I attended  'A Taste of Cumbria' at the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday 23 January 2019, an event showcasing produce from a beautiful part of our country.

I responded to the following Urgent Question to the Leader of the House on 22 January 2019:  "to ask the Leader of the House of Commons if she will make a statement on the obstacles to introducing proxy voting in Parliament."

I have signed the Holocaust Educational Trust's Book of Commitment, pledging my commitment to Holocaust Memorial Day and honouring those murdered during the Holocaust as well as acknowledging the extraordinary work carried out by Holocaust survivors to educate young people today. Sunday 27th January will mark the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the site of the largest mass murder in history.

I held a meeting at Great Barr War Memorial Hall on Saturday 19 January 2019 to hear residents’ concerns about the Netherhall Park Estate. Residents told me about snagging issues in their homes, the state of public landscaping across the estate and the difficulties they have had with maintenance and repair from Bovis Homes and the management company SDL Bigwood.

In yesterday’s confidence vote debate the Prime Minister said: “when you have worked hard all your life, you will get a good pension and security and dignity in your old age”. Not if you are a WASPI woman, and not if you are a couple where only one of you is over pensionable age, because a written statement on Monday showed that there would be a £7,000 pension cut for the poorest elderly couples. I called on the Prime Minister to come to the House and correct the record.