Diary of your MP from Rachel Maclean, MP for Redditch County – 23 February 2018
I RETURNED to Parliament from the February recess on Tuesday refreshed and raring to go. Of course during the recess I had held various meetings and visits in the constituency. On one day alone, I visited a successful Redditch business, enjoyed a tour round a village school, met with an important local health body and held a telephone catch-up meeting with the Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership.
Niche technical distribution company Lake Chemicals and Minerals, based in Paper Mill Drive, has grown from zero to 45 employees in 15 years, while turnover has increased from zero to £15 million in 2017. It’s always interesting to visit the huge variety of successful businesses in Redditch, and there’s always another one you never knew existed!
On the same day I was shown round Inkberrow First School, one of a number of village schools in the constituency that I am getting to visit. I also held a meeting with Healthwatch Worcestershire. Healthwatch is an independent consumer champion tasked with finding out what locals think about health and social care services and it was interesting to hear their views on local issues.
In January, I held the latest in a series of successful pop-up surgeries in the Kingfisher Centre, and there is another set for this Saturday, February 24, from 10am-11am.
I will also soon be piloting a series of beer mat surgeries – targeting the villages – so I’m sure you’ll see me in a pub near you very soon!
As well as surgeries, you can get in touch via e-mail too. The address is [email protected]. Since I was elected last June, I have received some 50,000 emails on a wide range of issues and topics.
Do visit my website at https://www.rachelmaclean.uk/ for details on how to contact me and for particulars of what I have been up to.
