A very Happy New Year to you all. The new Lincoln Liberal Democrat team took office yesterday and their contact details are available in the Committee Contacts Section of the website.

From all at Lincoln Liberal Democrats, we wish you a Merry Christmas and the very best for 2012

Long serving Liberal Democrat Lincolnshire County Councillor for Nettleham and Saxilby, Ray Sellars, is delighted that forty years of campaigning for the Lincoln Eastern By-pass has resulted in the project’s approval in the National Infrastructure Plan published on 29 November by the Coalition Government. Cllr Sellars said “For years the project was ignored by both [...]

Commenting on the Youth Contact which has today been announced by Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg, Lincoln Lib Dem Vice Chair, Heather Cullen said: “With youth unemployment rising considerably under Labour and currently standing at a worryingly high level, the Coalition Government is determined to ensure we don’t lose a generation [...]

The Coalition Government has announced measures to clamp down on unfair bank charges following a review of consumer credit and personal insolvency. Liberal Democrats have led calls to end unfair bank charges and give consumers more choice. Today’s announcement also includes measures to: End introductory offers for store cards that tempt customers into expensive credit [...]

As usual, questions to the Deputy Prime Minister this week covered a large variety of subjects. Nick Clegg was on passionate form on several issues. Harriet Harman asked if he would “admit that he urgently needs to take further action to help the young unemployed?”. Refreshingly, Nick Clegg did admit this, adding: …it would be [...]

Commenting on today’s statement on public sector pension reform, Liberal Democrat Party President, Tim Farron said:   “Today’s offer is a clear step forward and hopefully close to a final agreement that will ensure that public sector pensions are protected, while also being fair to the taxpayer. “The Coalition Government and the unions have been [...]

LGBT Equality Minister, Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone, today announced that in five weeks’ time – on December 5th – the law will change to permit civil partnership ceremonies to be conducted at religious premises in England and Wales. The date is six years to the day since the first civil partnership ceremony held in [...]

Manchester Withington Liberal Democrat MP, John Leech, has put down an excellent Early Day Motion in Parliament; “That this House welcomes the commitment of the Coalition Government to increase the personal allowance to £10,000 by 2015; recognises that increases in the personal allowance have already taken hundreds of thousands of the lowest paid tax payers [...]

The Deputy Prime Minister met with small business leaders this morning to announce a new system of regulation “designed for busy, working people”. Below are extracts from his speech: “The debate over regulation has been polarised around two extremes – on the one hand is the idea that it fixes every problem. Rules, targets, monitoring, [...]