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Standing Up For Sheffield

• Betts challenges Minister to come clean on Council Tax Benefit plans

  Clive Betts, Sheffield South East Labour MP and Chair, Communities and Local Government Select Committee has challenged the Local Government Minister, Bob Neill, to come clean about the Government's intentions on Council Tax Benefit. It has now been revealed that

• Government adviser warns children’s services cuts will increase health inequalities

  Today Professor Sir Michael Marmott has warned that the Government's austerity programme could have disastrous implications for health inequalities. Marmott identifies that Government cuts will impact on measures that affect health which identifies as employment, education, income and health, child

• South Yorkshire, the Nation’s heart charity needs you to show your red side

  February is National Heart Month and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Angela Smith MP are asking the people of Sheffield and Barnsley to join National Wear Red Day on Friday 24 February 2012 and to follow the BEAT code

• As unemployment rises again, Labour tells Clegg to stand up for Sheffield

  Labour have hit out at Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg when on the same day as it was revealed that unemployment has risen to its highest level for 16 years, the main concern of the Deputy Prime Minister has been

• Labour make final plea to Clegg to fund Sheffield’s weekly collections

  Labour Leader of Sheffield City Council, Councillor Julie Dore, has written to Sheffield Hallam MP and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to make one final plea for the Government to provide the funding for Sheffield to continue a weekly black

• Betts lambasts Lib Dem Minister’s Sheffield “smokescreen” visit

  Sheffield South East Labour MP, Clive Betts, today lambasted Liberal Democrat Minister Sarah Teather for using a visit to Sheffield as a smokescreen to avoid voting on cuts to benefits. The Sunday Times revealed yesterday that Downing Street gave her

• Increasing private patient income will mean worse NHS services for Sheffield people

  Sheffield South East Labour MP, Clive Betts, has expressed considerable surprise that the Medical Director of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has called for Sheffield hospitals to be allowed to raise up to 49% of their income from private

• Station Bridge roundtable with Transport Ministers announced

  Paul Blomfield MP and campaign group Residents Against Station Closure (RASC) can announce that a roundtable meeting with Department for Transport Ministers will take place on Wednesday 29th February. The meeting will discuss the long-running issue of maintaining pedestrian access

• Paul Blomfield MP slams Tory “ambush” of Government Fair Access Director

  Business Select Committee member Paul Blomfield MP has slammed Conservative members of the Committee for opposing the appointment of Bedfordshire Vice-Chancellor Professor Les Ebdon as Director of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA). Professor Ebdon was selected for the job

• Angela Smith MP highlights economic problems faced by Barnsley

  In a debate today in Parliament Angela Smith, Member of Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge, will identify the major issues the borough faces in the extremely difficult economic circumstances it is facing. For generations the town had depended on the