MP welcomes new action to protect the pub
New rules unveiled by the government will help pub tenants battling to pay rent or beer costs in Cumbria, South Lakes MP Tim Farron has said today.
4 Jun 2014
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Farron gets national park democratisation into Queen's Speech
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that his long term campaign to democratise our National Parks has made a big step forward. Today the Government announced that in the next legislative session it will bring forward a draft bill, proposing legislation in this area.
4 Jun 2014
Tim backs financial education in local schools
Tim Farron, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, is encouraging local schools to put on money lessons this June, to give their pupils a head-start in financial education before it becomes a compulsory part of the new National Curriculum in September. The move comes in advance of this year's My Money Week (9 to 15 June), run by national financial education charity pfeg (Personal Finance Education Group).
20 May 2014
County Council has got this wrong: MP
Local MP Tim Farron has expressed his disappointment that Cumbria County Council has decided to push ahead with on-street car parking charges. Tim has said that the council has 'got this wrong'.
20 May 2014
MP hails action on Parkside Road flooding
Local MP Tim Farron has hailed a 'major step forward' in the campaign to deal with the long running flooding issues by the railway bridge at Parkside Road in Kendal. Tim has praised local campaigner Chris Hogg and councillors Clare Feeney-Johnson and Shirley Evans for leading the community campaign to fix the flooding.
15 May 2014
MP welcomes fall in unemployment rate
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed today's unemployment figures from the Office of National Statistics, which show a further fall in the number of unemployed people in Westmorland and Lonsdale. The number of unemployed people in Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency in April 2014 was 357. This represents a rate of 0.9% of the economically active population aged 16 to 64, the 643rd highest of the 650 UK parliamentary constituencies. (1st = highest rate of unemployment, 650th = lowest rate of unemployment.) The number of claimants is 180 lower than in April 2013 and 34 lower than in March 2014. This data is not seasonally adjusted. Tim said: "This further fall in unemployment is encouraging new for the South Lakes. However, there is absolutely no room for complacency, and we must remain aware of the fact that the South Lakes has a large elderly population which isn't accounted for in these figures. "Moreover, while unemployment is low; wages are often lower here than elsewhere as the South Lakes employs a h
14 May 2014
