Jo White MP
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✨ Happy New Year, Bassetlaw! ✨
Here is a recap of just some of the things that I have delivered on this year!
As 2025 draws to a close, I wanted to take a moment to reflect and share a snapshot of the work I have done this year. I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year.
👤✅ 6,352 local residents helped who contacted me
📞✅ 2,937 telephone calls received by my office
📌✅ 173 visits to local businesses and organisations in Bassetlaw, with £0 claimed from expenses for food or drink
☕✅ 9 "Meet your MP" coffee mornings held with over 6,000 residents invited, with many more to come next year
📄✅ 9,268 responses to my regular email surveys on the issues that matter to you
🏢✅ 2 constituency offices, in both Worksop and Retford
🏛️✅ 56 spoken contributions in Parliament
🏛️✅ 27 written questions to Ministers
🏛️✅ Debates led in Parliament including on breast cancer screening, and support for post-industrial areas like Bassetlaw
🏛️✅ Worked on the "Bill Committee" for the new Borders Bill, with new terrorism-style powers to stop the boats and the vile people-smuggling gangs
💡✅ £2.5 billion for fusion energy, including support for a prototype fusion energy plant (STEP) at West Burton
✈️✅ Secured money to re-open Doncaster-Sheffield Airport alongside other local MPs
💷✅ 50% pension uplift for over 700 former British Coal Staff (BCSSS) in Bassetlaw
🎒✅ 32 secondary school students in Bassetlaw enrolled in my Summer School, with sessions at Radio 1, a mock select committee, a guided tour of the Palace of Westminster, visits to top law firms and 10 Downing Street
🩺✅ Local hospital waiting lists down by over 2,500, a good start but much more to do
🚗✅ Worked with local Police and councils to install an ANPR camera on the A57 to tackle car racing meet ups
Many, many congratulations to Fran Walker, who has been awarded the British Empire Medal.
This is very much deserved, Fran has contributed a great deal to our communities, whether it’s supporting young people or taking the lead to protect and restore the Priory Gatehouse in Worksop.
Over the years I have turned up to many charity events, and I have often been delighted to bump into Fran, always doing her bit in her own way. Always ready to update me or remind me of the work she is doing elsewhere.
Shoplifting in Worksop was blighting the town centre. I have previously spoken to shopworkers and highlighted their fears and my anger at the brazen thefts from local stores.
This has been a regular topic in my meetings with local police and this is the evidence that when they say they will take action they mean what they say.
Making Worksop town centre safe for local people is a priority and I want to thank our police for getting the shoplifters off our streets, who are now doing the prison sentences that they deserve or are accessing treatment to deal with their addictions.