Oliver on Friday visited the Fishers Field Nature Reserve in Bushey for tea, cakes and a tour of the reserve.

Oliver was invited by the Friends of Fishers Field, the voluntary residents’ group who run and maintain the reserve.

Oliver has given his support to a project to set up a new primary school in Borehamwood.

The commitment came when Oliver met in Parliament with Ms Rebecca Schapira and Mr Samuel Franklin, two of the leaders of the New Borehamwood & Elstree Jewish Primary School Initiative.

It was a pleasure to attend this year’s My Local Heroes awards at the Grove Hotel in Watford, organised as readers will know by MyNews magazine.

Following Easter, I want to update you on my work as your MP since Christmas in my latest End of Term Report. To read it, please click here: End of Term Report - Easter 2019

It covers all my campaigns over the past few months and please click on the link above to read it.

It is the time of year again when families across our area are finding out which schools their children will be going to in September. I know from experience with my own how stressful school allocations can be because we all want to give our children the very best start in life.

Oliver has met with the Rail Minister, Andrew Jones MP, to press him on the delivery of Oyster pay-as-you-go to Radlett and Potters Bar.

The extension of pay-as-you-go technology to Radlett and Potters Bar in 2019 was promised by the Department for Transport at the end of last year.

Oliver met with the new Chief Inspector of Hertfordshire Constabulary, Clare Smith to discuss crime and policing in Hertsmere.

Oliver chaired a debate between Queens’ School, Bushey and Kings Langley School as part of the 8th Watford Inter-School Debating Cup.

The two schools debated the merits of building houses on green belt land, with Queens’ arguing in favour of the greater use of green belt land.

Oliver has called on people to support their local high streets and shop locally.

Joined by local parish councillors Viv Charrett and Estelle Samuelson, Mr Dowden dropped into shops in Radlett to speak with owners and promote independent small businesses.

Oliver has visited Explore Learning, a tutoring service in Borehamwood, to wish them luck ahead of the launch of their national Writers' Award on Thursday.