Huge rate rises threaten rural businesses - Farron
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has slammed the government for putting rural jobs at risk, following the news that rural enterprises face the biggest increases in business rates.
23 Jan 2017
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has slammed the government for putting rural jobs at risk, following the news that rural enterprises face the biggest increases in business rates.
Data released this week shows that last month the Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust breached NHS standards about mixed-sex patient accommodation by four times the national rate. Local MP Tim Farron has repeated his call for an Urgent Care Centre at Kendal to help relieve the pressure on other hospitals in the Bay.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has raised in parliament the plight of farmers who have been waiting over a year to receive their farm support payments. Tim called in the debate for farmers who haven't received their 2015 payments yet to be made top priority.
Speaking in parliament today, South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has pushed the government to give flood-hit areas the money they are owed from the EU flood fund, following the news that none of the cash will be passed on.
A combination of "Labour's careless spending and the Conservatives' mean-spiritedness" means flood-hit areas across the North of England will miss out on millions of pounds' worth of EU flood funding.
Tim Farron's Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency had the sixth lowest unemployment of all 650 UK constituencies in December, according to figures released today.