From the Chamber: All Aboard the Bus
My brief is Active Transport, Travel and Highways. I have found it an interesting brief with many challenges, and a sense of achievement when things get delivered.
6 Mar 2025
Wales - Health
Reeves has one month to save Wales’ health and social care from £759 million ‘jobs tax bombshell’
Lib Dems call for health and social care sector to be exempted from National Insurance tax hike in Spring Statement. In Wales, health and care providers, including dentists, GPs and care homes are facing a £759 million tax hike.
6 Mar 2025
Lib Dems Respond to London Being Excluded from Government Deprivation Fund
Cllr Rachel Bentley, Southwark Liberal Democrat Deputy Group Leader and Parliamentary Spokesperson, has responded to the news that the Governments £1.5bn “plan for neighbourhoods”, aimed at tackling deprivation, will exclude London
6 Mar 2025
Trains
Woking MP leads new Parliamentary group to hold South Western Railway accountable
Liberal Democrat MP, Will Forster, has announced that he has set up a new cross-party Parliamentary group aimed at empowering passengers by holding South Western Railway to account.
6 Mar 2025
Lib Dems call for calm over California Crossroads
The new California Crossroads junction is proving to be safe. Conservative councillors’ increasingly desperate statements seek only to divide and undermine public confidence.
6 Mar 2025
Care board reserves shrink by 40% in a year
Responding to the embargoed report from the Accounts Commission which warns that community health and social care finances are ‘increasingly precarious’, with Integrated Joint Board reserves depleted by 40% in 2023/24 and an increase in the projected fund
6 Mar 2025