This is what Keir Starmer has done
for the West Midlands so far

NHS

  • Ended junior doctor strikes, helping to cut NHS waiting lists in the West Midlands.

  • Secured £400m investment to boost clinical trials, improving NHS services and driving growth across the West Midlands.

  • Announced that over 1,000 more GPs will be recruited this year, supporting NHS services across the West Midlands.

  • Set out his long-term plan to rebuild our NHS for good and transform services across the West Midlands over the next 10 years.


Transport

  • Ended train strikes in the West Midlands, delivering for passengers.

  • Launched new legislation to bring the UK's railways back into public ownership which will improve rail services across the West Midlands.

  • Given communities in the West Midlands more power over their local bus services.


Housing

  • Banned no-fault evictions and introduced new protections for renters in the West Midlands.

  • Delivered planning reform in the West Midlands to build the homes we need.

  • Announced ‘Homes for Heroes’ - a programme to ensure all UK Armed Forces Veterans as well as domestic abuse survivors and care leavers in the West Midlands have a roof over their head.


Crime and Border Security

  • Kickstarted a plan to restore neighbourhood policing in the West Midlands.

  • Scrapped the wasteful Rwanda scheme and launched a Border Security Command to smash the criminal smuggling gangs and improve the UK's border security.


Education

  • To benefit areas including Stoke-on-trent, Keir Starmer launched a Music Opportunities Pilot that will offer disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND support to progress their musical talent and interests.

  • Launched a Curriculum and Assessment Review to help improve schools in the West Midlands.

  • Started the drive to recruit 6,500 teachers nationally, improving the West Midlands’s education system.

  • Launched Skills England to transform opportunities in the West Midlands and drive growth.

  • Scrapped single headline Ofsted grades in schools across the West Midlands in landmark school reform.

  • Overhauled apprenticeships across the West Midlands through a new Growth and Skills Levy.

  • Supported parents across the West Midlands by announcing the first stage of the government's plan to deliver 3,000 school-based nurseries.

  • Announced the Children's Wellbeing bill which will remove barriers to opportunity and make sure the school system is fair for every child.

  • Kickstarted the rollout of free breakfast clubs for all primary school children across the West Midlands through an early adopters scheme.


Economy and employment

  • Announced over £100m in government funding for five new research hubs, including one in Birmingham, to develop life-saving blood tests and resilient security systems.

  • Staffordshire is among areas to benefit from up to £800m in government funding to modernise broadband infrastructure and better connect rural areas.

  • Unveiled new measures to support small businesses in the West Midlands impacted by late payments.

  • Scrapped the ban on onshore wind and unblocked solar schemes to deliver lower bills and good jobs across the West Midlands.

  • Announced improved employment rights for workers in the West Midlands, with a package of reforms that will Make Work Pay - including ending exploitative zero hour contracts, providing statutory sick pay from day one, and ending fire and rehire.

  • Secured a record 131 new green infrastructure projects which will create jobs and drive growth in regions like the West Midlands.

  • Announced a new National Wealth Fund to unlock private investment in regions like the West Midlands.

  • Introduced a new Fiscal Lock Law to deliver economic stability in the West Midlands and protect family finances.

  • Announced new Covid Corruption Commissioner to get back what is owed to people in the West Midlands.

  • Launched landmark pensions review to support pensioners in the West Midlands.


Environment

  • Launched a new Floods Resilience Taskforce to turbocharge flood preparedness in the West Midlands and support delivery of flood defences.

  • Delivered new measures to penalise water bosses who pollute waters in the West Midlands.

  • Announced a new deal for farmers, which will go further to support farmers in the West Midlands, boosting rural economic growth and strengthening Britain's food security.


Cost of living

  • Launched the Warm Homes Plan to deliver lower energy bills for the West Midlands and lift over one million households out of fuel poverty.

  • Established the Child Poverty Taskforce, working across government departments to tackle child poverty.

  • Working to drive up Pension Credit applications across the West Midlands.

  • Extended the Household Support Fund across the West Midlands to support struggling households with bills and essential costs over winter.


Defence

  • Launched a new Armed Forces Commissioner who will be a strong, independent champion to improve life for UK service personnel across the West Midlands and their families.

  • Awarded our armed forces the largest pay increase in decades which will renew the nation's contract with those who serve from the West Midlands.

The Tories presided over 14 years of decline, undermined our public services, and wrecked our economy.

Keir Starmer's Labour Government is getting on with the job, fixing the foundations of our country and delivering the long-term change Britain needs.

This 100 days is just the start.