Earlier this year, the Mid Norfolk Flood Partnership group wrote to Lord Dannatt, Chair of the Norfolk Strategic Flood Alliance, to outline our 14 recommendations for actions that needed to be taken to ensure the county was much better placed to respond to, and mitigate for, future flood events.

Covid has been among the greatest challenges that our country has faced over the past hundred years, and it has required a monumental effort from us all to protect the NHS and save lives.

This last year has been catastrophic for so many people and businesses. The Covid pandemic has been particularly hard.

As part of the ongoing campaign to develop an Offshore Transmission Network (often known as an Offshore Ring Main or ORM), I was delighted to join a call with OFGEM.

All of our market towns face the familiar challenge of balancing new growth and development with the needs of the communities living in, and around, them – all the while preserving the unique rural heritage and way of life that we all cherish, and that makes our part of the world such an attractive place to visit.

For decades, successive governments have underfunded our transport network here in the East – which is why one of my central missions as an MP has been the improvement of our transport infrastructure in this region, and why I so greatly welcome the Prime Minister and Government’s commitment to “levelling-up” the places that have for too long been “left-behind”.

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are one of the most prestigious UK business awards, designed to recognize outstanding achievements in the fields of Innovation, International Trade, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility).

Having spent fifteen years before coming to Parliament working with and helping to finance small, science start-ups in and around East Anglia, I can see the huge potential of Life Science, Clean-tech, Agri-tech and Med-tech in East Anglia.

Although not opposed to the principle of having a new Weather Radar Tower in my constituency, since day one I have had concerns about the Met Office proposals to build one at the Anglian Water site in Old Buckenham.