National News - East Riding Liberal Democrats

Combat Aircraft programme £9.7 billion over budget

Leon Stedman (EADT 30/1/10) is sadly mistaken if he thinks the British public will continue to accept that a rebuke to a civil servant brought about by a question from an MP constitutes bringing a civil servant to brook is sufficient to address mistakes made. The British public want an end to bonuses to civil servants and quango managers and for serious mistakes sacking should be an option we have in dealing with serious failures, and serious failures we have in abundance.

by David Chappell

4 Feb 2010

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Minister agrees to consider MPs proposal to help with cost for septic tanks

Liberal Democrat Rural Affairs Spokesman Tim Farron MP, today challenged Secretary of State Hilary Benn to help rural residents pay for the costs of their septic tanks by transferring their responsibility from private residents to water companies.

4 Feb 2010

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Youth Work step welcomed

Lib Dem Borough Leader and County Councillor David Kendall has welcomed the news that Essex County Council are going to devolve the resource allocation for universal youth work in Brentwood to Brentwood Borough Council as a pilot project for six months.

3 Feb 2010

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Liberal Democrats pledge £ 25m extra for Surrey schools

The Liberal Democrats have announced a major funding commitment that would boost education in Surrey. Nick Clegg has given a Liberal Democrat manifesto commitment for a Pupil Premium that would mean investing around £ 25m of extra cash in Surrey schools, raising the funding for disadvantaged pupils to private school levels.

3 Feb 2010

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Paul Holmes MP calls on constituents to 'drop in and drop them in it'

Paul Holmes, MP for Chesterfield is supporting a nationwide 'Scamnesty' campaign by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and local authority Trading Standards Services, which aims to help end the scourge of mass marketed scams mailings in the UK. The campaign is coming to Chesterfield this February.

3 Feb 2010

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Liberal Democrats choose Julia Bateman for Gedling Constituency

Gedling LibDems have chosen Julia Bateman as their Prospective Parliamentary Candidate.

3 Feb 2010

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Combat Aircraft programme £9.7 billion over budget

Minister agrees to consider MPs proposal to help with cost for septic tanks

Youth Work step welcomed

Liberal Democrats pledge £ 25m extra for Surrey schools

Paul Holmes MP calls on constituents to 'drop in and drop them in it'

Liberal Democrats choose Julia Bateman for Gedling Constituency

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