Responding further to the Chancellor's budget yesterday, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, Vince Cable said:"The Government has been desperate to claim it can make significant efficiency savings but without saying where."
The Liberal Democrats' Manifesto for Bedford Borough has identified 'Six to Fix' for Bedford Borough. These are the areas we have identified as being in the most urgent need of action to improve things for local residents. One of these areas is education, where standards are too low. We must raise GCSE results to above the national average.
Legislation came into effect on Monday (April 6) to give people the right to request flexible working and increase paid holiday entitlement.
The Liberal Democrats are demanding that Bedford Borough Council opens up to local residents by allowing Members of the Public to question Councillors at public meetings without providing written notice of the question in the previous week.
Commenting on the G20 summit, Nick Clegg said: "Gordon Brown has clearly passed the test as a host to the world. He must now prove that he can turn this deal into real help for British people."
The project to build a giant incinerator near Stewartby to burn Bedfordshire's waste has suffered a major setback after the Government refused to include the scheme in its latest award of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding for waste treatment projects. This is the second occasion on which the Government has rebuffed a PFI bid for waste treatment in Bedfordshire after it withdrew a £30 million funding offer in 2006, and leaves the troubled bid for a giant incinerator in an uncertain position.