I firstly want to take this opportunity to thank you and everyone who voted to re-elect me as your Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South.

Toto Energy, a proportion of whose 134,000 domestic customers live within Stoke-on-Trent South, has ceased trading, Ofgem announced today.

Ofgem's advice to customers of Toto is:

The Government has announced today that schools in Stoke-on-Trent will receive an extra £4,668,239 to support pupils with high or special needs from 2020-21.

The Government has today announced that Staffordshire Police will receive an extra 90 police officers as part of its drive to increase police numbers and combat crime nationally.

Jack Brereton, Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South, has today announced the winners of this year’s High Street Awards, which asked the public to name their favourite small businesses in Fenton, Longton, and Meir.

Stoke-on-Trent South MP Jack Brereton has welcomed the granting of full civil injunctions against eight youths responsible for a spate of disorder and antisocial behaviour in the Meir area.  The court's award of full injunction follows eight interim injunctions granted earlier this year.

Jack has today written to Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, to raise his concerns about recent developments in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir. The text of Jack's letter is as follows:

The Royal Stoke University Hospital is one of the hospitals set to benefit from the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday of a £1.8 billion capital investment in the NHS.

The Government has today announced that a site on City Road, Fenton, will be the first ‘Open Doors’ space to come into use in the UK.

Jack Brereton MP has launched a campaign to re-open Meir Station and is asking the local community to show their support by signing his petition to Parliament and the Department for Transport.