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Written Question
Health Education England and NHS England: Hill Dickinson
Friday 19th December 2025

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much did (a) Health Education England and (b) NHS England pay Hill Dickinson in (i) costs and (ii) fees for legal services between 2012 and 2023.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 18 Dec 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"If farm profitability is so important to the Government, I find it utterly peculiar that the review was released only today as a written statement at the last minute. It is an insult to this House and indeed the excellent Baroness Batters herself.

England is now the only country in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Local Government Finance

"Westmorland and Furness is an extremely well-run council and an extremely unusual one as well. It is England’s most rural council. It is the council that accepts the highest number of visitors—non-resident population—as we support everybody else’s constituents, who make up the 15 million who come to our district every …..."
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Division Vote (Commons)
17 Dec 2025 - National Insurance Contributions (Employer Pensions Contributions) Bill - View Vote Context
Tim Farron (LD) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 60 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 165
Early Day Motion
Schools Residential Outdoor Education (Scotland) Bill (No. 2) (18 Signatures)
17 Dec 2025
Tabled by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)
That this House warmly welcomes the passage of the Schools Residential Outdoor Education (Scotland) Bill by the Scottish Parliament, which places a legal duty on local authorities to ensure that school pupils can access residential outdoor education; congratulates Liz Smith MSP for introducing this transformational legislation and notes that it …
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Finance (No. 2) Bill

"My hon. Friend’s communities are not dissimilar to mine; they are very rural and very mountainous, and upland farming is critical to his communities, as it is to mine. Does he think the Labour Government have failed to understand that wealth is not concentrated in the hands of famers in …..."
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View all Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) contributions to the debate on: Finance (No. 2) Bill
Division Vote (Commons)
16 Dec 2025 - Finance (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context
Tim Farron (LD) voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 66 Liberal Democrat No votes vs 0 Liberal Democrat Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 341 Noes - 195
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Dec 2025
NHS: Winter Preparedness

"Across Cumbria and Morecambe Bay, the teams working in A&E, on hospital wards and in our ambulance crews are doing a stunning job dealing with the winter pressures in a community where, in my constituency, the average age is 10 years above the national average. Their jobs are made more …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"The maintenance of our nuclear deterrent, and the development of our wider defence capabilities in the United Kingdom, rests heavily on the town of Barrow, next to my own constituency, in my district of Westmorland and Furness. Does the Secretary of State recognise that investment into the town from the …..."
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Written Question
Citizenship: Children
Thursday 11th December 2025

Asked by: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat - Westmorland and Lonsdale)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost price is of a child citizenship application.

Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The Home Office publishes the fees charged and the estimated unit cost of processing immigration and nationality applications on Gov.UK. This can be reviewed via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visa-fees-transparency-data.