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It was a pleasure to attend to the AoC Gold Awards reception hosted by Kelvin Hopkins MP and with an inspiring opening speech by Peter Kyle MP on Wednesday 8 June 2016.

On 7 June 2016, I was honoured to perform a reading at the reception to celebrate the permanent installation of New Dawn, which took place in Westminster Hall and was attended by Mr Speaker, Rt Hon John Bercow MP, the Lord Speaker, the Baroness D’Souza, members of both houses, and invited guests.

When the Chancellor of the Exchequer presented his Budget to Parliament on Wednesday 16 March 2016 he said that the Government will half the Severn Crossing tolls by 2018. At Treasury questions on 7 June 2016, I asked if the Chancellor would go further than this:

As a member of the Panel of Chairs, on Monday 6 June 2016, I chaired a Westminster Hall debate on E-petition 109702 relating to restricting the use of fireworks.

I was delighted to attend the 25 year celebrations of the inception of the Shree Ram Mandir temple in Ford street on Friday 27 May 2016. There was a week of celebrations at the Temple- among the events was the reading form the Bhagwad Gita by a Hindu scholar. The temple also held health and well being events with workshops by the medical and healthcare professionals.