View from Westminster 4th December 2015 4th December 2015 For the fourth time since I have been an MP, I will be voting on the issue of going to war. This week Parliament votes on committing our forces to bombing so... Westminster News
View from Westminster 27th November 2015 27th November 2015 HSBC recently announced it was closing its branch in Bewdley on the basis that it was simply not economical to keep the branch open. But this closure is a big... Westminster News
View from Westminster 20th November 2015 20th November 2015 No one who has been following the news cannot be completely stunned by the events in Paris last Friday. It is breath taking that such a small group of... Westminster News
View from Westminster 6th November 2015 6th November 2015 Over the last year or two, there have been a number of bank branch closures in Wyre Forest. Kidderminster is losing the Co-op branch and Barclays closed in... Westminster News
Wyre Forest MP supports plan to improve the Nation’s money handling 2nd November 2015 Mark Garnier MP worried that 1 in 5 cannot read a bank statement Westminster News
View from Westminster 30th October 2015 30th October 2015 From time to time, the mechanics of Parliament come under scrutiny and cause confusion. One possible reasons for this is that Parliament has been making its... Westminster News
View from Westminster 23rd October 2015 23rd October 2015 This week sees the state visit of President Xi Jinping of China. The full menu of state visit pomp and circumstance will be offered, including not one but three... Westminster News
View from Westminster 16th October 2015 16th October 2015 One of the more radical policy of this government is to hand down powers from Whitehall to cities. This was started with Manchester and the so called Northern... Westminster News
View from Westminster 9th October 2015 9th October 2015 Last week I hosted my sixth Jobs Fair in. We had over 40 exhibitors, offering jobs across a wide range of activities. With around 750 people on jobseekers... Westminster News