Around 30% of Britain’s children are now classified as poor, of whom two-thirds are from working families.

Tom Brake, Lib Dem MP for Carshalton and Wallington joined thousands for the Unite for Europe March to Westminster Parliament on Saturday.

Tom Brake, MP for Carshalton and Wallington and a vocal supporter of Family Fund, has welcomed the announcement that it will receive £27.3 million in annual funding from the Department for Education for three years from 2017-18.

Statement from Tom Brake MP following the recent attack in Westminster. 

New analysis shows that every state school in England will see budget cuts before 2020, even after new funding plans take effect.

Local MP Tom Brake is supporting Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month this March, to help raise awareness of the disease and its symptoms and help save lives.

According to a report published on the 3rd of March by the National Audit Office (NAO), 2,510 people with a learning disability are still being cared for in mental health hospitals, many of them for several years.

Tom Brake, MP for Carshalton and Wallington, met with the School Standards Minister, Nick Gibb last week and urged him to reconsider Government cuts imposed on local schools.

Following a Freedom of Information request by the Liberal Democrats, alarming new figures from the Met Police have revealed that the number of children carrying knives in London schools has doubled in five years.

Tom Brake, MP for Carshalton and Wallington, joined forces with environment groups and scientists in urging the Government to ban all products that use microbeads and risk getting into the marine environment.