LATEST NEWS

The West Midlands is getting extra officers from the new National Crime Agency unit to go after the criminal gangs laundering money through vape shops and mini-marts on our high streets. I have been campaigning for action to protect honest businesses on our high streets and this is a welcome first step. A new cell in the National Crime Agency will co-ordinate action against this criminal activity - plus there is funding for trading standards to toughen up our response to sha

For years I've been pushing to unlock the Washwood Heath HS2 site. A contract is now being awarded - and this brownfield site, sitting in the middle of one of the highest unemployment areas in Britain, will finally become a business hub with the first wave of thousands of new jobs. See link for more: https://www.facebook.com/reel/3501905703297871

This month, it was confirmed that Heartlands Hospital will get a share of £205 million to build one of just 10 new Urgent Treatment Centres in England. I promised when I was elected I'd fight to rebuild our A&E. Two years in, this is a massive step forward. NHS staff at Heartlands work miracles every day. But patients are being treated in corridors. That's got to stop. This new centre will end that More details on the money and the build timeline coming soon.

6,374 children across our constituency are now starting school fed and ready to learn. Free breakfast clubs are now open at: • Our Lady's Catholic Primary School • Firs Primary • Shirestone Academy • Oasis Academy, Blakenhale • Tame Valley • Audley Primary School • Brownmead Primary Academy • Heathlands Primary Academy • St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School. That's cheaper mornings for families. More flexibility for parents to get to work. And kids arriving at school fuelled