Under the Conservatives people are poorer, and economic growth has ground to a halt. Catherine will work with business and government to unleash Derby’s potential, building on our strengths in aerospace, rail and automotive manufacturing. Labour’s industrial strategy puts Derby in line to benefit from new investment and high-quality jobs.

As part of this plan, a Labour Government will set up Great British Energy, a new publicly owned company to invest in homegrown clean energy so we can cut household bills for good.

Catherine will work with the Council to support the exciting transformation of the city centre. Labour will deliver a new performance venue for concerts and shows, restore the Guildhall Theatre and revamp the Market Hall, amongst other ambitious projects.

Catherine will ensure a share for Derby of the 13,000 more neighbourhood police and PCSOs Labour will put on the streets.

Catherine launched a campaign across Derby North against sewage dumping in our waterways in 2022. Catherine is backing Labour’s plans to clamp down on water companies with several and new powers to allow the regulator to block bonuses. Labour will allow the regulator to pursue criminal charges against water bosses in the most serious cases.

Under the Conservatives there are over 100,000 people on the waiting list at the Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. More than 5,000 of these have been waiting over a year. Derby will benefit from some of the extra 2 million appointments that Labour will deliver, 8,500 new mental health staff and an extra 700,000 urgent dentist appointments as part of a package of measures to rescue NHS dentistry.

Catherine is a mum with children at school in Derby and will ensure that Derby’s schools benefit from some of the extra 6,500 teachers Labour has pledged. With Labour, every primary school will have a free breakfast club to help parents with childcare. There will be a mental health professional in every secondary school and an open access mental health hub for young people in every community.

The Conservatives betrayed Derby’s rail workers by failing to act to stop thousands of redundancies at Alstom and its supply chain. Unlike the Tories, Labour will never give up on train building in Derby and will develop a long-term industrial strategy for rolling stock which supports manufacturing in Britain.

Labour plans to make Derby the Rail Capital of Britain by putting the Headquarters of Great British Railways here and bringing the railways back into public ownership.