Dec 19, 2017 | Homepage, Newsroom, Slides
In light of the shocking announcement on 4th December that all Maternity Services will be “temporarily” closed at South Tyneside Hospital until the New Year, Emma secured an Adjournment Debate in the House of Commons last week. The Debate gave Emma the opportunity to...
Jan 13, 2016 | Homepage, Newsroom, Slides
Last week, Emma spoke in the Effect of the equalisation of the state pension age on women debate. The debate was called in response to calls for the Government to introduce transitional measures to protect women who were born in the 1950s whose pension age was...
Jan 13, 2016 | Homepage, Newsroom, Slides
Last week, Emma supported World Animal Protection in their campaign to save one of the world’s leading police departments – the National Wildlife Crime Unit – as this frontline unit could face the axe in government cuts. The National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) is...
Dec 16, 2015 | Homepage, Newsroom, Slides
On Monday, Emma took the opportunity to press the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government about local welfare assistance programmes. Last month’s autumn statement, saw further deepening cuts to local authority budgets, as a result of previous cuts...
Dec 14, 2015 | Homepage, Newsroom, Slides
Last week, the latest Feeding Britain report, which Emma and the other members of the inquiry team co-authored, was launched by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hunger. The report, backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, calls on the Government to end hunger in...
