Responding to the Chancellor's 10th budget, local MP Tim Farron has welcomed the commitment to education through more capital funding for schools and more resources for newly qualified teachers.
Today, Gordon Brown delivered his tenth budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer. But with more and more people feeling let down by New Labour, the Liberal Democrats are asking where all the money has gone over the years Labour has been in power.
Text of a letter from Spelthorne Liberal Democrats about the Standards Board for England
Dundee City Council's LibDem Convener of Finance Cllr Fraser Macpherson today (Tuesday 21st March) renewed the City Council administration's pledge to campaign for an improved Revenue Support Grant settlement for Dundee.
Dundee East Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesperson Dr Clive Sneddon has strongly criticised the attitude of Tesco management to Dundee, and welcomed the efforts being made by the Dundee City Council Administration to secure a rethink of Tesco's decision to close its distribution depot in Dundee.
The Government was yet again been defeated in the House of Lords on its plans to make Identity Cards compulsory. Ministers propose that anyone getting a passport from 2008 should have to get an ID card and have their biometric details added to the national identity database. Peers voted by 211 to 175 votes, a majority of 36, to keep the ID card scheme voluntary until the next decade, a compromise tabled by Liberal Democrat peer Lord Philips of Sudbury under which holders of passports would be added to the register from 2011 enabling the controversial issue to be debated in the next General Election.
