Local MP and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Radiotherapy Tim Farron is leading cross-party calls for an emergency response to the cancer backlog created by the COVID-19 crisis.
Next week, South Lakes MP Tim Farron will be visiting 36 towns and villages stretching from Grasmere down to Burton and Torver across to Dent, as part of his annual summer surgery tour.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has added his voice to the calls for the Government to extend the ban on landlords evicting tenants during the coronavirus crisis.
Commenting on the news that schools and colleges were told not to issue BTEC results to students today, Cumbrian MP Tim Farron said: "The decision to pull BTEC grades last night is an insult to the half a million students who have now been left in limbo thanks once again to the incompetence of this Conservative Government.
Commenting on the news that A-level and GCSE students will be given grades estimated by their teachers, rather than by an algorithm, South Lakes MP Tim Farron said: "This is a very welcome U-turn from the Government - but it really shouldn't have taken all this time for them to wake up to the reality of the mess they have created.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has urged local NHS commissioners to intervene to make sure that patients in Windermere and Bowness have access to a reliable GP practice ahead of a crunch meeting to decide the future of Goodly Dale surgery.
