Reconnecting Bodmin General with the mainline is something my constituents have called for since I was first elected in 2015, so I am delighted to have been a part of delivering this new feasibility study from GWR.

Last July I introduced the Bathing Waters Bill to the house for its first reading. My bill gives the Environment Agency additional powers to control and reduce discharge from combined sewer overflows; to make other provision about bathing water quality and clean beach initiatives.

Sign Scott's petition to have one of the Royal Navy's new Type 31e frigates named as HMS Cornwall.

Scott is campaigning for a bypass in Camelford to address traffic congestion and air quality issues

Scott is actively helping people in North Cornwall who don't have a fast or reliable internet connection.

Even the most basic of tasks requires access to the internet. From established farmers to new small businesses, a fast and reliable broadband connection is crucial.

Scott is campaigning to get a better railway infrastructure in North Cornwall and the South West to make it easier and faster for the people of North Cornwall to travel via rail

Scott wants the Government to address the disparity between pupil funding in urban and rural schools.It remains the case that a school in one part of the country can receive over 50 per cent more funding than an identical school in another part of the country, and it is important to make schools and early education funding fairer.

In June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. 17.5 million people voted to leave - the biggest mandate for anything in British political history. Scott wants to see North Cornwall benefit from Brexit, especially its farming and fishing sectors, while continuing to receive regional funding

Public toilets are under threat of closure in Cornwall, and Scott wants to see them remain open through a change in finance and law. Like shops, public toilets are subject to Non-domestic rate payments, otherwise known as business rates. This, on top of maintenance costs and water bills, means they are not cheap for local authorities to run.

In 2011, legislation was passed by the Coalition Government to speed up the increase in the state pension age for women born in the 1950s. For those women, their State Pension Age was originally 60, but through a number of Acts of Parliament, has gradually been increased.