Each winter, as the temperatures drop, the cost of heating the home rises. As it does each year, the Department for Work and Pensions is supporting vulnerable people to heat their homes. This support comes in two different payments, aimed at different people.

Many people across Finchley and Golders Green will have been affected by traveller encampment. These are, unfortunately, a regular occurrence across both our area and across London. We have recently seen them at Cricklewood B&Q and on TfL property at Henlys Corner.

Barnet London Borough Council has become one of the most productive local planning authorities in the country, both in terms of the number of cases investigated and the number of cases resulting in action being taken.

This morning, the Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Bill, often called Finn’s Law, passed through the House of Commons at Third Reading. It will now go to the House of Lords for consideration.

Mike Freer MP, is pleased to sponsor the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (BYHMC) travelling exhibition taking place in the Upper Waiting Hall in the Houses of Parliament this week.

Local MP, Mike Freer, accompanied the Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, to the official opening of the new permanent digital breast screening unit at Finchley Memorial Hospital on 17 January 2019.

I continue to support the Prime Minister and the Government in the need to negotiate a good deal as we leave the EU. My position on that has not changed.

I supported Theresa May from the first day she announced she was standing for the Leadership in 2016. Her qualities of diligence, determination and public service have not changed and she continues to have my unqualified support. 

In the last week, residents that live close to the Cricklewood B&Q may have noticed a traveller encampment appear in the car park there. This is, unfortunately, a regular occurrence – not just in our area, but across London.

Along with Minister Sir Alan Duncan MP, Mike Freer MP today met with Averof Neophytou (pictured), the President of the governing Democratic Rally party of Cyprus at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.