Westminster - Julie Elliott MP

Share A Story

I’m supporting World Book Day’s Reading Revolution and will be helping them Share A Million Stories for 2020. Let’s get the nation reading for pleasure from Breakfast to Bedtime and help everyone reach that goal of one million stories shared.

Raising awareness of eating disorders

It’s Eating Disorder Awareness this week – so I’m showing my support for the #DumpTheScales campaign. #DumpTheScales is campaigning to stop people from being turned away from treatment because their BMI is not low enough. Early intervention is key for treatment, and for the 1.25million people that suffer from eating…

World Cancer Day

This World Cancer Day I’m wearing my Unity Band for the 360,000 people in the UK diagnosed with cancer each year. To give them the best chance of surviving, we need the Government to train and employ more staff – and today I am asking them to do so.

Response to Urgent Question

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is no such thing. It will not being peace to Palestinians or Israelis. See here for my contribution to the Urgent Question this morning: https://www.facebook.com/JulieElliottSunderland/videos/181590339865368/?epa=SEARCH_BOX

Time to improve Eating Disorder services

Yesterday I stood up during the Queen’s Speech debate on Health and Social Care to make the case for better and more comprehensive Eating Disorder services. Over a million people in the UK suffer from Eating Disorders, and early intervention is key in preventing the problems from getting worse. Yet…

Standing up for WASPI women

Today in Parliament I met with WASPI campaigners to discuss their on-going fight for a fair deal for 1950s-born women left facing hardship by increases to the state pension age. Almost four million women across the UK, including more than 6,000 here in Sunderland, have been unfairly affected by Tory…

Fighting for free TV licences for over-75s

This week the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee – of which I am a member – called for free TV licences for over-75s to be reinstated. Almost 5,000 households in Sunderland Central face losing their free licences under proposals announced earlier this year and I have…

Today at Prime Minister’s Questions I asked the Secretary of State to confirm that the Government will obey the law and request an extension of Article 50 – so that people in Sunderland avoid the double-whammy of No Deal Brexit on top of years of Tory austerity. The Government’s own…

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