Thank you to @jameelajamil for raising awareness about irresponsible and unsafe celebrity endorsed adverts for diet suppressants.

Following a focused campaign, Rebecca Pow MP for Taunton Deane achieves a remarkable U-turn on the Norton Manor Camp decision taken in 2016.

  UPDATE 29 MARCH: I rise to support the motion. I have not spoken in many of these debates, but I have been driven to speak. We have heard time and ​again from all the same people, but not much from what I call the voices of reason.

The New Year will of course have a backdrop of Brexit and given that my aims are to benefit the most people, to support business and to respect the outcome of the referendum, I shall be supporting the current deal. Should circumstances alter I shall make my decisions accordingly.

£500,000 of partnership funding has been secured from Highways England towards the restoration of the Wellington Monument in Somerset.

In the run up to Christmas Rebecca Pow MP has announced the winners of her first ever Best of the High Streets Awards meeting with each category winner to present their certificates.

Following the announcement that The County Stores in Taunton would be closing, the question arose as to where the Post Office would therefore be housed. I have been heavily lobbying the Post Office to ensure that they remain in Taunton and come up with a suitable solution. After a meeting with one

Greener market mechanisms could transform the quality of new homes.

Following a question I asked to the Secretary of State for Defence  ("I am delighted that the Secretary of State has seen fit to protect our amphibious capability—HMS Bulwark and HMS Albion —and their related technologies, both new and conventional.

On Sunday, I took part in Remembrance services across Taunton Deane. I started the day by watching the moving service at St Mary Magdalene's Church in Taunton which was followed by a tremendous parade.