Local MP Tim Farron has today expressed concern at the decision of Northern Rock Foundation to cut millions of pounds for cultural and creative sectors next year. Mr Farron has tabled a parliamentary question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport asking for their assessment of the cuts, and hopes to establish what exactly is being done to limit the impact of the reduction in funding.
Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats will be ambitious. Ambitious for ourselves and ambitious for Britain.
New Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg MP today (Wednesday 19th December) promised to give a voice to the people of Dundee who feel ignored by politicians.
I am so pleased to hear that the news about Warley Hill post office is true and the decision has been made to keep it open.The decision paper on the Post Office website shows that the Post Office consultation team took notice of the points I made to them in my objection letter regarding the wrong address (it was listed as Warley Road not Warley Hill) and the fact that it is not level terrain to the town centre as they claimed. These issues were clearly fundamental to the final decision.
Paul Holmes MP this week added his support to Shelter's campaign to highlight the plight of homeless people this Christmas.
The Campaign to End Child Poverty warmly welcomes the fact that Nick Clegg's first formal meeting was on child poverty, where he stated it reflected a "deliberate decision to start bluntly with children". He made clear in the meeting his personal commitment to achieving the child poverty targets. We look forward to seeing how Liberal Democrat policies will lead to meeting the 2010 and 2020 child poverty targets, to make a real difference to the 3.8m children currently living in poverty.