Last Monday, I welcomed HRH Princess Anne to Melksham to visit Coombe Castle creamery.

Recognising their impressive exports, she presented them with their third Queen’s Award for International Trade.

At their new facility in the town, I saw the commitment to quality that enables them to sell their creams, cheeses and butter to more than 20 countries, from Canada to India.

Meeting long-established high and exacting standards for products made in the UK may be a challenge, but it is one that can set the products of British businesses like Coombe Castle apart and create demand for them all over the world.

Two recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have set out more clearly than ever the urgency of tackling climate change.

In Parliament, I asked the Foreign Secretary what initiatives he is taking to broker international agreement to cut global carbon emissions. Clean, renewable energy is crucial to cutting our climate-changing emissions here at home.

The amount of electricity generated by renewables has more than doubled under the Coalition Government so that they now account for more than a sixth of all the electricity we generate. The biggest part of that increase has come from onshore wind turbines, the cheapest source of renewable electricity. To keep this up, we need to make sure the most suitable local renewable energy projects can proceed.

I was pleased, therefore, to hear that the Planning Inspector has told Wiltshire Council to remove a clause added to the local plan by Conservative councillors that amounts to an effective ban on new wind turbines in the county – something I had challenged alongside the Wiltshire Clean Energy Alliance.

In the Budget, the Coalition Government announced that it is inviting universities and others to bid to develop an Alan Turing Institute for ‘Big Data’. That invitation has been enthusiastically embraced by the Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership as part of our plans to build a stronger economy and digital community in Corsham. I highlighted our interest to the Science Minister at questions in the House of Commons last week.

Corsham has unique credentials to play an important part in this imitative. I’m doing what I can to help bring this cutting-edge research and high-tech investment to Wiltshire.

My next constituency surgeries will be at The Pound Arts Centre, Corsham on Tuesday, (10.30am-noon) and Melksham Town Hall on Wednesday (10.30am-noon).