A parliamentary tradition at the end of every year is for MPs to have the opportunity to raise what are known as "matters to be raised before the forthcoming adjournment", or colloquially known as the Christmas Adjournment Debate.
2020 was not quite the year we envisaged, particularly for me as a first-time Member of this House.
It is important that we remember that behind all the statistics we have heard, at many Christmas dinner tables this year a loved one - a family member or a friend - will not be sitting in their chair because they have been taken from us too soon by this terrible virus.
Of course, our collective national effort this year has been about tackling coronavirus.
Out of the 10,000+ bits of casework that have come through my mailbox this past year, the overwhelming majority have been related to the pandemic in some way.
I hope that this Christmas we will remember those we lost too soon, and I also want to pay tribute to our frontline workers - those in the NHS but also those in all the other essential services who kept going throughout the pandemic - for everything they have done for us this year.
As well as tackling coronavirus and the issues related to it, I have not been deterred from standing up on the issues that the residents of Carshalton and Wallington elected me to raise a year ago:
- jobs and the local economy;
- transport and connectivity;
- air quality and the Beddington incinerator;
- protecting our fabulous local green spaces;
- good or outstanding local schools for our children;
- crime and antisocial behaviour;
- hold Sutton Council to account over its failures;
- and, of course, the biggest issue - St Helier Hospital and securing the £500 million investment into our local healthcare services.
Despite the pandemic, Carshalton and Wallington has achieved a lot this year, but there is still a lot more work to do.
We all hope for a better 2021.
As well as supporting the community through the pandemic, I want to continue standing up for Carshalton and Wallington’s interests here in this place, to support our thriving local economy, improve our transport links, protect our parks and clean up our air, provide a good or outstanding school place for every child, keep our area safe and deliver that £500 million investment into St Helier.
I would like to wish all the House staff, my own team - Tommy, Lewis, Richard, Daisy and Catherine - and everyone in Carshalton and Wallington a very merry Christmas and a happy 2021.
You can watch my remarks in the Christmas Adjournment Debate above, or you can read a transcript here.