Local MP Tim Farron has secured a promise from the Secretary of State for Transport, Louise Haigh, to take rail companies to task over their poor performance in Cumbria.
Today (19th November), local MP Tim Farron met with his constituents to discuss issues impacting rural communities, as thousands of farmers came to Westminster to air their concerns over the blow the Budget has dealt to family farms.
More than 2,000 people have signed local MP Tim Farron’s petition against the potential closure of Kendal's town centre post office.
Local MP Tim Farron has written to the Chief Executive of Morecambe Bay Hospitals Trust to call for action on the dentistry crisis, after it emerged that patients were waiting 15 months for treatment.
On the floor of the House of Commons this week, local MP Tim Farron asked the Secretary of State for Education to support a nursery school in Kendal that is faced with potential closure.
More than 400 farms in Westmorland and Lonsdale could be hit by the ‘Family Farm Tax’ following the government’s decision to cut inheritance tax relief for farms with local MP Tim Farron calling on the Government to scrap the tax hike on family farms.
