Bright eyed new MPs are wandering like lost sheep around the Palace of Westminster, while I am trying to anticipate what public service cuts will be proposed for our area. The immediate period after an election is always an unusual time, but it allows a lot of catching up on dealing with constituents issues.

In particular I want to see whether there are any attempts to cut our hospital. The language would be ‘efficiency' and health improvement, but it always is when hospitals are under attack.

Crucially our hospital needs to keep its 24 hour Accident and Emergency and its consequential surgery provision and it needs to keep its maternity services. Instead real waste should be cut, such as the Bassetlaw News, the County News and senior executive posts.

I have also asked the speaker for an adjournment debate on the Treaty of Rome and free movement of labour. The farms bring in cheap labour from abroad and put people up in caravans. I think that local people should be doing this work even if it means food prices go up because of the minimum wage costs and I am proposing that there should not be free movement of labour throughout the EU where there are no jobs available.

I am taking a look at companies breaking the law on the minimum wage and any evidence that you have will be treated in confidence. I hear repeated stories of ways in which some businesses are managing to avoid their legal obligations, and therefore help drive down pay levels and encourage illegal activity.

Newark is getting its new bus station and I was told that ours would follow by Council Leaders in Nottingham. Its high time that we had a proper bus station, with toilets and shelter.

There is a step forward on Vesuvius/ASDA development to report, with a public inquiry now set for August 3rd-6th in Worksop Town Hall. I intend to be at it.