The Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill has passed into law in a ‘huge step forward’ for animal welfare. The Bill completed all its stages in the Houses of Parliament and has now received Royal Assent meaning animal abusers convicted under the Animal Welfare Act 2006...
Last weekend I received a text message from a journalist at a national newspaper asking to speak to me about Denton Town Centre. My natural reaction was “Why, what’s happened?” Of course nothing bad had happened. It was a good news story about the high street for...
The emerging story of a proposed European Super League, featuring some of the richest football clubs across Europe, has been a huge international story that has dominated both front and back pages. However, for us here in Tameside, it’s also a really important local...
Andrew Gwynne, MP for Denton and Reddish, has welcomed the Court of Appeal’s decision to quash the convictions of 39 former postmasters following the Horizon scandal. This scandal relates to a faulty computer system called Horizon introduced in the 1990s to...
Andrew Gwynne, MP for Denton and Reddish, has thanked the charity FareShare for providing 81.1 tonne of food to charities in the constituency. Over the last year, FareShare Greater Manchester supplied the equivalent of 193145 meals to 7 charities across the Denton and...
Andrew Gwynne, MP for Denton and Reddish, has written to the Government and put in written questions looking for answers on frozen pensions. This follows news that the Department for Work and Pensions has rejected a request from the Canadian Government for a...
The lockdown restrictions have been tough for everybody, but particularly here in Greater Manchester. Even as most of the rest of the country was starting to unlock last Summer, we were placed under local restrictions. It seemed like every few weeks these were...
Andrew Gwynne, MP for Denton and Reddish, has joined with MPs from across the political spectrum to call on the Government to take action against puppy smuggling. Members of Dog’s Trust parliamentary Puppy Smuggling Taskforce send a letter to Environment...
Andrew Gwynne, MP for Denton and Reddish, is encouraging constituents to fill out a survey about how they’ve been feeling during the pandemic. The survey has been set up by the mental health charity Mind. They want to know whether people have been able to access...
Reddish South has the unfortunate honour of being one of the quietest train stations in the UK. This shouldn’t really be a surprise when the station has just one return journey each week – what is known as a parliamentary service. For many years, I’ve been supporting...
