Sarah Champion MP and Baroness Hodgson of Abinger met with Foreign Office Minister, Lord Collins, to seek Government support for their Women, Peace & Security (WPS) Bill, scheduled for 2nd Reading in the Commons on 20th June.
Champion urged the Minister to adopt her proposed law to soften the impact of the aid cuts. She argued that at a moment when women’s and girls’ rights are under attack, the UK must do more, not less to champion women’s’ voices.
Read MoreSarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, celebrates historic investment into Rotherham’s local transport system, after years of campaigning for improvements. [1]
Today, the Chancellor announced that working people in South Yorkshire will benefit from a £1.5bn investment into local transport, forming part of the biggest ever investment in buses, trams and local train infrastructure.
Read MoreSarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, has worked with brave campaigners from Open Justice for All to secure Free Sentencing Remarks Transcripts for victims and survivors of rape.
The Ministry of Justice has been running a Rape and Sexual Offences Pilot Scheme to allow victims access to Free Sentencing Remarks. Champion tabled a series of Parliamentary Questions to apply pressure on the Government to make the scheme permanent [1]. The Minister for Justice wrote to Champion, to confirm the scheme would be rolled out permanently from 30th May, following the publishing of the Independent Sentencing Review.
Read MoreSarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, is pushing the Government to provide more allotment and community garden land, under Labour’s planning reforms.
Champion has joined forces with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) and the National Allotment Society (NAS) to campaign for the provision of more of these sites.
Read MoreFollowing months of campaigning, Sarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, has secured a groundbreaking change in the law, which will protect victims of modern slavery around the world.
Labour’s publicly owned Great British Energy company has banned renewables tainted by human rights abuses, following sustained pressure from Champion. This will prevent public money from being spent on slave-made solar panels in Xinjiang, China.
Read MoreSarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, urges the Government to take urgent action to protect animals, as Parliament begins detailed scrutiny over the Animal Welfare Bill.[1]
Having been specially selected to sit on the Public Bill Committee, Sarah is one of seventeen legislators tasked with scrutinising the proposed legislation line by line.
She is using her position to ensure the strongest possible animal protections, following a decade-long campaign for proper enforcement on animal smuggling.
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