Labour MP for Manchester Withington. For a reply, or for casework please email [email protected]

Manchester
Joined January 2009
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Families in Manchester can now find trusted advice on health, wellbeing, cost of living support and getting children ready for school through the new Family Friend service. Find out more here: manchester.gov.uk/family-fri…
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Good news for passengers in Greater Manchester. From March 2026, older and disabled people will be able to use concessionary bus passes all day. The £2 single fare is also being retained, with bus and tram fares frozen until the end of 2026.
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The Labour Party wishes you and your loved ones a very Happy Christmas.
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2025 has been quite a year. Manchester… take a bow 👏🏼 Here’s to an even better 2026.
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Transport For Greater Manchester have launched a public consultation on the Draft Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2050 and the Delivery Plan. Have your say here: gmconsult.org/transport/tran…
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I attended a Parliamentary briefing with campaign group, The New Hunting Ban, to hear about legislative recommendations to strengthen the Hunting Act. Great news that the Labour government is committed to action to ban trail hunting.
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Earlier this month, I joined other Manchester MPs in writing to the government asking to confirm a substantial uplift in funding for our Council. I’m pleased a very positive financial settlement has been announced for Manchester City Council.
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There are many ways you can support The Christie this Christmas, find out more on how to get involved here: christie.nhs.uk/the-christie…
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Congratulations to Alicja Szmyd, from Old Moat Primary School in Withington, on winning the design competition for my Christmas card this year. And thank you to everyone that took part, I enjoyed seeing all your fantastic entries.
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Labour's Youth Matters strategy is delivering mental health support for young people, with full national coverage of Mental Health Support Teams in every school by 2029: gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Labour is ending the Conservative Party’s callous cuts to local government. We are putting more money into cleaner streets, thriving high streets, libraries and roads. That is the difference a Labour Government makes.
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The drugs (laws) don’t work. We need to remove barriers to research into psychedelic medicines. I took part in an interesting discussion at the PSYCH Symposium panel in London on how we can integrate them into our healthcare.
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I joined our Withington Councillors to celebrate the opening of Southway Housing’s new homes at Makers Court. The development has transformed a brownfield site into 24 new apartments for social rent.
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The rain has stopped at Withington Baths Christmas Fair. Lots of stalls and fun all afternoon- inc Len Grant’s great artwork of local scenes
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