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Diana Johnson MP’s Advice Surgeries
If you wish to contact me on a matter where you think I may be able to assist you, I hold regular advice surgeries around Hull North. For the convenience of constituents, most of these surgeries are held on an appointment-only basis.
When you contact my office on 01482 319135 to arrange an appointment, they will ask you to complete an information sheet giving brief details of the issue you wish to discuss with me. This is to allow me to prepare and research any information that I need before I see you and enable my office to take up a matter on your behalf. Once the appointment is made we will advise you of the surgery location.
I also do open surgeries that do not require an appointment. The times, dates and locations of forthcoming open surgeries are also listed below. Once I have made representations on your behalf about an issue raised at an advice surgery, I will contact you again as soon as I receive any replies regarding your case.
Advice surgeries 2012:
January
Wednesday 4 4pm – Appointment surgery
Friday 13 4pm – Appointment surgery
Saturday 28 10am – Open surgery, Asda Kingswood
February
Friday 3 5pm – Appointment surgery
Saturday 4 10am – Open surgery
Friday 10 5pm – Appointment surgery
March
Friday 9 5pm – Appointment surgery
Friday 23 5pm - Appointment surgery
Saturday 24 10am – Open surgery
April
Wednesday 4 5pm – Appointment surgery
Friday 20 5pm - Appointment surgery
Saturday 21 10am – Open surgery
Friday 27 5pm – Appointment surgery
May
Friday 11 5pm - Appointment surgery
Friday 18 5pm – Appointment surgery
Saturday 19 10am – Open surgery
June
Friday 8 5pm – Appointment surgery
Saturday 16 10am – Open surgery
Friday 29 5pm – Appointment surgery
July
Friday 6 5pm – Appointment surgery
Saturday 7 10am – Open surgery
Friday 13 5pm – Appointment surgery
September
Saturday 1 10am – Open surgery
Friday 7 5pm – Appointment surgery
Friday 28 5pm – Appointment surgery
October
Friday 5 5pm – Appointment surgery
Saturday 6 10am – Open surgery
Friday 19 5pm – Appointment surgery
November
Friday 2 5pm – Appointment surgery
Saturday 3 10am – Open surgery
Friday 23 4pm – Appointment surgery
Friday 30 4pm – Appointment surgery
December
Friday 7 4pm - Appointment surgery
Friday 14 4pm - Appointment surgery
What an MP can and cannot do
The main role of a Member of Parliament is to represent local constituents at Parliament in Westminster. As your MP, it is my duty to represent all the people in Hull North, whatever their diverse views about many different issues and whether they voted for me or not.
My main job in the House of Commons is to make and scrutinise legislation, attend debates and committees, and generally protect, advocate and promote the interests of Hull North at a national level.
I also have a role working for you in Hull North, supporting local community groups and publicising local issues. As your local MP, I can help you on certain issues where you are having a problem, making representations on your behalf and ensuring that your case is clearly presented.
I will always do my best to help wherever and whenever I am able to do so.
In general, I can help with issues over which Parliament, a central government department or agency is responsible. These include:
- Home Office, including Immigration and Nationality Directorate
- Defence and Foreign policy
- Department of Health (but not complaints about individual doctors)
- Department of Work and Pensions
- HM Revenue and Customs
Unfortunately, I am not able to solve every problem.
- I cannot obtain preferential treatment for you or seek to get results outside of the relevant laws or rules.
- I cannot help you with private disputes with other individuals or interfere with decisions made by the courts.
Local Council issues
It is not appropriate for an MP to take up cases in matters for which Hull City Council is responsible and over which I have no power.
If your problem concerns Hull City Council you should contact the relevant council department or service directly. If this does not resolve the matter, you should then approach your local councillor.
You can contact Hull City Council and councillors on 01482 300300. To find out who your local councillors are, go to http://www.writetothem.com or http://web4.hullcc.gov.uk/akshull/users/public/admin/main.pl?op=ListCurrentMembers.
If, after pursuing the course of action above, you still have a complaint about how the local authority had dealt with your problem, you should consider contacting the Local Government Ombudsman. See http://www.lgo.org.uk/ for more information.
Immigration and asylum issues
If your problem concerns an immigration or asylum matter, you should approach an organisation such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, as it is not an MP’s role to offer legal advice. Hull’s Citizens Advice Bureau can be contacted on 01482 224608.
As an MP, I am able to write to the Home Office where there seems to have been an inappropriate delay or failure to respond to your case. In general, the role of an MP is to make representations once all appeals have been exhausted and there needs to be new and compelling evidence to enable to me intervene.
For more information in this area, see http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/.
Am I your MP?
If you are unsure who the MP is for the area in which you live, you can find your local MP by using http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/l/.
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Hull North Advice Surgeries
