I was delighted to be able to visit four local businesses this month. I never forget that it is businesses like these that enable workers to feed their families and the Government to get the tax revenue we need to pay for all of the public services we care about.

South West Bedfordshire MP has backed a new campaign to honour the Royal Navy fleet which helped to bring about the end of slavery and freed 150,000 men, women and children.

I asked the Defence Secretary to continue to issue online updates on the implementation of accepted recommendations from the Living in our Shoes report.

National Grid managers and supervisory engineers who started as apprentices were keen to promote National Grid apprenticeship opportunities to South West Bedfordshire MP, Andrew Selous, on a recent visit to National Grid's Leighton Buzzard substation which powers the West Coast mainline between W

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) has officially opened its new Patient Transport Service base in Dunstable.

England's (joint) most powerful wind turbine at Checkley Wood off the A5 is now generating electricity. It is a 4.1 MW turbine, and in its first week of operation generated over 177,000 kWh of power.

I raised the matter of the police funding formula being unfair on Bedfordshire Police with the Minister and asked when this will be updated.

Central Bedfordshire will receive £19 million in extra funding next year as part of the Government’s £64.7 billion Local Government Finance Settlement.

Last week I raised with the education minister how important it is for Central Bedfordshire to receive its fair amount of funding for schools.

I asked the Leader of the House if councils can be required to publish monthly reports on how they are spending the millions of pounds given to them by the Government for pot hole repairs.