Reshuffles are always newsworthy, but rarely has a reshuffle attracted so much attention. Prime Ministers reshuffle their ministers on a fairly regular basis and aside from one or two small changes, this week’s changes come a year or so after Rishi Sunak took the top job in government.
This week saw the King’s Speech. Described by some as the poshest fancy dress party in the world, it is the state occasion when the government puts forward its legislative agenda.
Mark Garnier has received a number of communications from residents with regards to the current infrastructure of OpenReach in the area, and additionally in respect of their plans to bring Full Fibre to the area. Mark's office have been liaising with Openreach and set out below email corresponde
Please find attached as a PDF a Ministerial response to the letter Mark Garnier sent to the Secretary of State with regards to the installation of Telegraph Poles in areas where no ducting is available to the properties.
Mark arranged to meet with the Minister for State for Data and Digital Infrastructure, to raise concerns in respect of the installation of telegraph poles in areas. Additionally Mark raised various questions, which the Minister, has now followed up with a written information. The full letter is
Further to the announcement today by the Minister of State for Transport, asking all train operators to withdrawal their proposals to close ticket offices, further to a consultation earlier this year. I have written to the Managing Director of West Midlands Trains, seeking clarification that Kid
Mark Garnier, who submitted to the consultation earlier in the summer, welcomes the Minister of State for Transport's announcement today that Train Operators should withdraw their proposals to close ticket offices.
In the 13 years I’ve been Wyre Forest’s MP, I’ve always tried to make sure I never write two consecutive columns on the same subject. This week, I was going to talk about the law banning the use of laughing gas coming into force – an example of how an MP can change the law when it counts.
Yet again we wake up one Sunday morning to hear reports of the start of another war. This time, it is the extraordinary escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist group fighting for Palestinian independence.