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.
On the floor of the House of Commons this morning, local MP Tim Farron made the case for ministers to tackle the housing crisis in places like Cumbria by doubling council tax on second homes.
Local MP Tim Farron is calling on the Department for Transport and Cumbria County Council to press ahead with plans for a northern relief road in Kendal after traffic bedlam once again brought the town to a standstill.
Next Friday (November 5th) farmers in Westmorland and Lonsdale will be able to quiz local MP Tim Farron and representatives from DEFRA and the Rural Payments Agency at a special Q&A event.
Local MP Tim Farron has written to the Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) urging him to go ahead with plans to block banks from leaving the high street after it was announced that Barclays will be closing its Windermere and Kirkby Lonsdale branches in January.
