Barry Sheerman MP

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This website is designed to let you learn more about what I’m doing in Westminster and in Huddersfield on your behalf. You can find my recent speeches and contributions to debates, information about my current campaigns on local and national issues, and details of how to contact me with you views or to ask for my advise or assistance.
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Business of the House | Commons debates

Does my right hon. and learned Friend realise that this is the 30th anniversary of the introduction of Select Committees? Ten years ago, when Lord Sheldon, as he now is, chaired the Liaison...

[21 May 2009]

Topical Questions | Oral Answers to Questions - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Commons debates

Will my right hon. Friend meet me and Jody Scheckter, the former Formula 1 racing champion, who has a sustainable farm at Laverstoke park in Hampshire? He is trying to get an anaerobic digester,...

[21 May 2009]

Common Land | Oral Answers to Questions - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Commons debates

In the 30 years that you, Mr. Speaker, and I have been in this House, I have learned that you are as passionate about Robbie Burns as I am about John Clare. John Clare was forced to work on the...

[21 May 2009]

Common Land | Oral Answers to Questions - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | Commons debates

What recent representations he has received on his Department's policy on common land in England.

[21 May 2009]

Electronic Communications | Point of Order | Commons debates

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman has made an extensive speech in the very short time available to us, and yet back he comes with an intervention that is longer than...

[20 May 2009]

Electronic Communications | Point of Order | Commons debates

I believe Labour Members share my view that the BBC is a fantastic organisation, and we will not vote for the motion. However, we are not pushovers, and when we see some of the current affairs...

[20 May 2009]

Electronic Communications | Point of Order | Commons debates

In Yorkshire, we have just discovered that ITV is closing down "Heartbeat", "A Touch of Frost" and "Sharpe"—excellent productions that attract high-volume audiences. I do not know what we...

[20 May 2009]

Testing and Assessment | Business of the House | Commons debates

The Chair is wrong.

[07 May 2009]

Testing and Assessment | Business of the House | Commons debates

Why is it that in this House—

[07 May 2009]

Testing and Assessment | Business of the House | Commons debates

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[07 May 2009]

Testing and Assessment | Business of the House | Commons debates

As my right hon. Friend may remember, the Children, Schools and Families Committee produced its report on testing and assessment a year ago next week. I congratulate him on having listened to the...

[07 May 2009]

Business of the House | Commons debates

Will my right hon. and learned Friend look carefully at what is happening on the east coast main line, one of our premier lines? Ever since National Express took over the franchise, it has...

[07 May 2009]

Schedule 16 - Repeals and revocations | Point of Order | Commons debates

I wonder whether my right hon. Friend will be surprised to learn that I agree that this is an economic and a moral cause. Is there any possibility of bringing this work forward, given the current...

[05 May 2009]

Members' Allowances | Point of Order | Commons debates

My hon. Friend anticipates what I was to say next, which is the only other point I want to make. When I came into the House, we had a system that I thought worked very badly. I saw people from my...

[30 April 2009]

Members' Allowances | Point of Order | Commons debates

There is always a certain reluctance to talk about these matters, and I do not think that I have spoken in the House about Members' pay and allowances before. It is worth looking back at the...

[30 April 2009]

news

Barry Sheerman welcomes the new Health and Pregnancy Grant

New Health in Pregnancy Grant helps expectant mothers stay fit and healthy throughout pregnancy.

[01 April 2009]

Co-operative Trust Schools Seminar

Barry Sheerman MP raises awareness of the Co-operative Trust Schools model

[31 March 2009]

Barry Sheerman MP supports ending child poverty

Barry Sheerman MP has shown his support for helping the UK’s poorest children in this year’s Budget, at an event for the Campaign to End Child Poverty, in Westminster.

[26 March 2009]

'Too few' apprenticeships started

Barry Sheerman, Skills Commission chairman, said "We want to ensure the long-term prosperity and continued success of apprenticeships and, during this time of economic downturn, securing quality vocational routes for young people is ever-more important

[19 March 2009]

Push for apprentices hampered by poor advice to students

"There needs to be a marked improvement in the quality of careers advice and guidance about apprenticeships," said Barry Sheerman MP

[18 March 2009]

Three As no longer enough for university: New elitism row over entrance to top colleges

Barry Sheerman, chairman of the Commons’ Children, Schools and Families Committee, said: “I’m very concerned that some of our greatest universities are becoming no-go zones for children from normal backgrounds.”

[17 March 2009]

Tuesday March 17th questions to justice ministers: lawyers as lobbyists

Barry Sheerman (Lab, Huddersfield) raised concerns about lawyers acting as lobbyists. Justice secretary Jack Straw said it was the first time the issue had been raised with him.

[17 March 2009]

Teachers 'lack skills awareness'

Labour MP Barry Sheerman, co-chair of the Skills Commission, said teachers must receive continuing training in the area of apprenticeships.

[16 March 2009]

Ed Balls outlines child safety plans

Labour MP Barry Sheerman, chairman of the select committee on children and schools, warned that it will take time to implement all the recommendations.

[12 March 2009]

In Parliamentary chambers Barry Sheerman charges Tesco as a 'manipulative monopoly'

Parliament March 5

[05 March 2009]

Barry Sheerman attends start of Fairtrade Fortnight

Mr. Sheerman said, "I would be delighted to see Huddersfield become a Fairtrade town.”

[01 March 2009]

Government funding for major waste PFI deals

Barry Sheerman raised the issue of PFI to Gordon Brown.

[13 February 2009]

Sanam Navsarka case under Kirklees Council review

Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman insists that Kirklees Council’s policy towards children’s welfare is good.

[12 February 2009]

Questioning over public sector apprenticeships and PFI projects

Sheerman also questioned how the government would encourage the roll-out of apprenticeships in the public sector, with the prime minister replying that the government would fund 35,000 extra public sector apprenticeships this year.

[12 February 2009]

MP and Birkby residents act over bid to overturn Clayton Fields Village Green status

MP Barry Sheerman is backing them, describing the developers as “greedy”, and he said the fields are part of the heartbeat of Huddersfield.

[12 February 2009]

Stage graduation ceremonies for primary school children

Barry Sheerman, Labour chairman of the Commons schools select committee, claimed the education watchdog came to conclusions about schools before inspecting them.

[11 February 2009]

MP Barry Sheerman opens student shop at Kirklees College

Barry Sheerman opened a new shop run by students at Kirklees College, Huddersfield, yesterday.

[02 February 2009]

MPs call for action over wrong diagnosis of carbon monoxide poisoning cases

Mr Sheerman, who is co-chairman of the group, said: “There is evidence of lack of understanding. Too often carbon monoxide poisoning isn’t picked up and it is very important to raise awareness of how you spot the symptoms.

[31 January 2009]

Adult literacy report comes under fierce attack

Barry Sheerman, the Labour chair of the children, schools and family select committee said the PAC's Skills for Life report, published yesterday, was the "thinnest" piece of research he had ever seen.

[30 January 2009]

Huddersfield MP wants to cut back all-night drinking licences

Mr Sheerman wants to end late-nite drinking, as West Yorkshire’s Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison recently revealed that late-night rowdy behaviour is the biggest problem faced by police in Huddersfield.

[27 January 2009]

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