Welcome to Nick Harvey's website, outlining his varied work as MP since 1992, including in North Devon, as Minister of State for the Armed Forces and more. Please don't hesitate to use the contact details to get in touch with questions, comments, opinions and offers of help.
North Devon MP Nick Harvey has welcomed the announcement that Devon will get extra money in its school budget this year to relieve the pressure on school places.
The additional £2,374,027 is part of a larger amount of capital spending already ear-marked in England this year, with investment being made in extra classrooms and school buildings. This comes on top of the £800m to address the shortage in pupil places already announced for 2012-13.
The thorny subject of party political fundraising has been thrust to front and centre of politics over the past couple of weeks with evidence coming to light that the Conservatives' (now former) Treasurer, Peter Cruddas, appeared to be offering access to the Prime Minister, suggesting that previous donors had enjoyed exclusive access to exclusive or glitzy functions and a role in policy making.
As part of the Budget, the Chancellor has announced that from next year, the Income Tax threshold will be raised further, ensuring that no one pays any income tax on the first £9,205 they earn.
In North Devon that means 4,100 people will be lifted out of paying Income Tax all together and a further 31,200 will receive a £220 tax cut. This is on top of tax cuts of £200 last year and a further £130 next month.
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.
Nick Harvey MP has written to the chairmen of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and its Administrators Grant Thornton urging them to look sympathetically at the community bid to buy the buildings of the former St Michael's School at Tawstock, near Barnstaple.
The school went into administration and closed for business in a shock move over the Christmas holidays, triggered by RBS as its bankers. Grant Thornton were appointed as Administrators.
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.
North Devon MP, Nick Harvey is committing to switch off the lights for WWF's Earth Hour 2012 and is supporting the environment summit in Rio.
WWF's Earth Hour is a simple idea that has become a global phenomenon, with hundreds of millions of people turning off their lights on March 31 at 8.30pm to show they want to create a brighter future for the planet. Last year 135 countries, hundreds of millions of people and famous landmarks from Big Ben and Buckingham Palace in London to the India Gate in New Delhi took part in WWF's Earth Hour.
As we hear increasing calls from all the political parties about what measures they would like to see George Osborne put into his red box on Budget Day, and we come ever closer to finding out what is in store, I wanted to set out the biggest priority for my party, both her in North Devon and nationally.
North Devon MP, Nick Harvey has welcomed the announcement of £1,763,063 of funding in Devon to get young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET), earning or learning again.
As part of the recently launched Youth Contract, the Coalition Government will, for the first time, target funding through tailored support on a payment-by-results system to 16 and 17-year-olds with no GCSEs at A* - C who are at the highest risk of long-term disengagement.
