Delighted the Health Secretary joined me in thanking the South Western Ambulance Service call handlers in reducing the average call answering times by 95% to just three seconds and the public for halving the number of 999 calls to the Trust over the last month.
Conservative-run South Gloucestershire Council has forced the Mayor of the West of England Combined Authority to rethink his controversial budget proposals.
Today I had an excellent meeting in Westminster with Laura Holloway from Enterprise car rental to discuss the forthcoming opportunities to employ and train veterans and apprentices. We also discussed the ongoing expansion of electric vehicles within their rental fleet.
Today I again visited the Brabazon development and met with Colin, Seb and Andrew at YTL to show my support for the building of this new community in our area which will now provide 3,000 more homes than originally anticipated.
Today, it was great to drop back in to the Community Coffee Shop at St Peter’s Church in Filton which as of the new year is going to be open every weekday.