Success! My Private Members' Bill - "Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill" has cleared all its Parliamentary stages! Next stop - Royal assent.

An excerpt from BBC Sunday Politics South East on school funding. You can watch the full episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0003bmn/sunday-politics-south-ea… 

In the last week I have taken part in a number of interesting debates in Parliament which didn’t involve Brexit.

Last year there were over 750 nominations from fellow MPs for individuals or organisations to win an award at the NHS Parliamentary Awards.

My speech from Monday's education funding debate, where I talk about the long-term funding issues that schools in West Sussex have encountered. 

I am pleased to let you know about DFID’s Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF), an exciting funding opportunity for small charities across East Worthing and Shoreham and beyond

Great news for Boundstone and other maintained nurseries today - the Government will extend the supplementary funding paid to local authorities - by a sum of approximately £24 million - to enable them to fully-fund maintained nursery schools for the whole of the 2019/2020 academic year. 

The problem of unauthorised traveller encampments has been a nuisance in Adur and Worthing over many years, as it has in many parts of the country.

I took part in a fascinating and thought-provoking online Q&A session with The Telegraph yesterday as part of their ‘Duty of Care’ Campaign.

I seem to be spending a lot of time at the Sir Robert Woodard Academy recently but with good reason.