Oxfordshire CCG has been successful in bid to the Department of Health for money to improve access to GPs surgeries in Oxfordshire. The bid, worth £5m (of which £4.5 is revenue funding and the rest capital funding) is part of a the ' Right time, Right place, Right care' initiative.
Labour Councillors have unanimously voted against a motion which would have rejected the idea of forcing people to vote or be fined. Councillors Robin Ashby and Pauline Allen set out the case against compulsion.
I should like to address three matters: first, the achievements of this Government in dealing with the state of the economy which they inherited in 2010; secondly, rebalancing the economy in terms of growth outside London and the south-east, particularly in the north-east of England; and, thirdly, the current level of debt and the cost of servicing it, the need to get the deficit down and the timescale for doing that, John, Lord Shipley, has told the House of Lords.
Schools Minister David Laws MP and South Lakes MP Tim Farron have today announced that Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale and Arnside National CofE School will receive a major share of a £370 million school buildings fund.
Twenty supply chain projects from across the country will benefit from a total of £67 million of government investment. It has been announced that this will include Siemens in Ulverston. South Lakes MP Tim Farron thinks this grant will help South Cumbria and South Lakeland has a real opportunity to grow its supply chain.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has said that a major package of funding to improve cycling on the A590 will hopefully save lives. The announcement is the latest tranche of funding to try and make the A590 safer for motorists, residents and cyclists.