NHS

• Ended junior doctor strikes, helping to cut NHS waiting lists in the North East.

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

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

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

Transport

• Ended train strikes in the North East, delivering for passengers.

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

• Given communities in the North East more power over their local bus services.

Housing

• Banned no-fault evictions and introduced new protections for renters in the North East.

• Delivered planning reform in the North East 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 North East have a roof over their head.

Crime and Border Security

• Kickstarted a plan to restore neighbourhood policing in the North East.

• 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 Sunderland, 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 North East.

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

• Launched Skills England to transform opportunities in the North East and drive growth.

• Scrapped single headline Ofsted grades in schools across the North East in landmark school reform.

• Overhauled apprenticeships across the North East through a new Growth and Skills Levy.

• Supported parents across the North East 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 North East through an early adopters scheme.

Economy and employment

• Unlocked billions in investment in carbon capture sites in Teesside in the North East and Merseyside in the North West to help create 4,000 jobs and support 50,000 in the long term.

• Unveiled new measures to support small businesses in the North East impacted by late payments.

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

• Announced improved employment rights for workers in the North East, 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 North East.

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

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

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

• Launched landmark pensions review to support pensioners in the North East.

Environment

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

• Delivered new measures to penalise water bosses who pollute waters in the North East.

• Announced a new deal for farmers, which will go further to support farmers in the North East, 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 North East 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 North East.

• Extended the Household Support Fund across the North East 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 North East 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 North East.