It was a pleasure to join Highways England at the their site for the widening the A500 between Wolstanton and Porthill junctions near the Etruria Valley development.

Grateful to Simon French, CEO of Alpha Academy Trust, for meeting me yesterday alongside Mr Bishop (Principal of Excel Academy) and Ms Lee (Principal of Sneyd Academy).

Earlier this week I was delighted to attend the final of the British Kebab Awards with some of the co-owners of Tiger Bite from Tunstall.

It was great to nominate them and see a local business shortlisted but sadly we didn’t pull of the win this time.

It was a pleasure to meet Denise Brown, Principal of Stoke on Trent College in Westminster last week.

I want to ensure we have a wide variety of high quality post-16 qualifications in Stoke-on-Trent North, Kidsgrove and Talke.

Yesterday I attended the Stoke Armed Forces & Veterans Breakfast Club at the Green Star in Smallthorne. They take place on the first Sunday of every month.

Over the recent parliamentary recess in February I visited Stoke-on-Trent Foodbank.

It was a pleasure to meet with the new Policing Commander of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Policing Team, Phil Duffy. He oversees Kidsgrove and Talke.

It was a pleasure to meet Richard from Swedish firm VXFIBER (LilaConnect), who are working with Stoke-on-Trent City Council, to roll out gigabit internet to the home, with £9.2 million of government funding from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

Jonathan Gullis MP is demanding Government scrap any plans to increase fuel duty in next month’s Budget to stop hard working families across Stoke-on-Trent North, Kidsgrove and Talke being hit at the pump.

This week I met with Network Rail in Westminster to continue raising my concerns over the delayed ‘Access for All’ upgrades assigned back in 2015.