Our city’s Walk-In Centre is under threat again. Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (the ICB), wants to completely shut the Centre or slash opening hours from 12 to four hours daily. A service used by homeless, refugee and asylum-seeking people – the Vulnerable Adults Service Health Inclusion Hub – is also in jeopardy.

I will fight these proposed cuts to services for homeless people and to our Walk-In Centre.

Both are well-used and help prevent people from getting so ill that they need far more intensive care later on, putting even more strain on our health and care systems.

For a very long time, I’ve been worried that making health services the responsibility of ‘arms-length’ organisations like ICBs makes it possible for governments to wash their hands of responsibility for cuts. Fourteen years of underfunding by the previous Tory government have led us here, and this Labour government is taking steps to fund our NHS better now. But I will always put my constituents and city before party loyalty, if it comes to that.

Enormous wider challenges, including an increasingly ageing population and the urgent imperative to cut carbon emissions, mean the big picture is that we need far more jobs in health and care. These proposed cuts would take us in the entirely wrong direction.