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Candidates News

01 May 2025

Stop Ticket Office Closures

News Transport

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

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Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

That is exactly what we need more of. In an emergency, we need a camping stove, water, a battery-powered radio—BBC Radio Cornwall was fantastic during Storm Goretti—torches, spare...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

I do. Second homes are a whole other debate. Every parish should be able to identify a community hub that residents can go to in an emergency. It should have a generator, battery packs, blankets,...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

Really quickly.

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

I agree. A better way of sharing data must be found. Different utility companies and the council had different lists, and the parishes could not get hold of them at all. That is a really...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

That is why a satellite link across villages might be something to consider. On broadband, Openreach and service providers do not have a good system of fault notification. During Goretti, they...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

That sounds like an interesting proposal. Our local resilience centre was in Exeter, and I think that is why the category 1 responders did not declare a major incident; Exeter is a long way away...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

Yes, I agree. One of the most profound lessons that we must learn from Storm Goretti is to increase communications infrastructure, particularly in rural areas. Many of our constituents were left...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

As my hon. Friend’s constituency is next to mine, he will know that we have exactly the same problems in Truro and Falmouth, and I will move on to that next. I have had wash-up meetings...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

I understand the hon. Member’s point, and I know that his constituency was the worst affected, with people losing their water as well as their power. I agree that we must learn the lessons...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

The hon. Member feels my pain. Yes, of course we need a strategic plan for our rail in the south-west. That is fundamental, and I will come on to it later.

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

Yes, a great deal of work will have to be done in future, because this will not get better; it will get worse. Businesses that rely on electricity and broadband are paralysed by outages during...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

Of course, the EA has struggled with funding for the past 10 years, after it had been cut so badly.

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

I agree. I was going to say that that kind of cross-departmental strategy is so important, because all Departments are impacted and can do things that could help, but that is made difficult when...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

I agree; the fire service is absolutely fundamental, particularly in Cornwall, where it did amazing work during Storm Goretti. In its response to the UK’s third national adaptation plan,...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

I agree that farmers have been incredibly helpful in so many ways; I am thinking about Storm Goretti and all the work they did with clearing trees. Of course, hopefully some of the work that this...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

I agree with the hon. Member. We must prioritise flooding, which is becoming more and more of a risk. Every week when I get on the train—which has often been a bus—from Cornwall to...

Extreme Climate and Weather Events: National Resilience

Commons debates

I am a Cornish MP, and we are a people on the edge. With sea on three sides and cut off from England by a river and a precarious train line, we have become used to being at the centre of a world...

Fishing Vessels: Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation

Department for Transport

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether small to medium-sized commercial work and fishing vessels could be incorporated in the RTFO framework, allowing carbon credits to be applied...

Topical Questions

Work and Pensions

Jayne Kirkham made a speech in the House of Commons

The Secretary of State will know that working in the visitor economy is so good for young people’s confidence. The extensive Cornish hospitality sector would like to be part of the youth...

Social Security Benefits: Children

Department for Work and Pensions

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households who are no longer subject to the two-child benefit cap will still be subject to the overall benefit cap.