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Candidates News

01 May 2025

Stop Ticket Office Closures

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05 September 2023

8,200 Truro & Falmouth families hit by Tory mortgage penalty

Economy Housing News

29 June 2023

Labour candidate Jayne Kirkham raises plight of Fal oyster fisheries

Environment Jayne Kirkham MP News

06 June 2023

Moresk & Trehaverne candidate Sara Barnicoat

Candidates Labour News

20 May 2023

Cornwall’s Labour candidates pushing for extensive new housing powers from the next Labour government

Candidates Housing Jayne Kirkham MP

08 May 2023

Labour calls for urgent action to address the Cornish housing crisis

Candidates Housing

14 April 2023

Labour Party MPs meet local Cornish business leaders

Candidates Economy

14 April 2023

Wes Streeting, Shadow Secretary for Health & Social Care, visits Cornwall

Health & social Care

07 March 2023

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Jayne Kirkham MP – Latest Parliamentary Activity

See how our fantastic new Labour MP is representing you in parliament!

Abuse of Customer-facing Workers

Westminster Hall debates

This is a really important debate. In Falmouth and Truro, we have a lot of abuse of shop workers in connection with shoplifting. An issue in the past has been that people think they are immune if...

High Street Shops: Illicit Activity - [Peter Dowd in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

There are also situations where people try to report but are too scared or worried, so there needs to be some sort of process so that people can report without fear of retribution.

High Street Shops: Illicit Activity - [Peter Dowd in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

Hotspot teams are looking at this issue in certain areas, but does my hon. Friend agree that it is also a problem in rural and coastal areas, such as mine in Falmouth? The problem is spreading...

NHS Dentistry

Commons debates

I thank the hon. Member for Yeovil (Adam Dance) and others for securing this important debate. Cornwall is a dental desert. Healthwatch Cornwall’s 2024 report found that every single NHS...

Defence Investment Plan

Commons debates

This Government are not year zero. The 2.5% target has not been hit since 2010—the end of the last Labour Government—and there has been an extra £11 billion since the end of the...

Topical Questions

Housing, Communities and Local Government

Jayne Kirkham made a speech in the House of Commons

The King’s Speech contains proposals for an overnight visitor levy. The decision on whether to introduce it is to be devolved to mayoral strategic authorities and, potentially, foundation...

Buses: Procurement

Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the government plans to review procurement rules that prevent local authorities from prioritising UK-built buses.

Youth Services: Finance

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, regarding the Better Youth Spaces Fund, what the timeline is for Phase 2; what the criteria will be; and whether it will include rural...

Childcare

Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps HMRC takes to publicise closing dates for applications for funded childcare.

Seasonal Hospitality Businesses in Coastal Areas

Westminster Hall debates

I thank the hon. Member for securing this important debate. On support for young people, I will be talking to the Skills Minister soon about what the youth guarantee scheme could do in...

Rail Freight

Westminster Hall debates

We had a rail freight line going down to the docks in Falmouth, but it was closed about 20 years ago. I am trying to reopen it, and we are working with the docks and potential customers to do so....

Clause 1 - Duration of Armed Forces Act 2006

Armed Forces Bill

Jayne Kirkham made a speech in the House of Commons

We discussed in the Select Committee that some people simply did not consider themselves veterans for certain reasons, including those she gave or because they had not served for long. An...

Clause 1 - Duration of Armed Forces Act 2006

Armed Forces Bill

Jayne Kirkham made a speech in the House of Commons

As a fellow Co-operative Member, I agree that credit unions can do so much and are very important. I certainly agree that if members of the armed forces could be signposted towards them, that...

Clause 1 - Duration of Armed Forces Act 2006

Armed Forces Bill

Jayne Kirkham made a speech in the House of Commons

I agree. To support that, I would say that the MOD is updating and strengthening the statutory guidance—as far as possible, it should cover all parts of the United Kingdom—to include...

Clause 1 - Duration of Armed Forces Act 2006

Armed Forces Bill

Jayne Kirkham made a speech in the House of Commons

I am proud to be a Labour and Co-operative MP for a Cornish constituency with a strong military heritage. More than 30,000 Cornish residents have served or are serving in the armed forces. That...

Topical Questions

Energy Security and Net Zero

Jayne Kirkham made a speech in the House of Commons

I welcome the contracts for difference for geothermal and the fact that the Secretary of State has been down to see deep geothermal in Cornwall. A policy indication from the Government that deep...

Rented Housing: Insulation

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the number of rural properties that will struggle to reach the minimum EPC C rating by the 2030...

Students: Loans

Department for Education

Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of calculating student loan repayments on an annual basis so that people with fluctuating monthly...

Educational Institutions: Adrenaline Auto-injectors

Department for Education

Jayne Kirkham received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered financing the provision of EpiPens for all children in an educational establishment.

Multiple Sclerosis

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, what recent discussions his Department has had with NHS England on expanding medical exemption criteria to include people with multiple...