Last week, the Government announced a significant increase in funding for Thames Valley Police. The extra £32.7 million is made up of a £4.5 million increase in our annual grant funding; £4.3 million grant for additional pension costs and, potentially, £24 million from precept funding.

Robert said: "A pleasure to join everyone in Cogges for an evening of Christmas Carols. Wonderful to see the local community come together to spread festive cheer."

Volunteer Link Up, run by a team of volunteers, is the Volunteer Centre for West Oxfordshire, linking people who have time to spare with opportunities to help local residents and charitable organisations that need their services.

Robert said: "As always an absolute pleasure and honour to turn the Christmas lights on in Carterton. The lights look fantastic and it was great to see so many local residents out for the occasion."

Robert attended Oxfordshire County Council's public consultation in Cassington Village Hall to look at the proposed transport improvements to the A40 Corridor, where he discussed them with OCC Leader, Ian Hudspeth.

Robert spent this year's Small Business Saturday championing West Oxfordshire's small businesses in Burford - the “gateway to the Cotswolds” - which is frequently visited by people from all over the World.

Robert has visited Charlbury-based SpecialEffect to celebrate the charity's success in recent months.  Robert is a strong supporter of the charity, and recently championed their work in the House of Commons.

Robert appeared on BBC Radio Oxford this morning to discuss the consultation on A40 improvements, which has been launched today, and can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/yby8qjus.

Robert said: "Had a really productive meeting with Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group together with other Oxfordshire MPs.  Plenty to discuss, most notbaly recruitment, mental health services & delayed transfers of care.  These constructive dialogues are so important: we need to work to

Robert said: "Really useful catch up with Ian Hudspeth this morning discussing a range of topics including social care, education and, of course, the A40 - specifically how we can work together to secure central government funding through the Housing Infrastructure Fund and the Major Road Network