Your Monthly update from your LibDem Borough Councillors - covering April 2022
Dear friends, here is our update on local and "not-so-local-but-relevant" developments during April. Have a good long weekend !
29 Apr 2022
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
Helen Morgan MP joins call for a rural cost of living rescue package including heating oil price cap
Helen Morgan MP, has joined her colleagues in demanding a rural cost of living rescue package, including a cap on heating oil prices to help struggling families off the gas grid.
29 Apr 2022
When they chose Brexit was the plan NOT to have tariffs?
Jacob Rees-Mogg has decided not to implement controls on food imports from the EU as an attempt to mitigate the cost of living crisis. Cynics may observe that that is hardly Getting Brexit Done! Our own food producers, already worried about trade deals with Australia and others, now have even more concerns as they continue to have to obey strict rules on food production here. Nor are British Ports who had to make massive investment of extra infrastructure through which imports would have been processed.
29 Apr 2022
GP crisis worsens as Great Denham surgery requires improvement
Latest national figures show 6.2 million people, or one in four, waited over eight days to get a GP appointment in February
29 Apr 2022
Derbyshire Dales Lib Dems demand heating oil price cap in rural cost of living rescue package.
The Liberal Democrats have demanded a rural cost of living rescue package, including a cap on heating oil prices to help struggling families off the gas grid. The party warned that the Conservatives are leaving rural communities "out in the cold" by refusing to help with soaring bills. Rural communities are bearing the brunt of the cost of living crisis with soaring heating bills, petrol prices and food costs all hitting struggling families.
PD
29 Apr 2022
Let’s fight for a fairer Local Plan
Council leaders have refused to lobby for lower government house-building targets for Hertsmere borough.
29 Apr 2022