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Dan Byles MP has been elected by fellow MPs to serve on the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee. This prestigious committee of 14 MPs oversees the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in order to hold the department to account.

Dan Byles MP, North Warwickshire and Bedworth's newly elected Conservative Member of Parliament has attended the annual Bun Day celebrations in Bedworth. He was joined by the Mayor, Lady Daventry, local Councillors and officials of the Nicholas Chamberlaine Charitable Trust.

I would just like to thank everybody in North Warwickshire and Bedworth who voted for me on Thursday; and to thank everybody who has helped to deliver leaflets, knock on doors, display posters, and to help in any way at all. I am still in a mild state of shock, and coming to terms with the fact that I have been elected as your Member of Parliament. It is an honour and a privilege, and I can only say thank you, and that I will do my best to be an effective champion for the constituency. The hard work starts now, and I hope I won't let you down.

Local people in North Warwickshire are still coming to terms with the Government's recent announcement that its preferred route for a new High Speed Rail line from London to Birmingham will have a serious impact on local villages. Residents of Gilson, Water Orton and Middleton face having the new track run right past their villages, and in some cases literally through their houses and farms.