Tim Farron's response to Prime Minister
We've hidden facebook.com/libdems/videos/10... to prevent cookies being set that you haven't consented to. Please enable...
23 Mar 2017
We've hidden facebook.com/libdems/videos/10... to prevent cookies being set that you haven't consented to. Please enable...
The decision by Natwest to close local bank branches "lets customers down" and leaves many local residents facing long journeys to access bank services, according to local MP Tim Farron.
Conservative-run Surrey County Council has been forced to release a damaging financial report which warned in December 2016 that a 15% council tax referendum was "highly likely to fail". The report, produced by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA), cost nearly £25,000 and was commissioned in December but was only released to councillors on March 21st 2017, six weeks after the Council's budget meeting. The report states "In CIPFA's view a referendum is highly likely to fail" and goes on to note that the Council's financial position is "extremely worrying" and "the absence of a credible cost-reduction plan", and that "The council's financial plans are not robust and it is at risk of becoming financially unsustainable". It concludes that the council's financial resilience is "dependant on winning a referendum process, high levels of unidentified savings and rapidly declining reserves - not a good place!". Cllr Hazel Watson, Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council,
Figures published today show that the rate of 'bed blocking' in Cumbria is the worst in the country. More than 100 hospital beds a day are taken up by patients whose release has been delayed due to problems in the social care system. South Lakeland MP Tim Farron says the government must give an urgent funding boost to the social care system to tackle this crisis.
South Cumbrian MP Tim Farron has welcomed a new online system launched this week by the County Council to make it easier for residents to report highways faults and for the council to address them.
* The national threat level remains at 'severe' but there is still nothing to suggest any specific threat to our communities here in Northumbria