Vernon Coaker MP

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Welcome

Welcome to the official website of Vernon Coaker, the Member of Parliament for Gedling in Nottinghamshire since 1997.  The constituency includes Arnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick, Daybrook, Gedling, Mapperley, Netherfield, Stoke Bardolph and Woodthorpe. Vernon is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Local News

• Disabled man's day care costs risen from £12 to £207 a week

  May 15, 2012. The following article is taken from today's Nottingham Post, which you can read on their website here: A DISABLED man might...

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• Arnold Stall

  

  April 12, 2012. Vernon and the local Labour group were out in Arnold on Saturday for their regular stall, keeping in touch with the local...

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• Vernon backs Victim Support's Calls For Rethink

  May 11, 2012. Local MP Vernon Coaker is lending support to a campaign to ensure victims and witnesses of crime are not made...

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• Notts Chamber of Commerce Breakfast

  

  May 11, 2012. Vernon attended a breakfast meeting held by the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce at Woodborough Hall this morning....

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• Vernon Supports Police Demonstration in London

  

  May 10, 2012. Vernon was proud to be marching alongside police officers from Nottinghamshire yesterday, in a demonstration against Government-imposed changes to their...

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• Gedling Mayoral Ceremony

  

  May 9, 2012. Gedling has a new mayor after the borough council elected Councillor Sandra Barnes to the office of Mayor on Wednesday...

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Vernon in the News

• Nottingham Post: Top marks for students' £10,000 charity effort

  Top marks for students' £10,000 charity effort Tuesday, May 08, 2012 STUDENTS at a school in Gedling have raised £10,000 for charity so far this year...

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• PoliticsHome: The varied life of Vernon Coaker

  Labour MP Vernon Coaker gets around. A fan of Twitter, his 4,000 followers are given regular photo updates of what he has been up to, and this truly has been...

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• BBC: Pensioners 'lose out' in budget says Coaker

  Pensioners 'lose out' in budget says Coaker A third of a pensioners in Northern Ireland stand to lose financially following the budget, the shadow secretary of state has said.Continue reading...

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Northern Ireland News

• Owen Paterson's made-up job figures don't add up to much for Northern Ireland

  May 18, 2012. Labour's Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary, Vernon Coaker MP, responding to the Secretary of State's claim in the House of Commons on Wednesday that "57,000 more...

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• Nothing for Northern Ireland in Queen’s Speech

  May 9, 2012. Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Vernon Coaker MP, responding to the Queen’s Speech, said: “There is nothing in...

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• BBC News: Vernon Coaker says NIO should be retained

  BBC News: Vernon Coaker says NIO should be retained Vernon Coaker said the role of secretary of state should remain a full-time post, despite...

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