Stephen Clarke

Caroline Pidgeon, leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group and chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee, commenting on new proposals from Transport for London to allow Oyster card users to check their accounts online and to allow Oyster customers to submit refund applications online said:

Tower Hamlets Liberal Democrats have selected local champion Azizur Khan as there candidate for the Weavers by-election on May 3rd. Khan has been an active campaigner in Tower Hamlets for many years, and has a long record of campaigning for local people. He is campaigning against Labour's neglect of the borough, particularly their refusal to support the recent council budget, which will see Victim Support Services return to the borough and secured an Olympic Legacy for Tower Hamlets.

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.

At the very last Mayor's Question Time before the Mayor and London Assembly face elections in May the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group this week set out a series of examples of how Londoners are now worse off than was the case four years ago

Mike Tuffrey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly housing spokesperson said:

The amount of unpaid Congestion Charge and penalty charge notices owed by embassies and diplomatic missions that evade paying the Congestion Charge is now more than £60 million, according to new figures obtained by Caroline Pidgeon, Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group. Every single Londoner is owed more than £8 by non paying embassies and diplomatic missions.

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.

Fairer taxes, promoting green jobs, protecting your civil liberties - these are just some of the achievements of the Liberal Democrats in government.

We're building a freer, greener and more liberal country - and stopping some of the worst excesses of the Conservatives. Find out more in this infographic.

Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Olympic spokesperson, commenting on the replies provided by Lord Coe, Chair of LOCOG and Paul Deighton, Chief Executive of LOCOG, to her questions today about the lack of transparency over Olympic tickets said:

"LOCOG ongoing secrecy over Olympic tickets is shameful. They have already sold over 7 million tickets and there is no reason at all why they could not publish today the full details about the price of tickets already sold for each and every Olympic event.

Mike Tuffrey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly environment spokesperson, has uncovered that a £1m fund to trial low carbon technology in London's taxi fleet has not even been established nearly two-and-a-half years after it was first announced by Boris Johnson.

Last week the Mayor of London was forced to admit that no progress had been made to establish the fund, following a series of tough questions from Mike Tuffrey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Environment spokesperson, at a recent Mayor's Question Time at City Hall.

A series of detailed questions asked by the Lib Dem London Assembly Member Mike Tuffrey confirm the strong case for keeping the London Fire Brigade Museum open. Following a series of questions asked by Mike Tuffrey, who is a member of the London Fire Emergency and Planning Authority, it has been confirmed by the Mayor that: