• A full time MP with a local office: a fully staffed office was opened in December 1997
  
• Living locally: my family home is in Sprotbrough
  
• Keeping in touch: I hold 6 surgeries each month; one in each ward. I have held over three hundred surgeries since 1997.

Election pledges June 2001 - Caroline Flint's five goals for Don Valley:

• Putting jobs first Working to secure a new airport and to make the best use of Objective One funding to create new jobs and businesses.
• Raising educational standards Working to improve all primary and secondary schools in Don valley and for quality post 16-education to help more young people reach their potential.
• A modern health service modern hospitals, health centres and GP practices are vital. Making sure that Doncaster Royal Infirmary improves its services to patients and we have the best possible health service for local people.
• Fighting crime nowhere in Don Valley will be a no go area. Working for every neighbourhood and village to be a safe place to live and work.
• Supporting communities working to improve village and rural life - less heavy lorries, more buses and 20mph zones, support for village businesses and lasting protection for our moors.

My Pledges to Don Valley

• Promoted the Earth Centre in Parliament: accompanied ministerial visits,
  lobbied Ministers and the Millenium Commission to guarantee funding.
  With funding secured, the Earth Centre opens in March 1999.
• To attract new jobs and companies: led the lobbying campaign of Government to ensure that the RAF Finningley site was sold for development as a commercial airport and modern business park.
• Campaign for new roads to remove heavy traffic from our villages: to remove heavy lorries off village roads, for lower speed limits, for example, near the McCauley School, for link roads to take traffic from local roads, for improved traffic calming in the Broadway, Dunscroft.
• Stopping the planned prison at RAF Finningley: In June 1997, I led a delegation of MPs to persuade the Home Office to release its claim on RAF Finningley, finally ending the prospect of it becoming a new prison camp.
• To be a worthy successor to Martin Redmond: Don Valley has been served by just five MPs in 85 years. All of long-standing and local repute. I hope my contribution locally and in Parliament will do justice to that history.