July 31, 2017 - 12:28pm
By: OfficeTeam
Yardley MP Jess Phillips helped open an educational art installation at Birmingham Library which aims to promote the positive impact migrants have had in the city.
The exhibition is the work of one of Jess' constituents, and humanitarian artist, Salma Zulfiqar who created the installation ‘Building Peace Though the Oceans’. Working closely with the local group Arts in the Yard, debates will also be organised in Birmingham to promote integration of migrants as part of this art project.
July 20, 2017 - 11:30am
By: OfficeTeam
Yardley MP Jess Phillips reinstated the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
To ensure it is both effective and influential, the group will have a cross-party leadership of Jess and Zac Goldsmith MP as co-chairs of the group.
Jess' fellow MPs nominated them both for these roles and also became officers of the group; they included Tan Dhesi MP, Helen Whately MP and Peter Aldous MP.
Jess Phillips MP said:
July 19, 2017 - 11:13am
By: OfficeTeam
Yardley MP Jess Phillips helped the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) launch their report into sexist stereotypes in Parliament.
The ASA’s report is part of an effort to address the portrayal of women in ads in particular. The crackdown by ASA will toughen rules on ads that are deemed to present activities as only appropriate for one gender or another, or that mock those who do not conform to stereotypical gender roles.
July 11, 2017 - 2:00pm
By: OfficeTeam
Yardley MP Jess Phillips supports Yardley Great Trust in their new Uniform Project.
Yardley Great Trust, in partnership with Holy Cross Church in Billesley, has launched a new project to provide a place of help for those needing to obtain new school uniforms items, both throughout the Summer and ongoing during the year for those most in need.
Karen Grice, Clerk to the Trustees at Yardley Great Trust, said:
July 4, 2017 - 10:37am
By: OfficeTeam
Yardley MP Jess Phillips questioned the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government about the steps being taken to prevent illegal subletting and to protect vulnerable people post the Grenfell tragedy.
Jess Phillips MP said:
June 27, 2017 - 9:52am
By: OfficeTeam
Yardley MP Jess Phillips questioned the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the immigration status of victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Jess Phillips MP said:
June 22, 2017 - 4:56pm
By: OfficeTeam
Yardley MP Jess Phillips co-sponsored a cross-party Early Day Motion which calls for the extension of the time period when applying for maternity discrimination to the employment tribunal from three to six months.
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June 21, 2017 - 3:05pm
By: OfficeTeam
Yardley MP Jess Phillips visited Yardley Primary School with the youth social action charity City Year UK to see how the organisation’s full-time volunteers help to tackle educational inequality in the local area.
Jess, whose mother attended Yardley Primary, met with Deputy Headteacher Melisa Louca to hear about City Year UK’s impact in the school before taking a tour to see the eight full-time volunteers in action.
June 19, 2017 - 11:35am
By: OfficeTeam
Yardley MP Jess Phillips joined more than 200 Birmingham teenagers to mark the start of a UK-wide weekend of celebrations in memory of murdered MP Jo Cox.
The 14 and 15-year-olds from Ninestiles school, Acocks Green, and Cockshut Hill school, Yardley, formed a large heart shaped human chain and spell out the word ‘Jo’. The pupils, many of whom speak English as an additional language, then shared a picnic together.
June 12, 2017 - 3:19pm
By: OfficeTeam
On 9th June 2017, Jess Phillips was re-elected as MP for Birmingham Yardley with a majority of 16.574.
Jess Phillips MP said:
"We did it. We won and beat the Lib Dems and their nasty campaign in to third place. We achieved a 16,500 majority the biggest ever in the history of the constituency."
Jess Phillips Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley
