Liberal Democrat Transport Minister Norman Baker has announced a £266m investment in local green transport schemes, bringing the total invested to more than £1bn.
The UK Government is notorious in taking reasonable EU directives and adapting them for application here in ways that are over-complex and far too strict. This behaviour undermines the credibility and acceptability of important regulations, most famously Health and Safety measures. It's great fun to blame "Brussels" of course - and insurance salesmen have a field day selling more and more imaginative policies - but it can mean workplace safety is not taken seriously and contributes to the UK's poor level of labour productivity.
Liberal Democrats in Government have worked hard to ensure that from next April the personal tax allowance will have risen to £10,000. This will take over 2.7m low earners out of tax altogether, and deliver a tax cut worth £700 per year to 24m low and middle earners. We want to go further, and raise the tax allowance to the point which means that no one on minimum wage has to pay income tax at all.
There were a number of by-elections on Thursday. Congratulations to Stephen Knightley who won in Cornwall for the Lib Dems.
Twenty-five years ago the "New Model of Care" for the NHS unveiled a three-point plan:
Nick Clegg has announced that for the first time ever, 16 and 17 year olds in the UK will be able to get help from their local jobcentre. Young people will get support uniquely tailored to them from specially trained coaches who will help them to find work and training.