A shopping trip with a difference!

Two South Birmingham veterans took centre stage today to help two Billesley students get a taste of what it was like to shop and eat in war time Britain. The... more...

Celebrating National Childcare Week at local nursery

I was really pleased to visit local playgroup, Treetops Nursery in Billesley recently, to celebrate National Childcare week. In its 12th year, Childcare Week is run by the Daycare Trust... more...

Bells Farm School Crossing

Cllr Mike Leddy (Labour, Brandwood) and I swapped our offices and suits to be lollypop men for a day as part of our campaign for a school crossing at... more...

I agree with Steve McCabe - Virgin Media should drop the £1.25 charge for paper bills which penalises all those without a computer - including many of our pensioners.	Yes
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This Week's News From Westminster 15th May 2009

National Minimum Wage rise to help a million low-paid workers It is hard to believe it’s been ten years since Labour introduced the national minimum wage here in the UK... more...

How can I help as your MP?

In the last general election in May 2005 I was honoured to be re-elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Birmingham Hall Green, and to take a seat in the House of Commons as one of approximately 650 MPs. This page details information on what I can, and cannot, do for you as your MP. This information is taken from the House of Commons Information Office Factsheet ‘M1’, which you can download here in full in Adobe Acrobat format. My Role as an MP Since election my job has been to represent my constituents in Parliament. This... more...

About Birmingham Hall Green Constituency

Hall Green is one of ten constituencies in Britain’s second city, Birmingham. The city was previously a world renowned manufacturing centre, and has continued to grow as a major centre of commerce, financial services and business in recent years, as well as being one of Europe’s top cultural destinations. Birmingham Hall Green is for the most part a leafy suburban seat on the southern side of the city. It is comprised of the wards of Brandwood, Billesley, and Hall Green. The constituency is mainly residential in make up and includes a wide variety of households in a mixture of owner-occupied,... more...

Steve McCabe Government Whip, 2007-present Assistant Government Whip 2006-2007 Home Affairs Select Committee, 2005-2006 Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary, 2004-2005 Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Education Secretary, 2004 Joint Committee on House of Lords Reform, 2003-2005 Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee, 1998-2003 Deregulation Select Committee, 1997-99 Steve was born in Port Glasgow, a great shipbuilding town on the River Clyde in Scotland. From studying Social Work in Scotland and Bradford in the 1970s and 1980s, Steve worked with young offenders, in child protection, and lecturing in social work at North East Worcestershire College in the late 1980s. After working in Social Services in the area for three years, in 1990 Steve was elected to Birmingham City Council. He was soon made chairman of the transport committee and won an award in 1994 for his committee’s new approach to transport management. He secured the first registration of an urban "village green". Steve has been Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hall Green since the 1997 election, when he won with a majority of 8,420. The defeat of the Tories in 1997 marked a turning point for the country and for Hall Green itself, where the benefits of the last...

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