How to get help over Christmas
John Healey MP’s office will close on Thursday December 21 and reopen on Wednesday 3 January 2018. During this time, the following information may be helpful. Hot meals and food [...]
John Healey MP’s office will close on Thursday December 21 and reopen on Wednesday 3 January 2018. During this time, the following information may be helpful. Hot meals and food [...]
Rotherham MPs have called on the Government to give the council the funding it needs and halt drastic cuts to local services. It follows a recent meeting with Rotherham’s chief [...]
John has announced the winner of his annual Christmas card competition. Every year his card – which is sent to hundreds of people – is designed by local schoolchildren. This Christmas [...]
MP John Healey has criticised a Government move that he warned could put post offices at risk. Local pensioners who have their pension paid into a Post Office Card Account [...]
YOUNG people in Rotherham at risk of homelessness now have access to accommodation and support with the opening of a new project. Local MP John Healey, Shadow Secretary of State [...]
John has a vacancy for a Parliamentary Assistant, in his Westminster office. For full details and how to apply, click below: Parliamentary Assistant job details The closing date for applications [...]
Labour will lead a debate on government funding changes which are set to close supported housing schemes. Such schemes help thousands of vulnerable people including the homeless, elderly people, veterans [...]
The Labour Party's June 2017 Election result was remarkable - 40% of the national vote and a gain of 30 MPs. Labour and Jeremy Corbyn confounded the predictions of commentators, [...]
MP John Healey has relaunched his campaign against rip-off benefit helpline numbers, after it emerged the poorest people are still facing high phone charges. At yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour [...]
South Yorkshire steel MP John Healey has backed calls for the government to support the steel industry. UK Steel, which represents the steel industry, has called on the Chancellor to [...]
John's response to the six independent reports published by Rotherham Council. “I’ve now had the chance to read the six independent reports published on Wednesday afternoon (6 September). “It’s nearly [...]
Dearne MP John Healey has backed Yorkshire Water’s ‘Be a binner’ campaign asking residents in its top 10 sewage blockage hotspots to bin wet wipes and sanitary items, not flush [...]
Work has started on 10 new affordable homes in Goldthorpe, after a £1m investment from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. Two derelict properties will be demolished and replaced with two-bedroom homes, [...]
I am bitterly disappointed but not surprised by the Government’s HS2 announcement. Ministers have rejected the very strong case against this new route which as MPs we’ve worked with local [...]
AN MP has made a last ditch attempt to persuade the Government to back the original HS2 route via Meadowhall. Based on the original timetable, the Transport Secretary is expected [...]
THE decision to close Goldthorpe job centre has been branded disgraceful by the local MP. The Government made the announcement yesterday (5 July) after initial proposals in January. Wentworth & [...]
This is a tragedy that should never have happened and has shocked the whole country. Our first priority must be to ensure those who are affected by the fire are [...]
AROUND 50 people attended a coffee and cake morning in Wath today (16 June) aimed at bringing people together and tackling loneliness. The event, on the anniversary of the murder [...]
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John has published a report showing how Labour councils across the country are demonstrating Labour priorities to meet housing need, support mixed communities and give working people the chance to fulfil [...]
Prime Minister Theresa May has called a snap election for June 8. John Healey MP said: “Theresa May spent nine months saying she wouldn’t call a snap election, and she’s broken [...]
John Healey MP's survey of schools in Rotherham and Barnsley has revealed none expects to have enough government funding by 2020 and all are making cutbacks. John asked schools in the [...]
John has called for a meeting with the head of the NHS over its refusal to fund a prosthetic arm. The MP has been fighting on behalf of Adrian Barrass, of Swinton, [...]
AN MP has hit out at bank bosses for going ahead with closing their branches in Wath. In January, both HSBC and Yorkshire Bank announced they planned to shut – [...]
The future of Wentworth Woodhouse - England's largest privately owned home - has been safeguarded. The Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust has now bought the house for £7m. As well as [...]
In a joint submission to the Government, MPs from Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield have made clear their opposition to the new HS2 route proposed in Summer 2016. Ed Miliband, [...]
Dearne MP John Healey urged a government minister to rethink plans to shut Goldthorpe job centre at a meeting on Monday (6 March). Mr Healey called the meeting with employment [...]
New barriers have been installed at a retail park after an MP intervened to stop nuisance ‘boy racers.’ Residents living near Cortonwood Retail Park near Brampton Bierlow reported nightly meetings [...]
John Healey has called on the government to pledge support for the steel industry in the Budget on 8 March. Earlier this month the Wentworth & Dearne MP, whose constituency [...]
John Healey MP has criticised plans to close a job centre in an area where the rate of disability is three times the national average and unemployment is double. The government [...]
Tata Steel has announced it has signed an agreement to sell its South Yorkshire specialty steels operation to Liberty House Group. John, who is the MP for Aldwarke, home of [...]
More than 1,100 people have signed a petition to keep Wath’s banks open. MP John Healey started the petition two weeks ago, as soon as HSBC and Yorkshire Bank announced [...]
The government has announced plans to close 78 jobcentres, including Goldthorpe in Rotherham. John Healey, MP for Goldthorpe, said: “The Goldthorpe job centre provides vital local job search help and [...]
John has reacted strongly to announcements from Yorkshire Bank and HSBC that they intend to close their Wath-upon-Dearne branches. This will leave Wath without a bank. He said: “I am [...]
£2.3bn a year – around £1 in every £10 spent on housing benefit – is going to private landlords renting out sub-standard homes. The figures, drawn from the official English [...]
Steel 2020 report calls for a ‘clear vision’ and ‘national strategy’ to save industry and secure future prosperity Seven areas of reform identified to address crisis and make industry competitive [...]
TWO Rotherham MPs have accused the Transport Secretary of stretching the truth about visiting South Yorkshire and listening to concerns about HS2. A Freedom of Information (FoI) Act request by [...]
John Healey is backing a Bill aimed at increasing organ donation. The MP for Wentworth and Dearne has been registered as an organ and tissue donor since 2001. The Organ [...]
John Healey visited Dearne Valley College to take part in a Q&A session. The students, all studying public services, asked questions touching on unemployment and disability benefits, education fees, the cost [...]
Hard-working commuters are now paying on average 27 per cent more for their train fares under the Tories, because of yet another year of rail fare hikes that came into [...]