This year’s Suffolk Show once again highlighted the best that our county has to offer. Whether it was food, farming or agricultural heritage, there was something on offer for everyone. I am incredibly proud to represent a constituency that makes such a rich contribution in all of these areas.

Greater Anglia has launched an additional four services between Norwich, Ipswich and London Liverpool Street to speed up travel between our region and London.

It was fantastic to hold my second Older Person’s Fair in Bury St Edmunds and fourth overall. They are a really good way of bringing together organisations and charities to highlight local services for older people. It shone a spotlight on activities and opportunities in the local community.

I was incredibly disappointed at the revocation of the general licences and have made representations to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in this regard.

Natural England gave notification on 23rd April that three general licences would be revoked at 11:59pm on 25th April. These licences cover 16 species of birds, including several members of the crow family, Canada geese, some gulls, feral and wood pigeons.

Since the Prime Minister first brought her deal, negotiated with the EU, to Parliament I have supported it. I recognise there are strongly held concerns about the deal, but there are also a number of positives.

We live in a fast changing world and much of this is being driven by new technology. Increasingly, we are seeing aspects of everyday life moving online. However, if we are not careful some people in our communities could easily be left behind.

It is welcome news that West Suffolk Council will be receiving £345,000 for 2019/20 from the Rough Sleeping Initiative fund to continue its work to end rough sleeping throughout the next year. 

Greater Anglia passengers are now able to claim back 25% of the single fare for delays between 15 and 29 minutes under the Delay Repay 15 (DR15) scheme.

The winter period leads to an increase in demand on our NHS, particularly in terms of increased admissions to our hospital. That is why I recently took the opportunity to lobby the Health Secretary for winter funding for West Suffolk Hospital.