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As Chair of the APPG on Publishing and in the week of World Book Day, I was able to present some books to Rivers Primary on my visit on 28 February 2025.
The School have invested in a great space for their Library and consulted the children who wanted a campfire so in the centre there
Here you can read the eNews for February 2025
By a happy coincidence, I had arranged to visit Rivers Primary Academy which is in partnership with Goldsmith Primary Academy and run by the Windsor Trust on Friday 28 February 2025. And on 24 February 2025 the Government announced the schools who would be named as early adopters of the Breakfast clubs.
Rivers and Goldsmith
On Wednesday 26 February 2025, I chaired the Delegated Legislation Committee, which considered the draft Flood Reinsurance (Amendment) Regulations 2025. The motion was moved by Emma Hardy, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
This statutory instrument allows for an increase to a levy placed on UK household insurance providers, from £135 million
I visited the Poppyfields Estate on 15 February 2025 to follow up my previous visit on 7 February 2025 with the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Superintendent where we discussed the parking on Match Days.
Residents told me about supporters and fans parking on double yellow lines and across access kerbs on the Estate. I
The community in Walsall were outraged to learn that the Council planned to relocate the Leather Museum. This information was in the Council's Budget for 2025-2029. This decision was approved at a Cabinet meeting on 16 October 2024, apparently in contrast to a Cabinet meeting on 17 July 2024 which approved a plan to 'continue
On 12 February 2025 as Co Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Publishing, I opened the proceedings and you can read my full speech below:
So lets go straight to the winners announced by Matt Chorley:
The three categories are:
Best Fiction or Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian: The winner is Alan Johnson for "Wilson" and
An excellent recital was held at No 11 Downing Street on Thursday 13 February 2025 by kind permission of the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP the Chancellor.
The setting was one of the rooms at No 11 where we heard from Soprano Natalya Romaniw, violinists, David Adams Kitty Cheung, Viola players Dunia Ershova and Barry Friend,