Liz Kendall

On 30th October city councillors approved controversial plans to create a number of travellers sites in Leicester. You can read Liz’s comments on this issue in Leicester Mercury coverage here and here.

Fears grow for safety of deported Zimbabwean Evenia Mawongera. You can read coverage of this story and Liz’s comment here.

Liz’s Freedom of Information survey and a series of Parliamentary Questions reveal the Government is not being straight with elderly people about the amount of interest they will have to pay for the new loans introduced by the Care Bill. You can read the coverage of this story in the Daily […]

You can read Liz’s response to the announcement that Care Quality Commission ranked University Hospitals Leicester as being at risk of providing poor patient care here.

In her regular Leicester Mercury column, Liz talks about the link between decent housing and good health. You can read Liz’s column here.

You can read Liz’s response to Jeremy Hunt’s comments  about isolation and loneliness amongst older people here.

On 14th October Liz joined other Leicestershire MPs at 10 Downing Street to hand over a 40,000-signature petition backing the campaign for Richard III to be buried here in the city. You can read more about it here, or watch the ITV coverage here.

Liz says the Government should be doing more to help cancer patients. Read more on the BBC website here.

Liz comments on news that almost half of NHS hospital trusts are set to be in deficit by the end of this year. You can read the story on the BBC website here.