Brooks Newmark |

Brooks is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Politics & International Relations at Oxford University, writing a book on Bashar Assad. He has also chaired a report on Homelessness in the UK with Crisis and the Centre for Social Justice (published in March 2017 - download here).

Brooks was the Member of Parliament for Braintree (2005-15). He served in the Coalition Government as Minister for Civil Society, with responsibility for charities, the voluntary sector and youth (2014) having previously served on the Treasury Select Committee (2012-14 and 2006-7) and as a Government Whip and Lord Commissioner HM Treasury (2010-12). In Opposition Brooks also served as a Whip (2007-10).

Download the Centre for Social Justice Report on addressing the blight of homelessness: "Housing First - Housing Led Solutions to Rough Sleeping and Homelessness" by clicking on the image below.

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Speeches and Articles

Hawking myths about the NHS

Science is about evidence. Politics rarely is. As Stephen Hawking observed recently, politicians will sometimes cherry-pick evidence to justify policy. Yet in choosing to politicise his arguments, Professor Hawking falls into the same trap as the very politicians he accuses of being economical with the truth, by peddling several myths about the state and direction of the NHS under the current Government, when the evidence shows quite the opposite.

21st August 2017

Cutting Through The Hyperbole On Trump’s Executive Order On Immigration

In the aftermath of President Trump’s Executive Order restricting any form of Immigration from seven targeted mainly Muslim countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen), the fractures that were in America over Trump’s election have gone truly global.

6th February 2017

May must grasp this opportunity to end the scourge of homelessness

Homelessness remains a blight on our society. The figures released by the Government recently make for grim reading. In England, rough sleeping on our streets went up 16 per cent over the past year to 4,134. I suspect the figures are much higher in reality.

3rd February 2017

The Private Member’s Bill that could drastically reduce homelessness

Since leaving Parliament in 2015 I decided to focus on tackling homelessness. To this end I am chairing a working group of sector experts at the Centre for Social Justice. We will produce a report early next year which seeks to provide a set of policy recommendations to better prevent and tackle homelessness.

26th October 2016

Until a no-fly zone is enforced in Syria, the bloody slaughter of innocents will stretch on and on

Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are pursuing a scorched earth policy in Aleppo and trying to bomb the population into submission. Boris Johnson is right to call for an investigation into war crimes following the recent bombing of a humanitarian aid convoy.

28th September 2016

Brooks Newmark leads debate on homelessness

Brooks Newmark leads a Parliamentary debate on homelessness and the charity Crisis’s report: “The homelessness monitor”.

25th March 2015

CSJ Homelessness Report

Download the Centre for Social Justice Report on addressing the blight of homelessness: "Housing First - Housing Led Solutions to Rough Sleeping and Homelessness" by clicking on the image below.