I want to take this opportunity to wish you all the very best for a happy and successful New Year! As we enter 2018, my family and I are spending a couple of days walking in the beautiful Malvern Hills before Parliament returns on the 8th January.

I am looking forward to getting stuck back into the busy work in the year ahead as we move toward Brexit on March 29th 2019, and pushing ahead on important supporting legislation in areas of trade, immigration, agriculture, and so on.

Closer to home in South Northamptonshire, I am determined to make progress on securing the delivery of a Towcester Relief Road that is fit for the future; to work hard to represent my constituents' strong feelings on issues like library closures and strategic rail freight interchanges; to expand outpatient services in Towcester following our success last year in Brackley; to support residents affected by HS2 construction; as well as a number of other local priorities.

As ever, you can contact me in the usual way via andrea.leadsom.mp@parliament.uk if you have anything you wish to raise with me. Alternatively, you can come and see me at one of my regular advice surgeries.