I am very pleased that school children in Gloucestershire are set to benefit from £5m Trailblazer funding which will see specialist mental health support in schools and waiting times for other mental health services to improve.

Recently, I made my first ‘appearance’ on BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers, where they said that the only interesting thing about me was being a Chartered Accountant.  Now, this may not make me Box Office – but at least I know how to balance the books.

This year’s Relay for Life, in aid of Cancer Research UK, took place last Saturday in Lydney.

I was happy to offer my support to help launch the event and assist with the prize giving to the various teams, as I have done in previous years.

I am very pleased to announce that the Government has now introduced The Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill to Parliament.

When social care is discussed in the media or in Parliament, the conversation almost always focuses on the needs of older people.

I welcome the announcement that Hartpury College has been awarded a £340,162 grant by the Football Foundation. This grant will mean that Hartpury College can replace and extend their floodlit artificial grass pitch.

I had the pleasure of visiting the new Tewkesbury Growth Hub based within Tewkesbury Borough Council’s (TBC) main office. I am pictured here with the TBC Chief Executive, Mike Dawson and Janina Neumann who runs her own dual language design company from the Growth Hub.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who supported me in my campaign to become the next Leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party.

In light of the recent news concerning Five Acres, I though my constituents would appreciate an update on the situation.

(This article was originally published in The Times Red Box, 19 February 2018)

As a recent series of articles in The Times highlighted, housing is one of the big challenges facing the country. There are three areas which the government should address as it develops its housing policy.