Mark Garnier supported the Government in the £12.6billion investment in policing for the year ahead and the approval for Police forces to increase their council tax by no more than £1 per month per household.

Every January, we now support Holocaust Memorial Day. The service of remembrance is held at Midday on the closest Sunday to the 27th January and brings together a group of people who have an interest, one way or another in the atrocities that occurred in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.

Mark Garnier MP has welcomed the announcement today of £2.7million for the Churchfields development in Kidderminster.  The government has announced £866 million investment in local housing projects to help get up to 200,000 extra homes built.

It has always been the case that students engage in political debate, but probably less so those in their A level years.

Mark Garnier MP hosted the third Wyre Forest Inter-school debating competition on Friday 19th January 2018 in the Council Chamber at Wyre Forest House.2017. The debating competition was delayed to January 2018 due to winter weather conditions at the end of last year

Thousands of people will have been waking up this week worried about their jobs. Hundreds of thousands, if not more, will have been waking up worrying about their public services. The collapse of Carillion has repercussions across the whole of the country and our society.

The bigger news of the week from Westminster has been the government reshuffle. Before I became involved in politics, I could never quite get my head around just how an individual could move into a new job, heading up a government department, and be able to run it from day one.

Last week, in amongst the joy and happiness of the Christmas season, I spent a sad moment at the funeral of John Holden. John had been mayor of Stourport a few years ago and was afforded a Civic Funeral.

There is nothing more Christmassy at this time of year than to see it snowing. The sight of happy children building snowmen and tobogganing conjures up a picture of just how Christmas should be.

The latest round of EU negotiations demonstrates just how incredibly tricky the process of exiting the EU can be. Actually, the really tricky bit is the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.