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Constituency Party Officers

• Chair: Clyde Millard (East Herts Rural Branch)

• Secretary: Les Baker (Royston Branch)

• Treasurer: Cllr. Gary Grindal (Letchworth Town Branch)

• Vice-chair: Claire Bell (East Herts Rural Branch)

• Vice-chair (membership): David Bell (East Herts Rural Branch)

• Euro-liaison: Robin King (Royston Branch)

• Press Officer: Les Baker (Royston Branch)

• TU Liaison Officer: Vaughan West (Royston Branch)

• Youth Officer: Ramesh Summan (Letchworth Town Branch)

There is more information here.

Branches

The CLP has four branches:

• Letchworth Town

• Baldock and District (includes Ashwell, Hinxworth, Weston and surrounding villages)

• Royston and District (includes Therfield, Barley, Reed, Barkway and surrounding villages)

• East Hertfordshire Rural (includes Buntingford, Anstey, the Pelhams, Great and Little Hormead, Puckeridge, Standon, Little Hadham, Thundridge, Cottered, the Mundens, Walkern, Benington, Watton-at-Stone, Bramfield, Tewin, Little Berkhampstead and Bayford)

Each branch elects its own officers and arranges its own meetings of members within the branch area.

There is more information on the constituency here.

Youth Officer announces
his plans

Ramesh Summan (pictured below) was elected to the post of youth officer in 2010. These are his plans.

Outline of the role. The post is established to co-ordinate work among young members. It fits clearly into the philosophy of the Party: 

"Young members are important to our Party for their hard work and to help shape our future plans" - Rt. Hon. Harriet Harman QC MP, deputy leader of the Labour Party.

Issues Affecting Youth:

• Tuition fees will rise to £9,000 a year at many universities, following a 40% cut in the higher education budget, which will also impact on services at universities.

• Education Maintenance Allowance is to be abolished. This was brought in by Labour to encourage 16-19 year olds to stay in full-time education by providing them with financial assistance.

• Youth unemployment stood at 951,000 in January 2011 - the second highest rate in Europe.

• Welfare reforms - the ConDem government is cutting get-back-to-work schemes for youth, such as the jobs future funds which helped create 100,000 jobs for 18-24 year olds.

What I intend to do in the role:

• Visits to schools, colleges and other areas where youth can be reached to increase membership.

• Increase communication with youth members.

• Start a youth newsletter for our constituency. This will target issues impacting on youth and local activism.

• Encourage youth to contribute to local policy and campaigning through meetings, constituency party meetings and door-to-door canvassing.

• Social events to increase awareness.

You can contact Ramesh at youth.officer@nehertslabour.org.uk.

1 February 2011

The Constituency Party

The Constituency Labour Party (CLP) holds regular meetings, which are open to all members, at which all or most of the time is devoted to discussion of political issues. There is often an external speaker.

The CLP is managed by a management committee, which consists of the secretary of each branch and three other delegates from each branch. 

The officers are elected at the Annual General Meeting of the CLP and are listed in the side panel.

The CLP selects the parliamentary candidate to stand for North East Hertfordshire. The final selection takes place at a hustings meeting on the basis of one member - one vote.

If you want to get in touch with the CLP, click on Contact Us for details of how to do so.

The CLP is also involved in campaigning for the County Council and District Council seats within its area. For more details about local government in North East Hertfordshire, click on Local Government.

Labour East

The CLP is in the Eastern Region. There is a Labour Party regional office (Labour East) in Harlow with a Regional Director. There is also a Regional Board, elected by CLPs. The area covered by the regional office co-incides with the Government's eastern planning and development region and with the European parliamentary constituency. The Eastern Region website is at www.easternlabour.org. For more information about the Labour MEP for the Eastern Region, click on Europe above.