A Message from Your MP (Jun 19 2025)

July marks one year since being elected as the MP for our constituency. Learning how parliament operates, establishing a constituency office and recruiting a team took some time, but I can now reflect on our work over the last 12 months.

Since the election, my team and I have opened over 7,000 cases and responded to 12,500 emails to constituents. Some involve signposting local people to the services they need, but others are more complex and take time to work through. Cases cover many topics, from health and care, to immigration and international trade.

Alongside helping constituents on a personal level, I have been able to use cases and local issues to inform efforts to drive national policy changes. I’ve been asking questions of Ministers in the House of Commons, speaking in Westminster Hall debates, securing one-to-one meetings with Ministers and taking part in cross party groups: the Transport Select Committee, and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill Committee. These are just some of the ways I have been able to voice your issues to the people with power to influence them. Recent successes include getting a decision on an export licence for local business which saved several jobs.

There has been some progress, too, on the big issues impacting our constituency: I secured a meeting with the rail minister to make the case for Grove Station; the County Council has started work on a feasibility study. I have presented a bill to ensure infrastructure targets accompany housing targets, which the Housing Minister has taken an interest in. Finally, after being rescheduled and delayed by the minister’s office, I have secured a meeting with the Water Minister about the SESRO reservoir to make her aware of all local concerns. Of course, on all these and many other local issues, there is more work to do. 

Recently, I have had the pleasure of the visiting the Cornermen project, based in South Moreton, doing fantastic work to support men’s mental health; discussed ideas to get people taking action to reduce their carbon footprint with trustees of local charity myzerocarbon.org at a recent constituency surgery in Wallingford; and attended the South East RFCA Armed Forces Briefing at RAF Benson to learn about the relationships between defence and the wider community, and the critical role in our communities and our future defence played by cadet and reservist schemes. 

During the summer, I will be undertaking many visits and holding regular surgeries around the constituency. If you would like to come and meet me, please contact olly.glover.MP@parliament.uk (or leave a voice message at 0207 219 7657). Feel free, as always, to use these contact details for anything else I can help with.

Olly

Olly Glover MP for Didcot and Wantage Constituency

Many thanks,

Olly Glover MP
Member of Parliament for Didcot & Wantage