How to get help over Christmas
John Healey MPs office will close at 5pm on Thursday December 22 and reopen at 9am Tuesday 3 January 2017. During this time, the following information may be helpful. Hot meals [...]
John Healey MPs office will close at 5pm on Thursday December 22 and reopen at 9am Tuesday 3 January 2017. During this time, the following information may be helpful. Hot meals [...]
Rotherham MPs have slammed HS2 bosses for the location of the Bramley consultation event – because it’s in Thurcroft. The Government has recently announced a consultation until March on the [...]
John Healey MP visited Manvers Delivery Office to thank local postmen and women for their hard work during Royal Mail's busiest period. He saw first-hand the operation of delivering Christmas [...]
The Chancellor Philip Hammond made a special announcement in the Autumn Statement, granting £7.6 million to help rescue and restore Wentworth Woodhouse. The news gives the full go-ahead to plans [...]
Consultations on the latest HS2 route are now open, and will continue until March 2017. Please use the links below to submit your views. HS2 Crewe to Manchester, West [...]
A home of our own has been part of the British dream for decades. Now this hope in life is being dashed, as buying a house becomes totally out of [...]
John Healey has vowed to keep pushing for an HS2 station at Meadowhall, despite the Government’s backing of a spur line to Sheffield station. Responding to the news, he said: [...]
John Healey paid tribute to British boozers as part of British Pub Week celebrations. He attended an event at the Red Lion pub in Westminster, along with other MPs, peers, [...]
South Yorkshire MPs have urged the Transport Secretary to rethink the HS2 route, in a meeting this week. John Healey and Ed Miliband pressed Chris Grayling for a comprehensive consultation [...]
The Brexit vote means that trade is now a top priority for the UK for the first time in decades, but markets have reacted badly over the past fortnight as [...]
Housing Minister, Gavin Barwell, has been accused of blocking a housebuilding initiative by Bradford Council as a ‘favour’ to a local Tory MP, who complained about the plan. In a [...]
Local leaders must prioritise housing to make devolution deals a success, according to John Healey. The former housing minister voiced his concerns that housing was ‘conspicuous by its absence’ in [...]
Chris Grayling has confirmed to John Healey that he will consider the case for an HS2 Parkway station in South Yorkshire, if the new route proposed by HS2 goes ahead. [...]
John Healey has hit out at Concentrix – a firm tasked by Government with tackling tax credit fraud – after it was revealed last week that their contract would not [...]
Whether Owen Smith or Jeremy Corbyn is elected in two weeks’ time, the new Labour leader must make turning around our Party’s lack of public appeal his first priority. Few [...]
While Westminster has been preoccupied with the political consequences of the historic Brexit vote, what really matters is the policy response, and in particular how government chooses to deal with [...]
John has expressed his dismay to the new Transport Secretary over abandoned plans for an HS2 station at Meadowhall in favour of a spur line to Sheffield. Here is the [...]
John wrote an article today in The Times on Labour's electoral challenge: The biggest political event for Labour last year was not Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in the leadership election [...]
John has called on the new government to protect supported housing from devastating housing benefit cuts. On Tuesday 19 July, John and his colleague Jess Phillips wrote to the newly [...]
John commissioned brand new figures from the independent House of Commons Library which reveal for the first time David Cameron’s housing legacy – showing that under the recently departed Prime [...]
Last Tuesday (July 18), John launched a new report in Parliament and called for a new ‘progressive devolution’ drive on housing and planning to help give more disadvantaged areas fresh [...]
John accused Sajid Javid of abandoning his pledge for Government support as Tata prepares to sell off its South Yorkshire plants. On Friday the company stated that it would go [...]
Reacting to the news that Tata Steel plans to go ahead with the sale of its speciality steel operations separate from other parts of the business, John Healey said: “Tata’s [...]
Following a meeting with Jeremy Corbyn on 27 June, John made the decision to resign as Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning. Here, you can read the letter [...]
In a historic move, the UK voted to leave the European Union by a slim majority of 52 to 48%. Responding to the outcome, John said: "I campaigned hard, alongside [...]
On 17 June John visited the High Street Centre in Rawmarsh to mark its relaunch. Due to the success of the local project it is now expanding its services and is [...]
On the 16th of June Jo Cox was killed in her constituency of Batley and Spen. It was a deeply shocking and desperately sad moment. In the wake of the terrible news, [...]
John met Barnsley guide dog owner Steve Waller, and his dog Evie, in the Houses of Parliament to discuss the shocking discrimination faced by those who use service dogs. According [...]
Two Rotherham homeless charities may have to close their doors, forcing around 110 vulnerable people back onto the streets, if the Government’s crude cuts to housing benefit are implemented. Housing [...]
Local MPs made the case for EU membership, as the Labour Party launched its campaign to remain part of Europe in Rotherham town centre. John was joined by Rother Valley MP [...]
Labour did well in May's all-out local elections, retaining 48 seats and a substantial majority. John hailed the results, saying afterwards: “It has been a tough fight for Labour in Rotherham [...]
Over 100 Dearne Valley students grilled John on a range of political issues from the NHS to Isis as he took questions from young people during a visit to the local [...]
Following the announcement that Yorkshire Bank plans to close 9 branches in Yorkshire, John urged the CEO to reconsider shutting the Parkgate, Rotherham branch. In a letter to David Duffy, [...]
In April the Government’s Housing Bill suffered a number of big defeats in the House of Lords. Most notably, controversial plans to force local authorities to give the proceeds of council [...]
John confronts the Business Secretary over shocking new analysis of the financial impact the loss of Tata steel would have. In a letter to the Business Secretary, he urged Mr Javid [...]
John responds to an announcement from steel firm Tata. Speaking to Radio Sheffield, he called on the Business Secretary, Sajid Javid, who is currently in Australia, and the Prime Minister to [...]
In the aftermath of George Osborne's most unpopular Budget to date, which prompted the resignation the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, John criticised the Government in a speech in the [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning, commenting on new house-building data for the fourth quarter of 2015, said: “After five years of failure on [...]
The Chancellor’s silence on housing in the Budget was a “huge let-down,” after “five years of failure,” John said. With homelessness on the rise and a generation of young people [...]
Barnsley's MPs have hit out at the Government for imposing a new contract on junior doctors. A 48-hour strike is due to start at 8am on Wednesday 9 March. MPs John Healey [...]
To mark International Women’s Day, Labour MP John Healey invited two teenagers from Rotherham to spend the day in Westminster today (8 March). The young women were Emily Walker and [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning, responding to reports that the Government is considering softening their ‘pay to stay’ measures, said: “The Government‘s tenant [...]
Wentworth & Dearne MP John Healey has joined with the British Beer & Pub Association, the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) by sending [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, commenting on today’s government statement announcing that Ministers are delaying a cut to housing benefit which Labour has warned will [...]
AN influential Parliamentary group that stands up for steel has called on the Chancellor to press China to stop steel-dumping. MP John Healey is a member of the All Party [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning, commenting on new house-building data for the fourth quarter of 2015, said: “After five years of failure on [...]
John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Planning commenting on new rough sleeping statistics released today, said: “These figures are the starkest possible reminder of Conservative [...]
Following the verdict today (24 February 2016) that four men and two women have been convicted of child sex abuse offences, John Healey MP said: “It has taken 18 months [...]
MPs from across South Yorkshire today (24 February) demanded that Government ministers explain how moving hundreds of jobs from Sheffield to London will save money. Kevin Barron MP led a Westminster [...]
ROTHERHAM’S MPs have hit out at the Government after they confirmed today that the town’s court will close. It follows a consultation on the provision of court and tribunal facilities [...]
MP John Healey has welcomed confirmation that nearly £2m of Government funding will be made available to support those affected by Tata Steel job cuts. The Department for Business, Innovation [...]
John Healey MP is recruiting a Communications and Research Officer for a period of maternity cover in his constituency office. Location: Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham Salary: £20,000-£30,000, in line with IPSA pay [...]