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: [...]
A PARKGATE company has warned it will have to cut jobs if the Government press ahead with a switch their MP has described as a ‘tax grab’. Ron Hull Jnr [...]
John Healey MP with Emma McClarkin, CEO of the British Beer and Pub Association. MP John Healey has backed a campaign to support local pubs and breweries. The [...]
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 [...]
John has called on the Home Secretary to provide the support the Government promised after two visits to the Holiday Inn in Manvers which saw Afghan nationals arrive on Monday [...]
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 [...]
Troops who took part in the Afghanistan evacuation should get medals, local MP and Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey has said. More than 1,000 UK service personnel took part in [...]
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 [...]
One in four low-income families are set to lose more than £1,000 a year if Government plans to cut Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit go ahead. MP John Healey [...]
Nuclear test veterans and families, L to R, Alan Owen, Laura Morris, John Morris, Jacqueline Purse and Steve Purse. Picture David Dyson. John has urged nuclear test veterans [...]
John has urged the Government to clarify its plans for rail in the north, after reports the HS2 leg running through South Yorkshire has been halted. Mr Healey met the [...]
John has paid a visit to the BDR Renewi waste treatment facility at Manvers to check how the company is responding to complaints from residents. For a number of years, [...]
John is celebrating success in his campaign for a 20mph speed limit on roads around schools in the Dearne. He launched the initiative in January alongside local councillors, community campaigners [...]
Campaigning by steelworkers and a debate forced by Labour has led to a last-minute Government U-turn over the removal of safeguard tariffs on cheap steel imports. Wentworth & Dearne MP [...]
Wentworth & Dearne MP and shadow defence secretary John Healey has launched a national survey of veterans, and is encouraging local veterans, charities and support groups to share their views. [...]
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 recently met the Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps MP, to discuss HS2 and share the views of local residents, businesses and councils. "Top priority must be regional [...]
John has warned the Government risks putting British steel yards out of business as Ministers consider scrapping safeguards to protect the industry from foreign steel dumping. The Trade Remedies Investigations [...]
John has branded the Government’s claim on levelling up a lie as he exposed how needy towns with great potential in South Yorkshire have been ignored and funding funnelled to [...]
John Healey MP has urged the Government to increase ex-miners’ pensions immediately after a damning report by a Parliamentary committee. He has been campaigning for years for changes to the [...]
MORE than 5,000 self-employed people in Rotherham and Barnsley could be forced out of business after a year of being excluded from Government schemes. New analysis by Labour has found [...]
John Healey MP has called on the government to buy in Britain to support British industry, including steel. As Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, he has repeatedly called for [...]
MP John Healey is calling for urgent Government action over the lack of Covid tests for students on apprenticeships. Lateral flow tests are available for schools and colleges and a [...]
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 [...]
John is working alongside Wickersley ward councillors and local groups like Silverwood Colliery Heritage Group and Silverwood Nature Reserve to call on the landowners to better protect the nature [...]
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 [...]
John Healey has accused the Prime Minister of breaking an election promise to miners. He has written to Boris Johnson in a last-ditch attempt to get him to stick to [...]
New analysis by the Labour Party estimates that 5,011 people in Wentworth & Dearne were still furloughed by their employer in late January. And seven months after Chancellor Rishi Sunak [...]
John talking to Kilnhurst headteacher Ryan Cousins shortly after the 2019 floods South Yorkshire's Mayor Dan Jarvis has confirmed £93 million for flood defences in South Yorkshire over [...]
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 [...]
John Healey MP visiting a school before the pandemic MP John Healey has contacted all schools in the Wentworth & Dearne constituency offering to help with classes during [...]
THOUSANDS of Dearne families still face uncertainty over Boris Johnson’s plan to cut Universal Credit by over £1,000 a year. Conservative MPs refused to vote with Labour after they forced [...]
John Healey has won a campaign to see student nurses paid while working on the Covid frontline in hospitals. In November, he called on the government to pay students on [...]
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 [...]
Today, a new national lockdown is back in place. I’ve had calls in recent days with government ministers and chief scientists and it is clear we are at a critical [...]
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 [...]
MORE than half of secondary students in years critical to exams have had to miss school due to self-isolation, an MP has found. Research carried out by John Healey with [...]
Today, South Yorkshire is back in Tier 3 ‘very high alert’ level restrictions after the national lockdown ended. Government guidance on what you can and cannot do is here. We [...]
John has called for more support for childminders after hundreds completed his survey. The survey organised by the MP found childminders were struggling due to a drop in demand and [...]
MP John Healey is calling for student nurses working in hospitals on the frontline of the Covid-19 response to be paid. Students who were drafted in to work during the [...]
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 [...]
Today (Thursday 5 November), a new nationwide lockdown begins in response to the spread of Covid-19. In Parliament last night, I and other Labour MPs voted to back the package [...]
John at High Street Chippy in Wath before the pandemic The government clawed back nearly £30m in business support from South Yorkshire just weeks before reallocating money to [...]
MP John Healey will be showing Christmas cheer in a different way this year – by giving hundreds of pounds to local food banks. The Wentworth & Dearne MP is [...]
I know this news will come as a blow to many people in our area who have already sacrificed so much in fighting this virus. But cases are rising rapidly [...]
South Yorkshire has the highest number of members of a controversial pension scheme in the UK, John has discovered. The Mineworkers Pension Scheme (MPS) has 130,047 members with one in [...]
Yesterday (Monday 12 October) the Government announced a new three-tiered system of local Covid alert levels in England. South Yorkshire - including Rotherham and Barnsley - will be in tier [...]
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 [...]
Liberty Steel UK today welcomed Shadow Business Secretary Ed Miliband MP and Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey MP to the company’s Rotherham mill to see how Liberty’s new GREENSTEEL infrastructure [...]
John recently joined schools in Swinton and Thurnscoe to learn why it is so important for young people to stay safe and positive online. The event was hosted by Google [...]
Yesterday marked the resumption of eviction hearings in England because the Government has refused calls from Labour and homelessness charities to extend the ban on evictions during the Coronavirus crisis. [...]
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 in Barnsley after the 2007 floods Flood protection funding from the Government for South Yorkshire is “wholly inadequate”, an MP and former floods minister has told the [...]
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 [...]
This week I had a virtual meeting with the property director at Savills, the managing agents for the section of the retail park where B&Q is situated. It follows concerns [...]
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 [...]
A number of people have contacted me recently raising concerns about racing on Dearne Valley Parkway and driver gatherings at Cortonwood Retail Park. I want residents to have the chance [...]
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 [...]
John Healey is one of 20 Labour coalfield MPs calling for the Government to make sure industrial diseases are considered if an ex-miner dies of suspected COVID-19. Years of coal [...]
The Prime Minister announced on TV on May 10 that schools in England should begin a phased return from June 1. This took many by surprise and the Government’s inadequate [...]
John Healey MP joined Big Local Thurnscoe to help deliver food boxes to vulnerable residents in Thurnscoe. Big Local, in partnership with Evolution Distribution Yorkshire Ltd, have delivered nearly 70 [...]
Today I was in Parliament to hear the Prime Minister’s statement on Coronavirus – remarkably, this is the first one he’s done in the House of Commons on the crisis. [...]
Following the launch of 5G in the UK last year, Ofcom published the results of electromagnetic field (EMF) measurements at 16 UK sites in February. They have now published an [...]
Unfortunately, there are an increasing number of reports of fake news and scams relating to coronavirus. Sharing false or misleading information can cause real confusion and harm, so you should [...]
MP John Healey has urged the Government to issue new guidance so councils can re-open household waste sites. Residents have been in touch with him concerned about fly-tipping, and he's [...]
Rotherham's cemeteries are back open today. It follows a one-man campaign by John Healey MP, who has fought to re-open Rotherham's cemeteries after they were closed in response to the [...]
If this Coronavirus crisis means your employer has no work for you, you don’t have to lose your job. The Government has opened a scheme which will pay 80% of [...]
You may have read recently that MPs are getting an extra £10,000 each to work from home, but many of these reports are wrong. The independent body in charge of [...]
When Goldthorpe Post Office closed because staff were self-isolating, John took concerns the Dearne was becoming a post office desert to the top of the national Post Office organisation. Thurnscoe [...]
MP John Healey has called for Rotherham Council to reconsider its decision to close cemeteries in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. He has had reports from residents saying they have [...]
Councils in our local area have set up 'vulnerability hubs' offering practical support for people who are ill or self-isolating, and who don't have friends, family or neighbours who can [...]
Capita update 14 April I've had reports from Capita workers over the last week saying managers in the Dearne call centres are finally taking steps to: enable employees to work [...]
MORE than 150,000 Yorkshire care workers providing vital help through the Coronavirus crisis will be able to cut their shopping bill following a proposal from MP John Healey. Mr Healey [...]
I’ve received many enquiries from local constituents who are still going to work but are very worried that their employers – big and small – are continuing to operate as [...]
I’ve had many constituents contacting me who are still going to work but are very worried that their employers – big and small – are continuing to operate as normal [...]
MP John Healey has raised concerns about big employers in South Yorkshire failing to follow public health advice and protect staff. The Wentworth and Dearne MP has written to the [...]
I’m working with my small team to respond everyone contacting my constituency office. As your MP, I’m here to help and to press for what you need from Government. Here’s [...]
I am doing all I can – with my constituency office team – to offer fullest possible service for constituents in these rapidly-changing circumstances, caused by Coronavirus. We want to [...]
John Healey MP attended an event in the House of Commons organised by the Women Against State Pension Injustice (WASPI) campaign. Anne Keen, co-founder of the WASPI campaign, said: "We [...]
MP John Healey has backed calls to bring in a preferential duty for draught beer, to help save pubs. The proposal has been put forward by CAMRA (the Campaign for [...]
I understand that people will be worried hearing about cases of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in Rotherham and Barnsley. I'm making sure I get regular updates from Government and from Rotherham and [...]
The personal stories of Rotherham and Barnsley women hit by a rise in their pension age are set to reach the desk of a top Government Minister. MP John Healey [...]
South Yorkshire’s four local authorities and the Sheffield City Region Mayor have put together a programme of works to better protect the region from flooding, and asked the Government for [...]
MP John Healey is planning a series of litter picks and asking residents to nominate a ‘grot spot’. He’ll organise clean-ups in areas ruined by rubbish as part of Keep [...]
John is supporting the Fair Motorhome Tax campaign. It follows the closure of Swift Group's factory in Swinton, which employed 45 people. Swift's managing director has confirmed to John that [...]
John has taken concerns to the top of Government after a report predicted changes in local council funding will mean big losses for deprived areas in the North and gains [...]
Today Liberty Steel announced job losses in Rotherham, Stocksbridge and Newport. John Healey, MP for the Rotherham Aldwarke steelworks, said: “This is devastating news for steel workers and their families, [...]