This week is UK Parliament Week when schools and groups like Scouts and Guides learn more about how our democracy works. I had a lovely online meeting with Wickham Scouts on Monday evening where they grilled me on various subjects both national and local, including potholes and school uniform.
Meon Valley MP Flick Drummond has taken a trip down memory to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital’s maternity unit where three of her four children were born.
Flick met with Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust chief executive Alex Whitfield on Friday to discuss progress with plans for a new hospit
Parliament prorogued yesterday. This gives me a further week working in the constituency while Westminster prepares for the King’s Speech on 7th November. This session we have passed 43 Bills with seven being carried over into the next session. It’s been a busy session.
Today I asked the Foreign Secretary about the weakening of the judicial system in Israel will impact on legal decisions relating to IDFs rules of engagement in the current conflict.
Meon Valley MP Flick Drummond has said a new water pipeline to link supplies to Winchester from the new Havant Thicket reservoir will stop abstraction from rivers but will need to be carefully managed.
Flick was briefed on the plan when she visited Southern Water’s Otterbourne treatment works to me
