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Hello and welcome to my weekly update!

I've been unwell this week, so slightly quieter on the Parliamentary front, but still plenty going on!

Please scroll down to the community board to start filling up the Christmas-time and new year diary musts!
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🤝 I had the pleasure of joining two of our fabulous PPCs, Harpreet Uppal for Huddersfield, and Paul Davies for Colne Valley, to look at some of the fantastic work being done Huddersfield across the health and care spectrum.

🐕 First we visited Platform One, a fantastic mental health support charity, working across a range of services to provide crisis support and ongoing counselling to those in need. I particularly loved their “Listening Dog” a fantastic tool to help support young victims of abuse.

🏠 I then went to Huddersfield University to see some of the fantastic research work they’re doing on building homes fit for care, including their high tech Smart House, which is used to test how we can adapt homes and building regulations to ensure people can stay at home to receive care for longer.

🏗️ We then visited the construction site of the University’s new National Health Innovation Campus, a cutting edge facility that will do pioneering health research, as well as bringing vital health and care services into the town centre for the local community.

🌹I couldn’t leave without grabbing a picture with one of Huddersfield’s favourite sons! With his pioneering pursuit of the “white heat of technology” he would be immensely proud of the work going on in his home town.

I was so proud of my colleague and good friend Diana Johnson MP, who’s took on the Government - AND WON (by four votes) - over their reluctance to give compensation to the victims of contaminated blood.

This is a scandal that’s gone on for far too long.

Hopefully this vote will now trigger the interim payments the inquiry chair has called for
Andrew in the constituency

SMALL BUSINESS AWARDS

This year's Local Business Awards were a huge success, with over 9,000 nominations received for 102 businesses across the constituency!

A big well done to all those nominated, and particular congratulations to Cafe Plus, the overall winner.

Here's a full list of the winners and runners-up for each ward.

🏆 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 Cafe Plus, Denton ([link removed]) 👏🏻
🏆 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡: Beeweighed ([link removed]) 👏🏻

𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗪:
🏆 1st: Stamford House ([link removed]) 👏🏻
🏆 2nd: JC First Aid Training ([link removed]) 👏🏻

𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧:
🏆 1st: Red Lion Denton ([link removed]) 👏🏻
🏆 2nd: Shampooches-Groomers ([link removed]) 👏🏻

𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛:
🏆 1st: Cut&Co. ([link removed]) 👏🏻
🏆 2nd: Benvenuto Ristorante ([link removed]) 👏🏻

𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗪𝗘𝗦𝗧:
🏆 1st: Cleaning Bee 👏🏻
🏆 2nd: The Jolly Hatters Inn ([link removed]) 👏🏻

𝗗𝗨𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗘𝗟𝗗:
🏆 1st: Body Contour Beauty ([link removed]) 👏🏻
🏆 2nd: RJD Autos & Sons ([link removed]) 👏🏻

𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗛:
🏆 1st: Knit2 tog, Wool Shop ([link removed]) 👏🏻
🏆 2nd: Baan Phad Thai ([link removed]) 👏🏻

𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗛 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛:
🏆 1st: Feed General Store ([link removed]) 👏🏻
🏆 2nd: Heaton Hops ([link removed]) 👏🏻

GORTON LIGHTS SWITCH-ON

🎄 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗦 𝗚𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗢𝗡! 🎅🏻

A big thank you to the Gorton and Abbey Hey Councillors Julie Reid, John Hughes and Afia Kamal, and Gorton Events Committee team for inviting me to a packed switch-on at Gorton Market ([link removed])
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It was great to see so many Christmas stalls, a small fairground and Santa was here too! (Apparently I’m still on the naughty list!)

✨ 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲! There’s lights festooning the indoor market hall and a lovely tree in the middle; there’s also a beautiful tree outside the Gorton Hub and a light display on many of the lampposts up Hyde Road! ✨
𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵.

LONGSIGHT LANTERN PARADE

🌟 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵-𝗼𝗻 🎅🏻

Well done to the children of Stanley Grove Primary Academy for their brilliant colourful lanterns which they paraded through the streets of Longsight before singing Christmas songs and counting down to light the Christmas Tree on Stockport Road. 🎄

A BIG thank you to Councillors Lutfur Rahman, Abid Chohan and Suzanne Richards for inviting me, and introducing me to this great event!
Andrew in the the media

Small businesses are the beating heart of our economy, breathing life into our high streets and delivering services that make our lives easier.

What truly makes small businesses great is the people behind them, putting their all into serving local people, with the money they make going back into the local economy.

Honest, hard-working people, who make our community a brighter place.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of meeting local small business from across my constituency through my annual Local Business Awards.

From cafes, hair and beauty salons, pubs, restaurants, tradespeople, we are blessed with some fantastic small businesses here in Tameside.

Particularly during the run up to Christmas, I would urge everyone to think about where they shop and if you can, shop local.

When you do, you’re not just generating revenue, you are supporting hard working families who will give back to our local community, not take from it.

Every small business has their own story to tell, their own unique set of challenges, and their own vision for the future.

But what they all have in common is a determination to succeed.

Sadly, too many small businesses in Tameside and across the country are being badly let down by this government, and not given the respect their sheer economic weight deserves.

Time after time, the ambition, ingenuity, and determination shown by our small businesses is simply not being matched by a government who could really learn a thing or two from them.

We can’t afford 13 more years of the Conservatives, which is why I’m proud that my friend and fellow Tameside MP Jonny Reynolds, Labour’s Shadow Business Secretary, has announced Labour’s plan for Small Businesses.

It’s a plan that will respect the value of small businesses, creating the certainty and long-term environment so many are crying out for.

Labour will legislate to tackle late payments, with tough new laws to make sure small businesses get paid on time.

We will scrap business rates, for a fairer system to reduce the burden on high street premises and not stand in the way of firms who want to expand.

High streets will be revitalised, by tackling anti-social behaviour through introducing new town centre police patrols.

It’s a plan that will deliver a fundamental reset for small businesses in our community, replacing Conservative chaos with a decade of national renewal under Labour.
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