He is a Co-Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Gas Safety Group, which recently released an important report on Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. This seminer was the third in a series discussing the points raised by it. A copy of the report may be downloaded here.

Facts and Figures:

• The two George Clarke programmes (broadcast Mon Dec 5th and 6th at 9pm) achieved high audiences of 2m and 1.9m respectively, showing that people who watched the first programme thoroughly engaged with the campaign.
• The online campaign reached 100,000 signatures within a week and the online petition now has 112,048 signatures.
• There are currently 8,454 Facebook fans and 6,531 followers on Twitter.
• There is a reporting tool and app allowing people to report empties in their local area to the council – 6,124 empty properties have been reported so far and over 20 of these houses have already been brought back into use (or are about to be) since they were reported. They’ve also received several hundred emails and letters offering help, support, volunteer services and ideas.

Jason only last week met Fresh Horizons, a Huddersfield based Social Enterprise, who are working to bring Empty Homes back into use in our area.

For more information about this growing national campaign, please visit the Empty Homes website.

Jason featured on last night’s Channel 4 programme “The Great British Property Scandal” in which he joined George Clarke in campaigning to bring Britain’s thousands of empty homes back into use.

You can see the show again here, and you can read Jason’s Parliamentary debate on Empty Homes here.

Jason’s page can be found here: http://mobro.co/jasonmccartney You can also sign up as a ‘Mo Bro’, or a supporting ‘Mo Sister’, here: http://uk.movember.com/mospace/

To find out more about the project, including training opportunities for prospective chess coaches, please visit www.chessinschools.co.uk.

There are 1,600 people in the UK with blood cancers who are waiting for a potentially lifesaving stem cell transplant. The Anthony Nolan Trust saves the lives of people with blood cancer by matching them to willing stem cell donors for lifesaving transplants.

The charity is currently campaigning to recruit 10,000 men aged 18-30 as they are the most likely age group to be chosen to donate. Joining the stem cell donor register is simple; just CLICK HERE and enter Jason’s code – BDV3 – for more information.

He praised the work of the Save Our Surgery campaign team and highlighted inconsistencies in the review, which is seeking to reduce the number of pediatric cardiac units in England and Wales.

To read the full text of his speech, please visit here.

The children’s heart surgery Unit in Leeds is accessible to nearly 14 million people within 2 hours travel time, including 5.5 million people in Yorkshire & the Humber – one of the highest population coverage of all the units in England.

High Speed Rail will bring over £2billion to the Yorkshire economy, help with increasing passenger congestion and provide a viable alternative to domestic flights. Also, with many journeys transferred to the new lines, it will free up current lines for faster and more frequest local commuter services.

To read more about the case for Yorkshire, please visit www.yorkshireneedshighspeedrail.co.uk.