Following a recent meeting with farmers in Westmorland and Lonsdale, Local MP and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Hill Farming Tim Farron is today writing to Farming Minister Lord Rooker to ask that the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs looks into offering flexible options for the repayment of Single Farm Payment overpayments where they occur.
In an answer to a parliamentary question tabled by local MP Tim Farron, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy MP has stated that "HMRC considers the impact of its plans on customers, staff, business efficiency, diversity and the local community before making decisions."
Local MP Tim Farron asked the Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson about the provision of NHS dentistry in Ambleside and the surrounding region during Health Questions in the House of Commons today.
Local MP, Tim Farron has written to Stephen Dalton, the Chief Executive of the Cumbria Partnership NHS Trust to demand that he provides a firm date on which Ward 4, which was temporarily closed earlier this year, will be reopened. Mr Farron has spoken to and received a number of letters from concerned constituents who have suffered since the closure of ward 4. Since the closure of Ward 4, some patients have been inappropriately sent home and others have been sent for treatment in Barrow, which leaves them very isolated from their friends and family.
Responding to the announcement that the bird flu outbreak in East Anglia is the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, local MP Tim Farron said:
Local MP Tim Farron is to join the Liberal Democrats' Foreign Affairs spokesman in the House of Lords William Wallace at an event in Sedbergh this evening that will look at fair trade for farmers in Britain and beyond. Mr Farron has been campaigning recently for the 'Fair Trade' brand to be extended to British farmers, and an independent market regulator to be created for the farming industry.