Introduction

About Brian

Born in 1942, Brian is Chairman of BCC Marketing Services. Brian created BCC Marketing in 1988 to offer a database building service to the direct marketing industry, and it has prospered since that time, now employing some 130 people and turning over approximately £2.2 million.

Brian has lived with his wife Jacquie and their son Matthew, aged 25 in the Northampton South constituency for 24 years. He was born and bred in the county, and together with his other son James, aged 40 still actively manages BCC Marketing which is based in Wellingborough as non-executive Chairman.

In 1993, he co-founded Beechwood House Publishing Company Ltd with an ambitious and bright young South African, Walter Brinzer, to produce and publish directories. That company also prospered and two of its products Binley's Directory of National Health Service Management and Binley's Directory of Local Government Management quickly became market leaders. Some years later Brian was proud to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts for their contribution to the nation's wellbeing. Beechwood House, which now employs some 115 people and turns over approximately £6 million, was sold to the Wilmington Publishing Group at the end of 2000.

Brian is an avid fan and a shareholder of Northampton Town FC, a member of the County Cricket Club and a regular playing member of the Collingtree Golf Club. Brian is also a Freemason, and in particular is proud of its charitable work and its role in providing support and funding to local charitable and community projects.

Brian's Experience

In 1997, Brian was elected to serve the Hackleton electoral division as a councillor on Northamptonshire County Council and was quickly appointed to act as the Conservative Party's Finance Spokesman on that body. In 2000, Brian was appointed Chairman of the council's Finance and Resources Scrutiny Committee. Brian then held the Finance portfolio on Northamptonshire County Council from 2005 to 2007.

Brian joined the Party as a Young Conservative when he was 17. He subsequently became a qualified Conservative Agent in 1966, working firstly for the Central Office as Young Conservative Organiser for the West Country thereafter transferring to the Kidderminster Conservative Association some three years later as Agent, a position he held until 1977.

He was elected as Member of Parliament in May 2005.

Brian believes that the present Labour Government sees the business sector simply as a milch cow, using it to provide the necessary funds to throw at problems they seem unable to deal with in any other way. He says the professionals in our national and local services are crying out to be free to use their skills, to allow them to create innovative and imaginative solutions to the problems that beset the services they work in. He thinks they recognise the need to make those services more customer conscious and money careful, but they are restricted by the heavy hand of bureaucracy.

Brian argues that throwing money at those problems without creating the necessary cultural change will simply soak up the resources the private sector needs to invest in our nation's future well-being â€" without producing more effective and efficient service for the citizens of Britain.

In November 2006 Brian was delighted to be asked by the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reforms, Alan Duncan, to Chair the Conservative Parliamentary Enterprise Group, which helps to coordinate business policy and enjoys the backing of more than 145 MPs and Peers and he was re-elected in March 2009.

Brian was also appointed to serve on the Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Select Committee, which well positions me to discuss issues that affect enterprise and business growth in this country.

Brian established and chaired a Commission into the decline of the High Street which was published in July 2008. Thereafter, Brian was attached to the Conservative Front Bench Team to act as an advisor on small business.

Brian was elected to the Executive of the 1922 Committee in October 2006 and has been regularly re-elected.

Finally, Brian was elected Treasurer of the Association of Conservative Clubs' in June 2008. Web Links success.tv

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