After my recent informative outing with police in Dursley, I have continued to campaign for better policing, and stronger, safer communities.

So, I was dismayed to learn that the supervision and overseeing of offenders in Gloucestershire has been “among the worst in the country.”

The latest report by the HM Inspectorate of Probation published found that probation officers here had “dangerously high workloads” and that “staff did not always pay sufficient attention to managing risks and keeping other people safe.”

The report on the Bristol, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) makes for worrying reading.

It’s a damning indictment of one of our most vital public services, which manages 6,300 offenders.

The probation service works to support some of society’s most vulnerable people as well as manage risk posed by some of the most dangerous.

Probation services should be working hand in hand with the police and the criminal justice system to help us to build stronger and safer communities.

This week, I’ve also offered my support to Martin Surl, Gloucestershire’s Police and Crime Commissioner who contacted me to raise his concerns about unfair funding of our police force.

Gloucestershire police already receives less funding than other areas of the country, meaning council tax payers here pick up more of the short fall. I will be contacting the Home Office to try to ensure that any funding for extra police recruits is spread fairly across the country and Gloucestershire does not continue to miss out.

In Parliament, it’s been a fast-moving couple of weeks, with lots of last minute changes to my diary after MPs headed back to Westminster following the Supreme Court ruling on the unlawful prorogation.

For me, that’s meant a return to my duties this week as Shadow environment minister looking at the detail of the Government’s agriculture bill which is supposed to set out the future for farming.

Simply looking at the impact on our farming communities and landscape alone, it’s clear that we must prevent a disastrous No Deal Brexit.