Responding to comments Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, made at Conservative Party Conference about Oldham, Jim McMahon MP for Oldham West and Royton said, “I welcome the Secretary of States sudden interest in Oldham but I think after 11 years of underinvestment in skills and jobs in our town I think it’s slightly too late.”
“This Tory Government could start by addressing the chronic underfunding of Oldham Council, the fact that the Housing Market Renewal Scheme was scrapped, and the fact that Building Schools for the Future was also scrapped, meaning people in Oldham just don’t have the same chances that people in other parts of Greater Manchester have.”
“I’ve lost count of the number of times during the pandemic I’ve written to the Government highlighting key health inequalities here in Oldham and the Government have responded with a template response and practically refused to engage with the substance of the issue at hand.”
After the Secretary of States comments Oldham MPs Jim, Debbie Abrahams and Angela Rayner wrote to him, urging him to tackle Oldham’s inequalities.
Jim McMahon OBE MP 