It was a pleasure to visit S&L Waste Management last week at their railhead in Southampton. This centre distributes aggregate to local construction sites reducing the amount of time construction material spend on our roads. [...]
Next year the UK will have left the European Union, and this gives us an opportunity to develop a foreign policy that better serves the British people. The Foreign Affairs Select Committee, which I am [...]
Southampton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) would like to introduce a new service that provides patients with a choice of routine and urgent primary care appointments at evenings and weekends. This will replace the current hub [...]
Oak Lodge Care Home in Bitterne held a Tea Dance to celebrate Silver Sunday, a nationwide day for older people. I was pleased to visit and meet the manager Joanna Assey with Sheriff of Southampton [...]
I recently joined Eastleigh MP Mims Davies for a tour of Speedwell Court and for their topping out ceremony. Speedwell Court is a specialist dementia residential care home which is currently under construction. It is [...]
Yesterday I was pleased to sign the Southampton Rough Sleeping and Begging Charter. This is a city wide commitment to address the very complex issue of homelessness in our city, by bringing the public sector, [...]
To mark Blood Cancer Awareness Month this September I attended a reception in Westminster, to celebrate the number of potential stem cell donors in my constituency on the Anthony Nolan register. This achievement was celebrated [...]
We have a huge debt to those who paid the ultimate price in building Spitfires. Without the work of those in the factories the Battle of Britain would not have been won.
I met with the new Secretary of State for Health, Matt Hancock, to discuss how we can recruit more GPs in Southampton. There are many surgeries which can offer appointments relatively quickly and others which [...]
This is an interesting take on the air quality debate. Southampton City Council has made it clear they want to introduce a congestion charge which includes cars in their Local Transport Plan (page 57). This [...]
