COULD UNITE THE LABOUR MOVEMENT AROUND A BREXIT THAT COMBINES MAXIMUM ACCESS TO THE SINGLE MARKET WITH PROGRESSIVE REFORM OF FREE MOVEMENT On Sunday Keir Starmer used an article in The Observer to call time on the ambiguity that had come to define Labour’s approach…

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Aberavon MP calls on Minister to reconsider decision that has left locals feeling ‘second class’

25 Aug 2017

Stephen Kinnock has written to Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling MP, to highlight the local anger and frustration felt over the decision to abandon plans to electrify the Great Western Main Line between Cardiff and Swansea. Local residents have been expressing their disappointment to the local MP about the Government’s decision…

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Tata Steel Pensions

11 Aug 2017

Aberavon MP calls on trustees to provide BSPS members with all required information, welcomes potential end to uncertainty and hails commitment of workforce to standing up for the steel industry, but it is about time we saw similar commitment from the government Commenting on the news that Tata Steel UK,…

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Kinnock Invites Minister To Port Talbot To Meet Residents Over Proposed Prison Plans

10 Aug 2017

Aberavon MP, Stephen Kinnock, has invited Sam Gyimah to Port Talbot to meet residents at a public meeting to discuss the proposals for a prison in Port Talbot. The public meeting will take place on Wednesday 20 September at 7pm in the Aberavon Beach Hotel. In his letter to the Minister Mr Kinnock…

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Britain can use EEA as comfortable waiting room before Brexit

31 Jul 2017

Financial Times The debate about what sort of Brexit the government should be seeking to secure has generated a tremendous amount of heat but not a great deal of light. Hard, soft, car crash, red white and blue — you name it, the list of random adjectives used to describe…

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Tory broken promises on rail electrification show they don’t care about Wales

20 Jul 2017

Responding to the shock announcement today that the electrification of the Great Western Main Line will not extend beyond Cardiff, Stephen Kinnock, Member of Parliament for Aberavon, said: “For years now the Tory government in Westminster has been promising that it will deliver full mainline rail electrification from Paddington to…

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A Song For Jo

17 Jul 2017

Jo Cox: More In Common, Book Review There’s a scene in Brendan Cox’s book that will remain seared into my memory for as long as I live. It takes place the day after Jo was brutally murdered. Her husband Brendan is sitting with their two young children, Cuillin and Lejla,…

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Steel To Be Used In Type 26 Frigates

13 Jul 2017

Commenting on reports following the tabling of his Written Questionsregarding the steel to be used in Type-26 Frigates and announcements from BAE, Stephen Kinnock, Member of Parliament for Aberavon, home of the Port Talbot steelworks, said: “It is a disgrace that the majority of steel to be used in the Type-26…

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Stephen Kinnock meets with Prisons Minister to raise local community concerns, leaving Minister in no doubt about strength of local feeling

12 Jul 2017

Today (Wednesday 12 July) Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock met with the Prisons Minister, Sam Gyimah, and senior Ministry of Justice Officials to discuss the proposed prison in Baglan, leaving them in no doubt about the opposition and concerns of the local community. In what was a robust discussion, Kinnock repeatedly…

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