SIR - Yes, let's promote what is happening in Worcester.

Ian Imray asks me to accompany him to see the good things Worcester has to offer (Letters, February 26). I'd be only too delighted to do this.

As someone who actually lives here, I'm well aware of how our city has changed for the good in recent years.

I hope Ian welcomes the new hospital, three new primary care centres, the new primary schools at Elbury Mount and Redhill, the new school buildings that have shot up across the city, the extra 538 police officers in West Mercia ably supported by the new community support officers.

I hope he joins me in welcoming the fact that educational standards have been improving for all years - with better than ever test results at age 11, 13, 16 and 18.

I would like to think he would support the extra students going to university and the exciting new plans for the second campus building in the city centre; more people staying on at school and more nursery places with Sure Start and children's centres.

Perhaps Ian would join me travelling on the bus accompanied by pensioners who now travel free, or meet the thousands of pensioners who get additional support through the pension credit and winter fuel payments. Perhaps he would meet with me and the hundreds of workers who, since 1997 have now found a job, supported by the New Deal or the thousands of local workers who benefited from the minimum wage and social chapter.

Ian says he is a person of influence. Perhaps he will tell David Cameron he is wrong to promise to scrap the social chapter which guarantees holiday entitlements as well as equal rights for part-time workers, benefiting thousands of people in Worcester.

I'm happy to shout from the rooftops about all the good things we now have in Worcester, but I would remind readers that most of those listed were opposed by Ian's own political party.

Mike Foster MP, Worcester