Westminster and City of London 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.

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.

In his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference, Party Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has outlined his goals for the Government and the country over the coming years. He reiterated his commitment to liberal values on the environment and human rights and his determination to ensure a fair chance for every child, saying "every child can do good things, great things, if only we give them the opportunities they deserve."

But local policing is under threat from the Tory mayor's cuts

Local Lib Dems have been in talks with the Bayswater policing team to discuss residents' concerns.

Results from a recent survey of residents reveal that:

• The vast majority of residents feel safe in Bayswater
• People have confidence in the local policing team
• The crimes most residents fear are vehicle crime, burglaries and street robberies.

Bayswater Lib Dems have discovered that the local Conservative-run council has sent a letter to the disabled residents informing them that the Westminster Centre for Independent Living will close in September.

Staffing levels at the Centre, on Westbourne Park Road, have already been cut without regard to health and safety. Residents have not been informed where alternative services will be provided, without which they will be isolated at home.

The Bayswater Business Improvement District (BID), set up by the Council in January 2010, is a continuing scandal: small businesses which refused to pay the 2% levy on top of greatly increased rates, because they see zero benefit to them, were bludgeoned to pay up in June by Court action. But the story is not over yet: local Liberal Democrats plan to survey all businesses in the area to learn how many would support either excluding small businesses from the BID or winding the whole thing up.

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The local Liberal Democrats campaign for residents all-year-round. Take a look around the website, and you will see that we are standing up for communities and keeping an eagle eye on the council.

Unlike the other parties, the Liberal Democrats do not receive million-pound cheques from rich businesspeople or the trade unions. We rely on smaller donations from our party members to pay for our campaigning.