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I’m hiring! Come and work for me.

Post author By Satvir
Post date 03/11/2026

Come and join the small, dedicated team supporting my constituency office! I’m recruiting for a Constituency Support Officer and an Intern, please see below for details.

Both roles will be based in my Southampton constituency office but there will be occasional requirement to provide support in my Parliamentary office.

Constituency Support Officer

Closing Date: 16 November 2026

Key responsibilities:

Working closely with our Communications Lead, you will:
• Attend constituency meetings as appropriate
• Critically analyse patterns of enquiries and articulate the findings in reports and communication with the MP and other staff members
• Follow up on social media queries and comments
• Monitor media coverage, assist with media liaison, prepare press releases as required (on constituency, non-party-political matters)
• There may be a requirement for the role holder to work outside of the normal working hours and travel for work occasionally

Apply Today

Intern

Closing Date: 16 November 2026

Key responsibilities:

• Assist with arrangements for events; this may include: venue research and bookings; compiling and managing guest-lists; liaising with suppliers; and providing on-the-day event support as required
• Support for projects and campaigns
• Assisting with diary management
• Opportunities to undertake casework
• Attending surgeries and other meetings and note taking to support MP
• Basic administrative support
• Learning how to analyse, evaluate and interpret data
• Undertaking appropriate research
• Drafting routine correspondence including responses to constituents
• Open, handle and action email, post and social media enquiries

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Meeting with Police and Crime Commissioner following Inner Avenue calls for action

Post author By Satvir
Post date 23/10/2026

Satvir Kaur MP has met with Donna Jones, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commissioner, to discuss residents’ concerns about drug-related crime and antisocial behaviour in Inner Avenue and the London Road area.

The meeting on Friday followed an invitation from the MP, who has been working with residents, police, Southampton City Council and local organisations to address these issues. A planned walkabout was changed to a sit-down meeting due to the yellow weather warning.

The Southampton Test MP organised a residents’ meeting in July after receiving a petition signed by more than 50 local people calling for urgent action. The meeting brought residents together with neighbourhood police, ward councillors, council officers and the YMCA to discuss concerns and agree next steps.

Following that meeting, the MP wrote to the Commissioner asking her to review local policing resources and help make reporting incidents to the police and council simpler and more joined up.

Tags anti social behaviour, anti social behvaiour, Crime, donna jones, inner avenue, labour, labour government, member of parliament, mp, police, police and crime commissioner, satvir kaur, southampton, southampton test

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Freemantle locals raise fly-tipping, housing and transport in first Big Community Conversation coffee morning

Post author By Satvir
Post date 29/06/2026

Freemantle residents joined Satvir Kaur MP in a fully booked coffee morning at Freemantle Baptist Church on Saturday – the first in a new series designed to “get Southampton talking”.

Under the banner ‘The Big Southampton Test Community Conversation’, local residents met with Satvir Kaur, ward councillors, volunteers and neighbours to discuss the issues affecting them, and to explore possible solutions.

Over 40 residents were in attendance, taking part in a discussion covering a range of topics, including concerns around housing, immigration, fly-tipping and street cleanliness.

More ‘Community Conversation’ events are to follow, with the next scheduled to take place in Portswood and Coxford, with invitations to be sent out to residents in due course.

Tags coffee morning, councillor christie lambert, councillor dave shields, discussion, fly-tipping, hmo, labour government, member of parliament, mp, satvir kaur, southampton, southampton test, the big southampton test community conversation

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Southampton MPs urge city’s renters to ‘Know your Rights’ as new laws come into force from today

Post author By Satvir
Post date 01/05/2026

Southampton MPs have today hailed a landmark moment for renters in the city as new rights for tenants come into force.

Satvir Kaur, MP for Southampton Test, and Darren Paffey, MP for Southampton Itchen, are encouraging the thousands of renters in the city to make sure that they are aware of their new rights as a result of the government’s Renters Rights Act.

Under the new laws that come into force today:

Landlords will no longer be able to make evictions for no reason with a Section 21 notice, putting an end to revenge evictions for tenants who make legitimate requests for repairs or complaints about conditions.
Tenants cannot be made to pay rent more than one month in advance
Landlords can only put the rent up once a year and they must give at least two months’ notice. Tenants will also be able to go to a rent tribunal if they think the rent is too much.
It will be illegal to refuse tenants just because they receive benefits or have kids.

Councils are also being given new powers to crack down on rogue landlords. Landlords will still be able to get their properties back for clear and justifiable reasons – like selling up, moving in, or dealing with rent arrears and antisocial behaviour.

Tags darren paffey, labour government, member of parliament, mp, no fault evictions, renters' rights act, satvir kaur, southampton, southampton test

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What it means to have a Labour Council working with a Labour Government

Post author By Satvir
Post date 30/04/2026

Satvir Kaur MP with Leader of Southampton City Council, Councillor Alex Winning

It’s election time again, with just a couple of days to go until Southampton goes to the polls. You may have received your ballot papers already, if you vote by post. This time around, we’ll be choosing who we want representing us on our City Council.

It’s an important choice, and one that should be carefully considered, but it is a choice that I believe should always be made. The opportunity to vote is a fundamental human right and one that has been hard fought for by many. Decisions made by politicians have an enormous impact on our lives, whether taken at a national level – by the Government and by MPs – or at a local level, by councillors and the local Executive.

For the first time in a very long time, we have a Labour Council in Southampton working hand-in-hand with a Labour Government in Westminster. The benefits of this partnership cannot be overstated and, for the first time since 2010 – when Conservative and Lib Dem austerity took a wrecking ball to city coffers – we are seeing local authorities receive funding based on local need. With Labour, money allocated to councils is tied to local levels of deprivation, rather than favouring a particular political stripe, as we suffered previously.

Tags council elections, labour, labour government, local elections, may 7th, member of parliament, satvir kaur, southampton, southampton test, vote labour

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Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board Chair announced as applications open for Board Members

Post author By Satvir
Post date 21/04/2026

It has been confirmed today that Joanna McNicholas has been appointed as the independent Chair for Redbridge & Millbrook West Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board.

Applications have also opened for local people to apply to be members of the Neighbourhood Board.

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The Pride in Place programme is a ten-year initiative focused on supporting communities to shape priorities for investment and improvement in their neighbourhoods. With £20 million to spend over the ten-year period, the Neighbourhood Board in Redbridge will be established to provide resident‑led investment decisions based on a co‑produced Pride in Place Plan for each area.

Neighbourhood Boards will bring together residents, businesses, grassroots organisations, community and faith groups, alongside local public sector partners, to help shape a shared vision for their area and agree priorities for future investment. Board membership is voluntary.

Applications for Neighbourhood Board membership are open until 11.59pm on Sunday 3rd May. Further information about the role, eligibility criteria and how to apply is available here.

Tags joanna mcnicholas, labour government, member of parliament, mp, pride in place, satvir kaur, southampton, southampton test

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Southampton MPs join Council Leader in welcoming announcement that Northam Rail Bridge and A326 schemes given green light

Post author By Satvir
Post date 26/03/2026

Heidi Alexander MP, Secretary of State Transport

The Government has announced this morning that funding for schemes to replace the failing Northam Rail Bridge and to improve the A326 Marchwood Bypass corridor have been approved.

Both schemes have now been given the green light to progress as part of the Department for Transport’s third Road Investment Strategy and Major Road Network review, published today. Heidi Alexander, Secretary of state for Transport, gave a statement to the House of Commons this morning, announcing the strategy and setting out details.

The scheme at Northam Rail Bridge will see provision of a new, widened, replacement bridge on the A3024 corridor in Southampton, and the A326 scheme will see improvements made to the Marchwood Bypass corridor, connecting into the M27 at Junction 2 and serving the Waterside area of the New Forest.

Tags a326, alex winning, darren paffey mp, department for transport, heidi alexander, improvements, labour government, leader of the council, major road network review, member of parliament, mp, northam rail bridge, road investment strategy, satvir kaur, southampton, southampton city council, southampton itchen, southampton test

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Satvir welcomes fly-tipping crackdown with Labour’s new Waste Crime Action Plan

Post author By Satvir
Post date 20/03/2026

The Government has today launched its new Waste Crime Action Plan – the toughest ever crackdown on illegal waste – backed by an additional £45 million for the Environment Agency to pursue fly-tippers and organised criminal gangs across England.

Waste crime costs the economy £1 billion every year, with nearly 1.3 million incidents of fly-tipping recorded last year alone.

In Southampton it is a huge problem, with the city recording over 12,000 separate incidents of fly-tipping in the year 2024-25, and areas such as Newtown and Portswood hit particularly hard.

Tags fly-tipping, labour government, member of parliament, mp, satvir kaur, southampton, southampton test, Waste Crime Action Plan