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5 January 2017 Dear colleague I am writing to you concerning the ongoing industrial action on Southern Rail and the planned drivers’ strikes next week. I wanted...

A happy New Year to all my constituents and may 2017 prove to be a rather quieter and more predictable one than 2016, in so many respects. As we start the year...

Great article from Nigel Harris in RAIL Magazine. He writes: "I was once a proud member of the National Union of Railwaymen (under Sidney Weighell), now the RMT...

The Commons broke for the Christmas recess on Tuesday but before MPs left for their constituencies I presented what is called a ‘Ten Minute Rule Bill,’ another...

It was great to welcome Environment Secretary, Andrea Leadsom, to Shoreham last week to see the Adur Tidal Defence work at first hand together with the head of...

Last week we held the 10th debate in the space of a year in the Commons on the subject of Women Against State Pension Inequality or the WASPI campaign as it is...

Is the Southern Rail situation going from bad to worse? Yesterday I joined a large group of Sussex Conservative MPs for an update with Transport Secretary...

The big news in Parliament this week was of course the Autumn Statement, the first and apparently the last to be delivered by new Chancellor Phillip Hammond as...

This week I travelled up to Birmingham with the Home Affairs Select Committee as part of our investigation into accommodation for asylum seekers. The train left...