Liberal Democrat spokesman for the countryside and MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale Tim Farron used DEFRA questions in the House of Commons today to press Ministers to make it illegal to label as British anything other than meat produced entirely in Britain.
Earlier this week DEFRA made available badges to surviving members of the Land Girls, to recognise their achievements. Today, Local MP Tim Farron posted an Early Day Motion, encouraging fellow Members of Parliament to recognise the achievements of the Land Girls, known officially as the Women's Land Army, and their role in Britain's survival through two world wars.
Over the weekend, Tim Farron MP met with a constituent who is one of the many hundreds of innocent victims of the arthritis drug, Vioxx. Today Mr Farron has called upon fellow MPs to stand up for the rights of those victims, and has written to the Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw, demanding that money be made available to mount a legal challenge against the producers of the drug.
This Friday local MP Tim Farron will be attending a meeting of the charity Books 4 Tanzania, and will be listening to a talk by a Tanzanian PhD student. Books 4 Tanzania is a small independent charity organisation who obtain books from a variety of sources before sending them to Tanzania, where the books help to fill libraries, especially in schools and teacher training colleges.
Local MP Tim Farron today renewed calls for answers, following confusion over a major oil spillage from a generator at Coniston Water. There is a debate over when the oil spill occurred, due to conflicting stories over who reported the spillage first. An eyewitness reported the spill to the Environment Agency on January 17th, and the EA started clean-up the following day. However, United Utilities claimed it reported the situation as soon as it occurred. In addition, it took eight days to tell the public about the spillage.
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has declared his support for the UK Human Trafficking Centre's Blue Blindfold campaign, which is aiming to raise awareness of the signs of human trafficking. The campaign was launched in parliament yesterday, and prompted Mr Farron to table parliamentary questions to the Home Secretary regarding awareness at borders of human trafficking.
