The Federal Policy Committee met online at the beginning of February, with a full agenda covering forthcoming policy work, consultation papers and sub-committee appointments.
Helen Morgan MP has called for urgent support for rural homeowners after the price of heating oil doubled as a result of war in the Middle East.
Yeovil MP Adam Dance has pressed the Government to ensure schools and education providers in the South West benefit fully from the National Year of Reading, after new figures revealed a worrying decline in reading among young people.
A freedom of information request from the Liberal Democrats has revealed that over 14,000 thefts from the person have involved a mobile phone since 2023.
Responding to the Government voting against a cross party amendment to ban social media for under 16s in the House of Commons, Munira Wilson MP, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Education, Children and Families, said:
Tom Gordon, MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Diabetes, has backed calls for wider use of point-of-care testing for Type 1 diabetes in children during a debate in Parliament yesterday.