Wednesday 25th September
- 8am – 8.30am BBC Radio Suffolk interview
- 9.30am – 11am train to London
- 11.30am – 1.45pm Debate in Chamber of HoC
- 1.45pm – 2.15pm BBC Interview at Millbank
- 2.30pm – 3pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
Sunday 22nd September – Tuesday 24th September
- Labour Party Annual Conference
Saturday 21st September
- 10.30am – 12.45pm Constituent’s surgery
- 1.30pm – 5pm Train to Brighton
Friday 20th September
- 10.30am – 12noon attending Suffolk People First conference
- 12noon – 2pm Speaking at the Climate Strike in Ipswich
- 3pm – 5pm Team meeting
Tuesday 17th September – Thursday 19th September
- Visiting Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in in Cumbria, including visits to reuse facilities and compostable plastics plant
Monday 16th September
- Working from my Westminster office all day
Saturday 14th September
- 3pm – 5pm attending Ipswich Football Club’s game with Doncaster Rovers
Friday 13th September
- 10am – 12noon attending The Consultancy Home Counties Inspire Suffolk’s event
- 12.330pm – 3pm Constituent’s casework
- 4pm – 5pm Press meeting
Thursday 12th September
- 9am – 10am Meeting with Ipswich housing developers
- 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
- 12noon – 2pm writing my EADT/Ipswich Star column
- 2pm – 4pm Speaking at the Packaging Innovation Conference
Wednesday 11th September
- 11am – 12noon Meeting with Labour Policy advisor
- 1pm – 2pm meeting with CEO of Confor
- 6.30pm – 9pm Hosting Return to Kurdistan parliamentary event
Tuesday 10th September
- 10am – 11am Shadow ministerial meeting
- 12noon – 1pm Agroecology in Action with Kerry McCarthy MP
- 2pm – 3pm Working on Waste Strategy with parliamentary colleagues
- 3.30pm – 4pm Rohingya APPG Report launch
Monday 9th September
- 4pm – 4.30pm Climate Action Drop In
- 5pm – 6pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary Labour Party meeting with Jeremy Corbyn
- 7pm – 8.30pm LECR Executive meeting
Saturday 7th September
- 10.30am – 1pm Constituent’s surgery
- 1pm – 4pm Campaigning for Children’s centres
Friday 6th September
- 9.30am – 12noon Ipswich Vision Board meeting
- 1.15pm – 2.15pm DAB staff meeting
- 3pm – 5pm Team meeting
- 7.30pm – 9.30pm Ipswich CLP All Member Meeting
Thursday 5th September
- 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
- 12noon – 2pm Westminster office meeting
- 2pm – 6pm writing my All Member Meeting’s report
Wednesday 4th September
- 10am – 10.30am Drop in for photo “Baby’s law” amendment to the Animal Welfare Sentencing Bill
- 10.30am – 11am Shadow Minister’s meeting
- 11am – 12noon meeting with WRAP representative
- 12noon – 1pm Prime Minister’s Questions
- 3pm – 4pm Packaging Federation meeting
- 4pm – 6pm RSPB Parliamentary event
Tuesday 3rd September
- 9.30am – 11.30am East of England Ambulance briefing
- 1pm – 2pm catch up with my environmental policy researcher
- 2pm – 3pm meeting with Tearfund
- 4.30pm – 6pm School Funding in East Anglia Westminster Hall debate
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary Labour Party meeting with Jeremy Corbyn
Summer recess 26th July – 2nd September
- held Constituent’s surgeries
- attended public event the Northern relief road
- visited waste and recycling facilities in Wales
- had numerous team meetings about casework
- attended Morland Road Allotments Fun Day
- attended meetings with County or Borough councillors
- had a meeting with the chief executive of the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT)
- had a meeting with executive director of Anglia Research
- had a meeting with Director of Integrated Community Paediatric Services
- had a meeting with Be Lucky Anti-Crime Foundation
- attended relaunch of the Swan in Ipswich
- attended CSNI all-member meeting to discuss the Ipswich Northern Bypass
- attended Ipswich Vision Board meeting
- met with many constituents privately about their casework
- attended Recovery Hubb’s BBQ
- attended Big Multicultural festival
- went to see Ipswich Town Football Club’s game against Shrewsbury Town
- visited Recycling and Recovery UK in Great Blakenham
- wrote my EADT/Ipswich Star columns
- had a week off
Thursday 25th July
- 9am – 9.30am DEFRA Questions team preparations
- 9.30am – 10.30am DEFRA Questions in the Chamber
- 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
- 12.30pm – 3pm Westminster office meeting
- 6pm – 8pm General election rally at Parliament Square
Wednesday 24th July
- 10am – 11am Shadow Minister’s meeting
- 12noon – 1pm Prime Minister’s Questions
- 1pm – 3pm Kew Gardens Bill
- 4pm – 5pm meeting with Water UK
- 5pm – 9pm Shadow DEFRA Team meeting
Tuesday 23rd July
- 9.25am – 11.30am Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill Public Bill Committee
- 2pm – 4pm Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill Public Bill Committee
- 4pm – 4.30pm Westminster Hall debate on Early release of Vanessa George from prison – Luke Pollard MP
Monday 22nd July
- 9am – 10am Meeting with County Councillor
- 10.45am – 12.15pm train to London
- 1pm – 1.45pm Eastern Group of Labour MPs PLP meeting
- 1.45pm – 2.30pm Chamber briefing
- 4pm – 4.15pm Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill Committee
- 4.15pm – 5pm Parliamentary Launch of Labour for a Green New Deal
- 5pm – 6pm Meeting – LSHB MPs & European Parliamentary Labour Party
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary Labour Party meeting with Jeremy Corbyn
Sunday 21st July
- 1pm – 2.30pm Trans Youth Recognition
- 2.30pm – 3.30pm Youths on Bikes at the University of Suffolk
- 3.30pm – 5pm Labour Party Fundraiser
Friday 19th July
- 9.30am – 12noon Ipswich Vision Board
- 12.30pm – 1.30pm Princes Street Maltings
- 2pm – 4pm Team meeting
- 5pm – 7pm Constituent’s surgery
- 7pm – 9.30pm Mind over Matter Ball
Thursday 18th July
- 10am – 12noon Labour Joint Policy Commission
- 1pm – 1.30pm Support the New Net Zero All Party Parliamentary Group
- 1.30pm – 2.30pm Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill voting
- 2.30pm – 3pm catch up with Darren Jones MP
- 7pm – 7.55pm train to Ipswich
Wednesday 17th July
- 10am – 11am Shadow Ministers meeting
- 11am – 11.30am Westminster Hall debate on miscarriage of justice
- 11.30am – 12noon meeting with senior representatives from Police Federation
- 12noon – 12.45pm Prime Minister’s Questions
- 1pm – 2pm lunch with a constituent and a trade union representative
- 3.40pm – 4.15pm Q&A with Clifford Primary School at the Parliamentary Education Centre
- 6pm – 8pm Public and Commercial Services Union parliamentary group event with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Secretary of State for BEIS Rebecca Long-Bailey
- 8pm – 10pm Writing my new column for EADT/Ipswich Star
Tuesday 16th July
- 9am – 12noon preparing for Westminster Hall debate
- 12noon – 12.30pm Royal College of Nursing parliamentary briefing and meeting with a student nurse from Ipswich
- 12.30pm – 4pm Working on Waste strategy
- 4pm – 5pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
Monday 15th July
- 8.30am – 9.30am meeting with Police Crime Commissioner, Chief Constable and Leader, Ipswich Borough Council
- 10.43am – 11.55am train to London
- 1.30pm – 2.30pm meeting with a CCRC& Criminal Appeals consultant
- 2.30pm – 5pm Meeting with my Environmental policy assistant
- 5pm – 6pm All Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary Labour Party meeting with Keir Starmer MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
- 7pm – 8.30pm Love Socialism, Rebuild Britain, Transform Europe meeting
Sunday 14th July
- 12noon 1pm visiting BMX Racing at the Landseer Park track
- 2.30pm – 4.30pm attending and speaking at the Indian Summer Mela
Saturday 13th July
- 10.30am – 1pm Constituent’s surgery
- 1pm – 3pm Cliff Lane school fete
Friday 12th July
- 9am – 5pm Sorting Personal affairs
- 7.30pm – 9.30p All Member Constituency Labour party meeting on Brexit
Thursday 11th July
- 10am – 1pm attending Great Eastern Mainline Taskforce Rail conference in Chelmsford
- 1pm – 2pm finishing my new column for EADT/Ipswich Star while on the train to Ipswich
- 2pm – 4pm New Anglia Housing conference in Ipswich
- 6pm – 8.30pm Ipswich Furniture Project – Annual General meeting
Wednesday 10th July
- 10am – 11am Shadow Ministers meeting
- 12noon – 1pm asking a question at Prime Minister’s Questions
- 1.30pm – 1.40pm briefly meeting Ranelagh Primary School at the Parliamentary Education Centre
- 1.40pm – 7pm leading for Labour and speaking on Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill
- 7pm – 8.30pm preparing my report for Annual Member’s meeting
- 9.30pm – 10.44pm train to Ipswich
Tuesday 9th July
- 9am – 11am Briefings and preparing for the week ahead
- 11.30am – 12.30am asking Justice departmental question in the Chamber
- 1pm – 4pm Working on Waste strategy
- 4pm – 5pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
- 5pm – 6pm meeting with Sue Hayman MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- 6.30pm – 7.30pm Shadow Justice team’s reception celebrating of 70 years of Legal Aid
Monday 8th July
- 12.45pm – 1.45pm Windrush compensation scheme parliamentary briefing from the Immigration Minister
- 2pm – 3pm Suffolk Fire Brigade Union in Parliament lobbying about safeguarding emergency services
- 4pm – 5pm All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group and Praseg joint event – A Green New Deal for the UK
- 5pm – 6pm Love Socialism, Rebuild Britain, Transform Europe parliamentary event
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary Labour Party meeting with John Healey MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Housing
- 7.30pm – 9.30pm Tetra Pak Dinner – Harnessing innovation to drive sustainability: Where next for the packaging sector?
Saturday 6th July
- 10.30am – 11.30am Clip and Climb, attending a new business launch in Ipswich
- 1.30pm – 3pm Ipswich Scout fete, Sprites
Friday 5th July
- 9am – 10am Meeting with Leader of Suffolk County Council Labour Group
- 11am – 12noon SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, fundraising coffee morning
- 12.30pm – 1pm Casework meeting
- 2pm – 3pm team meeting
- 4pm – 4.45pm meeting with Ipswich Councillor
- 5pm – 6.30pm Constituent’s surgery
Thursday 4th July
- 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
- 11.30am – 2pm Writing my new EADT/Ipswich Star article
- 2pm – 4pm Office meeting
- 4pm tube to Liverpool Street
- 5pm – 6.20pm train to Ipswich
- 7pm – 9.30pm Friends of the Earth, Ipswich
Wednesday 3rd July
- Unwell
Tuesday 2nd July
- 11am – 1pm Adoption UK Parliamentary event
- 1pm – 2pm Statutory Instruments performance in the Speakers rooms
- 2.15pm – 3.15pm Parliamentary meeting
- 4pm – 5pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
- 5pm – 6.30pm APPG Rohingya Report – Second Session – Justice, accountability and durable solutions to the Rohingya crisis
Monday 1st July
- 2pm – 3pm Meeting with Zilch representative about eliminating litter
- 3pm – 4pm Working on Waste & Recycling strategy
- 4pm – 6pm Attending the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group’s roundtable – Citizens Assemblies and the Climate Crisis
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary Labour Party meeting with Baroness Angela Smith
- 7pm – 9pm Briefings and preparation for the week ahead
Sunday 30th June
- Personal affairs
Saturday 29th June
- 6.30pm – 9.30pm Ipswich Symphony Orchestra (Ipswich Town Hall and Corn Exchange)
Friday 28th June
- 9am – 3pm – Dealing with Personal affairs
- 3pm – 3.30pm – Correspondence
- 4pm – 5pm – Consultation
Thursday 27th June
- 9.30am – 11.30am Working on Waste& Recycling strategy
- 11.30am – 1pm Finalising Waste& Recycling strategy with Shadow DEFRA Secretary of State
- 2pm – 3pm Meeting Richard Ratcliffe at his hunger strike
- 7pm – 9pm Suffolk Preservation Society 90th Birthday event
Wednesday 26th June
- 10am – 11am Shadow Minister’s meeting
- 11am – 1pm Working on Waste& Recycling strategy
- 1pm – 3.30pm Attending the Climate Mass Lobby and meeting Constituents
- 4pm – 5pm Meeting with Police and Crime Commissioner and Suffolk MPs in Westminster
- 7pm – 9pm Kurdistan Parliamentary event
Tuesday 25th June
- 8.30am – 10am Gordon Brown – speech on combatting the far right
- 10.30am – 11.30am Meeting with representatives from The Oxo-biodegradable Plastics Association (OPA)
- 12noon – 3pm Working on Waste& Recycling strategy
- 3pm – 4pm Preparing for National Policy Commission
- 4pm – 5pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
- 5pm – 7pm National Policy Commission
- 7pm – 8.30pm Addressing the Plastics Challenge House of Lords event
Monday 24th June
- 9.15am – 10.15am Meeting with Police Superintendent in Ipswich
- 2pm – 4pm Writing speech on unsustainable packaging
- 4.30pm – 6pm Leading for Labour on Westminster Hall Unsustainable Packaging debate
Sunday 23rd June
- 7am – 5pm Great Orwell Walk
Saturday 22nd June
- 9am – 10am Save Our Shops campaign by USDAW
- 10am – 11am Windrush celebration On The Cornhill
- 12noon – 6pm Suffolk Pride
Friday 21st June
- 9am – 10am Casework meeting
- 11am – 12.30pm attending Suffolk Day Records Office Extravaganza
- 2pm – 3pm Opening the assembly at the Northgate High School including speech on Jo Cox and the Get Together Foundation
- 4pm – 4.45pm Meeting with Food Bank Ipswich representative
- 5pm – 6.30pm Constituent’s surgery
Thursday 20th June
- 8.30am – 9.30am Preparation for DEFRA Questions
- 9.30am – 10.30am DEFRA Questions in the Chamber
- 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
- 12noon – 2.30pm Train to Birmingham
- 3pm – 6pm National Policy Forum – Food Policy event
Wednesday 19th June
- 10am – 11am Shadow Minister’s meeting
- 11am – 1pm Writing speech for Compostable Packaging event
- 1pm – 3.30pm Speaking at Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association’s event – The Future of Compostables in Packaging
- 4pm – 6pm Launch of Greenpeace’s major new report into plastic pollution in UK rivers
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary event by Movement for Justice on widening Windrush Scheme
- 7pm – 10pm Writing my new column for EADT and Ipswich Star
Tuesday 18th June
- 8.30am – 10am Working on Waste strategy
- 10am – 11am Meeting with my Environmental policy assistant on Waste strategy
- 11am – 12noon Meeting with representatives from Local Government Association
- 12.30pm – 1.30pm Briefing with Bournemouth Parliamentary Labour candidate
- 2pm – 2.30pm Great British Spring Clean 2019 Parliamentary event
- 2.30pm – 4pm Working on Waste strategy
- 4pm – 5pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
- 5pm – 7pm Meeting with Sue Hayman MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- 7pm – 9pm Sustain 20th Birthday Parliamentary reception
Monday 17th June
- 10am – Visit to new Sidegate Lane housing for homeless families
- 1pm – 2pm Interview with Stuart White (BBC Look East)
- 2pm – 3pm Meeting with representative from Sustain
- 3pm – 4pm Working on Waste strategy
- 4pm – 7.30pm London Legal Walk
Sunday 16th June
- 2pm – 4pm Visit to Saint’s Street Market including Innovative Suffolk interview
Saturday 15th June
- 10.30am – 1pm Constituents surgery
Friday 14th June
- 11am – 12noon Meeting with Realise Futures Managing Director
- 1pm – 2pm Suffolk Law Centre meeting
- 3pm – 3.45pm meeting with Innovate Suffolk representatives
- 4pm – 5pm Team meeting
- 5pm – 5.30pm Chat with the Chair of Ipswich Vision Board
- 6pm – 7pm meeting with Ipswich borough councillors regarding housing issues
- 7.30pm – 9pm Labour All-Member meeting
Thursday 13th June
- 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
- 11.30am – 12.15pm New telephone system installed in my Westminster office
- 12.15pm – 12.50pm Ministerial statement on Hong Kong in the Chamber
- 12.50pm – 3.15pm General Debate on Social Housing in the Chamber
- 3.30pm – 4.45pm Working on Waste strategy
- 4.45pm – 5.45pm Ipsos Mori Interview
Wednesday 12th June
- 10am – 11am Shadow Minister’s meeting
- 12noon – 2pm Waste & Recycling stakeholder roundtable
- 2pm – 4pm further discussing with some stakeholders
- 4.15pm – 5pm Opposition Day Debate in the Chamber – No Deal Brexit
- 7pm – 11pm Writing my new column for EADT and Ipswich Star
Tuesday 11th June
- 8am – 8.20am Radio Interview about Upper Orwell Crossing Cost
- 8.30am – 9.30am Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants – Right to Rent Roundtable
- 9.45am – 11.15am attended roundtable – Harnessing the benefits of reusable nappies: cutting costs, reducing plastic and empowering parents
- 12.30pm – 12.45pm BBC Look East interview at Millbank
- 1pm – 2.30pm Food Waste All Party Parliamentary Group
- 3.30pm – 4pm Meeting with my Environmental policy assistant on Waste strategy
- 4pm – 5pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
- 5pm – 6.30pm Rights of Rohingya, Bangladesh and Democracy in Burma All Party Parliamentary Group’s report launch
Monday 10th June
- 9am – 10am Phonecall with Hawthorne Drive Surgery Practice Manager
- 12noon – 1.45pm Second Anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire Parliamentary event in Speaker’s House organised by Grenfell United
- 2pm – 2.30pm Photocall with newly elected MP for Peterborough Lisa Forbes
- 3pm – 5pm Meeting with my Environmental policy assistant on Waste strategy
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary Labour Party meeting
Saturday 8th June
- 10.30am – 11.30am Discussion of Provision of Special Educational Needs (SEND) in Ipswich
- 2pm – 3.30pm Discussion of plans for new BMX course in Landseer Park
Friday 7th June
- 12.30pm – 1.30pm Meeting to discuss provision of GP Surgeries in SW Ipswich
- 1.30pm – 2.30pm BBC Interview re St Francis Tower
- 3pm – 4pm Discussion with plant managers at Gt Blakenham Energy from Waste plant
- 5pm – 6pm Constituency Surgery
- 6.30pm – 8.30pm Suffolk Nature Summit
Thursday 6th June
- 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
- 11.30am – 1.30pm General Debate on the Response to the Grenfell Tower Fire
- 7pm – 9pm Unite Community Meeting on NHS Reorganisation
Wednesday 5th June
- 9am – 11am Working on my EADT/ Ipswich Star column
- 12noon – 1pm Prime Minister’s Questions
- 1.30pm – 2.15pm Draft Animal Welfare Regulations
- 2.30pm – 3.30pm HS2 Bill Committee
- 4pm – 6pm All Party Parliamentary Group on Ending Homelessness report launch
- 7pm – 9pm Surfers against Sewage Parliamentary event
Tuesday 4th June
- 9am – 11am Meeting with my Work Experience student
- 11am – 1pm Tabling departmental oral and written questions
- 1pm – 1.30pm Fulfilling Lives programme Parliamentary Drop In (photo 1, photo 2)
- 3pm – 4pm Serious Violence Roundtable with Victoria Atkins MP, Minister for Crime, and Nick Hurd, Minister for Police
- 6.30pm – 8.30pm Leading for Labour on Wild Animals in Circuses (No. 2) Bill
- 8.30pm – 9pm Meeting with Turkish Kurds
Monday 3rd June
- 11.30am – 12.30pm Meeting with Jonathan Warren (CEO) to discuss progress on Norfolk & Suffolk (Mental Health) Foundation Trust
- 2pm – 4pm Consideration of Wild Animals in Circuses Bill
- 6pm – 8pm Creative Computing Centre Official opening in Ipswich
Saturday 1st June
- 10.30pm – 1pm Constituents surgery
Friday 31st May
- 9.30am -10.30am Team meeting
- Discussion of Housing issues
- Investigating situations including St Francis Tower
- 2pm – 3pm Meeting with a constituent about immigration casework
Thursday 30th May
- 8am – 11am Responding constituent’s communications
- 11am – 12noon Special Educational Needs and Disabilities March in Ipswich
- 12noon – 1.30pm Meeting with webdesigner
- 2pm – 4pm Writing my new column for EADT and Ipswich Star
- 4pm – 5.30pm Meeting with my office manager
Wednesday 29th May
All day at Suffolk Show including interviews with Lesley Dolphin (BBC Radio Suffolk) and Paul Geater (Ipswich Star)
- 3pm – 4pm Meeting National Farmer’s Union East Anglia at their stand
- 4.30pm – 5.30pm Meeting with Easton & Oatley College Principal
Tuesday 28th May
- 9am – 9pm Campaigning in Peterborough
Friday 24th May
- 10am – 11am Climate Strike at Ipswich Town Hall
- 12.30pm – 2.30pm Green King: meeting to discuss their local trade and their recycling policies
- 3pm – 4pm Visiting Hawthorne drive Surgery
- 4pm – 5pm Team meeting
- 5pm – 7pm Constituency Surgery
Thursday 23rd May
- 9am – 10.30am Tabling Departmental questions
- 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
- 12noon – 6pm Visiting recycling facility in Rochester
Wednesday 22nd May
- 9.25am – 11am Wild Animals in Circuses Bill Committee (evidence session)
- 11am – 12noon HS2 Bill Committee
- 12noon – 12.45pm Prime Minister’s Questions
- 12.45pm – 2.45pm Prime Minister’s statement on Leaving the EU – in the Chamber
- 3.30pm – 4pm End the Cage Age – Parliamentary briefing event organized by Compassion in World Farming
- 5.30pm – 7pm APPG for Future Generations and APPG on Climate Change join session on Negative Emissions Technologies
- 7pm – 9pm Emails and correspondence
- 10pm – 12am Writing my new column for EADT and Ipswich Star
Tuesday 21st May
- 9.30am – 12noon Wild Animals in Circuses Bill Committee (evidence session)
- 1.45pm – 2pm Therapy Dogs Nationwide Parliamentary event
- 2pm – 4pm Wild Animals in Circuses Bill Committee (evidence session)
- 4pm – 5pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
- 5pm – 6.30pm Plastic Policies Across Europe and the UK – All Party Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group event
- 6.30pm – 9pm Emails, correspondence, HS2 Bill Committee report writing
Monday 20th May
- 8.15am – 10.45am Attending the launch of ‘Norwich in 90/Ipswich in 60’ in Norwich and then taking the train from Norwich to London
- 1.30pm – 2.30pm Chamber briefing with the Shadow Cabinet
- 4pm – 5pm Wild Animals in Circuses Bill Committee
- 5pm – 6.30pm Motion on Medicinal Cannabis in the Chamber
- 7.15pm – 9pm APPG on Policing and Security – Policing Football
Sunday 19th May
- 7.30pm – 10pm Guest at Iftar Celebration of Ramadan
Saturday 18th May
- 10.30am – 12.30pm Constituents Surgery
Friday 17th May
- 10am – 11am Meeting with Supt Kerry Cutler re Ipswich Police issues
- 11.30am – 12.30pm Visit to St Helens Playgroup to discuss Early Years funding
- 1.30pm – 2pm Constituent visit
- 2.30pm – 3.30pm Visit to Child Psychotherapist to discuss PRU provision
- 4pm – 5pm Meeting with Leader of Suffolk County Council Labour Group
Thursday 16th May
- 9am – 10.30am APPG on Global LGBT rights briefing
- 13.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty in the Chamber
- 3pm – 4pm International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia debate in the Chamber
- 4.30pm – 5.30pm ITV Anglia Late Show recording
Wednesday 15th May
- 10am – 11am Shadow Minister’s meeting
- 11am – 12noon Attending Women and Equalities Committee: Inquiry into Health and Social Care in LGBT Communities with representatives from Ipswich and Suffolk
- 12noon – 1pm Prime Minister’s Questions
- 3.30pm – 4pm Meeting with Eduardo Goncalves, founder of Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting
- 4.30pm – 5.30pm Leading for Labour on Trophy Hunting in Westminster Hall debate
Tuesday 14th May
- 9.30am – 12.30pm HS2 Bill Committee
- 4pm – 5pm Shadow DEFRA team meeting
- 5pm – 7pm East of England All Party Parliamentary Group | Sustainable Growth in the East of England: The Housing Implications
Monday 13th May
- 10.30am – 11.30am Giving blood in Ipswich
- 4pm – 4.30pm HS2 Bill Committee
- 4.30pm – 5.30pm Leading for Labour on Statutory Instruments: Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 811) and Plant Health (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 820)
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary Labour Party meeting with Jeremy Corbyn
Sunday 12th May
- 7pm – 9.30pm Mayor’s Charity Curry Night
Saturday 11th May
- 10.30am – 1pm Political campaigning
Friday 10th May
- 12noon – 1pm Meeting with Northgate Highschool headteacher
- 2pm – 3pm Suffolk Refugee Support Office Launch
Thursday 9th May
- 9am – 9.30am Shadow Minister’s meeting
- 9.30am – 10.30am DEFRA Questions in the Chamber
- 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty in the Chamber
- 11.30am – 12.30pm Leading for Labour on Statutory Instruments: The Animal Health, Plant Health, Seeds and Seed Potatoes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 809)
- 12.30pm – 1pm Fostering Network’s Foster Care Fortnight parliamentary event
Wednesday 8th May
- 9.30am – 11.30am HS2 Bill Committee
- 12noon – 1pm Prime Minister’s Questions – me asking a question
- 1pm – 1.30pm Call with Hannah Blythn AM (Welsh Deputy Minister for Housing & Local Government and former Wales Environment Minister) and Andy Rees OBE (Head of Waste Strategy in Wales)
- 4pm – 5pm Planning amendments to the Wild Animals in Circuses Bill with Luke Pollard MP
- 5pm – 6pm LGBT+ Inclusive Sex and Relationships education event hosted by Stephen Doughty MP and meeting Olly Pike
- 6pm – 7pm Cladding Forum organised by the secretariat of the APPG on leasehold and commonhold reform, meeting two constituents from Ipswich
Tuesday 7th May
- 9am – 10am FIND – turf cutting ceremony for new foodbank in Ipswich
- 12.30pm – 2pm Climate Change briefing lunch in Westminster
- 3pm – 4pm Finalising my speech for Wild Animals in Circuses Bill
- 4pm – 7pm HS2 Bill Committee
- 7.15pm – 8.30pm Wild Animals in Circuses – speaking for Labour
Monday 6th May Bank Holiday
- 1pm – 4pm Spring Wood Day – Ipswich Wildlife Group
Sunday 5th May
- 12noon – 4.30pm Speaking at the May Day festival in Alexandra Park
Saturday 4th May
- 10.30am – 1pm Constituents Surgery
Friday 3rd May
- 9am – 9.30am Phone interview about Controlling Dangerous Dogs
- 10am – 11am Meeting with management from First Buses in Ipswich
- 12noon – 1pm Emails and lunch
- 2pm – 3.45pm Visiting Huawei Research facility at Martlesham
Thursday 2nd May
- 8am – 10pm Local elections in Ipswich
- 10pm – 3am Borough Council count
Wednesday 1st May
- 9.30am – 11.30am HS2 Bill Committee
- 11.30am – 11.45am Climate Change Emergency photo
- 12noon – 1pm Prime Minister’s Question Time
- 1pm – 2pm Autism training for MPs (Certificate)
- 2pm – 3.30pm Chris Packham – Making Conservation Happen- The People’s Manifesto for Wildlife
- 3.45pm – 4.15pm Making a video message on Climate Change
- 5pm – 6.30pm Shadow Ministerial meeting
Tuesday 30th April
- 9am – 12noon Emails and correspondence
- 12noon – 2pm Work on Waste Strategy
- 5pm – 6pm All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health
Monday 29th April
- 9am – 2.30pm Work on Waste Strategy
- 2.30pm – 4pm All Party Parliamentary Group on Ending Homelessness – to discuss lack of housing for people leaving prison
- 4pm – 5.30pm HS2 Bill Committee
- 5.30pm – 6pm TUC “Dying to Work” event to promote rights for workers with terminal illness
- 6pm – 7pm Parliamentary Labour Party meeting
- 7pm – 8.30pm Private Tower Blocks: Removal of Cladding (adjournment debate)
Sunday 28th April
- 12noon – 3pm Judging Pitta Festival in Ipswich
- 3.30pm – 5.30pm Political fundraising event
Saturday 27th April
- 10.30am – 12.30pm Political campaigning
- 2pm – 4pm Political campaigning
Friday 26th April
- 9am – 9.30am Meeting with Leader, Ipswich Borough Council
- 9.30am – 11.30am Ipswich Vision Board
- 12.30pm – 1pm Phone call about casework
- 1pm – 2pm Meeting with Constituent
- 2.30pm – 3.30pm Meeting with Website designer
- 3.30pm – 4.45pm Catching up with emails
- 5pm – 5.30pm Constituents Surgery
- 6pm – 7.30pm Political campaigning
Thursday 25th April
- 8.45am – 5.10pm HS2 Bill Committee visit to the site
Wednesday 24th April
- 6am – 7am Responded to Twitter messages
- 8.30am – 9.30am Plan for day, signing forms and letters
- 9.30am – 11.30am HS2 Bill Committee
- 12noon – 1pm Prime Minister Questions
- 1.15pm – 1.30pm Shelter on Justice for Renters
- 1.30pm – 2pm All Party Parliamentary Group on Food Waste
- 2pm – 3pm HS2 Bill Committee
- 3pm – 4pm Emails
- 4pm – 4.50pm Independent Carers Re: Social Care Funding (Photo), (Video)
- 4.50pm – 5.15pm Farm Africa – Supporting women’s coffee cooperatives in Uganda
- 5.15pm – 5.30pm Let Nature Sing with RSPB
- 5.30pm – 6pm Make Votes Count meeting
- 6pm – 7pm Emails and plan for tomorrow
- 7pm – 8pm Write column for EADT and Ipswich Star
Tuesday 23rd April
- 8am – 10.30am Emails, phonecalls from home
- 11am – 1pm Train to Wesdtminster – read HS2 Papers
- 1pm – 2pm Plan for day, sketch for Plastics speech
- 2pm – 3pm Meeting with Greta Thunberg on Climate Change
- 3pm – 3.30pm Meeting with Catch 22 leaders
- 3.30pm – 4pm Attended Chamber of HoC for Urgent Q on Climate Change
- 4pm – 6pm HS2 hearings
- 6pm – 6.30pm Finalised Plastics speech
- 6.30pm – 7.30pm Plastics recycling debate
- 7.30pm – 7.45pm Out to Westminster Square to talk to leaders of Climate Change protest
- 7.45pm – 8.50pm Climate Change policy
- 9pm – 10pm N. Ireland (not able to leave the Chamber)
- 10pm – 10.30pm N. Ireland Agriculture Regulations