A Wonderful Festive Season and Looking Forward to the New Year

Report back from Andy Slaughter, MP for Hammersmith and Chiswick

Andy Slaughter MP (third from right) at the Hammersmith and Fulham Council Christmas Day lunch

January 10, 2025

Happy New Year! It has been a great Christmas recess in the constituency with wonderful events in the lead up, including a reading I gave at St Nicholas’ Church in Old Chiswick as part of the carol concert, and on Christmas Day itself, where I attended the Hammersmith and Fulham Council Christmas Day lunch for 500 residents.

I celebrated the New Year by attending the London Vihara and a Viennese concert at St Michael and All Angels – both of which I thoroughly enjoyed.

It wouldn’t be a New Year without the New Year Honours list and I’d like to congratulate three-time Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and Emily Thornberry MP and on well-deserved awards in the New Year Honours list.

Looking ahead for 2025, I am expecting it to be a busy one. We await announcements from the Government on the NHS, including encouraging movement on improving social care, and hopefully the conclusion of the report on the New Hospital Programme in the coming weeks.

In Justice Select Committee news we will be launching two enquiries this year, both relating to prisons. The first will be on rehabilitation of released prisoners and the second will look at drugs and drug use within the prison population.

I’m looking forward to a productive year in Parliament and in the constituency.

Best wishes,

Andy

andy@andyslaughter.com

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