On Monday 24 May 2021, I re-established the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Epilepsy by chairing its Annual General Meeting with a cross-party group of MPs and Peers.

Rt Hon Valerie Vaz MP responded to a CQC Report which called for significant improvements at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

On Monday 17 May 2021 I attended a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fruit, Veg and Horticulture which was chaired by Theo Clarke MP. Members of the APPG spoke with  gardener and television personality Alan Titchmarsh MBE who celebrated the best of British fruit, veg, plants and flowers. This was the first meeting of the APPG

I have been contacted by many of my constituents about recent events in Jerusalem and across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

Local elections were held on 6 May 2021 for more than 145 English local councils for around 5,000 seats, thirteen directly elected mayors, and 39 police and crime commissioners in England and Wales.

On Friday 30 April 2021 I visited the National Covid Memorial Wall, a public mural painted by volunteers to commemorate victims of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. The wall is marked with over 150,000 hearts, each one a symbol of a life lost to coronavirus.

On Monday 26 April 2021, Parliament voted on Lords Amendments to the Financial Services Bill. I have been contacted by several constituents who have asked me to support mortgage prisoners, who find themselves stuck with high-interest mortgage products through no fault of their own.

On Thursday 22 April 2021 the Defence Secretary, made a statement on the special committee review into the historical actions of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. On behalf of the Government, the Secretary of State issued a formal apology for Britain’s failure to properly commemorate tens of thousands of black and Asian soldiers who died serving our country