London Assembly Liberal Democrats

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.

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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:

Caroline Pidgeon, Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, commenting on the single new 'routemaster' bus that will start to operate from today on the 38 but route between Victoria Station and Hackney said:

"Boris Johnson made two specific promises to Londoners. One that the new 'routemaster' style buses would be on London's streets in 2011, and two, that the development costs associated with any new bus would be picked up by industry. He has broken both these promises.

Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Olympic spokesperson, commenting on the Mayor's response to her question this morning about the secrecy over the sale of Olympic tickets by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) said:

"I am delighted that the Mayor supports the London Assembly's call for transparency from LOCOG. In particular I welcome the fact that he has agreed to try to persuade LOCOG at the next Olympic Board meeting to immediately release the information.