Claire Hazelgrove MP
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Claire Hazelgrove MP
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Labour MP for the Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency. PPS to Darren Jones and HMT. For casework/other enquiries, please email: [email protected]
📮 Thanks to the Patchway Delivery Office team for their hard work this busy Christmas.

They’re up against it here. Vacancies + 24/48hr parcel volume = 2nd Class letters taking longer to deliver.

Useful to talk with posties, CWU & local managers.

✍🏼 I’ve written to Royal Mail.
December 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🎄 With great stalls & more, Patchway’s Christmas event was super.

Lovely to see the Patchway Men's Shed team. I’d spotted this bowl while visiting them - it was meant to be!

Great to see Mayor Dayley Lawrence, Cllrs Sam Scott, Toni Scott & Jenny James.

Thanks to all involved!
December 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🏍️🎅 Waved off 100s of ‘Santas on a Bike’ at Winterbourne Academy on their Greater Bristol charity ride for Children’s Hospice South West!

Many fab outfits - santas, grinches, elves & reindeer. Thanks all!

Glad to pop into Daisy’s Coffee Shop afterwards on Small Business Sat ☕️
December 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🚲 Today’s Small Business Saturday. Great to meet Gary Harris and hear about Hambrook bike shop, Gary Harris Cycles.

Gary started his business while facing redundancy over a decade ago.

Gary benefited from an apprenticeship. Glad our Budget inc. SME funding for training apprentices who are under 25
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
💬 Today, I held my advice surgery in Bradley Stoke, at Christ the King Church.

Local people raised a range of issues and ideas, including on the NHS, immigration and SEND.

If you need support, please email: [email protected]
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
🧑‍🎄 Really enjoyed WEMA’s Christmas Celebration at St Michael’s Centre, Stoke Gifford tonight!

The choir was wonderful as were the Senior Strings.

Thank you to the schools - Abbotswood, St Andrew’s & Crossways 👏

Great to meet WEMA CEO Simon Lock with Parish Cllr Sue Bandcroft
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
✍🏼 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥

Our council missed out under Tories, causing public services pressure.

I’m glad Labour’s changing how councils are funded.

My letter to Local Gov Minister urging consideration:
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🏫 Such a useful day yesterday, with Schools Minister Georgia Gould visiting Blackhorse Primary School.

We saw best practice delivered by the team to support children with SEND needs, to help inform reforms.

Thank you to the team at Blackhorse Primary School and The Leaf Trust for welcoming us.
December 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
✨🎄 We’re very lucky to have generous & creative residents like Ricky & Chrissie Fenning.

‘Winterbourne Wonderland’ is always a special community display - and they’ve exceeded themselves!

Glad to be able to see and thank Ricky when I visited. They raise thousands for charity.
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
☕️ RSVP for my last community event of 2025 - Christmas with Claire!🎄

Join me & fellow residents for a special edition of ‘Coffee with Claire’ - my informal events bringing us together.

No pre-planned agenda. Just stop by for a mince pie, coffee & chat

clairehazelgrove.co.uk/christmas-with-claire
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
📣 This week has been #UKParliamentWeek

On Friday, I joined Callicroft Primary Academy in Patchway for an assembly with KS2 to talk about Parliament & answer their questions. So many hands shot up, I was so impressed!

Thank you to Headteacher Jonathan Keohane & the whole team.
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🎄Always love the Christmas tree lights switch on by the Horseshoe in Downend - lovely event with a Salvation Army band, mulled wine from the pub & great crowd.

Thank you to Matt Pitts (who scaled the tree & more to make it happen!), the Parish Council, band, pub & all involved!
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🏫 Great to be back at SGS College Filton to meet new Principal David Withey & local learners.

With great facilities for learning trades & a focus on English & Maths, SGS has lots to offer.

Good to discuss Labour’s goal to see 2/3 young people in uni, FE or apprenticeships.
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
☕️ Thanks all who joined ‘Coffee with Claire’ at Stoke Gifford Retirement Village today!

Useful conversations about what residents love about Stoke Park & Cheswick Village, from green spaces to bus links.

Top issues chosen included a lack of community spaces & issues with some HMOs.
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🎅 Loved the Chrismas lights switch on tonight at the Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke!

Thanks to the team at the centre for putting this on, and Bradley Stoke Radio for the festive tunes.

Great to be here with Mayor of Bradley Stoke Natalie Field and to see lots of others here!
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Labour’s Budget delivers for people across our Filton and Bradley Stoke constituency:

💷 Average £150 off energy bills
👛 Higher minimum wage & state pension
👩‍🔧 Free apprentice training for SMEs
🚆 Frozen train fares saving some £892 Bristol-London
👶 Lifting 2-child cap could help 1,640 local kids
November 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🚆 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 - 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟑𝟎𝐲𝐫𝐬 - 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠

All regulated fares frozen next year - inc season tickets, peak returns for commuters & off-peak returns between major English cities.

Commuters on most expensive routes will save £100s.

This is the difference with Labour.
November 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🚧 Yesterday, I met with Vistry in Charlton Hayes to follow up on residents’ concerns about unfinished areas of work.

They have confirmed to me that they are working through these final 3 areas and expect to complete these by late spring.

I will continue to stay close to this.
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📰 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐈 𝐥𝐚𝐛!

Labour have announced over £20bn secured in AI investment. Locally, this includes:

✅ a new AI lab in Filton
✅ funding boost for the Isambard-AI supercomputer
✅ Jobs, growth and opportunity on our doorstep.

📰 www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Really proud that our Labour Government has published the first-ever Men’s Health Strategy. A landmark moment this International Men’s Day.

Find out more 👇
www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I know we’ll all be relieved these arrests have now been made & our thoughts will be with the 17-year-old boy following this awful incident in Filton.

Knife crime & violence will not be tolerated on our streets. Grateful to the police for their action.

www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2025/11...
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Residents may have heard reports of a stabbing outside McDonald’s in Filton yesterday.

I’ve been in contact with the police. Thankfully, the injuries of the person who went to hospital are not thought to be life-threatening.

This incident is unacceptable. Please call 101 with any information.
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today, we said farewell to Mum.

After days of torrential rain and grey, Mum’s favourite song - ELO’s ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ - felt apt.

We’ll always miss Mum, but she lives on in us, and will remain such an important part of our lives. Death doesn’t change that, it clarifies it 🤍
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
An honour to take part in Patchway’s Remembrance Parade and Service today.

Patchway’s poignant event falls this weekend so more people can attend, not least RBL Patchway, Stoke Gifford & District Branch.

We paused to remember those who lost their lives fighting for our country, peace and freedoms.
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
💼 Great to meet the Horfield JobCentre Plus team.

Their tailored approach supports significantly more people into work than the national average.

Good to hear youth support expansion plans, following Labour investing:

📍£25m to double Youth Hubs
🤝 £90m in Youth Guarantee pilots inc our region
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM