Last week I was pleased, together with corporate sponsors First Great Western, Network Rail, PepsiCo and Tesco, to announce plans for a major interactive careers Futures Fair for west Reading secondary schools. The event will be held in September at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre at the Madejski Stadium.

Apart from the corporate sponsors we also have backing from local media and The Chronicle has enthusiastically got behind the event. No doubt in the coming weeks and months there will be more information and articles in the paper featuring the types of organisations and activities at the Futures Fair.

I am working with my co-organiser, the Central Berkshire Education Business Partnership, and local schools to make sure we deliver a programme on the day which really helps in informing students about the types of career and further education options open to them. As a local MP, initiating and helping to deliver this kind of local community project is very satisfying.

The local elections in our Reading and West Berkshire wards went well for the Conservatives in Reading West and we made a welcome gain in Tilehurst. I was also delighted with the result of the AV referendum, having campaigned on the issue over the past months, but now it's back to business at Westminster.

In recent weeks I have had a number of constituents write to me about the Coalition's pledge to be the "greenest government ever". So it was interesting to see the announcement this week that the Government has accepted an ambitious fourth carbon budget for the period 2023-2027. This commits the UK to a 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, based on 1990-levels, and keeps us on track to achieving an 80% cut by 2050.

As part of the same announcement, the Government also noted that it will review the progress of European climate target negotiations in 2014. If at that point the pace of the UK's domestic commitments are different to that agreed by the EU, the Coalition will, as appropriate, revise up our budget to align it with the EU. I think this is an entirely sensible safeguard to make sure that no British businesses are placed at a disadvantage.

This announcement, coming on top of the Coalition's commitment to a new Green Deal to insulate millions of homes, a £3bn Green Investment Bank, support for ultra low emission vehicles and the world's first incentive scheme for renewable heat, certainly points to our having the greenest Government ever.