Working hard for Durham



Blue push pins show how Labour has changed the face City of Durham Constituency over the last ten years.

10 years of Labour - Brandon SureStart
Sure Start provides for 650,000 children. By 2008, Labour will have established 2,500 centres and by 2010 there will be 3,500 centres – one for very community.   Labour has guaranteed a free, part-time early years place for every three- and four-year-old whose parents want ......

10 years of Labour - Laurel Avenue SureStart
Sure Start provides for 650,000 children. By 2008, Labour will have established 2,500 centres and by 2010 there will be 3,500 centres – one for very community.   Labour has guaranteed a free, part-time early years place for every three- and four-year-old whose parents want ......

10 years of Labour - Ushaw Moor SureStart
Sure Start provides for 650,000 children. By 2008, Labour will have established 2,500 centres and by 2010 there will be 3,500 centres – one for very community.   Labour has guaranteed a free, part-time early years place for every three- and four-year-old whose parents want ......

10 years of Labour - Cassop Primary School
Cassop primary is the first wind powered school in the UK, showing Labour's real commitment to action on climate change. The ground breaking project received funding of £120,000 from Labour-run Durham County Council.......

10 years of Labour - St. Leonard's RCVA School
St. Leonard's RCVA School has become part of the Government's specialist schools scheme. Schools who become specialist receive around £600,000 extra funding from the government to spend on their specialist area. Under the Tories funding per pupil in Durham was £2,840 per year in real term......

10 years of Labour - Framwellgate School
Framwellgate School has become part of the Government's specialist schools scheme. Schools who become specialist receive around £600,000 extra funding from the government to spend on their specialist area. Under the Tories funding per pupil in Durham was £2,840 per year in real terms, und......

10 years of Labour - Jobcentre Plus
The New Deal and Jobcentre Plus are helping people move from welfare to work and measures such as the National Minimum Wage and Labour’s tax credits help reward work. Jobcentre Plus is helping almost 4,000 people into jobs every working day. Thanks to Labour’s measures like the New Deal......

10 years of Labour - Durham Gilesgate Sports College and Sixth F
Durham Gilesgate Sports College and Sixth Form Centre has become part of the Government's specialist schools scheme. Schools who become specialist receive around £600,000 extra funding from the government to spend on their specialist area. Under the Tories funding per pupil in Durham was ...

10 years of Labour - Durham Johnson School
Durham Johnston School in Durham City is about to undergo a £31 million project to rebuild the school and improve facilities for all learners as part of Labour's Building Schools for the Future programme. Under the Tories funding per pupil in Durham was £2,840 per year in real terms, unde......

10 years of Labour - Durham Community Business College for Techn
Durham Community Business College for Technology and Enterprise has become part of the Government's specialist schools scheme. Schools who become specialist receive around £600,000 extra funding from the government to spend on their specialist area. Under the Tories funding per pupil in Du......

10 years of Labour - Clayport Library
The library is an innovative multi-million pound building on 3 floors which opened in 2003. It was awarded the Public Library Building Award 2003 for the best new public library in the United Kingdom and Ireland. More information about Library services can be found on the County Council web......

10 years of Labour - New North Durham hospital
North Durham hospital is a state of the art £91m hospital opened in 2001. It has 591 beds, and hosts specialist services in dermatology and plastic surgery. The hospital was only built because of Labour's commitment to invest in the NHS. In 1997 Labour inherited an NHS which had been neg......

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