Sunderland councillor pay rise a ‘slap in the face’ for Council Tax payers
Opposition Lib Dems in Sunderland have reacted with fury to a decision to agree a taxpayer-funded pay rise for councillors on Wearside.
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23 Jan 2025
Councillor Andy Swain - Teign Valley (TDC)
14 Feb 2021
Cllr Andy Swain
Ward: Teign Valley
Parishes: Ashton ; Bridford ; Christow ; Doddiscombsleigh ; Dunsford ; Hennock ; Tedburn St Mary ; Trusham
Contact information
Mobile: 07756 253908
Email: andrew.swain@teignbridge.gov.uk
Committee appointments
Term of Office
- 07/05/2019 - 13/05/2023
Andy's News
Cole-Hamilton comments on scrapping of doomed social care centralisation
Speaking in the Scottish Parliament as the SNP Government announced that they are scrapping their planned centralisation of social care services, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:
23 Jan 2025
Lib Dems reveal private company overseeing hundreds of sewage dumps
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has today revealed that more than 500 sewage overspills took place at sites managed by private firms in just twelve months, including more than 100 at the Edinburgh Waste Water treatment work at Seafield
23 Jan 2025
Scot Lib Dems push for prison suicide and fatal accident inquiry reform
Speaking after this afternoon’s parliamentary statement on the Scottish Government response to Fatal Accident Inquiries into the Deaths of Katie Allan and William Brown, Willie Rennie MSP said:
23 Jan 2025
Alistair Carmichael - Westminster
Fishing cannot be “second class” concern again – Carmichael calls for engagement with industry ahead of EU talks
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today called on the Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations to engage more closely with fishing industry organisations in the run up to “critical” negotiations over future access and...
23 Jan 2025
Alistair Carmichael - Westminster
Carmichael calls for broad review of farm inheritance tax policy in Urgent Question
Orkney and Shetland MP, Alistair Carmichael, has today in Parliament called on the government to broaden their consultation on changes to farm inheritance tax, and have a “sensible debate” on the policy.
23 Jan 2025