Jo White MP
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🐝 Earlier this week, I was pleased to meet representatives from the Royal Entomological Society during Insect Week 2026.
🌼 Insects play an important role in our world. They pollinate many of the crops we grow for food, recycle natural materials, and support the environment that people and wildlife depend on.
🌦️ This week’s extreme weather is a reminder of the challenges nature is facing. Numbers of bees, butterflies, and other insects are falling, and Insect Week highlights why it is so important that we protect these small creatures that help keep our natural world healthy.
Premier Foods employs over 4000 staff across 13 sites in the UK, one of which is based in Worksop.
I met with them in Parliament recently to discuss UK food manufacturing, and to hear about the ways in which they are making the processes more sustainable.
This is one of the reasons why I am backing Burnham. I agree with him that areas such as ours can become like "HMO Britain". People in Bassetlaw tell me that they want an immigration and asylum system that is fair but firm.
Let us never forget that it was Reform MP Robert Jenrick in charge of this when he was the Tory Immigration Minister. He signed off laws to bypass local licensing requirements for the placement of asylum seekers in HMOs.
There are no asylum hotels in Bassetlaw, but I welcome this government's commitment to close them and they are on target with that ambition.
Faster processing of claims is assisting with this. The most recent announcement was that 70,000 people have been sent back.
I am keen that the Government looks again at its contract with asylum accommodation providers like Serco, because the ability to use the break clause in the contract comes later this year.
I welcome the changes that Shabana Mahmood has made so far to clamp down on illegal immigration, but we need to go further and faster. Under the last government this country gained a reputation for being a light touch on illegal immigration. It is Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick, no matter how much they try to hide from the facts, who must take responsibility for this.
I am meeting the Minister for Planning next week to press for local areas to have greater choice and control over HMOs, and I welcome that Andy Burnham and I are in agreement on this.
🐾 Animal welfare is an issue that I care deeply about, and it was great to meet with Lush at their drop-in event in Parliament. We discussed animal testing and how research can be carried out without using animals.
📧 If you care about animal welfare too, please send me an email. and I'll keep you updated on the work I’m doing to help improve the lives and wellbeing of animals.