I have received cards from constituents about sewage. This is my response to the issue raised by my constituents.

I have written to the Chief Executive of Citizens Advice Dame Claire Moriarty to raise my concerns regarding Walsall MBC’s budget proposal to cut the funding to Citizens Advice Sandwell & Walsall. Here is my letter: 

I was delighted to meet 15 students on the 14 December 2022 who were studying at the Ukraine Blind School in Kharkiv before it was bombed by the Russian Army. The students had earlier been to Buckingham Palace and were visiting Parliament with the Headteacher of their school and the Mayor of Kharkiv. The Polish Blind School heard of their plight and then drove to Ukraine to pick up 59 students and take them back to Poland where they have been staying for the past 9 months and continuing their studies.  The Thomas Pocklington Trust supported their visit to the UK. The event was hosted by Marsha De Cordova MP. 

On Sunday 18 December, I appeared on BBC West Midlands Sunday Politics. The other guest was Jeremy Wright, MP for Kenilworth and Southam. 

Following the misogynistic language used against The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle in an article in a newspaper, I and other Parliamentarians agreed to write to the Editor to condemn the use of the language. It is appalling and alarming this article should have appeared in the newspaper and was precisley what the Duchess of Sussex was highlighting at the way she had been treated by some parts of the Press.