Steve Brine MP VISITING Steve Brine MP My year at a glance WESTMINSTER... Every year I welcome a wide range of groups JUNE 2020 Called for DECEMBER 2020 Launched Annual support for event companies the HIV Commission’s report to Westminster but, this year, it’s been a little and festivals hit by Covid. on World AIDS day. Visited different. My Virtual Visit Westminster events have Welcomed 12th Winchester the stunning remodelled proved really popular and you can still join in. cubs to Parliament virtually. St Paul’s Church in Fulflood Here’s a selection with more details to be found at Spoke at an event about the Report and Energie Fitness as www.stevebrine.com/visitingwestminster Hope Church joined me in April 2021 and looming crisis in cancer care. gyms made the case for enjoyed a virtual tour followed by Q&A. Met constituents as part of re-opening. 2020/21 the ‘Time is Now’ climate lobby and (pictured) visited JANUARY 2021 Met with Working hard for Winchester, Alresford, Kings Worthy, the new West Downs building Home-Start to hear about Chandler’s Ford and surrounding villages at our University. their work supporting families locally and got to work as JULY 2020 Assumed Chair a volunteer (pictured) at of the APPG for Early Years Covid vaccination centres Dear Resident, and Childcare, acted as across Winchester. Held a Another year, another annual report and this is now my inspecting officer (pictured) roundtable with local sports at Winchester ATR and joined clubs about Covid support second in the time of Covid-19. multiple sessions as part measures and began my of the Hampshire Together While the pandemic may have dominated the past programme looking at Visit Westminster series. 12-months, my work as our local MP continues at pace future NHS services locally. FEBRUARY 2021 Answered JUNE 2020 We started the series in January with a large The Alresford Society zoomed in - in March and this report gives you a flavour of that. Launched Summer Tour questions from the 3rd group from the Friends of Winchester Cathedral. of this year - and were keen to chat. Check out My year at a glance for a whistle-stop 2020 with events in Fulflood, Winchester Cubs and called month-by-month precis and some of my favourite Micheldever and Badger Farm. for the early closure of border restrictions on the images. And in Visiting Westminster you can see how AUGUST 2020 Joined we’ve adapted to ensure constituents can continue our Lord Chancellor on a A31 (due to very low use). ...AND VISITING YOU visit to Winchester Crown Met with Hampshire MPs to to engage with me – and even see inside the voting Court and prison. Called on finalise plans for a ‘freeport’ lobbies of the House of Commons! Winchester City Council to in Hampshire ahead of the We remain hopeful visitors will be allowed back into realise our potential as a Budget. ‘workplace destination’ of the Palace of Westminster during 2021 so do take a Welcomed JULY 2020 the future. Joined Winchester MARCH 2021 moment to enter my ballot for tickets to see Prime the Alresford Pigs and Litterpickers for a city centre Ministers’ Questions live. clean-up. Alresford Society as part of Visit Westminster and visited On the inside, you will find a specific Westminster SEPTEMBER 2020 Perins School in the town Report covering, among other things, my work on Concluded Summer Tour with to see the school Covid Eight year-old William tried his best to the influential DCMS Select Committee and with the a street surgery in Hiltingbury testing programme up and Last Summer I joined the Winchester exciting HIV Commission. and visited the new Station make a snooker player of me on a visit to running. Joined councillors Litterpickers to help clean up our city centre. Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club. Mill in Alresford. Quizzed the and candidates in Weeke, Also, my priority remains our local NHS so that’s new BBC Director General as Winchester and Badger Farm covered, as is an update on Green Winchester – as part of my DCMS Committee ahead of key local elections. SEPTEMBER 2020 we move towards the pivotal COP26 summit – and an work and met the Chancellor at No.11 (pictured) to discuss APRIL 2021 Joined British update on some of the big development threats circling support for the early years Transport Police (pictured) Prime Ministers’ the constituency. We must stay on our guard to protect sector. for a ‘county lines’ operation Questions the landscape setting that makes this such a special at Winchester Station and part of England. OCTOBER 2020 Successfully caught up with hospitality Several times each year I hold took parents’ call for a Finally, casework continue to be the bedrock of my businesses across the a ballot when constituents can safe crossing (pictured) work as your MP. If you or someone you know needs constituency ahead of obtain tickets. The next draw date on Andover Road to HCC outdoor re-opening. Met my help, please get in touch. And don’t forget to follow and joined the Mayor of with the Friends of St Giles will be advertised as soon as Winchester to open a pop- my Facebook page for regular updates. Hill Graveyard to explore a available (and Covid restrictions up Christmas card shop in OCTOBER 2020 allow visitors back in) at Yours, Winchester. Joined Hyde-900 hidden city gem and Cycle for another community dig Winchester to discuss www.stevebrine.com/PMQs projects under the Active and welcomed big awards to and in local press. local organisations as part of Travel Fund. Here in a socially distanced the Culture Recovery Fund. MAY 2021 Out on the House of Commons. NOVEMBER 2020 Laid my doorsteps as local elections wreath to remember our came to town and met with Steve Brine war dead on Remembrance local farmers. I visited Draper MP for Winchester Sunday and met the children Tools in Chandler’s Ford and Steve Brine MP Get in touch with me... & Chandler’s Ford of Twyford School – over linked up with Eastleigh’s JANUARY 2021 MP, Paul Holmes, to explore zoom! Joined thousands of Steve Brine MP, www.facebook.com/SteveBrineMP constituents to voice concerns the future of Southampton House of Commons, over the proposed Royaldown Airport. Held my latest www.instagram.com/stevebrinemp development and discussed ASKtheNHS public meeting London SW1A 0AA emerging plans for the future to examine future NHS @stevebrinemp of Sir John Moore Barracks services and plans for a new [email protected] when sold. hospital in mid-Hampshire. www.stevebrine.com 0207 219 7189 Stay updated – like and follow APRIL 2021 Promoted by Steve Brine MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA and printed by Culverlands, Winnall Valley Road, Winchester, Hants SO23 0LN. fb.com/SteveBrineMP None of your taxes have been used to produce this publication which has been delivered to homes via a strong local team; including volunteers. www.stevebrine.com Working hard for Winchester and Chandler ’s Ford WESTMINSTER REPORT The environment was The current Parliament has so experience to hold Ministers to Much else has taken place; with our the issue that drove far been dominated by Covid-19 account for decisions – around climate change agenda, education me into politics and it and I have been working flat lockdown and release – which and on domestic abuse as well as remains my passion. out to help constituents and have had grave (and many as internationally, around Russia/China #PRIORITYNHS The Hampshire Together programme has taken and that is badly needed. But it must also see That is shared by this businesses affected by the yet unseen) impacts on all our and scrutinising future trade deals. place, over the past year, to consider options for significant investment at the RHCH and I am Government and, pandemic. I have also used my lives. especially, our Prime delivering future NHS services. clear Winchester needs a District General Minister. I have spent much time actively engaging Hospital worthy of the name. My message to the I back his “10 Point Plan” for a Green Industrial Revolution with the leadership at Hampshire Hospitals clinicians, who will ultimately recommend what which sets out how we’re planning to build back better through (HHFT) and urging constituents to feed into this they feel is best, is don’t give up on Winchester net zero policies. Following President Biden’s climate summit, important debate. Hospital! the UK has enshrined a new target in law to slash emissions by As we prepare for a formal public consultation May 2021 saw the return of ASKtheNHS as I 78% by 2035. later this year, the Trust grapples with key chaired a meeting between local healthcare Soon the Government will publish its net zero strategy before decisions around consultant-led maternity care leadership and constituents. It was a great hosting the UN climate summit (COP26). Creating green jobs and A&E in Winchester. chance to put questions about the Hospital’s future and wider NHS services. in emerging industries will be the cornerstone of a plan for Hampshire Together, because it is part of the economic recovery. Government’s promised ‘40 new hospitals’, is See more than decade of work at I have voted for our Environment Bill which is our flagship piece primarily about replacing Basingstoke Hospital www.stevebrine.com/prioritynhs of environmental legislation. It puts the environment at the heart of policymaking and places an obligation on ministers to Appearing on the BBC’s Politics set legally-binding targets to recover our natural environment. Live programme with Jo Coburn.