Wentworth and Dearne MP, John Healey, was at Tesco in Wath to encourage customers to put an extra item in their trolley to donate to Rotherham Foodbank this Christmas. It’s [...]
John Healey has said that Labour will stop the decline of the great British high street and bring much needed banking services back to communities. Labour has announced it will [...]
Rawmarsh student, Curtis Yip, had the opportunity of a lifetime as he spoke in the House of Commons during a recent UK Youth Parliament debate. The 18-year-old was at the [...]
Since the brutal acts of terror committed by Hamas, which killed 1,200 innocent civilians in Israel including young children, we’ve all seen the deepening humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. The [...]
John Healey MP with Usdaw representative and Wath-upon-Dearne Tesco worker Janine Bowler Wentworth and Dearne MP, John Healey, says shopworkers across the borough are having to deal with [...]
Local Labour representatives have again called on the government to lift the Planning blight still hanging over our communities – after the government’s decision to scrap the scheme north of [...]
MP John Healey has dedicated a cross in Parliament’s Remembrance Garden to the 39 Old Wathonians who were lost in World War II. The Wentworth and Dearne MP made the [...]
John Healey MP has supported a Rotherham charity’s movement that is helping victims of human trafficking. The Wentworth and Dearne MP was the host sponsor for Churches Against Trafficking, an [...]
John Healey has written to the Immigration Minister asking him to end the Home Office’s contract with the Holiday Inn Express at Manvers for housing asylum seekers as one of [...]
The Labour Party has pledged a bright future for UK steel, with its plan to make the UK a world leader in clean green steel with a long-term programme of [...]
Rotherham’s Start a Heart 24:7 is backing John Healey’s campaign to put a stop to VAT being charged on the sale of defibrillators. The Wentworth and Dearne MP launched the [...]
Wentworth and Dearne MP John Healey called in to Unity Gym in Rawmarsh to look at the work the boxing club is doing to support young people’s mental health. Today [...]
Wentworth and Dearne MP, John Healey, arranged for two Wath schools to be visited by a senior member from the Department for Education to look at the work they do [...]
LINK, the UK’s Cash Access and ATM network, has announced that locals and businesses in Wath will soon find it easier to access banking services thanks to the addition of [...]
Station House Community Association in Thurnscoe has been awarded £20,000 from the People’s Postcode Lottery after attending John Healey’s funding workshop. The childcare centre, which is run by the Community [...]
489 people died in Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust last year while waiting for care on the NHS, as patients face record waiting times. Freedom of information requests have revealed [...]
John Healey MP has unveiled a new blue plaque to honour a steel pioneer, Charles James Stoddart, and celebrate 200 years of Parkgate. Charles was a former office boy at [...]
Wentworth and Dearne MP John Healey says there needs to be a “reset” in the relationship between parents and schools when it comes to uniform costs. It’s as the Labour [...]
John Healey has accused Rishi Sunak of leaving ‘families across Rotherham and Barnsley worse off’ as new analysis shows that monthly bills for the average household have soared by £350 [...]
John Healey MP has hit out at Government plans to “move the goalposts” on cancer waiting times as the wait for treatment goes on for patients across the borough. Data [...]
John with Fabrice Muamba John Healey MP met with ex-footballer Fabrice Muamba and TOBE-Heartsafe as they launched a new mission to provide cardiac screening, CPR training and defibrillators [...]
As young people across the borough break up for the summer John Healey MP has released data showing over ten thousand local children are stuck on mental health waiting lists. [...]
A new improved bus service is set to start in Ravenfield next week thanks to a campaign by John Healey MP. The no 3 bus route through Ravenfield to Bramley [...]
John Healey MP has written to both the Transport Secretary and the Managing Director of Northern Trains setting out his major concerns at plans to close local railway ticket offices. [...]
Wentworth village will have a full time bus timetable from this month (July) after MP John Healey led a successful community campaign to restore a daytime service between Monday to [...]
John Healey MP has welcomed much needed improvements to a well-used footpath into Cortonwood retail park. It tops off the MP’s two-year campaign to get the path upgraded. The local [...]
John Healey MP has revealed that the average local household is set to be put under more pressure than ever by the Conservative’s mismanagement of the economy. Latest figures show [...]
To mark Armed Forces Day on Saturday John Healey MP has paid tribute to almost 10,000 UK Armed Forces personnel recruited from Yorkshire since 2015. The Wentworth and Dearne MP [...]
John Healey MP and Jake Richards held a joint Veterans Voice event in Bramley. The Shadow Defence Secretary and Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Rother Valley listened to the concerns of [...]
I've launched a national campaign to put a stop to VAT being charged on the sale of defibrillators. At the moment local community groups, sports clubs and charities face a [...]
John Healey MP and local head teachers took the Schools Minister to task over the mental health problems affecting schools across the borough. The Wentworth and Dearne MP arranged the [...]
John with Harley Mission Rooms Trust Chair Cynthia Shaw Work has started on a new car park to help ease traffic in Harley. It’s after John Healey worked [...]
John Healey MP with shopworkers (from left to right) Sharron Wheat and Sundari Balakrishnan Wentworth and Dearne MP John Healey cut the ribbon to officially open the new [...]
Wentworth and Dearne MP John Healey accused the Government of failing local veterans with just 1.5% in Rotherham and 2% in Barnsley having received Government ID cards to help them [...]
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and John Healey has announced he’s set to take local headteachers to Westminster to meet the Schools Minister over the anxiety epidemic facing [...]
John Healey MP (right) with David Stockdale, British Healthcare Trades Association Chief Executive (left) and Martek Lifecare’s Rob Higgie (Centre) John Healey MP has launched a national campaign [...]
Wentworth and Dearne MP John Healey recently called in to Broad Horizons Day Care Centre in Wath as they prepared to celebrate the Coronation this weekend. He was there to [...]
John Healey MP has officially opened the brand new Sid Bailey care home in Brampton with Sid Bailey’s son and daughter, Brendan Bailey and Adele Riles. The 66 bed care [...]
John Healey MP has arranged for Rotherham’s own Chantry Brewery to supply a guest ale for visitors and MPs in Parliament. The brewery is supplying its Parkgate 200 beer to [...]
Over 25 thousand people locally are waiting over two weeks to see a GP. Latest NHS figures show 13,648 people across Rotherham and 12,051 in Barnsley have had to wait [...]
Two fifths of service personnel in South Yorkshire are living in the lowest grade of service accommodation, shocking figures have revealed. Ministry of Defence data uncovered by John Healey shows [...]
John Healey MP met with local small business owners recently to discuss how they are coping with the cost of living crisis. The visit was organised and attended by Paula [...]
John joined members of the Dearne Veterans Breakfast club to celebrate their first birthday. The group has been meeting at the Snap Tin in Goldthorpe for the past 12 months [...]
John Healey MP has helped a Rawmarsh community centre after it faced a hefty gas bill which could have forced it to close. The Drop-In Centre’s bill went up from [...]
A Rawmarsh post office is set to re-open in a new location after it was closed in January. John Healey has been working with the Post Office to find a [...]
John Healey MP has written to the Health Secretary calling on him to drop plans to end free prescriptions for people over 60. It follows a debate, attended by John, [...]
John Healey says over 60s across the borough are still facing worry and uncertainty over the future of free prescriptions. It follows a debate, attended by John, this week in [...]
John Healey MP has welcomed a debate on Government proposals to end free prescriptions for people over 60. Currently, prescriptions are free for people aged over 60 in England, but [...]
John Healey MP says the long awaited publication of the football white paper is welcome but has called on the government to put words into action. The government published its [...]
Building works on Rotherham Council’s £5.4 million scheme, Century II Business Centre, are heading towards completion. The new business centre based in Manvers will be Rotherham’s fifth dedicated business hub [...]
Wentworth and Dearne MP John Healey has met Volodymyr Zelensky during the President’s first visit to the UK since Russia’s invasion. The Shadow Secretary of State for Defence met the [...]
John Healey MP has set out plans to boost skills and drive economic growth across the borough as figures show a decade of decline in apprenticeships and training has left [...]
Shocking new figures show schools across the borough are being hit with an anxiety epidemic following the Covid-19 pandemic. In a new report, published today by John Healey MP, all [...]
John Healey MP has written to the government after it was revealed by a government minister that Wath and Dinnington’s bid for Levelling Up Fund (LUF) money was destined to [...]
John Healey MP has called on the government to stop the energy price cap from going up in April. Projections show that the cost of living crisis could worsen and [...]
Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey MP has held up a South Yorkshire steel manufacturer as a “British built success story” as the Challenger tanks they equip with tracks and [...]
John Healey is encouraging people to reach out for a cuppa and a catch up as part of Samaritans Brew Monday campaign. The third Monday in January is often referred [...]
A new energy saving care home in Brampton is a just a few months away from completion. Developers, LNT Care, have told John Healey MP that work on the former [...]
John Healey’s Office will be closed from 5pm on Wednesday 21st December 2022 until Wednesday 4th January 2023 During this time the following information may be helpful. Hot meals and [...]
John Healey MP has paid tribute to local businesses, libraries, charities and other venues that have opened their doors to help people keep warm across the borough this winter. Opticians, [...]
More than 1 in 5 service personnel in Yorkshire are living in the lowest grade of service accommodation, shocking figures have revealed. MoD data uncovered by Labour shows that 1,720 [...]
Care home staff in Bramley have told John that things have turned a corner after the difficulties they faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Silverwood Care Home is a purpose built [...]
John Healey made a special visit to Ravenfield Primary School recently. The Wentworth and Dearne MP announced the winner of his Christmas Card Competition for 2022 at a special assembly. [...]
John Healey MP has said that Labour is on the side of small businesses and supporting our high streets, while setting out Labour’s policies during the tenth anniversary of Small [...]
John Healey MP was invited to look at the refurbishment works which have transformed Winterwell Post Office on Melton High Street. New owners, Subhash and Mayur Khunti, took over the [...]
Representatives from two local businesses joined John Healey and Labour Leader Keir Starmer at a special reception in Westminster. Simon Lilley, Head of Finance at packaging company CEPAC, and Adam [...]
John Healey joined workers at Tesco in Wath-upon-Dearne as they came together to raise awareness of Usdaw’s Freedom from Fear campaign. The Union represents shopworkers and recently revealed in its [...]
Youngsters at Bramley Sunnyside Junior School told John Healey that they want to do more to help save energy and tackle climate change. The Wentworth and Dearne MP met with [...]
On this Remembrance Sunday, we pause to thank those like D-Day veteran Joe Cattini, who've served valiantly in our Armed Forces to defend our country. But above all, we remember [...]
Help 4 Homeless Veterans invited me to take a look at the work they do across South Yorkshire. The Charity is based on Regent Street South in Barnsley and offers [...]
John Healey has encouraged local residents in Rotherham and Barnsley to pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of UK Armed Forces this Remembrance Sunday. This week, communities across the [...]
John Healey MP is celebrating 20 years of the success of the Small Breweries Relief (SBR) which he brought in during the Labour Government in 2002. The SBR was introduced [...]
John Healey has called on the Health Secretary to drop plans to end free prescriptions for people over 60. Currently, prescriptions are free for people aged over 60 in England, [...]
John Healey has called on the Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, to help save Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) due to the crucial emergency services and national security functions based at the [...]
During my speech at Labour Party Conference, I made clear that as the Party of working people and trade unions, Labour knows defence spending can strengthen our economy and sovereignty. [...]
I am extremely disappointed to be told that the Home Office have extended the exclusive contract with the Holiday Inn at Manvers for another year, until October 2023. Once again, [...]
My thoughts, and those of everyone in our area, are with the Royal Family at this very sad time. This is the moment we knew must come but never wanted. [...]
New figures from NHS England show that 17% of people in South Yorkshire could not get an appointment to see or speak to a GP or nurse in June. Meanwhile, [...]
New analysis from the Labour Party has revealed that the amount of water leaked from the under-funded system in Yorkshire would supply 26 electric showers every day for every household. [...]
John Healey MP called in to Pop’s Outdoor Adventure Centre to see the work it’s been doing to help keep children across Rotherham fit and healthy during the summer holidays. [...]
Figures show that almost 42,000 people are living in fuel poverty across Rotherham and Barnsley. Statistics on the Government website show 20,889 households in Rotherham were classed as living in [...]
New Government figures have revealed that British Army recruits have dropped by 28% in Yorkshire and the Humber - as Conservatives push ahead with further cuts of 10,000 troops to [...]
John Healey has said that families across Rotherham and Barnsley would save £1,000 on energy bills this winter under Labour plans to address the Tory cost of living crisis. The [...]
The Earl of Strafford in Hooton Roberts has reopened following a £250,000 refurbishment. Joh Healey was invited for a tour of the pub, which is owned and operated by the [...]
Families across Rotherham and Barnsley are being let down by the government when it comes to dealing with the backlog of hundreds of thousands of passport applications. John Healey says [...]
John Healey and other coalfield Labour MPs this week won a breakthrough for ex-miners when the Treasury announced miners pension payments will rise by 11% instead of 4% this Autumn [...]
New figures from the NHS show that almost 40 000 people are stuck waiting for NHS treatment across Rotherham and Barnsley. At the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, following a [...]
Rotherham Council's bid for much-needed Levelling Up funds has been held back because the government website for applications has only just become available some six weeks after it was supposed [...]
John Healey called in to look at the hard work of horticultural students at St. Pius X Catholic High School in Wath. Pupils have been planting and growing vegetables and [...]
John Healey has helped secure a new water tap for Greasbrough Lane Cemetery in Rawmarsh after visitors contacted him about the long walk to get water for their loved one’s [...]
Clifton Medical Centre’s branch at Wickersley Health Centre will now stay open after GPs listened to local patients and residents in the area. The news comes after John Healey and [...]
John Healey invited local Rotherham, Rawmarsh and Parkgate Royal British Legion Chairman, Ron Moffatt MBE, to join him and Labour Leader Keir Starmer at a special reception to mark Armed [...]
John with the S62 Community Together group John Healey is celebrating the difference that local volunteers make by saying thank you to three local community groups. As part [...]
MP John Healey and local Labour councillors have pledged to help patients halt the closure of Wickersley Health Centre. They’ve launched a petition urging the GPs to think again and [...]
John Healey says latest figures showing food bank usage has risen by 42% across Rotherham in the last year shows the real impact of the cost of living crisis. While [...]
John Healey has slammed the Government for delaying much needed football governance reform. The Government has now confirmed that it supports the creation of an independent regulator for English football, [...]
John Healey says people feel ‘abandoned’ by the Government and left to fend for themselves in the cost of living crisis. Residents are talking to him about their struggle with [...]
John Healey is calling for a crack-down on anti-social behaviour which the MP says is making more and more people’s lives a misery. His call for action comes as new [...]
John is celebrating the first school road safety signs outside at Carrfield Primary and Goldthorpe Primary schools. It follows his community campaign with local parents, residents and schools for a [...]
I have been informed by the Home Office that they intend to take over our local Holiday Inn Express “on a temporary basis … to start using to accommodate asylum [...]