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On 4 June 2025 the Bill returned to the Commons following the Bill Committee.
As I chaired the Bill Committee which concluded its deliberations on 15 May 2025, I was unable to vote.
The UK’s product safety and metrology framework, originally based on EU law, is being updated by this Bill which should help the UK
The Commons considered the Lords amendments to the Bill on 3 June 2025. The Government's manifesto committed to strengthening support for Armed Forces communities by establishing an independent Armed Forces Commissioner to improve service life, after the Armed Forces Continuous Attitude Survey has showed a fall in morale in the UK Armed Forces over the
Here you can read the eNews for May 2025
I signed a letter dated 23 May 2025 coordinated by David Bains MP with other parliamentary colleagues, to Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander MP calling for medical professionals to be legally required to report patients with visual impairments that make them unsafe to drive.
The letter calls for:
Mandatory reporting by medical professionals when patients have visual
My constituents who live in Bell Tower Close contacted me about their concerns with FirstPort Property Management. So I visited Bell Tower Close on Friday 23 May 2025 to hear from constituents on how they have been affected and we walked around the estate.
I have written to the Chief Executive of FirstPort to raise various
It was great to visit the Nationwide Building Society as part of their 70 years on the High Street in Walsall Town Centre.
I met Sandra Wilkinson senior branch manager, Donna Hodgetts, Area Director Midlands and the Branch manager Bal Kaur.
Nationwide in Walsall serve over 20,000 in Walsall and Bloxwich that is nearly a third of
Unlock Democracy held a drop in on 20 May 2025 to draw attention to people who are not on the electoral register.
The event raised awareness of the need for automatic voter registration with experts presenting a detailed breakdown of regional data across England and Wales. The Electoral Commission estimate that over 6 million eligible citizens
The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) held a roundtable celebrating the legacy of the late Pope Francis, Laudato Si and the new Pope Leo XIV on 20 May 2025 which I attended.
The roundtable enabled a discussion about the links between climate and debt given that 93% of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries are also