Greg spent the day in Matfield & Brenchley including an informal drop-in surgery at The Star Inn in Matfield and a visit to Brenchley & Matfield Primary School where he was quizzed by Year 6 pupils about his work as an MP. Greg also had an advice surgery at Brenchley Memorial Hall.
On a visit to Paddock Wood Primary School, Greg met its School Council to discuss their recent visit to Parliament.Greg said: "I really enjoyed meeting all the members of the School Council. They were clearly inspired by their recent visit to Parliament and had prepared some great questions for me."
Greg met some of the schoolchildren who designed brightly-coloured bunting to mark Fairtrade fortnight in Tunbridge Wells. Twenty local schools were involved in creating the bunting depicting Fairtrade products.
New figures, demonstrating that the long-awaited A21dualling between Tonbridge and Pembury could be delivered at less than half the current £120m cost, were presented to Roads Minister Mike Penning at a meeting on 22 March 2011.
Commenting on the announcement that Southeastern is introducing a new compensation system for passengers and that its franchise is to be continued to 2014, Greg said: "The good news is that Southeastern is going to scrap the current useless compensation system and replace it with a system that gives refunds for actual delays and cancellations suffered each day."
Greg visited the Tunbridge Wells' Mission Fayre where over 30 different organisations, including Street Pastors, Tunbridge Wells Community Centre for Debt Advice and the Number One Community Trust, came to talk to people about their work.
A group of Year 5 pupils at St James' Junior School in Tunbridge Wells practised their debating skills for a project on global warming during Greg's visit to their school.
As part of Greg's visit to Southborough, he was given a tour of Gallard's Almshouses where he met many of the residents. He was also shown plans for a major redevelopment of the homes by the Trustees.
The University of Sheffield has just published its independent audit of Southeastern's performance data which showed that 82.04% of trains ran on time – just 0.04% above the threshold that would have triggered a 5% reduction in season ticket prices.
