With Parliament now in recess, I have been able to spend even more time out and about across the constituency, speaking to residents and visiting our fantastic businesses and organisations across Monmouthshire.

I have also been out knocking on doors and speaking to residents, hearing directly about the local issues that matter to them.

In Caldicot, I recently spent the day with Councillors Jackie Strong and Peter Strong, seeing some of the improvements being made to the town centre. We visited The Zone, a fantastic youth centre. It’s an excellent place for young people to spend their time, and I would love to see more facilities like this available to young people across all of our towns.

It was also great to see the work being done to smarten up Caldicot High Street, with new benches, flowers and hanging baskets being installed by the Town Council and looked after by councillors and local volunteers. Councillors and volunteers are also regularly litter-picking the high street too.

As well as door knocking and visits, I also hosted my first ever Pint with Cath session.

I have held coffee mornings and supermarket surgeries before, but this was a little more informal, with residents able to drop in during the evening for a chat and raise whatever issues were on their minds.

It was brilliant to speak to so many residents about a wide range of topics and hear their thoughts directly.

Thank you to everyone who came along – it was a fantastic turnout, and I’m looking forward to holding more Pint with Cath sessions across Monmouthshire in the future.

One of the key issues being raised with me by residents is concerns regarding climate change and the recent wildfires.

Last week, I wrote to the Prime Minister to urge him to refuse the licenses for the Jackdaw gas field and the Rosebank oil field.

It's obvious that climate change is here and getting worse. The wildfires across South Wales this summer should be a wake-up call to us all.

Granting licenses to those two fields will exacerbate climate change, not reduce it - and it will not take a penny off energy bills.

I oppose any new drilling, and so do many of you who have contacted me about this issue in recent months.

Instead, we must continue to invest in the green transition and in renewable sources of energy.

Soon, I will be back in Parliament, where I will continue to raise this issue and many others brought to my attention by residents, making sure all our voices are heard loud and clear in Westminster.