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It was great to have a visit from young people who had worked with Northern Rail and Bradford City Football Club's Community Foundation to highlight unwanted sexual harassment on the transport network.

The end of the year is looking pretty wet and windy which might delay all those New Year fitness resolutions somewhat.

Parliament's last week of 2023 saw a range of important issues come to the fore, with a very welcome statement from the Home Office on new legislation to tackle drink spiking.

It was great to be at Mountbatten School recently to talk to Year 11 Citizenship students.

On Wednesday, I attended an event in Parliament hosted by @CarersUK and @SmartEnergyGB to to learn about the digital tools, resources, and information that exist to support people with their unpaid caring responsibilities.

With only ten days to go before Christmas Day there has been a flurry of Parliamentary activity ahead of the Christmas break.

Last week I met my constituent Kim Purkis who was in Parliament to talk about the work she does with her charity Face Everything and Rise. The charity supports people reliant on alternative nutrition or who live with a central line for various treatments (and their friends and family).

Every Bonfire Night I get hundreds of constituents contact me about the distress fireworks cause to their pets and livestock.

To mark 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence I met Surviving Economic Abuse, to hear about the work they have been doing over the last year. Their Survivor Forum, frontline partnerships and direct work reached over 58,000 people in 2022-3.