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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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), [...]

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 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 responds to reports about Rotherham child abuse John has reacted to the Communities and Local Government select committee report on Rotherham child abuse and the Ofsted report on Rotherham [...]

Government is turning its back on firefighters, says John Dearne MP John Healey has accused the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles of ‘turning his back’ on firefighters. A dispute between firefighters [...]

John calls for more powers to improve local buses Local MP John Healey has backed calls for greater local control over buses because the current service in South Yorkshire is [...]

John calls on Government to back tougher taxi checks MP John Healey has called for the Government to help Rotherham Council’s efforts to toughen up its taxi licensing policy. Rotherham [...]

Debate on 'Justice for Coalfields' campaign Labour has called a debate for next week in the Commons as part of its ‘Justice for the Coalfields’ campaign. 30 years on, MPs [...]

John urges start of criminal investigation into CSE failings John Healey is pressing for the start of a criminal investigation into police and council failings over child sexual exploitation. Last [...]

More funding needed to support abuse victims MP John Healey has urged the Government to give more funding to help Rotherham victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation. He is [...]

Labour will increase minimum wage to £8 Labour will increase the National Minimum Wage (NMW) to £8 an hour by 2020. The introduction of the NMW in 1999 was one [...]

John responds to Shaun Wright's resignation I strongly welcome Shaun Wright’s resignation. It is the right move though too late – I called for him to step down as did [...]

Housing pushed out of reach in Rotherham Former housing minister and Dearne MP John Healey has said the cost of housing is causing huge financial strain in South Yorkshire. Research [...]

John rejects today's Times report on Rotherham John sets the record straight on a report in The Times today. John's response to The Times: http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/104570/healey_denies_opposing_rotherham_abuse_investigation.html “The Times is incorrect to [...]

John's backing for new RMBC cabinet Today, the fresh leader of Rotherham Council Paul Lakin confirmed his new cabinet, cutting out two posts to switch the money saved to support [...]

Comment on Rotherham child abuse Some people have asked me bluntly as a local MP, ‘What did you know about all this?’ This is what I am telling constituents who [...]

John responds to announcement of an inspection into Rotherham council John met Ministers from the Department of Communities and Local Government this week before the inspection was announced. Responding to [...]

Local rail passengers face fare hikes as part of government money-raising plan From this week, residents in Rotherham and Barnsley will face fare hikes of up to 25% as Northern [...]

John joins landmark vote against the bedroom tax Last Friday, John Healey joined other MPs in Westminster to vote for a new law to soften the impact of the bedroom [...]

Statement on today's announcement by new Rotherham Council leader Paul Lakin Commenting on Councillor Lakin's announcement today, John Healey MP said: “I strongly welcome the decision of the Council’s new [...]

John's challenge to the Home Secretary in the Commons WATCH: John's comments and challenge to the Home Secretary in the Commons on making sure the Government's 'overarching inquiry' into past [...]

Contact numbers for help and support for victims of CSE If you or anyone you know have suffered abuse and want to report this to South Yorkshire Police, please call [...]

John welcomes Home Secretary announcement The Home Secretary Theresa May today announced in the House of Commons that Fiona Woolf JP will chair the Government's independent overarching inquiry into historic [...]

John speaks to BBC Look North about Rotherham child sexual exploitation inquiry John was interviewed by the BBC yesterday (Tuesday 2 September 2014) about the recently published report into child [...]

Statement on allegations received about a Rotherham councillor "As I said when the Jay report into child sexual exploitation was first published, I was shocked and sickened by its contents, [...]

John questions Home Secretary in House of Commons John Healey has questioned the Home Secretary in the House of Commons over the Rotherham abuse inquiry. Theresa May gave a statement [...]

John writes to Home Secretary about child sexual exploitation and abuse MP John Healey has written to Home Secretary Theresa May urging her to use conclusions of the Rotherham report [...]

Police commissioner should step down after Rotherham child sexual exploitation report The report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 is unequivocal. Alexis Jay confirms there have [...]

John calls on Prime Minister to appoint Cabinet member for crucial trade deal John Healey has called on the Prime Minister to appoint a senior minister to take responsibility for [...]

Rotherham MPs challenge jobseeker sanctions Rotherham’s three MPs have called on the Government to review its process of ‘sanctioning’ jobseekers. It follows a report by Rotherham Council which noted sanctioning [...]

John backs calls for more support for grandparent and family carers Grandparents and family carers visited Westminster and won the backing of local MP John Healey. The summit was for [...]

Labour's plan to get young people in training instead of on benefits John Healey MP has backed Labour’s plans to get more young people in Rotherham and Barnsley the training [...]

John calls on Government to clean up passport chaos John Healey has called on the Home Secretary to clean up the passport chaos as local people turn to him for [...]

I support a right to recall MPs Quite a lot of people have emailed me recently about proposed legislation on the recall of MPs. Labour supports recall; it was in [...]

Grammar schools plan shows UKIP would give up on poor pupils in Rotherham John Healey MP has called on local UKIP councillors to say whether they back Nigel Farage’s latest [...]