On the floor of the House of Commons this afternoon, Home Secretary Priti Patel agreed to meet with local MP Tim Farron and Lake District hospitality leaders to address the urgent staffing crisis in the industry.
Last night, South Lakes MP Tim Farron voted in favour of a motion to ban MPs from taking second jobs amid the ongoing row about Conservative Party sleaze.
Commenting on the Government's Integrated Rail Plan for the North and the Midlands, local MP Tim Farron said: "It's absolutely gobsmacking that the Government have published a 162 page rail plan for the North, with not a single mention whatsoever of Cumbria.
On the floor of the House of Commons today, local MP Tim Farron urged ministers to finally pull the plug on plans to build a new deep coal mine in Cumbria.
Local MP Tim Farron is urging the Government to introduce an emergency home insulation programme after new figures revealed that only 36 families in South Lakeland were supported to better insulate their homes under the government's recently axed Green Homes Grant scheme.
This week, local MP Tim Farron met with the Immigration Minister Kevin Foster to make the case for the Government to fix the staffing crisis in the Lake District hospitality and tourism sector.
