A few words from … Dame Harriett Baldwin MP

Highlighting sixteen wins in sixteen years!

Dame Harriett Baldwin MP has highlighted sixteen major achievements as she celebrates the sixteenth anniversary of her first electoral win. She championed the new community hospital at Malvern, and flood defence schemes for Upton-upon-Severn, Pershore, Powick, Kempsey and Uckinghall. She will shortly be marking the start of Severn Stoke’s permanent flood defence scheme and seeing more than £1.8 million to fund individual property level protection in Tenbury Wells. Dame Harriett has also secured funding for new classrooms at Hanley Castle High School, Tenbury High School, The Chase and Pershore High School, as well as many new classrooms and repair projects at primary schools across the constituency.

She backed major investment in the road network with the doubling of the Carrington Road bridge, the raising of the Marina Road in Upton, the rebuilding of the Eastham Bridge and the new Bluebell Farm roundabout. She’s been instrumental in improving road safety at the A46 at Beckford as well as securing funding for improvements to the north Cotswold Line and the construction of the Worcestershire Parkway station.

“One of the privileges of this job is being able to see tangible improvements in our local area which are down to making the case for public spending with local and national Government,” explained Dame Harriett. “I am fortunate enough to have been elected five times since in our beautiful area and I have put flood resilience, hospital upgrades, transport improvements and school buildings at the forefront of my campaigning. I must have knocked on almost every door during my time as an MP to listen to what people want and I have met hundreds of businesses, from entrepreneurs and small business owners to hospitality businesses, from farmers and food producers to major research, defence and manufacturing firms and handled over 150,000 pieces of constituency casework. I’ve tried to be a hard-working local MP as well as a strong voice in Parliament, and as I look back over the last sixteen years, I can see where I've made a difference and I won't stop campaigning for other improvements to our local area."