I HAVE managed to catch up on a backlog of constituency meetings this week including a visit to our local prison, HMP Erlestoke, to meet Steve Hudson, prison governor, and review the work done at Erlestoke to rehabilitate prisoners and to motivate offenders to lead crime-free lives.

Our discussions included the risks to prison security from "legal highs" and illicit use of mobile phones by prisoners and I have written to justice secretary Michael Gove, secretary of state for justice, to raise some of the issues we discussed.

On a more positive note, I was especially delighted to hear about the wonderful initiative developed by the Friends of Erlestoke Prison to supply Erlestoke House Farm Shop.

The new shop will open on October 1, with fresh seasonal vegetables, plants and flowers from the prison allotment and bespoke hand-crafted furniture from the workshops and if the quality of the beans and tomatoes that I purchased is anything to go by, shoppers are in for a treat.

Together with local councillor Richard Gamble, I also met representatives of the Victoria Park Residents Association in Great Cheverell this week to discuss their concerns over the condition of the roads and other infrastructure on the development, which was formerly owned by the Ministry of Justice.

We came up with an interesting plan to secure funding for the necessary improvements and I shall be discussing this further with my colleagues in Westminster.

I then headed west to Trowbridge, where I donned my rail minister hat and joined local stakeholders and customers to formally open the fantastic new facilities at Trowbridge station.

where £1m One million pounds has been invested by First Great Western (now called GWR), Wiltshire Council, Network Rail and the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership to create 21st century station facilities including new waiting shelters, ticket vending machines, cycle parking shelters, handrails, upgraded steps and ramp and an electric car charging point.

Finally at County Hall I met Cllr Jane Scott, leader of Wiltshire Council and other Wiltshire MPs to discuss progress with the roll out of superfast broadband, one of my local priorities.

I am delighted that phase one of the programme is on schedule to be completed by March 2016 and to date more than 60,000 homes and businesses now have access to fibre broadband. Plans are now moving ahead for phase two of the project for which Wiltshire Council has secured an additional £3.11m. Phase 2 will take superfast broadband to 95 per cent of premises across the county by March 2017 and more information, including a very useful postcode checker, is at www.wiltshireonline.org.

I am determined that we will not stop at 95 per cent availability though and I am continuing to work with Wiltshire Council and Ministers to secure the necessary funding to reach the final five per cent.