Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, is hoping that Government Ministers will think carefully about exempting panic and safe rooms from the bedroom tax, as the issue made national news today.
Ms Seabeck’s 10 minute rule bill on this issue received its 2nd reading unopposed in April and she is hoping that Ministers will take note of that fact as a mother and her son have their...
Plymouth councillors agreed to lobby Government to make safe rooms for the victims of domestic abuse exempt from the bedroom tax today.
Councillor Nicky Williams, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, put forward the motion to Full Council calling for cross-party backing of the exemption. She asked for agreement in the meantime for discretionary housing payments to cover the...
Luke Pollard, Labour's Parliamentary Candidate in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, looks back on the party conference season.
As the party conference season draws to a close for another year there's little doubt who’s been setting the agenda. Ed Miliband and Labour have identified the real problem of living standards facing families in Plymouth, and laid out policies to help deal with...
A Plymouth MP has welcomed the Labour Party’s decision to repeal the so-called 'Bedroom Tax'.
Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View says her party's pledge, if elected, to scrap the government's removal of the 'spare room subsidy' will give hope to the many disabled and vulnerable people in Plymouth Moor View who she claims have been unfairly hit by "David Cameron’s cruel tax"....
Scrap ‘bedroom tax’! That’s the strong message from Plymouth’s Community Development Cabinet Member as the Government’s changes to the welfare system come into force.
A motion to Full Council on Monday by Councillor Chris Penberthy, Cabinet Member for Co-operatives and Community Development, calls for support from politicians and the Council’s Chief Executive to request the Government...
More than 50 people attended a protest in Plymouth on Saturday against a planned Government scheme dubbed the 'Bedroom Tax'.
One of dozens of protests across the country organised largely via social media and instigated by the political blogger Dr Eoin Clarke , the Plymouth protest, held in the Sun Dial, included local representatives of the Labour Party, the Socialist Party, Plymouth...
