New figures disclosed at Reading Borough Council have revealed that the council met its target for bringing long-term empty homes back into use in only two of the six years of its current strategy.
Cllr Mike Giles, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Earley and Woodley, has written to local MP Yuan Yang with five priorities for residents ahead of the Chancellor’s Budget on 28 October.
New figures from 2025 show that of the 223,194 burglaries reported in England and Wales, just 13,936 (6.24%) resulted in someone being charged, whilst in a shocking 160,396 (71.86%) cases police failed to even identify a suspect.
Ed Davey's speech to Energy UK's Annual Conference
The UK’s press regulator has never fined a newspaper. The Liberal Democrats say that has to change.
Ed Davey's Leaders' Speech to Autumn Conference Speech 2026
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