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I have received a number of emails recently regarding the parties held at Downing Street. Thank you to everyone that has been in touch. I appreciate the strength of feeling [...]

John Healey MP says the Government could cut rising energy bills by taking up Labour’s fully-costed plans to help people struggling with energy prices. He’s urging Conservatives to set aside [...]

John Healey says cost of living is a bigger worry than Covid for many people, as they head back to work and school this week.   Families across the borough [...]

John Healey’s Office will be closed from 12pm on Wednesday 22nd December 2021 until Tuesday 4th January 2022 During this time the following information may be helpful. Hot meals and [...]

John Healey has backed the urgent NHS drive on ‘booster jabs’ and called for more volunteers, after helping out at local vaccination centres this week. The NHS is offering all [...]

Thank you to those who have contacted me with their views on the government’s latest COVID-19 regulations, which are set to be voted on in the Commons this afternoon (14th [...]

John Healey MP has slammed as ‘incompetent’ the Government’s failure to win US agreement to drop special trade tariffs on UK steel and aluminium. The International Trade Secretary, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, [...]

John Healey MP has warned UK steelmakers face an ‘unhappy new year’ without a deal on US steel tariffs in a letter to the Secretary of State for Trade, Anne-Marie [...]

Wentworth and Dearne MP, John Healey, has backed Primark’s plans to halve its carbon footprint and improve the lives of the people who make the company’s products. John recently visited [...]

MP John Healey (Wentworth and Dearne) has commented on today's Government announcement on rail plans for the North. “This is a massive let-down for the North. While many will feel [...]

MP John Healey joined staff and volunteers at the Barnardo’s shop in Parkgate last week (Thursday 11 November) to back their appeal for more volunteers to help in their local [...]

Analysis released by Labour MP John Healey, verified by the House of Commons Library, shows that both Barnsley and Rotherham have each lost over £3m in funding for local public [...]

John Healey MP (Wentworth and Dearne) has responded to the House of Commons Transport Committee report on smart motorways and has said: "This report adds to overwhelming evidence against so-called [...]

Raw sewage is being routinely pumped into rivers in Yorkshire by Yorkshire Water, local MP John Healey can reveal in new figures he’s released. In the last year, Yorkshire Water [...]

Responding to this week's Budget (Wednesday 27 October) and the announcements over Rotherham's and Barnsley's bids in the Levelling Up Fund, Wentworth and Dearne Labour MP John Healey has said: [...]

Reacting to the refinancing news from GFG Alliance, including £50m into Liberty UK with funds to restart the furnaces in Rotherham, local Labour MP John Healey said: “This is a [...]

After campaigning for better mental health support for children, John has welcomed a pledge to put counsellors in schools. The MP's survey of local schools in 2018 found nearly all [...]

A number of new, fully-costed policies were announced at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, including: Economy New ‘Office for Value for Money’ to check public money is spent wisely [...]

MP John Healey is hosting a training session for small businesses and charities with internet giant Google on 15 October. The online event will be an opportunity for small businesses [...]

John Healey MP, Bob Boyle and Cllr Emma Hoddinott at Silverwood Nature Reserve. Silverwood Nature Reserve is to be better protected from off-road vehicles after a successful campaign [...]

John is looking for a skilled communications officer who understands the Wentworth & Dearne constituency and has a keen interest in highlighting issues that matter to people living there. This [...]

The Government is planning to cut Universal Credit (UC) and Working Tax Credit (WTC) by £20 a week from October 6. Labour is forcing a vote in the House of [...]

John and volunteers have been out delivering his 2021 report to residents this summer. You can read the report here but there are different versions for each area. If you [...]

John is battling to overturn new Brexit rules that are stopping pigeon racing across the English Channel. He has been contacted by a local pigeon fanciers who say new rules [...]

John has won a reprieve for thousands of NHS dental patients after NHS England agreed to extend funding. In January, Wentworth & Dearne MP John Healey warned the Government and [...]

The Government has said it wants to restore the 20,000 police officers it cut from 2010 onwards. Over the last decade, South Yorkshire Police has lost 500 officers. This year [...]

Cllr Charlotte Johnson, Cllr May Noble, Dorothy Coates and John Healey MP at Straight Lane bridge in Goldthorpe A bridge that connects Goldthorpe village is set to reopen [...]

Thousands of people are set to lose their dentist, an MP has warned the government and NHS England. John Healey is urging Ministers and NHS England to continue funding that [...]

John Healey MP’s office will close on Tuesday 22 December 2020 and reopen on Monday 4 January 2021. During this time, the following information may be helpful. Hot meals and [...]

Earlier this week, the Government confirmed the current national lockdown in England would come to an end next week and that the country would move back to a system of [...]

MP John Healey has urged the Government not to scrap a tax break for small breweries that he brought in. He recently visited Chantry Brewery in Parkgate, who have warned [...]

John at High Street Chippy in Wath before the pandemic MP John Healey is calling for Barnsley and Rotherham councils to be allowed to keep almost £7m to [...]

MP John Healey has challenged the Chancellor to make good on a promise to protect cash machines and banks from closure. The MP, alongside GMB Union, is pressuring the Government [...]

MP John Healey has launched an online survey for childminders that will check the impact of Covid-19 on early years childcare. He is concerned that childminders are having to close [...]

John at High Street Chippy in Wath before the pandemic New analysis shows the high street is still under strain in Yorkshire as 711,700 furloughed workers start losing [...]

You may remember back in June that I launched an online survey for the self-employed to ask them about Government support during the coronavirus crisis and their future prospects. My [...]

Last week, I held my first virtual public meeting for local residents to discuss with me the problems they have been experiencing with anti-social behaviour, car racing and law-breaking at [...]

MP John Healey has called for the Government to continue providing free school meal vouchers during the summer holidays. Currently a voucher system is in place which sees eligible pupils [...]

John Healey is leading his Labour shadow defence ministers to team up with steel union Community and raise funds for homeless veterans. Over 70 members of the union’s staff, volunteers [...]

John Healey has launched an online survey to ask the self-employed about government support during the pandemic and their future prospects. The coronavirus crisis has had a big impact on [...]

Rotherham’s Labour MPs have warned the Government that the council faces a £40m shortfall because of Covid-19. In a letter to Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and [...]

I know from emails I’ve received over the long weekend that people are angry, and rightly so. People feel frustrated that they have been unable to help or see loved [...]