Tracey shares her thoughts on today’s vote around banning smoking in cars with chilren present. 

Yesterday Parliament debated the important issue of energy companies charging their customers more if they do not pay their bills by direct debit.

Tracey is encouraging registered schools, groups and clubs to sign-up for inclusive PE training after attending the Parliamentary Launch of Active Kids for All at the House of Commons last Wednesday where she met Ambassador Ellie Simmonds OBE.

In a short debate in Westminster Hall yesterday, Tracey and Parliamentary colleagues raised their concerns over the implementation of aspects of the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Act 2012 and specifically, how it will impact on mesothelioma sufferers pursuing compensation.

Tracey is supporting Big Energy Savings Week 2014, which takes place between 27th-31st January and aims to help over 100,000 consumers save energy and reduce their bills.

My staff often go above and beyond the call of duty; they stay late, work weekends and sometimes do personal chores for me without a grumble. But Georgina, who works in my Chatham office, is doing something incredible in support of my campaign to get defibrillators into as many schools and community centres as possible – she is running the London Marathon to raise funds for the next defib!

Tracey recently joined the Maidstone Rebels Wheelchair Basketball Club at their first home match of the year in Aylesford and encourages anybody who may be interested in playing or sponsoring the team to please get in touch.

Yesterday Tracey sought to amend the Mesothelioma Bill before Parliament, which will introduce a scheme to make it easier for mesothelioma sufferers to access compensation. This is an important issue in Medway which is a “hotspot” for the asbestos-related disease and one that Tracey has been outspoken on, supporting improvements to the Bill designed to benefit suffers of mesothelioma further.

Today the Airport Commission published its independent Interim Report into airport capacity in the UK, which concludes that there is a need for 1 additional runway to be in operation in the south east of the UK by 2030.

Tracey has welcomed the Government’s announcement that it will be conducting a review into new psychoactive substances (legal highs) along with the newly published guidance for local authorities on how to tackle “head shops”.