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Stop Ticket Office Closures
6th September at 6pm Rally at Truro Train Station to Support the Campaign to Protect…
8,200 Truro & Falmouth families hit by Tory mortgage penalty
Families face annual mortgage payment increase of £3500 this year under the Conservatives. Labour analysis…
Labour candidate Jayne Kirkham raises plight of Fal oyster fisheries
Jayne Kirkham is to speak to South West Water to discuss the latest threat to…
Moresk & Trehaverne candidate Sara Barnicoat
Moresk & Trehaverne by-election Thursday 22nd June Labour candidate Sara Barnicoat Born in Penzance, educated…
Cornwall’s Labour candidates pushing for extensive new housing powers from the next Labour government
The Labour Party Parliamentary Candidates, Jayne Kirkham in Truro and Falmouth, and Perran Moon in…
Labour calls for urgent action to address the Cornish housing crisis
While Cornwall suffers a crippling housing crisis affecting almost every aspect of local communities, the Conservative Government’s answer is to launch a limited consultation on planning permission. The proposal highlights just how out of touch the Conservatives are on one of the most pressing crises facing Cornwall. The Conservative Government…
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Labour Party MPs meet local Cornish business leaders
Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Parliamentary Select Committee, Labour’s Darren Jones MP, was in Truro on Thursday to listen to a group of Cornwall’s business leaders and attend a fundraising event in Redruth in the evening. Darren Jones was joined at the business meeting by Kerry McCarthy…
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Wes Streeting, Shadow Secretary for Health & Social Care, visits Cornwall
Wes Streeting, Shadow Secretary for Health & Social Care, visited Cornwall today. He was accompanied by Labour’s Parliamentary Candidates Perran Moon and Jayne Kirkham on a visit to the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske, where he spoke to staff in the emergency and maternity wards about the immense pressures they…
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Jayne Kirkham MP – Latest Parliamentary Activity
See how our fantastic new Labour MP is representing you in parliament!
Aiding and Abetting
Ministry of Justice
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has reviewed the effectiveness of legislation relating to joint enterprise.
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Veterans: Terminal Illnesses
Ministry of Defence
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on issuing payments to terminally ill veterans under the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme.
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Councillors: Vetting
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will consider introducing enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks as a condition of being a councillor.
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LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme
Ministry of Defence
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many payments have been issued under the LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme.
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NHS Funding: South-west
Westminster Hall debates
I was not expecting to be called first, but thank you very much, Dr Huq. Each year, Cornwall, which has a population of 650,000, welcomes around 4 million visitors, drawn by our beautiful beaches...
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Space Industry - [Mr Clive Betts in the Chair]
Westminster Hall debates
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Betts. I thank the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mark Garnier) for securing this debate, which is really important, particularly to the people...
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Women: Equality
Women and Equalities
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) transgender and (b) intersex (i) people and (ii) groups are consulted on Equality and Human Rights...
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Local Government: Misconduct
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will consider introducing stronger (a) censure and (b) sanction options for serious breaches of member codes of...
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Crime and Policing Bill: Financial Services
Home Office
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she made made of the potential impact of the Crime and Policing Bill on levels of protections for (a) bank, (b) building...
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Business of the House
Commons debates
Thank you, Mr Speaker. Can the Leader of the House grant a debate in Government time on a more robust range of censure and sanction options for serious breaches of the local government...
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Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: Sexual Dysfunction
Department of Health and Social Care
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2025 to Question 50758 on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: Sexual Dysfunction, which regulatory...
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Regional Growth
Commons debates
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I welcome the transport investment, which is needed in those city regions and spreads the wealth out. Cornwall also has ambitious transport plans, but does not...
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Swimming Facilities
Westminster Hall debates
Falmouth is a town of young people which juts out into the Atlantic on a finger-like peninsula, so it is vital that people there learn how to swim, yet statistics from a primary school in...
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Disadvantaged Communities - [Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]
Westminster Hall debates
On the question of barriers to opportunity, the potential for growth in some areas is high, but access to funding and education—particularly further education—can be difficult, as it...
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Processed Food: Health
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the new Food Strategy Advisory Board will make assessment of the merits of the association between higher...
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Royal Fleet Auxiliary (Report on Commissioner)
Commons debates
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision for a report on the potential merits of appointing a commissioner to consider, investigate and make recommendations to...
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Thames Water
Commons debates
Does the Secretary of State agree that it comes to something when the Opposition seem to be suggesting that Thames Water should maybe not be sanctioned, because that may put its preferred bidder...
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Topical Questions
Home Department
Jayne Kirkham made a speech in the House of Commons
Last year, Dr Mohammed Mohsen was offered a position in the acute medicine department at Royal Cornwall hospital in my constituency. He was due to start that role last year, but due to the...
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Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances: Environment Protection
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make it his policy to align the UK with EU regulatory protections for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in his...
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Fire and Rescue Services: Equipment
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that fire and rescue services have the (a) personnel and (b) life saving...
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