Claire Young MP has called for the Government to urgently change course and rethink their cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIP), with new data showing that 83% of local people who get the Payment could lose at least some of their benefit.
Councillor Dylan Tippetts cast his first votes in the council chamber as a Liberal Democrat today [2 June], including to defend Personal Independence Payments, received by disabled people, from swingeing cuts by the Labour Government.
Shocking new data has revealed that a staggering 85% of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claimants in Harpenden & Berkhamsted are at risk of seeing their support slashed under the government’s new welfare reforms.
Christine Jardine MP said:
In her weekly column, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex, Alison Bennett takes a look at Southern Water and the health of Mid Sussex's waterways.
Responding to reports that Nigel Farage has accused journalists from The Herald of working with demonstrators to derail a press conference in Aberdeen, Liberal Democrat Scottish Affairs spokesperson and former journalist Christine Jardine MP said:
