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✔️ Re-elect Matthew Barber as Thames Valley Police & Crime Commissioner on Thursday 2nd May 🗳️

☑️ Improving 101 call times
☑️ More neighbourhood police officers
☑️ Visible local patrols

The men and women who have served in uniform are the very best of us. They deserve our support.

Today we're launching OP PROSPER – a new service to support veterans into employment.

Just one of many steps we've taken to make the UK the best place to be a veteran 👇

🚜 I really enjoyed getting out and about on two of our local farms with Rupert Harrison yesterday to discuss a range of issues.
 
Thank you to the National Farmers' Union for organising the morning.

Thanks to the hard work of NHS staff, today's stats show we are continuing to make progress on waiting lists.

This represents the biggest 5-month fall in over 10 years outside the pandemic.

Much more to do but we will stick to our plan to cut waiting lists.

💙 This #WorldParkinsonsDay , the theme is ‘there isn’t one Parkinson’s journey’. Every story is different, and each one matters.

Learn more about the condition here: nhs.uk/conditions/par….

Banbury’s MP visited the Horton General Hospital yesterday (April 8) to speak to midwifery staff about the recent critical report the unit received from the Care Quality Commission. banburyguardian.co.uk/health/banbury…

In the first five years since the shingles vaccine was introduced, there were 1,840 fewer hospitalisations in England. If you're age 65-79, or 50-79 with an immunodeficiency, make sure you are protected with a vaccine. More: ow.ly/EVbl50RabQK

The NHS bowel cancer screening kit can detect signs of cancer before you notice anything is wrong.

The kit is automatically posted to everyone aged 56 to 74, and the programme is expanding to include those aged 50 to 55 by 2025.

#BowelCancerAwarenessMonth

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The deadline to register to vote in the elections on 2 May is 16 April. Register now: gov.uk/register-to-vo…

Join me to discuss #RuralCrime with Victoria Prentis
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I am in The Hague representing the UK at Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 🇳🇱’s Restoring Justice for Ukraine conference.

We’ll be discussing accountability, opening of a compensation scheme for war damages, and to meet international colleagues Karim A. A. Khan KC and Andriy Kostin.

The Royal Air Force has today successfully completed its second air drop of essential aid to Gaza.

Thanks to everyone involved for making sure this essential humanitarian aid gets to the people who need it most. More than 20 tonnes of aid has been dropped this week.

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Wishing a very blessed Good Friday to Christians here in the UK and around the world.

Pleased to join James Macnamara for his Swearing-In as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire yesterday.

I would like to pay tribute to the outgoing High Sheriff Sally Scott for all the incredible work she has done this past year and look forward to working with James in the months ahead.