Mark Versallion

Well done to volunteers and staff at today’s public engagement. Healthwatch does great work so I’m sorry Govt is abolishing it. Councils, charities & patient advocate backlash as moving patient feedback in-house stops independence & NHS & Councils will mark their own homework.

Community spirit alive and well at the Church’s May Fayre today in Heath and Reach. Love supporting these events and seeing certain friends that we only get to see during the summer season of fairs, fund-raisers and county shows. Well done and thank you to all the organisers.

Our King just announced the Govt’s legislative programme for the year. I love the unity, history and continuity that our monarch represents, and that he’s above politics. A much needed dignified symbol of our inclusive and united kingdom.

In amongst all the politics, grateful to spend time with my dogs, in between daytime work and evening meetings, as it was Juno’s sixth birthday today (right) 🥳

Delighted to have been able to attend Eggington parish council last night and update on local issues. Have always loved Eggington’s traditional English village hall!

Delighted to be out with shadow minister @Matt_VickersMP supporting our friends in the Milton Keynes elections. Great guy, good fun and being out talking with people is one of the best things about politics.

Armed Forces Covenant meeting and grateful for the range of organisations who attend and great work being done by so many to help and support military veterans in Bedfordshire. The forum which I chaired at Chicksands (pic) this week grows ever stronger in its 15th year.

Honoured to have become the new chair of Milton Keynes Hospital Charity. Held my first meeting with the support of Vanessa & Kelly who do excellent work raising £400k a year - and all the volunteers that make the hospital’s & Friends of MK Hospital charity much loved endeavours

Good to be back at Leighton-Linslade’s beautiful White House today, this time for a meeting on the community’s green and blue infrastructure and our access to it. The surrounding villages and their rural parishes are a key part of the town’s access to countryside and water.

Great to be out supporting friends in Milton Keynes this weekend. Fighting for communities is a team effort!

A good day out in the community with friends in the sun, engaging with Dunstable residents.

Thank you to residents who came to my latest advice surgery - it’s always rewarding to chat with and help people. Thanks to The Heath Inn for hosting me and I look forward to the next one, in Hockliffe on 18 May.

An uplifting visit to MKHospital’s new Oak Wards nearly complete and ready to use this summer. I found the new CT Scanners impressive as is the whole imaging centre and I’m grateful to the excellent work done by the building & install contractors as well by dedicated NHS staff.

An energised annual parish meeting with so much going on in Chalgrave. A pleasure to address the community alongside our Police Commissioner, John Tizard. Vast majority of people want politicians to work with each other whatever party and John and I have always done well at that

Great to be with the good people of Stanbridge at last night’s Annual Parish Meeting. Thank you to all who attended and to parish councillors everywhere who work so hard for the their communities.

Popped into London’s lesser-known St Pancras Hospital today and met some excellent NHS staff. An exiting amount of building work going on too with the modern rising up alongside the Victorian.

Wishing everyone peace and time to reflect this weekend and renew in Easter’s message of love, hope and happiness. Easter is the most important of Christian holidays, when we remember the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ and consider its meaning.

Today is the official start of the new ICB, now covering not just Bedfordshire, Luton, MK but also Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. It’s called Central East Integrated Care Board and operates as a single organisation serving 3.5m people from today. Best of luck.

From 8am Monday Sheep Lane will be closed to fix potholes. The road from the A5 Flying Fox roundabout to Woburn is finally to be surfaced after four months of us all having to dodge those terrible potholes. Closed 8am - 6pm from Mon 23 March to no later than Wed 1 April.

"You're elected to make difficult decisions", budget speech youtu.be/ADpowSF_5QM?si… via @YouTube