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PRIDE IN PLACE

We have secured £20 million for Barking from the government’s Pride in Place fund. Mayesbrook Park and Rippleside have been selected as the beneficiaries of the funding. Local people get to decide how the money is spent in their local area with the support from the Member of Parliament, MHCLG and Barking and Dagenham Council.

I am forming a Pride in Place board made up of local residents and community leaders to make a real difference in our local area.

Are you interested in getting involved and live within the boundary? Applications for the Pride in Place board chair and membership are now open. Applications close on 15 June. Click the link below for more details and the application portal.

Click here to apply

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Campaigns in Barking & Dagenham

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Campaigning for a better Barking Station

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Campaigning for a GP surgery in Barking Riverside

Your voice in Parliament

Questions

  • 15 Jul 2025
    Religious Buildings: Security
    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of protective security schemes for religious places of worship.
    Response from Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson MP (Home Office)
    This Government is committed to protecting the right of individuals to freely practise their religion at their chosen place of worship, and to making our streets and communities safer. The Government and police work closely together to review threats and ... [Read More]
  • 15 Jul 2025
    Faith Schools and Mosques: Security
    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help keep (a) mosques and (b) muslim faith schools secure.
    Response from Dan Jarvis MP (Home Office)
    This Government is committed to protecting the right of individuals to freely practise their religion at their chosen place of worship, and to making our streets and communities safer. The Government and police work closely together to review threats and ... [Read More]
  • 15 Jul 2025
    Hate Crime: Greater London
    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the number of hate crime incidences recorded in (a) the Barking constituency and (b) London in each of the last 10 years.
    Response from Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson MP (Home Office)
    The Home Office publishes official statistics on the number of hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales at the Police Force Area level.Data for the Metropolitan and City of London Police forces, for the year ending March 2024, can be found ... [Read More]
  • 15 Jul 2025
    Religious Buildings: Security
    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce levels of hate crime around places of worship.
    Response from Dan Jarvis MP (Home Office)
    This Government is committed to protecting the right of individuals to freely practise their religion at their chosen place of worship, and to making our streets and communities safer. The Government and police work closely together to review threats and ... [Read More]
  • 15 Jul 2025
    Places of Worship Security Funding Scheme
    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria her Department uses for allocating protective security funds to different religious groups under the places of worship protective security fund; and whether the number of reported religi
    Response from Dan Jarvis MP (Home Office)
    Funding allocations for the Home Office's protective security schemes for faith communities are informed by threat and risk. We draw on a range of information, such as data on religiously motivated hate crime and assessments from policing and intelligence... [Read More]
  • 01 Jul 2025
    Cyprus: Politics and Government
    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps his Department is taking to support a political solution in Cyprus .
    Response from Stephen Doughty MP (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
    The UK is fully committed to supporting ongoing UN efforts to reach a Cyprus Settlement. I represented the UK at the informal talks in Geneva in March chaired by the UN Secretary General, where I encouraged all sides to engage constructively towards a Set... [Read More]
  • 01 Jul 2025
    Cyprus: Overseas Trade
    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of lifting the trade embargo on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
    Response from Stephen Doughty MP (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
    In accordance with the rest of the international community, with the sole exception of Turkey, the UK does not recognise the self-declared 'Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus' as an independent state. Several UN Security Council Resolutions, other multil... [Read More]
  • 10 Jun 2025
    Betting Shops: Licensing
    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to increase maximum licensing fees for Track Betting Premises to local authorities.
    Response from Stephanie Peacock MP (Culture, Media and Sport)
    The fees that licensing authorities collect for premises licence applications and annual renewals are used to cover administration and enforcement costs. In England and Wales, local authorities can set their own licensing fees for gambling premises, inclu... [Read More]
  • 07 May 2025
    Physical Education: Curriculum
    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of PE provision in the national curriculum.
    Response from Catherine McKinnell MP (Education)
    I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Barking, to the answer of 28 March to Question 40068.
  • 28 Apr 2025
    Photographic Reconnaissance Unit: War Memorials
    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress her Department has made on confirming the site for the planned Photographic Reconnaissance Unit Memorial.
    Response from Chris Bryant MP (Culture, Media and Sport)
    The Royal Parks wrote to DCMS on 11 April 2025 regarding the site for the planned Photographic Reconnaissance Unit memorial. Officials from DCMS have since been in discussion with The Royal Parks regarding the proposed site, which is under The Royal Parks... [Read More]
  • 17 Apr 2025
    Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnosis
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in levels of improvements to diagnostic services for pancreatic cancer since July 2024.
    Response from Ashley Dalton MP (Health and Social Care)
    We will support the National Health Service to transform diagnostic services by spending £1.65 billion on additional capacity, including new surgical hubs and diagnostic scanners, to support the delivery of over 30,000 more procedures and 1.25 million dia... [Read More]
  • 31 Mar 2025
    Music and Dance Scheme
    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to fund the Music and Dance Scheme in 2025-26.
    Response from Catherine McKinnell MP (Education)
    The department will inform Music and Dance Scheme providers about funding for the 2025/26 academic year following the conclusion of the spending review in the spring.
  • 19 Mar 2025
    Occupied Territories: Humanitarian Aid
    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to provide further aid to (a) the Occupied Palestinian Territories and (b) Gaza.
    Response from Mr Hamish Falconer MP (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
    As the Prime Minister made clear in the House on 25 February, this Government is proud of the UK's pioneering record on overseas development, and we will continue to play a key humanitarian role in Gaza. As with all Official Development Assistance (ODA) s... [Read More]
  • 19 Mar 2025
    Israel: Hamas
    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to help secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
    Response from Mr Hamish Falconer MP (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
    As the Foreign Secretary said to the House on 20 March, we strongly oppose Israel's resumption of hostilities. We urgently want to see a return to a ceasefire. More bloodshed is in no-one's interest. Hamas must release all the hostages and negotiations mu... [Read More]
  • 19 Mar 2025
    Gaza: Humanitarian Aid
    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information his Department holds on the amount of UK aid that has reached Gaza since 15 January 2025.
    Response from Mr Hamish Falconer MP (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
    The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) does not have a breakdown of the specific amount of UK aid that has reached Gaza since 15 January 2025, but the UN reports that over 4,000 trucks of aid entered Gaza per week during the ceasefire, re... [Read More]
  • 06 Mar 2025
    Commonhold
    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Commonhold White Paper: The proposed new commonhold model for homeownership in England and Wales, published on 3 March 20
    Response from Matthew Pennycook MP (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
    I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statements I made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244) and 3 March 2025 (HCWS488).The government will consult this year on the best approach to banning new leasehold flats. We are also reviewing the Law Commissi... [Read More]
  • 26 Feb 2025
    Greater London Authority
    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to give local authorities in London a formal decision-making role in future integrated settlements applied to the Greater London Authority.
    Response from Jim McMahon MP (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
    At Autumn Budget 2024 the Government committed to exploring how the Integrated Settlement policy could be applied for the Greater London Authority from the 2026-27 financial year onwards, taking into account the capital’s unique devolution arrangements. T... [Read More]
  • 26 Feb 2025
    Local Housing Allowance: Temporary Accommodation
    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the cap on Local Housing Allowance payable for temporary accommodation through the Housing Benefit subsidy system.
    Response from Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP (Work and Pensions)
    We continue to keep the rates used for Housing Benefit subsidy under review. We are working closely with MHCLG and the Inter-Ministerial Group on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping to explore the impacts of subsidy rates on local authorities and develop long... [Read More]
  • 03 Feb 2025
    Heathrow Airport: Job Creation
    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of additional jobs created by Heathrow expansion.
    Response from Rt Hon Darren Jones MP (Treasury)
    Heathrow expansion could result in billions invested into the economy to create over 100,000 jobs, and support many more jobs by boosting UK economic growth. Our pledge to use more sustainable aviation fuel, part of our Plan for Change, will also support ... [Read More]
  • 03 Feb 2025
    Neurological Diseases: Drugs
    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle shortages of medicine for people with (a) epilepsy and (b) Parkinson’s disease.
    Response from Karin Smyth MP (Health and Social Care)
    The Department is working hard with industry to help resolve intermittent supply issues with some epilepsy medications. As a result of ongoing activity and intensive work, including directing suppliers to expedite deliveries, most issues, including with c... [Read More]

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