This is turning out to be yet another tumultuous week in British politics.

The decision of the Prime Minister to sack her Chancellor on Friday was all but inevitable following the reaction of the markets to the ‘mini budget’.

As a former Treasury minister, I have been involved in the build-up to many budgets and statements and I know well how meticulous the preparations for such fiscal events need to be.

I very much welcome the appointment of an experienced former cabinet minister in Jeremy Hunt, and his immediate reassessment of the deliverability of tax cuts and spending plans.

I attended the House of Commons on Monday afternoon to hear him give his statement, and I wish him well as he prepares to outline a more comprehensive medium term fiscal strategy at the end of the month.

He has already rightly set out that the priorities must be security and stability, while ensuring there is provision to assist the most vulnerable in our community with the cost of living.

I look forward to a credible, transparent, fully costed plan to get debt falling as a share of the economy over the medium term, based firmly on the judgements and forecasts of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility.

In the meantime, I remain focused on constituency casework, and I am intending to go to the debate on access to dentistry and hopefully get the chance to speak.

I visited a local dentist back at the beginning of this year to talk about the problem. Since then, the lack of NHS capacity in Salisbury has cropped up regularly in my inbox.

I have been following closely ongoing efforts to address the challenge of designing a funding model that incentivises more dentists to retain a significant NHS offering as part of their business.

Some months ago, it was a great honour to be nominated by the Lord Mayor of London as an honorary Freeman of the City of London.

I am delighted that my three private secretaries from my time at The Treasury will all be there this week at what I am sure will be a moving ceremony.

On Friday, I am hosting members of Salisbury’s BID for a discussion of Place Board projects and local business concerns.

I then have a full day of surgery appointments and visits before heading off to keep a speaking engagement in Swindon in the evening.