Diary

 

Wednesday 25^th 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 22^nd September – Tuesday 24^th September

• Labour Party Annual Conference

Saturday 21^st September

• 10.30am – 12.45pm Constituent’s surgery
• 1.30pm – 5pm Train to Brighton

Friday 20^th September

• 10.30am – 12noon attending Suffolk People First conference
• 12noon – 2pm Speaking at the Climate Strike in Ipswich
• 3pm – 5pm Team meeting

Tuesday 17^th September – Thursday 19^th 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 16^th September

• Working from my Westminster office all day

Saturday 14^th September

• 3pm – 5pm attending Ipswich Football Club’s game with Doncaster Rovers

Friday 13^th September

• 10am – 12noon attending The Consultancy Home Counties Inspire Suffolk’s event
• 12.330pm – 3pm Constituent’s casework
• 4pm – 5pm Press meeting

Thursday 12^th 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 11^th 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 10^th 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 9^th 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 7^th September

• 10.30am – 1pm Constituent’s surgery
• 1pm – 4pm Campaigning for Children’s centres

Friday 6^th 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 5^th September

• 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
• 12noon – 2pm Westminster office meeting
• 2pm – 6pm writing my All Member Meeting’s report

Wednesday 4^th 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 3^rd 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 26^th July – 2^nd 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 25^th 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 24^th 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 23^rd 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 22^nd 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 21^st 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 19^th 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 18^th 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 17^th 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 16^th 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 15^th 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 14^th July

• 12noon 1pm visiting BMX Racing at the Landseer Park track
• 2.30pm – 4.30pm attending and speaking at the Indian Summer Mela

Saturday 13^th July

• 10.30am – 1pm Constituent’s surgery
• 1pm – 3pm Cliff Lane school fete

Friday 12^th July

• 9am – 5pm Sorting Personal affairs
• 7.30pm – 9.30p All Member Constituency Labour party meeting on Brexit

Thursday 11^th 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 10^th 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 9^th 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 8^th 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 6^th July

• 10.30am – 11.30am Clip and Climb, attending a new business launch in Ipswich
• 1.30pm – 3pm Ipswich Scout fete, Sprites

Friday 5^th 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 4^th 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 3^rd July

• Unwell

Tuesday 2^nd 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 1^st 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 30^th June

• Personal affairs

 Saturday 29^th June

• 6.30pm – 9.30pm Ipswich Symphony Orchestra (Ipswich Town Hall and Corn Exchange)

 Friday 28^th June

• 9am – 3pm – Dealing with Personal affairs
• 3pm – 3.30pm – Correspondence
• 4pm – 5pm – Consultation

Thursday 27^th 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 26^th 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 25^th 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 24^th 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 23^rd June

• 7am – 5pm Great Orwell Walk

Saturday 22^nd June

• 9am – 10am  Save Our Shops campaign by USDAW
• 10am – 11am Windrush celebration On The Cornhill
• 12noon – 6pm Suffolk Pride
  

Friday 21^st 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 20^th 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 19^th 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 18^th 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 20^th Birthday Parliamentary reception

Monday 17^th 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 16^th June

• 2pm – 4pm Visit to Saint’s Street Market including Innovative Suffolk interview

Saturday 15^th June

• 10.30am – 1pm Constituents surgery

Friday 14^th 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  13^th 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 12^th 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 11^th 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 10^th 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 8^th 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 7^th 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 6^th 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 5^th 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 4^th 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 3^rd 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 1^st June

• 10.30pm – 1pm Constituents surgery

Friday 31^st 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 30^th 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 29^th 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 28^th May

• 9am – 9pm Campaigning in Peterborough

Friday 24^th 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 23^rd May

• 9am – 10.30am Tabling Departmental questions
• 10.30am – 11.30am Frontbench duty
• 12noon – 6pm Visiting recycling facility in Rochester

Wednesday 22^nd 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 21^st 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 20^th 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 19^th May

• 7.30pm – 10pm Guest at Iftar Celebration of Ramadan

Saturday 18^th May

• 10.30am – 12.30pm Constituents Surgery

Friday 17^th 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 16^th 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 15^th 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 14^th 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 13^th 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 12^th May

• 7pm – 9.30pm Mayor’s Charity Curry Night

Saturday 11^th May

• 10.30am – 1pm Political campaigning

Friday 10^th May

• 12noon – 1pm Meeting with Northgate Highschool headteacher
• 2pm – 3pm Suffolk Refugee Support Office Launch

Thursday 9^th 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 8^th 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 7^th 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 6^th May Bank Holiday

• 1pm – 4pm Spring Wood Day – Ipswich Wildlife Group

Sunday 5^th May

• 12noon – 4.30pm Speaking at the May Day festival in Alexandra Park

Saturday 4^th May

• 10.30am – 1pm Constituents Surgery

Friday 3^rd 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 2^nd May

• 8am – 10pm Local elections in Ipswich
• 10pm – 3am Borough Council count

Wednesday 1^st 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 30^th April

• 9am – 12noon Emails and correspondence
• 12noon – 2pm Work on Waste Strategy
• 5pm – 6pm All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health

Monday 29^th 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 28^th April

• 12noon – 3pm Judging Pitta Festival in Ipswich
• 3.30pm – 5.30pm Political fundraising event

Saturday 27^th April

• 10.30am – 12.30pm Political campaigning
• 2pm – 4pm Political campaigning

Friday 26^th 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 25^th April

• 8.45am – 5.10pm HS2 Bill Committee visit to the site

Wednesday 24^th 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 23^rd 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