Local councils are being urged by South Lakes MP Tim Farron to use their powers over business rates to increase access to free-to-use cash machines in neighbourhoods and communities throughout Cumbria.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has urged local councils and the local economic partnership to do all they can to make sure that 'Cumbria is put in the shop window' as the government states spending by tourists visiting the UK is expected to reach record levels in 2015.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that South Lakeland will gain over £750,000 in new homes funding and has urged the authority to spend improving community facilities.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has urged local businesses who have not taken on an apprentice in the last year, to look again at a scheme which could see them be eligible to receive a £1,500 grant to take on an apprentice.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today released his list of advice surgeries for January 2015.
This afternoon the Department of Energy and Climate change has released local authority estimates for the percentage of households without mains gas. Commenting on the figures, South Lakes MP Tim Farron has said that they show the need for more off grid buying cooperatives to be created as South Lakeland and Eden have the highest amount of off grid properties in the North West.
