30 January 2023
Today, 30th January, the ONS released their latest figures on the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on the public. They found people on prepayment meters are having to make more drastic changes to their lives than average.
25 January 2023
BEIS Minister, Graham Stuart, announced to MPs in a private briefing last night, 24th January, and then publicly in the Commons on 25th January, that off-grid households will face further delays in receiving energy bill support.
25 January 2023
More than 8,000 businesses in the South West are facing a huge £37 million energy bill increase once Government support is slashed in April, new analysis from the Liberal Democrats has revealed.
25 January 2023
During an Urgent Question on 23rd January, BEIS Minister Graham Stuart refused to back Wera Hobhouse, MP for Bath’s, Bill to temporarily ban the installation of expensive prepayment meters (PPMs).
24 January 2023
Bath MP Wera Hobhouse enthusiastically welcomed news that plans to turn Weston Island into an arts and cultural destination moved a step closer when Bath & North East Somerset Council approved its Local Plan partial update on 19 January.
23 January 2023
When Wera Hobhouse MP won a bundle of fun football equipment for her constituency, she immediately thought of Larkhall Athletic Youth Football Club. She met Sharon Willis and Helen Reeves, Joint Heads of the Girls section of Larkhall Athletic Youth Football Club recently to hand over the kit.
23 January 2023
Wera Hobhouse, Bath’s Liberal Democrat MP and the party’s spokesperson on the Climate Emergency has warmly welcomed Bath & North East Somerset Council’s ground-breaking move to adopt an energy-based Net Zero housing policy as part of its commitment to tackling the climate emergency.
20 January 2023
I was very disappointed to learn that Bath & North East Somerset Council’s bid to secure levelling up funding for our city was unsuccessful. This was the second time Bath missed out. I know many MPs up and down the country are aggrieved with this Government’s uneven distribution of funding.
19 January 2023
During the debate on the Government’s proposed Retained EU Law Bill, Wera Hobhouse, MP for Bath, chastised the Government for its ‘reckless lawmaking’ and accused them of ‘legislating with hammer blows instead of following the evidence’.
17 January 2023
Of people in the South West who failed to get a face-to-face GP appointment in the past year, a staggering one in eight resorted to being a ‘DIY Doctor’, admitting to carrying out medical treatment on themselves or asking somebody else who is not a medical professional to do so.
