South Lakes MP Tim Farron has thanked local Liberal Democrat councillors who have secured a funding deal for Kirkbie Kendal school. It is hoped that this funding package will end a long running saga with Cumbria County Council.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to the Secretary of State for Health and asked him to urgently re-think the plan for vascular services in the North West after the hospitals hosting two of the three new 'centres of excellence' were named in the damning Keogh review.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed an announcement by Education Minister Edward Timpson that primary schools in the South Lakes will get an additional £367,400 in funding to encourage and support school sports from September 2013.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has today commented on the news that Cumbria Police will not investigate the Care Quality Commission for failing to act on their 2012 report into maternity services at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed news this morning that unemployment has fallen again in South Lakeland.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the government announcement of a 44% increase in the pupil premium by 2015.