Over 20 million working people will be better off next year after Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government delivered the biggest ever increase in the income tax personal allowance in the Budget.
The massive £3.5bn tax cut for working people delivers:
The biggest ever single uplift in the tax threshold
A personal allowance of £9,205 in April 2013
21 million working people getting an extra £220 tax cut
Brings the total tax cut for basic rate tax payers to £550
Brings the total number of people lifted out of tax to 2 million.
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg used his speech to the Party's Spring conference in NewcastleGateshead to call for the forthcoming budget to be a "budget for fairness" and pledged that it would help working familes.
The Deputy Prime Minister pledged that by 2015 Britain would have seen an end to control orders, the first gay marriages and the first elections to the House of Lords.
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In his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference, Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has outlined his goals for the Government and the country over the coming years. He reiterated his commitment to liberal values on the environment and human rights and his determination to ensure a fair chance for every child, saying "every child can do good things, great things, if only we give them the opportunities they deserve."
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Rochdale Liberal Democrats are calling on the Council to urgently consider increasing shared services with other Greater Manchester authorities in a bid to save millions of pounds.
The call comes after plans were recently released for the UK's first a 'super council' in London. Three London boroughs - Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, and Hammersmith & Fulham - hope to save almost£100m by sharing essential services, ranging from education to rubbish collection and ict.
Rochdale Liberal Democrats have announced they will be putting forward their own alternative efficiency savings programme and budget in light of the coalition ending with the conservatives.
The Lib Dems have now appointed a new finance team whose first task is to conduct a serious review early in the New Year of the proposals, as put forward under the previous coalition's finance portfolio holder.
Rochdale's Police Authority representative Councillor Pat Colclough has welcomed the decision taken by the coalition government to fund Police Community Support Officers in Rochdale for at least another 12 months.
Ring fenced grants will continue for the provision of PCSO's for at least another year and if these are kept at existing levels this will enable the Greater Manchester Force to maintain its funded establishment of 828 posts.
Heywood and Middleton Lib Dems have announced that Heywood North Councillor Peter Rush has been successfully reselected as the Lib Dem Chairman of the Constituency.
Councillor Peter Rush was unanimously voted in for another term at the recent Heywood & Middleton Lib Dem AGM after he was unopposed. Councillor Rush has lived in Heywood for the past 50 years and has been a Liberal Democrat Councillor in Heywood North for over 4 years. He was also successfully re-elected as a Councillor for Heywood North last May.
Both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party failed to support a Notice of Motion brought by the Liberal Democrats which supported the Yes Vote at next year's Alternative Vote Referendum.
The Notice of Motion called on the Council not only to support a change to the Alternative Vote System at General Election level but also at a local level too.
