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Vaccination is “Best thing you can do for your health, your family and your community”

Labour’s Cllr Zahid Chauhan is today calling on the people of Oldham Borough to book their booster jabs as part of a major national effort to protect the country from the Omicron variant. Omicron is causing widespread concern as it is significantly more transmissible than other variants causing a rise in cases and affecting the number of health…

Local Conservatives Try to Silence Youth Voices

Oldham’s Labour Group has firmly rejected efforts by Local Conservative councillors to silence youth representatives on Oldham Council. At December’s Full Council, new local conservative Councillor David Arnott slammed Oldham Youth Council’s motion on mental health provision during the pandemic as a time filling exercise and accused officers of writing it for them.…

Government Must Tackle Crisis in Special Education Needs and Disability Services

Oldham Labour Group is calling for action to address a crisis in Special Education Needs and Disability Services (SEND). A Labour motion going to Oldham’s Council meeting tonight (December 15th) calls on central government to recognise and remedy the significant under funding of services for children with Special Education Needs…

Leader’s Statement: Emergency Accommodation for Asylum Seekers

“This week we’ve received notice from the Home Office that a local hotel will be used to provide temporary emergency accommodation for asylum seekers. “We know that Oldham is a friendly and welcoming place and will recognise the needs of those being placed here. Those being placed are likely to…

Thornham Mill plans scaled back

Plans for 72 apartments on the Thornham Mill site have been scaled back following consultation with neighbouring residents carried out by Royton North Labour Councillors Clint Phythian and Hannah Roberts. Overall residents were divided down the middle about whether they supported the original proposal. Clint and Hannah raised the concerns…

Oldham Families and Pensioners Hit by Chancellor’s Banker Budget

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has today unveiled his budget plans, including a 5% tax cut specifically for banks, an end to the triple lock to protect the value of people’s pensions, and another proposal that councils increase council tax by 3%. Cllr Arooj Shah, Leader of Oldham Council, said: “In this…

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News from our MPs

Debbie Abrahams: All-Party Parliamentary Group for Kashmir’s Call for Written Evidence

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Kashmir (APPKG) is conducting an inquiry to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic across Kashmir, with a focus on health, healthcare and humanitarian impacts. The APPKG would like to collect written evidence on: health, healthcare and humanitarian impacts, for example access to oxygen, ventilators…

Debbie Abrahams: Debbie welcomes Dame Julie Walters’ Support on Dementia Research Funding

As Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia, I welcome Dame Julie Walters’ support in calling on the Government to deliver on its election promise to double funding for dementia research. This comes as Alzheimer’s Research UK reveals 94% of dementia researchers are very concerned progress is at…

Jim McMahon: Our New Constituency Office

We are relocating our constituency office in Oldham. Many of you will know that for the past few years we’ve been located on the top floor of the GMB building on Union Street, but from tomorrow we’ll be based at Chadderton Town Hall. When the lease at Union Street came…

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