My April/May Newsletter
Each month I provide a review of my activities in Oldham East and Saddleworth as well as parliament, so you can see how I have represented you. Please follow this link to read my April – May newsletter in full.
Tory Promise to Increase GP Numbers Fails to Materialise
The Government has failed to keep their promise to increase the number of GPs by 5,000 within five years. Since 2015, the number has actually dropped by 1,425. We shouldn’t be surprised that another Tory promise fails to materialise but you just can’t make promises like this around health care, fail, and then assume no-one […]
My Blog for Dementia Carers Count
This week I wrote a blog as part of Dementia Carers Count’s In this Together campaign. This initiative is providing a programme of tailored learning sessions, information sharing and family-carer activity over the next couple of weeks to let carers know they are not alone. You can read my blog here. If you are one of the 700,000 […]
More Support is Needed for Children Living in Poverty
I am calling on the government to provide access to social security support for parents with children who are legally settled in the UK after five years. Currently families with ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ (NRPF) but who are entitled to settle in the UK are relying on charity to feed and house their children […]
The Government is Failing to Help Unemployed People
Data released by the House of Commons Library shows there were 845 people aged 18-24 claiming unemployment support in March 2022, across the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency, 9.8% of the local population compared to the UK rate of 4.9%. Across all age groups there were 4,785 actual claimants across the constituency in March 2022, […]
March Newsletter from Debbie Abrahams MP
It’s been another very busy month representing Oldham East & Saddleworth! Please follow this link to read my March newsletter and keep up to date with my engagements here in the constituency and in parliament.
Closing Oldham DWP Office Exposes Tory Levelling-up Rhetoric as Hollow
The Government’s announcement on 17th March 2022 that the DWP’s office at Phoenix House, Oldham will close and 168 staff will be ‘consolidated’ to Salford and Stockport offices by January 2023 expose the Tories’ rhetoric on levelling-up to be utterly hollow. The Minister’s admission that 1,300 DWP staff work at sites where there is no other […]
January – February E-newsletter
This month’s E-newsletter includes an update on my activities across the constituency and in Parliament. Read the full edition, containing my thoughts on the Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone, Voter ID laws and the leaked documents that reveal the government’s spending on levelling-up northern bus networks will be cut by 50% here. For reference, you […]
Debbie Abrahams MP Backs Call for Government to Deliver Promised Funds for Dementia Research
As co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia, I led a debate in Parliament on the issue on February 10th, highlighting that without the promised doubling of funding to £166m a year progress in dementia research could grind to a halt. In the House of Commons, I called on the government to secure the […]
Prime Minister’s ‘Bus Back Better’ Fund Slashed by Half
It seems that the Prime Minister’s favourite transport policy, to ‘level up’ bus services in the North of England, is in tatters after the Treasury refuses to sign the cheques. The fact that Mr Johnson can promise a ‘transformational investment’ in northern bus services but have that blocked by his colleagues in No. 11 illustrates […]