Stockport MP Lisa Smart quizzed the Government over the recent Post Office closures, to demand that postmasters were given the support they need to keep local services open, after the announcement of more cuts and redundancies by Post Office Ltd.
Stockport MPs Lisa Smart and Tom Morrison have written to Health Minister Karin Smyth to get details of whether extra repairs funding for the NHS announced in the Budget will be spent at Stepping Hill
The new Labour government’s first budget has been given a cautious welcome by the Liberal Democrats leading Stockport Council.
Local Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart has said the extra funding for the NHS announced in the Budget must deliver the urgently needed repairs at Stepping Hill.
The desperate situation at Stepping Hill Hospital must be addressed in next week’s budget, say Stockport MPs Lisa Smart and Tom Morrison.
The latest NHS data has emphasized the crisis in Stepping Hill Hospital and across the NHS in the borough, with a total of £59.1million repairs required – of which £23.3 million are high risk or significant risk.
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey has announced Hazel Grove MP Lisa Smart as the Home Office spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, as she vowed to take local issues to the heart of Westminster.
A local resident who made it her mission in lockdown to create a transformative youth hub, food bank and community centre has been announced as the Liberal Democrat candidate in the forthcoming Bredbury Green and Romiley by-election.
The danger of Stockport becoming an NHS “dental desert” has been laid bare by House of Commons Library research showing over 23,000 children across the borough didn’t see an NHS dentist last year.
Liberal Democrat MPs Tom Morrison (Cheadle) and Lisa Smart (Hazel Grove) have voted against the Government’s plans to cut the Winter Fuel Payment; however the vote was passed by the Labour Government.
Tom Morrison and Lisa Smart are working together to oppose the Labour Government’s planned cut to the Winter Fuel Allowance, and will vote against it.
Lisa Smart MP took the opportunity to raise uncertainty around funding for Stepping Hill at the Chancellor’s question time in Parliament yesterday