Statement on Building Schools for the Future
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Mike Wood is supporting schools and parents over Kirklees Council’s plans for major schools reorganisation in north Kirklees.
Mr Wood has concerns about the council’s course, its ability to see through its plans and the tactics being employed to bring its plans to fruition.
“Elements of the council’s plans are very concerning – pitting school against school, community against community,” said Mr Wood, who has been attempting to get Kirklees to pay more detailed attention to local needs for two years.
“Kirklees’s plans are proving divisive, not just in Huddersfield Town Hall among councillors but in communities across north Kirklees.”
“Kirklees’s plan for our schools MUST look to the interests of all children in Batley and Spen and the whole of north Kirklees and not just be geared towards serving the needs of a small minority.
“The council’s Cabinet has the responsibility to provide a robust plan for the whole of north Kirklees. In two years they have failed in this.” |
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December 11 2008
Statement regarding neo-natal cots at Dewsbury District Hospital
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Mike Wood was briefed on Friday by the hospital trust that runs Dewsbury District Hospital concerning plans to temporarily reduce the number of neo-natal cots at the hospital
Mr Wood said: “Clinical need determines how services are organised and where they are located and it appears clear that these changes can be made in order to provide the best possible service to local parents and babies.
“The bottom line is where to provide the service required, and the Trust is adamant that it can best do this from within a local centre of excellence.
“These stories tend to fuel fears of a steady deterioration of services and the gradual transferral of our hospital to other sites.
"The reverse is the case and services offered at Dewsbury continue to grow. We are soon to see major new facilities for cancer treatment come to Dewsbury.” |
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December 9 2008
Winning design chosen for MP's 2008 Christmas card
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Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood visited St Mary’s Catholic primary school in Batley to meet the pupils who helped design his 2008 Christmas card.
Each year Mr Wood asks a different local school to offer designs for his constituency Christmas card, which will be sent to almost 8,000 homes, schools, businesses and other organisations in Batley and Spen.
This year St Mary’s took on the task and a design by pupil Lucy Shuttleworth was chosen. Lucy received a gift voucher from Mr Wood and a framed copy of the card that features the picture she did.
Mr Wood said: “The standard this year was exceptionally high and the task of picking a design was really tough.
“In the end we chose Lucy’s design, which is very fitting and very attractive.“
The designs of the other pupils who were shortlisted are featured inside the card. They received a copy of the card and a gift voucher from Mr Wood.
Mr Wood added: “I’d like to thank Lucy and all the pupils and staff at St Mary’s who helped and did such a good job.”
Mr Wood is pictured with Lucy and Cllr Peter O'Neill, who is a governor at St Mary's. |
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December 1 2008
MP chairs international aid debate
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Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood chaired a discussion in Parliament that focused on the ways in which international aid is accounted for.
The Commowealth Parliamentary Association’s UK branch hosted a conference that looked at the effectiveness of international aid.
Mr Wood was one of only five backbench MPs to chair a session during the five day conference, which was attended by delegates from 40 countries.
Mr Wood presided over a session entitled ‘legislative framework for controlling development spending’. Speakers included the Nigerian senator Sorie Ibrahim and specialists from the World Bank.
Mr Wood said: “The component parts of the conference went into a great deal of detail on some important and relevant themes. Overall it was interesting and very informative.” |
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November 20 2008
MP unveils plan to keep Fox's in Batley
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Mike Wood MP has identified a site that will keep Fox’s Biscuits in Batley.
Mr Wood is determined to keep Fox’s, which was founded in the town, in Batley in order to maintain the historic ties between the two and protect local jobs.
Over the last four months since Northern Foods announced it was looking to develop a new, more modern factory either in West Yorkshire or the West Midlands, Mr Wood has worked to identify a list of potential sites.
Six sites in Batley and Birstall were identified and Mr Wood engaged a surveyor to provide a full and professional assessment of their suitability. A site at Birstall Smithies emerged as the strongest option to house a new factory for Northern Foods.
Mr Wood has held preliminary negotiations with landowners and other interested parties, including trade unions and a football team that uses the land. Initial reception has been positive. He has also written to all those living adjacent to the site to alert them of his proposal.
The site forms part of Smithies Moor between Huddersfield Road and Smithies Moor Lane and is already earmarked for industrial development. It is less than a mile and a half from Fox’s present site.
Mike Wood said: “Fox’s is a Batley company, it is the town’s largest employer and I am determined it stays here.
“There are strong economic arguments and sound business reasons why Northern Foods should stick with Batley.
“This site at Birstall will allow them to do so and it is, in my view, an attractive proposition with a great deal to recommend it at a time of economic uncertainty.
“I will be pressing the company to give it serious consideration and pointing out to them the positives of this site and reiterating the benefits to them of staying in Batley.
“We looked in detail at many sites within Batley and Birstall, all of which were put to a local surveyor for professional assessment.”
In relation to the size of the size and the gradient, Mr Wood added: “I do not accept that it is too small - this site is large enough but there is potential for expansion.
“In fact, I’m very surprised that the site has been so easily and quickly dismissed when Northern Foods’ requirements have reportedly changed a number of times.
“This site could easily meet the range of their requirements and there are a number of economic and practical reasons why it is more attractive to Northern Foods than other sites being put forward.”
“The gradient is a minor issue that can easily be addressed in the course of ground preparation and development. The levels on this site are in no way a barrier to keeping Fox’s Biscuits in Batley.” |
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October 8 2008
New staff in constituency office
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It’s all change in the office of Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood as a familiar face moves on and a new face joins his constituency team.
Di Lightowler, who has been Mike’s personal assistant and office manager since he was elected in 1997, is leaving and will be replaced by Peter O’Neill.
Di, who is leaving to train as an Anglican priest, was given a send off last week at a party in Cleckheaton with 70 colleagues and friends.
Mike Wood said: “My constituency office in Cleckheaton is the busiest MPs’ office in the country and in my view one of the most successful.
“Meeting the demands placed upon us requires a great deal of expertise and dedication from my staff but also a great deal of organisation.
“Di has been at the heart of this work for 11 years. Finding someone to step into her shoes is no easy task but I am confident I have found the right person in Peter.”
Peter is a councillor in Batley West and an active member of St Mary’s RC Church in Batley. |
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September 15 2008
Keep Fox's in Batley
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Mike Wood would like to reiterate that all four sites he has identified as potential new locations for Fox's Biscuits are in Batley.
Mr Wood is committed to finding a new home for Fox's in Batley and maintaining the town's longstanding and close links with the company. |
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September 10 2008
MP identifies four sites in Batley for Fox's
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The campaign to keep Fox’s Biscuits in Batley has received a major boost after local MP Mike Wood identified four sites within the town that could provide a new home for the company.
Mr Wood has met with all those involved in the Fox’s issue including Northern Foods, Kirklees Council and trade unions.
At his meeting with Cllr Ken Sims, Kirklees Council’s cabinet member responsible for regeneration, Mr Wood was promised that any sites he identified would be properly appraised by the council as part of its efforts to keep Fox’s local.
Mike Wood said: “It is vital we keep Fox’s in Batley. Aside from the historical and emotional ties with the town, it’s presence is major component of our local economy.
“The sites I have identified all have the potential to provide Fox’s with a new home and would allow Batley to keep one of its treasures in the town.
“It is clear from the meetings I have had that Northern Foods understand the strength of the link between Fox’s and the town and its populace.
“I am very optimistic that all the sites I have identified will be given Kirklees’s full attention and that they will be suitable for Northern Foods and local people.”
In addition, Mr Wood had been approached by a number of local landowners, developers and their representatives who intend to provide even more suggestions for sites in Batley. |
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September 4 2008
DEFEND THE GREENWAY - update
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Hundreds have signed the protest petition, and hundreds more have signed up on the internet and by text and email yet Yorkshire Water continues to push to close the Spen Valley Greenway to lay a new sewer.
In addition local people, who use and enjoy the Greenway on a regular basis, have written to Batley and Spen MP Mike wood, who has spearheaded the campaign, to detail what affect the disruption will have on them and their families.
Mike Wood said: “The strength of support against Yorkshire Water’s planned closures and disruption has been astounding. People have really got behind this campaign and are standing up to what they see as a completely unnecessary and unfair threat to one of Spen Valley’s most valuable amenities.”
Mr Wood said he had been pressured by Yorkshire Water on a number of fronts to end the campaign and retract many of his concerns about their plans.
Mike Wood said: “This campaign is about making sure there is as little disruption as possible for local people and that the Greenway doesn’t suffer either in the short term or the longer term. This means YW have to produce the best scheme for the Spen Valley not the cheapest scheme.
“Yorkshire Water says the Ringway is not an option from an engineering point of view, yet their top five objections to this route relate to finance not engineering.”
Mr Wood criticised Yorkshire Water’s tactics and accused the company – which saw profits rise by almost 20 per cent to £172.9million in 2007/08 while more and more families struggle to pay rising utility bills – of telling different people different things.
He said: “The general public knew barely anything about these plans and the threat to the Greenway until we began this campaign. Yorkshire Water has been picking and choosing what it tells people.”
Mr Wood said YW made no attempt to contact local people to attend the council’s recent Spen Valley Area Committee meeting when the issue was first raised. However, they did contact residents along the Ringway route to attend that meeting – but only people who live along the Ringway. This skewed the meeting making opposition to the Ringway option appear stronger.
Mr Wood said: “This opposition from those who live along the Ringway is perfectly understandable but the concerns of those who live near the Greenway are no less valuable as they would be affected in exactly the same way. Neither route is without its flaws but the Ringway option would affect fewer people.
He added: “It may be that the Ringway option is finally found to be unworkable. YW has only recently sent me its most up to date report that I admit on the surface appears to provide a compelling case against the Ringway route. It may also be the case that sections of the Greenway won’t be closed for over two years.
“But until YW answer the questions put to them over a period of two years and provide details of what they intend to do no one can say otherwise.
“YW are determined to get their scheme completed as cheaply and as conveniently for them as they can, which is understandable. But I don’t think we have to blindly agree with that.
“What I want to see is the best possible scheme emerging, one which is convenient for local people rather than convenient for YW and one that is tailor made rather than cut price.
“The sooner YW present the whole case and not just selected highlights the better for everyone. And I urge them to communicate with everyone as much as they have been communicating with residents along the Ringway.” |
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July 23 2008
MP backs haulage firms over fuel prices
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Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood is supporting local haulage firms whose business is being affected by rising fuel prices.
Mr Wood has met with a number of local hauliers and is pressing the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to introduce measures to help such firms survive and stay competitive.
Mike Wood said: “Fuel represents a third of operating costs for haulage firms such as Winteringham Haulage at Birstall. But when the price of diesel increases by almost a quarter in six months the effects are significant.
“There is a massive knock on effect for the way these firms run their business. This in turn affects their staff and their customers.
“An RAC report this month says that the overall cost of keeping our cars on the road has never been cheaper – even though the cost of fuel alone suggests otherwise. But for haulage firms fuel is the biggest single outlay and rising prices are having a destabilising effect on the whole industry.
“The Government needs to listen, take these problems seriously and act to help the haulage industry.”
Winteringham’s managing director Neil Martin said: “Every month I have to focus attention on the ever-rising cost of fuel and the way this affects our business and our customers.
“Our bulk price in May was 99p per litre and within a month it had risen to £1.06 per litre – a rise of seven per cent within 30 days. At that point the cost had risen by 22 per cent since the start of the year.
“No one can escape the impact of high fuel prices and I am urging our customers and colleagues to support our industry’s campaign as it’s in everyone long term interest. I hope these continuing protests will resonate with the Government and we will see steps taken to help our industry.”
The firm, like others locally, is also taking steps to help itself and reduce the amount of fuel it uses.
Mr Martin added: “We have renewed our driver training program with the focus on fuel efficient driving techniques and reviewing our vehicle maintenance procedures to ensure all vehicles are working at their optimum level of fuel efficiency.”
Mr Wood said: “Local haulage firms have to be commended for the way they are coping with this crisis not to mention the steps they are taking to help themselves. I only hope that this can be matched with constructive assistance from the Government.” |
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July 15 2008
MP condemns post office decision and brands consultation 'a fiction'
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Campaigns to save three local post offices from closure have failed to convince the Post Office to change its plans.
Post Office Ltd announced today that it was going ahead with its planned closure of East Bierley, Soothill and Bradford Road at Batley in spite of strong arguments from local people.
Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood, who organised campaigns to save three post offices in his constituency the day the plans were announced, condemned the decision and branded the consultation process ‘a fiction’.
Mr Wood said: “I am absolutely distraught at this news especially as we put so much hard work into constructing what I thought was a very strong case for a re-think. It appears however that Post Office Ltd can close post offices that don’t even meet their own criteria for closure.
“I knew at the outset of our efforts that things were very much stacked against us but I really did hope that the consultation process was just that and not a fiction. It appears that I was wrong and I am sorry that we were not able to change this damaging and short sighted decision.”
Mr Wood has now initiated discussions with Kirklees Council to see if they will take over the running of these post offices.
Mr Wood said: “In various parts of the country local councils have taken ownership of closed post offices and are successfully running them in a variety of guises, often jointly with council information points or other services.
“I have approached the leader of the council, Robert Light, to request he explore seriously these sorts of options for our threatened post offices.”
After the Parliamentary recess, Mr Wood intends to raise with ministers what lessons can be learnt from this process so that at the very least those areas of the country who are yet to face this situation will know quite how much the cards are stacked against them.
“I will raise the failings and flaws in this process in Parliament, although I accept this is of no consolation to us in Batley and Spen.”
Mr Wood expressed his thanks to all those who had supported the campaign and worked on opposing the closures. |
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July 14 2008
New school buries time capsule
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Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood attended the burying of a time capsule at the site of the new Howard Park community school in Cleckheaton.
Mr Wood said: "All the work we did to get Whitcliffe Road a new home is finally bearing fruit. It shouldn't have taken this long and Kirklees has been repeatedly condemned for the delays and its failure to get to grips with this relatively straight forward issue. But work is underway and pupils and staff currently enduring the 'worst school building in Kirklees' can see light at the end of the tunnel.
“It’s heartening to see the school building beginning to grow day by day and I know parents of children have visited the site and are very excited.”
"This is the first brand new school in the Spen Valley for a generation and this time capsule means future generations will get a snapshot of life in 2008."
Mr Wood was instrumental in securing the site off St Peg Lane for the new school as a new home for Whitcliffe Road First and Nursery School. |
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July 9 2008
Decision on post offices due next week
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The results of the local campaigns to stop the closure of three local post offices will be known next Wednesday (July 15).
More than 250 people attended two meetings - one in Batley and one in East Bierley - organised by Mike Wood MP to co-ordinate opposition to the Post Office's proposals.
Submissions for keeping the Soothill and Bradford Road branches in Batley and East Bierley Post Office open were put together by Mr Wood and two local working parties.
These were sent off to the Post Office Ltd who will decide whether or not to push through their plans on Wednesday. |
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June 17 2008
Cases against closure ready to submit
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Detailed arguments against closing three post offices in Batley and Spen will be submitted to the Post Office Ltd on Thursday (June 19 2008).
Mike Wood MP has organised the local campaign against the closures following two public meetings. These meetings created working parties in Batley and East Bierley to prepare submissions.
And on Saturday the draft submissions were made available to local people to scrutinise, comment upon and suggest amendments to at events in Soothill and East Bierley.
Mr Wood said: “Once again the strength of feeling about these proposals was made crystal clear by the number of people who turned out to offer feedback.
“The feedback was constructive and helpful and once the minor amendments suggested have been made the submissions will be presented to the Post Office.
“Once again I’d like to thank all those people who’ve played a part in this campaign. I hope the Post Office will listen to what we have to say and agree with us that these three valuable branches should not close.” |
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June 12 2008
Submissions available for public scrutiny
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The working parties set up to prepare arguments against the closure of three local post offices have completed their submissions.
The submissions will be used to convince the Post Office Ltd not to drive ahead with the proposed closure of branches of East Bierley, Soothill and Bradford Road (Batley).
Mike Wood MP, who has organised the campaign against these three proposed closures, completed the work on the submissions himself this week.
Mr Wood said: "I want to thank all those who have contributed to this process since the public meetings were held.
"We will make as strong a submission as possible for each of these branches and I hope we can convince the Post Office to see things our way."
The submissions will be available for local people to view and comment upon on Saturday (June 14) at Soothill Community Centre from 10am to noon and at St Luke's Church in East Bierley from 12.30pm to 2.30pm. |
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June 3 2008
Work underway on case against closure
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Work on preparing submissions to argue the case for keeping three local post offices open is underway.
Mike Wood MP called two public meetings to kick start campaigns to save the branches at Soothill and Bradford Road in Batley and at East Bierley.
The Post Office say the branches are losing money and there are alternative branches within a mile.
Overwhelming local feeling is that each of these branches is of value to the local community and needs to remain open.
The public meetings formed working groups to prepare the case against closure. These have met and are due to meet again this week.
Once the submissions are complete they will be sent to Post Office Ltd. Copies will be available locally for people to read before they are submitted. |
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May 19 2008
Post offices campaign UPDATE
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More than 250 people attended two meetings organised by Mike Wood to fight proposed post office closures at Soothill and Bradford Road in Batley and in East Bierley.
The two meetings, chaired by Mr Wood, allowed local people to air their views and make constructive comments to senior staff from Post Office Counters Ltd.
As a result, local residents have formed working parties which will lead the opposition to the plans and feedback to the formal consultation process.
Mr Wood said: "The threat to these three post offices is a major issue - the staggering turnout at these meetings demonstrates that very well and was very heartening.
"With this kind of backing and by working together I hope we can convince the Post Office to re-think and keep these valuable post offices open." |
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May 13 2008
MP launches campaigns to save Post Offices
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Batley and Spen MP Mike Wood has launched campaigns to save three of the post offices earmarked for closure.
Mr Wood feels there are strong arguments for keeping the post offices at East Bierley, Soothill and at Bradford Road in Batley open and is hoping local residents will get behind the campaigns.
Separate public meetings will be held for local residents on Thursday at Batley and on Friday at East Bierley.
Mike Wood said: “Batley and Spen has not seen the level of closures up to now that other areas have seen. This is because local postmasters and I have been vigilant and we have worked together to protect the local network.
“However, this latest round is not about voluntary closures it is about targeting the less viable post offices in the network – those that serve the fewest customers each week, that are the least profitable and that are in areas where there is an alternative branch.
“But the post offices at Soothill and Bradford Road in Batley and at East Bierley are valuable branches that serve distinct communities and I hope local residents will join me in a bid to save them.
“By working together over the last 10 years we have managed to keep our network reasonably in tact. We now face a different kind of battle but if we continue working together we can make the best case possible to maintain these amenities.”
Mr Wood added: “The proposed list has been compiled by Post Office Counters and the national federation of postmasters. The Government’s role in this is to provide what amounts to a redundancy package to postmasters and postmistresses.”
The Batley meeting will be at Soothill Community Centre on Thursday May 15 at 6.30pm. The East Bierley meeting will be at the First School on South View Road on Friday May 16 at 6.30pm.
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April 15 2008
Minister launches free national bus travel scheme
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A Government minister visited the area this week to promote the new free national bus travel scheme.
As of April 1 everyone who is disabled or over the age of 60 will be entitled to free off-peak bus travel anywhere in the country.
John Healey MP, the local government minister, visited the Spen Valley and met local MP Mike Wood. While here he took the chance to promote the new bus pass.
Mike Wood said: “This is a great scheme, introduced by the Government in response to what older and disabled people have said they want. A localised version of the scheme has been in place for some time but now those of 60 and those who are disabled can travel for free in every area of the country.
“This means that pass-holders visiting Batley and Spen can use our buses too, and that people from Batley and Spen can use their pass if they are visiting relatives or on holiday in other areas of the country.”
Mr Wood urged all those who are eligible for the pass to make sure they took advantage of the scheme.
If you are over 60 or registered disabled, and want to find out how to get your new bus pass, contact Mike Wood.
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March 18 2008
MP tables Commons motion praising police over Shannon hunt
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Mike Wood MP has today tabled a parliamentary motion congratulating West Yorkshire Police on their handling of the Shannon Matthews investigation.
As well as welcoming the safe discovery of the nine year old from Dewsbury Moor, Mr Wood also pays tribute to the hundreds of individual officers and staff who for more than three weeks worked round the clock to find Shannon.
Mr Wood, whose constituency includes the Moorside area of Dewsbury Moor where Shannon lives, said: “This has clearly been an extensive and complicated inquiry that has needed vast amounts of resources, time and sensitivity.
“Senior officers have directed the investigation well and spared no resource while the rank and file officers and staff have devoted energy and often their own time to finding Shannon.
“West Yorkshire police have been criticised for a host of different things by people far removed from the reality and complexities of the situation in Dewsbury Moor. But we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the local police have searched 3,000 houses and 360 acres of land and water and spoken to more than 6,000 people, as well as dealing with a complex network of extended family members.
“Most importantly, Shannon has been found, she is apparently safe and well and a suspect has been caught and charged. This sort of outcome in cases like these is virtually unheard of. This is a rare but extremely welcome conclusion and the officers and staff of West Yorkshire Police deserve our praise. I hope my parliamentary motion will allow Members of Parliament on all sides to echo this.”
The wording of Early Day Motion 1207
SHANNON MATTHEWS
That this House welcomes the discovery, apparently safe and well, of nine year old Shannon Matthews after more than three weeks missing from home in Dewsbury Moor; congratulates West Yorkshire Police for the way in which they have handled a complex and sensitive case; and pays tribute to the dedication and hard work of local police officers for the hours and the energy they have devoted to the investigation. |
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March 17 2008
Transport Minister announces cycle training funding from Cleckheaton
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Transport Minister Rosie Winterton visited Cleckheaton today to announce that over £3m would be dedicated to providing cycle training to nearly 80,000 school children by March 2009.
The minister was invited to Cleckheaton by Mike Wood MP to meet pupils taking part in Whitechapel's cycling training club and see the Spen Valley Greenway.
After watching the club in action and making the funding announcement from the school, the minister and Mr Wood cycled back to the centre of Cleckheaton along the Greenway.
£32,000 of the funding will be granted to Kirklees to train 800 new pupils locally.
Rosie Winterton said: “Encouraging cycling also encourages healthier lifestyles. Considering obesity now affects around one quarter of adults and 1 in 10 children, encouraging people to take exercise has never been more important.
“At the same time congestion is getting worse. If parents can be satisified their children can cycle safely they are more likely to let them use their bikes. And getting children cycling could even encourage their parents to dust off their own bikes.”
Mr Wood said "Training such as this being provided at Whitechapel allows children to learn essential road safety skills and gain greater awareness of the dangers on the road – giving parents reassurance that their children are suitably equipped to use the roads and enjoy their bikes."
"I am delighted the Transport minister chose to make this announcement from Cleckheaton and that she was able to see the Greenway, one of the country's most popular cycle paths."
Mr Wood was instrumental in securing the rail line and providing the impetus and political support for creating the Greenway. |
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February 13 2008
Employment of family members
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| Mike Wood does not employ any members of his family and has never done so at any point since he was elected as MP for Batley and Spen in 1997. |
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January 17 2007
Parliamentary debate secured
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Mike Wood MP has been granted an adjournment debate in Parliament next week to raise with Government ministers the death of David Burrows and events leading up to his murder.
Mr Burrows was murdered at M&B Haulage in Ravensthorpe in September 2005 by Gavin Hogg, who had repeatedly threatened and attacked Mr Burrows and members of his family. Hogg was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The incident was subsequently subject to an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Mr Wood intends to discuss, among other things, the way in which the police and the CPS handled events leading up to the murder.
Mr Wood has been supporting and working closely with the family, who live in Batley and Spen.
More information will be available following the debate in Westminster Hall on Tuesday, January 22 at 12.30pm. |
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January 10 2008
Statement on planning consent for Tesco in Cleckheaton
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Following the granting of planning consent for a new Tesco store in Cleckheaton, Mike Wood said:
“I’ve spent a large part of the last 10 years attempting to convince Tesco to redevelop their existing site but it’s not unreasonable for the development to be right for the town and one local people and traders can live with.
“I am pleased that the committee and Tesco have taken steps to allay the fears traders and I share about the range of goods that will be on sale. I had been pressing for such a condition and in agreeing councillors are showing a willingness to protect Cleckheaton’s vibrancy and viability.
“I still have concerns about the scale of the development and the impact it will have on the streetscape but councillors were clearly satisfied by the reductions made and the application now moves on to its next stage.
“I look forward to seeing a new store on this site, which will continue to complement the existing town centre as the present one does.” |
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