Following the PM’s announcement of an extra £20 billion uplift in NHS funding by 2022/23 I was pleased to host an event in Parliament with the campaigning group 38 Degrees.

West Cornwall MP Derek Thomas has led a Westminster debate on council tax to press for it to be applied to all residential homes, including second homes and holiday lets.

This weekend (22-24 June) sees the second Great Get Together celebration which is inspired by the memory of former Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox, who was tragically killed on 16 June 2016.

MP Derek Thomas said the visit of Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to his West Cornwall constituency gave him a welcome opportunity to drum home the need for road improvements and a new A30 bypass between Long Rock and St Erth.

This week’s announcement of an extra £394m a week for the NHS is very welcome and amounts to a yearly 3.4 percent increase in real cash terms.. As I understand it, the increase is slightly higher in the early years to enable the NHS to respond to the particular funding pressure it faces today.

Twice in a matter of days in Parliamentary debates, West Cornwall MP Derek Thomas has pressed home the need for a reform of business rates.

I was very pleased to host Martin Clunes, President of the British Horse Society, at the launch the society's new virtual reality film.

This week the EU Withdrawal Bill came back to the Commons from the Lords.

It was great to attend the official ‘commissioning’ of the CT scanner installed at West Cornwall Hospital last week.

At their latest meeting, members of the Edward Hain group were shown a set of plans that showed one possible use for the hospital site which looked at the potential for a new build to the rear of the existing building.