Interview with Inside Housing:

Eddie Hughes is the only MP who’s also the chair of a housing association. Nathaniel Barker finds out how he balances the roles.

It was wonderfully festive and busy during the last few weeks of 2017 in both Walsall North and Westminster. I found myself rushing around Parliament from Christmas events to voting on the very important EU Withdrawal Bill which has now passed the next Parliamentary stage.

Concerned residents from Bloxwich, Willenhall and Walsall North have written to Eddie about recent crime in the area. Eddie shares their concerns so here's three things he's been doing to fight for local people:

Eddie Hughes MP publishes draft law and consultation to seek views from industry and the public

Today is Budget Day and i'm pleased to say that we've already had some success - with the £4.2 million awarded by the government to improve local transport, but the work does not stop there!

Yet another busy and exciting month in both Parliament and Walsall North.

The Sunday Times covered my parliamentary question to the Department of Health about sepsis in newborn babies. The figures I received were quite shocking. Last year, 9,274 babies less than a month old were admitted to hospital with the potentially fatal condition.

Eddie today joined residents in Bloxwich to mark Remembrance Sunday, as services were also held in Willenhall and Short Heath.

Eddie Hughes MP was delighted to welcome Housing Minister, Alok Sharma MP, to Walsall North today to meet with residents and hear how we are improving housing and building new homes here in Walsall.

Eddie met with Andrew Jones MP, Exchequer Minister at HM Treasury, to put forward the case to open the train station in Willenhall. Both Eddie and West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street, want to see the train station reopened.