IT has been another very busy year in Westminster and locally, with some significant challenges and great successes. In this downtime between the Christmas festivities and the start of the New Year, I thought I would take the opportunity to look at some of the highlights of the last year.

Another of my local priorities is to ensure that all the necessary infrastructure and support services are in place for the military families relocating to the Salisbury Plain area under the Army Rebasing programme. 4,000 soldiers and their families will move to the area and the Ministry of Defence is investing over £1 billion in homes and other infrastructure. I am working very closely with GPs in the Salisbury Plain area as they move ahead with provision for the military families who are expected to register at the practices when they move to the area.

I am also committed to ensuring that more children are taught in Good and Outstanding schools, but of course there are no great schools without great teachers, and the government is committed to making sure that teaching remains an attractive and fulfilling profession – including additional funding announced earlier this year which all local schools will receive to fund a welcome and well-earned additional increase to teachers’ pay.

My other local priorities include the campaign to expedite the roll out of superfast broadband across the constituency. I have also secured our rail services at Bedwyn and Pewsey, and the funding for the new bi-mode trains which are now in service on the mainline to Pewsey.

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