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Friday, 13th November 2009

I was joined by a very special guest on my constituency day this week.  Her Excellency Madame Fu Ying, Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, came to see exactly what MPs do when in their constituencies. 

My day started at Kingham Hill School where the Ambassador and I held a Question & Answer session with Sixth-Formers followed by the opening of two new day houses.  Here, the Ambassador very generously offered a fantastic opportunity to one student at Kingham – a year-long scholarship to China.  I am sure that many students will be clamouring to take up this wonderful opportunity.

We then travelled the short distance to Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Primary School in Chipping Norton to talk with author and well-known restaurateur, Prue Leith, about the healthy eating the School Food Trust promote at lunchtime and in the classroom.  We had a tour of the school and talked to the children about good food and then sampled some of it ourselves which was delicious.

Following this, the Ambassador was taken on a tour of West Oxfordshire which included the Woodstock Museum.  I also held my advice surgery in Chipping Norton.  Here I met with constituents who wanted to discuss, amongst other things, the postal strike and modernisation of Royal Mail, the future of children’s cardiac services in Oxfordshire, compensation for wounded soldiers and disability sport provision for young people in the area.

Blenheim Palace was next on the agenda where I met up again with the Ambassador to present the Duke of Marlborough and his team with a well-deserved Visit England environmental award. We also had a short tour and planted a young oak tree in the grounds, albeit rather hastily in the rain and gales…

The Ambassador then returned to London as I made my way back to Chipping Norton to hold a “drop-in” meeting for my constituents where some of the issues I discussed were the problems facing new entrepreneurs, climate change, Zimbabwe and Incapacity Benefit.

My final stop was in Chadlington.  My local school there is currently fundraising for some new buildings so I made my way to the village church to have a “Conversation with Jane Moore”, author and journalist, who interviewed me in front of about 100 people.  Jane questioned me on a whole range of topics, from Europe to Afghanistan, and from my relationship with Samantha to whether I knew what the temperature setting was on the washing machine for delicates - which I fortunately got right! 

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