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Letter to Network Rail: No to rail replacement services on Semi-Final Day

On Saturday 25th April, Saints will face Manchester City at in the FA Cup Semi-Final at Wembley. It’s a massive moment for our team and our city. There are over 33,000 tickets allocated to Saints supporters, who will be travelling predominantly from Southampton.

However, the rail route between Basingstoke and Woking is due to have a rail replacement bus on the day, to allow for engineering works.

If this goes ahead, it will significantly impact fans travelling from Southampton to Wembley, causing severe disruption and potentially even preventing some fans attending altogether.

Today, I’ve written to the Chief Executive of Network Rail – along with Phil Parsons, Chief Executive of Southampton Football Club, and Cllr Alex Winning, Leader of Southampton City Council – calling for the works to be postponed.

READ THE LETTER HERE

We cannot allow this disruption for fans on such an incredibly special day for our team and our city.

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

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.

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

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.

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Apply to be Chair of the Pride in Place Board

Really excited to share that applications are now open for Chair of the Redbridge and Millbrook Estate Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board!

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Deadline for applications: Sunday 1 March

This is an incredible opportunity for someone passionate about the area to help deliver this ground-breaking project, backed by £20 million in funding from the Labour government.

Recruiting our Chair marks a massive step forward as they will be absolutely pivotal to the project, both in driving activity and convening a board that is truly representative of the community and anyone with the experience, vision and local connection should definitely put their name forward and apply.

You’ll be playing a leading role in a transformative project that will ultimately build a stronger, fairer future for Redbridge and the Millbrook Estate.

Good luck to all who apply!

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Satvir Kaur welcomes Labour’s plan to protect leaseholders

Satvir Kaur MP has welcomed the Labour Government’s announcement that ground rents will be capped at £250 a year, calling it a “long overdue step that will make a real difference to leaseholders in Southampton Test”.

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Southampton Test families see £1,670 drop in annual mortgage costs since the election

Families in Southampton Test are more than £1,670better off when taking out a typical mortgage since Labour came to office, new analysis has found.

A household taking out a new, representative, mortgage on a £260,000 house in December 2025 – the median price in Southampton Test – will pay £1,670a year less than they if they took out an identical mortgage in June 2024, at the time of the election.

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Hallie Haddon wins 2025 Christmas Card competition

Satvir with winner Hallie Haddon

This week, it was my absolute pleasure to be invited to attend St Denys Primary’s annual carol concert, held opposite the school at St Denys Church. Whilst, first and foremost, I was there to enjoy the incredible show laid on by the students, I was also there to present prizes to the winners of my 2025 Christmas card competition.

I am very grateful to the students of St Denys for taking part this year and a big congratulations goes to Hallie Haddon, aged 9, on coming out top with her incredible Christmas tree design!

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Satvir Kaur MP welcomes £84.6 million cash injection for Southampton City Council to boost local services

Satvir Kaur MP has welcomed the Labour Government’s announcement that Southampton City Council will get a £84.6 million cash injection for essential services – a 32% increase in the Council’s spending power. Under the Tories, local authorities were starved of investment, with core spending power down by around a quarter since 2010. That put immense pressure on councils up and down the country, including Southampton City Council. But the Labour Government has announced a radical overhaul of how local government is funded, reversing Rishi Sunak’s cheap political efforts to put money into wealthy shires and Tory seats.

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Delivering books to children as part of Christmas literacy campaign

Satvir Kaur, Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, joined Business in the Community this week to deliver books to local children as part of BIC’sChristmas Books Campaign, an annual initiative that tackles low literacy rates by ensuring children in deprived areas receive books to enjoy and to help build reading confidence.

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City leaders back council funding reform and urge government to prioritise Fair Funding for Southampton

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Southampton’s two Labour MPs, Satvir Kaur and Darren Paffey, alongside the Leader of the council, Cllr Alex Winning, have called on the government to give Southampton the funding it needs after 14 years of austerity following a shake-up of local government funding allocations.

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