Rachel is continuing to make progress in delivering on the priorities she set out at the beginning of 2023.
At the beginning of the year, Rachel set out 11 clear priorities. They are:
- Support constituents with the cost of living.
- To get the Garden Suite back to the Alex before 2024.
- Fight to return a maternity and children’s service.
- Ensure the Acute Trust delivers the promised investment in the Alex.
- Back policies to Level Up Redditch.
- Continue work to tackle violence against women and girls.
- Work with local and national government to secure the future of bus travel.
- Back policies to tackle illegal immigration and to end the small boat crossings.
- Support policies to tackle climate change.
- Improving mobile and broadband connectivity across the constituency.
- Ensure schools in Redditch continue to receive more funding.
And Rachel is making progress in delivering on the priorities she has set out.
This includes:
- Backing Government measures to support constituents with the cost of living and by holding cost of living drop-in events across Redditch.
- Secured the return of the Garden Suite Chemotherapy Unit to the Alex. The service is now back at the hospital and treating patients.
- Continued to fight to return a maternity and children’s service by backing a plan to train doctors in Worcestershire.
- The multi-million-pound operating theatre complex is under construction at the Alex and is due to open in September 2023.
- £800,000 in Government funding for Your Ideas to Level Up Redditch.
- Secured tougher sentences for domestic abusers who kill their partners or ex-partners.
- £1.4 million in Government funding to support local bus services.
- Voted for the Illegal Migration Bill to stop the boats.
- To help meet our net zero targets, £1.6 million in Government funding has been secured to boost the heating efficiency of council homes in Redditch.
- Stepped efforts to secure mobile connectivity improvements by writing to Ofcom and mobile network operators following the results of her survey.
- Delivered £2.1 million in extra funding for schools in Redditch and the Villages.
Rachel said:
“Others can often overcomplicate politics, but for me it’s really quite simple: get on, do the job and deliver results – that’s how I’ve always operated as your MP.
“And delivering results is exactly what I’ve been doing. Now we’re more than halfway through 2023, I’m proud to look back and say that I’m delivering on all of the priorities I set out at the beginning of the year.
“This includes securing the return of the Garden Suite and more investment in the Alex, levelling up school funding, more money for local bus services, backing policies to tackle illegal migration and much more. I could go on!
“It remains the honour of my life to be your MP and I’ll keep working flat out to deliver on the promises I have made to you.”
