It was good to meet representatives of the Royal College of Midwives to talk about the latest annual assessment. Although this shows an increase in midwives, there is still a long way to go to recruit more.

Sir Oliver meets regularly with local farmers and strongly supports their interests. After a recent meeting with the NFU in Sandon, Oliver agreed to attend an event in Parliament to highlight the importance of British food and our farmers.

The Boundary Commission’s final proposals were published on 10 September and suggest removing villages such as Walkern and Watton-at-Stone from NE Hertfordshire constituency and placing them in Stevenage.  The Hertford Rural wards of NE Herts will be placed in Welwyn & Hatfield.  In addition,

Dear Sir Oliver

We are writing to provide you with an update regarding the additional industry compensation scheme.

I wrote on 14 August to the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, opposing any rail fare increase in the New Year in the light of the dreadful service on our line.

See attached performance data below.

North East Herts MP Sir Oliver Heald is pressing for up to date information on the stability and reliability of the new interim timetable.  He has been told by many passengers that there has been an improvement in reliability for GTR but he is asking for detailed statistics, so that we can judge

North East Herts MP Sir Oliver Heald has written to Jo Johnson asking what progress has been made in compensation for carnet rail passengers and regular travellers. 

Sir Oliver has today written to the senior Network Rail official for our area asking for an explanation for the infrastructure failings on our line.  These have included problems with signalling, overhead wires and points.