Constituency office Christmas closure
John Healey MP's Wath constituency office will be closed for Christmas from 22 December 2015 to 4 January 2016. The following information may be useful to you or people you [...]
John Healey MP's Wath constituency office will be closed for Christmas from 22 December 2015 to 4 January 2016. The following information may be useful to you or people you [...]
A government minister promised to do all she can to help South Yorkshire cope with steel job cuts during a meeting with Rotherham MPs. Wentworth & Dearne MP John Healey [...]
MP John Healey has slammed the government for not heeding warnings after a private company running probation services in South Yorkshire failed an audit. Sodexo runs South Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation [...]
MP John Healey has welcomed news that the steel industry will get help with energy costs sooner than the government had planned. The government has announced today that UK Energy [...]
A consolidated plan to secure a support package of around £9million for steelworkers and the wider community affected by Tata Steel’s recently-announced job restructuring is being put together by partners [...]
John Healey MP announced the winner of his annual Christmas card competition today. Every year his card – which is sent to hundreds of people – is designed by local [...]
AN MP has repeated his calls for support for South Yorkshire steel workers after Tata confirmed 720 jobs would go in Speciality Steels, most on the Rotherham site. John Healey [...]
John's letter on Syria to Cllr Alan Gosling, chair of Wentworth & Dearne Constituency Labour Party Dear Alan I wanted to write to you as chair of our Wentworth and [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning has released new analysis showing the Chancellor’s housing announcements are already starting to unravel. · An ‘increase’ in housing [...]
AN MP has warned Rotherham is being forgotten, despite being hit hard by the national steel crisis. And he has called on the government to immediately announce at least £7m [...]
MP John Healey has called on the government to give extensive support to Rotherham as confirmation is expected on Tata job losses. And he has demanded the Chancellor announce action [...]
MP John Healey has welcomed news that South Yorkshire Police has been awarded special grant funding of up to £5m. The Home Secretary has agreed to the payment because of [...]
TWO Dearne MPs are to meet the boss of a fracking company. John Healey, MP for Wentworth & Dearne, and Michael Dugher, MP for Barnsley East, have set up the [...]
THE regeneration of a former shopping centre in Rawmarsh will be back under way in the new year after a stalemate over mobile phone masts was broken. MP John Healey [...]
John Healey has hit out at the Tories and UKIP after they voted to cut tax credits yesterday (20 October). Labour had called a debate and put forward a motion [...]
Speaking after the national steel summit at the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham on Friday (October 16), John Healey, MP for Wentworth & Dearne – home of Tata’s Aldwarke steel [...]
A new hydroelectric power plant, the largest low-head river hydro plant ever to be built in Yorkshire and the largest plant commissioned in the UK in the last three years, [...]
Councillor Simon Evans of Rawmarsh Ward and local MP John Healey have launched a campaign for three mobile phone masts to be removed from the old Bellows Road shopping centre [...]
JOHN Healey MP has inspected a new £2.1m hydropower project at Thrybergh. It is the first project of its kind in Yorkshire and is set to start generating renewable electricity [...]
MP John Healey is to meet business minister Anna Soubry to put forward the case for steelmaking. On the day Tata announced hundreds of job losses in Rotherham, Mr Healey [...]
A TELECOMS company exposed in the Commons by John Healey MP as “shameful” has been fined £200,000 and told to change its behaviour. Ofcom’s investigation found Unicom breached industry rules [...]
LOCAL MP John Healey has raised concerns about delays in the rollout of fast broadband with the chief executive of BT. He took the move after discovering the upgrade of [...]
After failing to give people any detail before the election about where the deep cuts to vital benefits were coming from, the new Conservative government are now determined to take [...]
MP John Healey is supporting calls for a review into the block on gay men giving blood. The campaign is being led by Freedom to Donate, which wants a review [...]
Reacting to today’s announcement from Tata Steel that the company plans to cut 720 jobs in Specialty Steels, most on the Rotherham site, local MP John Healey said: "This is [...]
John Healey has announced he is running for Labour’s new Deputy Leader. The Wentworth & Dearne MP described himself as a ‘unifier’ and, as a Yorkshireman, promised to champion the [...]
This critical period we have to choose the next person to lead our party into government in 2020 is being dogged by the question we should have dealt with decisively [...]
The results of the election for a Member of Parliament for Wentworth and Dearne on Thursday 7 May are as follows: Name of Candidate Description (if any) Number of Votes* [...]
We’ve all been shocked to see the Tories emerge from the Election with an outright majority, and rightly fearful of what unfettered Tory government will mean to many of the [...]
A LOCAL MP has asked for a meeting with Tata Steel’s chairman and called on him to rethink plans to close the British Steel Pension Scheme. John Healey is a [...]
MP John Healey has backed a new initiative to help young unemployed people in the Dearne get experience in the workplace. The Our Community programme is being run in partnership [...]
CAMPAIGNING MP John Healey is keeping up the fight against rip-off Government phone lines, after learning some are still in use more than a year after they were banned. His [...]
New rights for parents will soon be in force thanks to a campaign for a law change that started in Rotherham. The Children and Families Act, which gained Royal Assent [...]
John's Budget speech It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr Hoban) in his last speech to the House. Like you, Madam Deputy Speaker, I faced [...]
John welcomes police inquiry MP John Healey has welcomed moves by South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner to launch a full-scale inspection into South Yorkshire Police, just as Rotherham council [...]
John assured £750k improvement cash to come to Rotherham John Healey MP has been assured that £750,000 will now come to Rotherham to help make essential improvements following the Jay [...]
Rotherham young people put off university by £9,000 fees New analysis of data recently published by the Department for Education shows that the number of school leavers from Rotherham going [...]
MPs back bids for CSE funding BIDS for Government funding to help child abuse survivors in Rotherham have received widespread support. The Government has made nearly £5m available for organisations [...]
Rotherham Commissioners named The Communities Secretary has named the Commissioners who will take over the running of Rotherham Council. In a written statement laid before the House today (25 February), [...]
Government given OK to deny Yorkshire millions in Euro funding Supreme Court judges have today ruled, that whilst Government cuts to South Yorkshire’s European Funding are “unfair”, they are not [...]
John backs plan for new youth centre in Rotherham A GROUP running kids’ clubs is hoping to develop a new centre for young people in Rotherham. Pops Summer Camp have [...]
Police and council budget cuts 'reversing a decade of progress' In a debate in the House of Commons this week, local MP John Healey has challenged government ministers over cuts [...]
Workers claiming housing benefit doubles in Rotherham The number of working people relying on housing benefit has more than doubled in Rotherham since 2010. The 110% hike from 1,727 claimants [...]
John's plans part of Labour pledge for fairer deal for renters A PLAN to help renters put forward by MP John Healey has become a major Labour election pledge. Figures [...]
Joint statement from Rotherham MPs in response to Casey review In a joint statement, John Healey, Kevin Barron and Sarah Champion said: "Today's report on Rotherham Council makes damning reading. [...]
Statement on the release of Casey review into Rotherham Council Speaking in the House of Commons on the publication of the Casey Report of Inspection of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, [...]
John welcomes hospital improvements THE way Rotherham hospital is run has improved, according to health regulator Monitor. Monitor said strengthening the senior leadership and improving how the Board and its [...]
John calls for grandparent carers to be given more support John has called for grandparent carers to be given the same recognition and support as foster carers and people who [...]
John calls for Government help for steel MP John Healey has called on the Government to do more to help the South Yorkshire steel industry. He was speaking during a [...]
Increase in waiting times at Rotherham A&E THERE has been a sharp increase in the number of Rotherham patients having to wait for more than four hours to be seen [...]