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Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)

Tim Farron: I deal with about 9,000 pieces of casework a year and I have not had a single farm worker write to me on the issue, which is surprising, but not when we think that the overwhelming majority of livestock farmers and dairy farmers in places like ours do not employ anybody, because they themselves are so hard up and are probably existing on significantly less then the minimum wage, considering...

Prime Minister: Engagements (24 April 2013)

Tim Farron: The Prime Minister will be aware that last week, three people in Cumbria were arrested for apparently blowing the whistle in the public interest over the actions of the police commissioner. Does he agree that that is a threat to freedom of speech and an outrage in a democratic society, and will he intervene to ensure there is an independent investigation?

Common Agricultural Policy Reform (12 February 2013)

Tim Farron: Does my hon. Friend agree that, given the likely shrinkage in the overall size of the EU budget, a decision by the UK Government to reduce the amount of modulation would be one way of ensuring that livestock and dairy farmers in particular see no reduction in their single farm payments?

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Alternative Sentences (5 February 2013)

Tim Farron: What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of alternatives to short-term prison sentences.

Oral Answers to Questions — Justice: Alternative Sentences (5 February 2013)

Tim Farron: Government pilots show that restorative justice programmes have caused a 14% reduction in offending. What steps are the Government taking to roll out schemes more widely throughout the country? Will the Minister give a specific pledge to protect funding for projects like the Sycamore Tree foundation at Haverigg prison in Cumbria?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (30 January 2013)

Tim Farron: After a huge community campaign, Westmorland general hospital in Kendal has been identified as the potential site of a new radiotherapy unit. If we are to deliver that vital service to local people, we shall need flexibility when it comes to the tariff for radiotherapy fractions. Will the Prime Minister meet me to discuss how we can achieve that?

Oral Answers to Questions — Transport: Topical Questions (17 January 2013)

Tim Farron: Electrification of the Lakes line from Oxenholme to Windermere would probably be the least expensive and most straightforward electrification project in the network. It would also provide a massive boost for the £3 billion tourism economy in Cumbria. Will the Minister meet me, rail operators and rail users to take forward this project?

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Vascular Disease (England) (15 January 2013)

Tim Farron: Given that the majority of vascular interventions are acute in nature, following trauma or cardiac episodes, is it not reckless for NHS Lancashire and NHS Cumbria to be talking about moving vascular services away from the Morecambe bay area, meaning that people from the south lakes and north Cumbria will have to travel as far as Preston, Blackburn or Carlisle to receive treatment? Will the...

Vascular Services (Wycombe Hospital) (14 January 2013)

Tim Farron: The Minister rightly says that the NHS reforms allow local councillors to vote to refer such matters to Ministers. In my area of Morecambe bay, that opportunity comes on 22 January. Will he assure councillors that Ministers will take such referrals very seriously and look into them with great rigour?

Vascular Services (Wycombe Hospital) (14 January 2013)

Tim Farron: I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way and congratulate him on securing the debate. Further to the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood (Eric Ollerenshaw), in the north-west the number of units will go down from four to three. Folks in Morecambe bay will no longer be able to go to Lancaster but will have to go to Carlisle, Blackburn or...

Energy and Climate Change: Energy Infrastructure Investment (13 December 2012)

Tim Farron: Cumbria has the fastest flowing water in England, a strong, well developed and world-class hydro-technology industry and strong public support for hydro-technology schemes, so will the Minister strongly consider energy infrastructure schemes for hydro-technology in Cumbria?

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Private Finance Initiatives (11 December 2012)

Tim Farron: Cumbria’s health service is under immense pressure because of PFI deals going back a decade and more. What can the Chancellor do to go toe-to-toe with the private sector to renegotiate existing PFI deals to ensure that more money goes to front-line health services?

Bill Presented — Energy Bill: Leveson Inquiry (29 November 2012)

Tim Farron: Given that we can choose one of two extremes—one is a dangerously politicised regulation of the press, and the other is allowing editors to continue to regulate themselves through a lock-in at the last-chance saloon—is not the best thing to do to accept the advice of an independent commission that sat for so long, heard so much evidence and produced such a lengthy report, so that...

Bill Presented — Energy Bill: Leveson Inquiry (29 November 2012)

Tim Farron: Does the Prime Minister accept that what we need is a rational and balanced approach to this, not an hysterical one? We are not being asked by Leveson to cross a Rubicon—barely even a brook. Perhaps the Prime Minister ought to consider the fact that the Irish system—Leveson proposes something similar—is already signed up to by The Times, the Daily Mail and The Sun.

National Park Authorities (Elections) (28 November 2012)

Tim Farron: I am a little concerned about the direction in which the Minister is going, but I am pleased that he thinks the Government should make progress. However, we already effectively have pilots in Scotland, so we have learned what to do constitutionally and about how the impact is felt in the national parks. There is time to act in this Parliament. When I challenged one of the Minister’s...

National Park Authorities (Elections) (28 November 2012)

Tim Farron: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Mr Benton. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to raise the issue of accountability in relation to Britain’s national parks. The matter is raised with me almost daily by local businesses and residents of the Lake district and the Cumbrian part of the Yorkshire dales, not because local people are desperate for more...

National Park Authorities (Elections) (28 November 2012)

Tim Farron: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point. That is true. I will mention the Scottish example in a moment. The elections in the Scottish national parks have engaged people and made them take the national parks seriously, providing a sense of ownership rather than a sense that this is a national thing deposited upon them. It is important that our national park boards are chosen by...

National Park Authorities (Elections) (28 November 2012)

Tim Farron: My hon. Friend makes a superb point and underlines the case. I envisage a minority of people, rather than a majority—these are national parks—being there as the local voice. It is commendable that the New Forest NPA has put itself forward and it is to be congratulated on that. If our national park boards were in part elected, they would, as my hon. Friend said, be far more...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Treatment Rationing (27 November 2012)

Tim Farron: Those of us who live in rural areas such as south Cumbria have faced the rationing of acute services for years—not rationing by price, but rationing by distance. Will the Minister encourage Morecambe Bay, which will undertake its review of the allocation of services in the coming months, to allocate accident and emergency services back to Westmorland general hospital, where they would...

Oral Answers to Questions — Deputy Prime Minister: Topical Questions (20 November 2012)

Tim Farron: We now elect police commissioners, yet up and down the country, including in my constituency and in the Yorkshire dales and the Lake district, we have national park authorities, which, in effect, perform the function of a local council but are totally unelected by, and unaccountable to, the people they serve. Is not it time the Government looked at making our national park authorities...