2020 was an extremely challenging year for all of us. Nevertheless, I’d like to share some of the highlights of my year representing Easington in Westminster:

  • I asked and received answers for 438 written Parliamentary questions
  • Tabled 26 Early Day Motions
  • Asked 27 oral questions both virtually and in person in the Chamber
  • Delivered speeches in debates, including on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, NHS Funding Bill, Rail Services in North-East England, the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill, Small Breweries Relief, the Future of Coal, as well as several on the Covid-19 pandemic and Public Health.
  • Continued to serve on the Transport Select Committee
  • Continued to serve as Vice-Chair of the APPG on Cancer and the APPG on Radiotherapy
  • Met with Matt Hancock to discuss the Department’s plans to tackle the cancer backlog, and highlight the importance of investing in and developing radiotherapy in doing so
  • Elected Chair of a new APPG on Human Relevant Science
  • Elected Chair of the Unite the Union Parliamentary Group
  • Elected Co-Chair of the FBU Parliamentary Group
  • Elected Co-Chair of the NUJ Parliamentary Group
  • Elected Co-Chair of the new APPG on Transport for the North
  • Chaired a virtual picket line via Zoom with striking Rolls-Royce workers in Barnoldswick, fellow Labour MPs and Peers, and Unite the union reps
  • Presented a petition in the Chamber calling for an inquiry into the Orgreave disaster
  • Led a Westminster Hall Debate allocated by the Backbench Business Committee on the Future of the Coach Industry
  • Delivered speeches in nine other Westminster Hall Debates throughout the year, three of which focused on cancer.

I look forward to a more hopeful year ahead.

My colleagues from the APPG for Radiotherapy and I met with Matt Hancock in October to discuss the cancer backlog, and the importance of radiotherapy in tackling it
My colleagues from the APPG for Radiotherapy and I met with Matt Hancock in October to discuss the cancer backlog, and the importance of radiotherapy in tackling it
I supported Mary Kelly Foy MP
I supported Mary Kelly Foy MP's 'Education and Training (Welfare of Children)' Bill at Committee Stage
Unite the Union
Unite the Union 'no to fire and rehire' rally outside Parliament
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