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Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: "A Tall Story".

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: I start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) on introducing the debate and making use of this Opposition day to outline, as other hon. Members have said, what could have been done differently by the Government. It is very important to have this debate, carrying on from our previous debate in Westminster Hall. I thus congratulate my hon. Friend on his use of...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: As ever, the hon. Gentleman speaks with great authority, and I agree with his comments. As many hon. Members have said, we must consider an approach that is based not on issues of hardship and on means-testing, but on justice. The Government's written responses have not contained a good enough apology for the failings that occurred, and it would reassure people to see that in writing. We need...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks, although I am perhaps slightly disappointed by the signal he has sent as to which Lobby he might find himself in later. I hope that he will take the chance to reconsider that on the basis of further contributions.

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: Many hon. Members have served in local government, where, when difficult decisions are faced, administrations often talk about being above, and not wanting to get into, party politics. However, when the boot is on the other foot, they are quite happy. When the courts have handed such an issue back to the House, for it to respond to the ombudsman, hon. Members must take a view based on the...

Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]: Equitable Life (21 Oct 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: The hon. Gentleman is rightly focusing on the time scale involved, and other hon. Members have probed a little on that. However, I want to be clear about what he is saying about his party's position on this crucial issue. Has he decided that it is out of the question to go for what EMAG has been campaigning for, which is a completely independent tribunal? Is he setting aside any ambition for...

Parliamentary Elections (Recall and Primaries): Schedule 7 — Repeals (13 Oct 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: I shall keep my remarks fairly brief. I have had the privilege, in the brief time that I have been in the House during this Parliament, to serve on a number of Public Bill Committees. On those occasions, I may not have agreed with what was happening when we reached Third Reading, but at least there was a feeling that something would change the world in some way. We have reached Third Reading...

Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism: Council Tax (9 Jul 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: I agree with much of the speech made by the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill), as is often the case because he speaks very reasonably on such issues. He teased the Government a little, but it is time that his party was teased as well on the topic of capping. Let us be honest. The measure was introduced by the Government whom he supported. He proposes a referendum when an...

Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism: Council Tax (9 Jul 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: I certainly appreciate that the hon. Gentleman has taken the trouble to attend and contribute to this debate. I have contacted locally elected representatives in Surrey about the issues that are being debated locally. Their view is that, at all the local liaison forums and meetings throughout the area, people have made it absolutely clear that they are behind the police authority in...

Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism: Council Tax (9 Jul 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: It is £400,000.

Business of the House (9 Jul 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: An unsuccessful independent candidate at the recent local elections in Cornwall has accused the Conservative party of targeting the second-home vote in particular at elections. If that were true, the Conservative party would be acting entirely legally because those people are on the electoral register, but it has stimulated a debate locally about whether it is right for people with multiple...

Parliamentary Commissions of Inquiry: Clause 11 — Rates of alcoholic liquor duty (7 Jul 2009)

Daniel Rogerson: My hon. Friend has consistently pushed the case for defending pubs on the duty issue—last year and this. I hope that he is also aware of the many services that are often provided in pubs. In recent weeks there have been polling stations in pubs, and my constituency contains a post office in a pub at Stratton—there is also a proposal to bring a post office back to St. Issey in this...

Delegated Legislation: NHS (Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly) (17 Jun 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: I would not expect the Minister to have answers about hospital transport straight away. Primary care trusts operate in a framework of Government policy, and that is fine because we have a national health service, but it means that they tend to concentrate on aspects that they have been asked to deliver as priorities. Transport to health services may not currently be at the top of the...

Delegated Legislation: NHS (Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly) (17 Jun 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: May I apologise to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, to my hon. Friend the Member for St. Ives (Andrew George) and to the House for not being in the Chamber at the beginning of his speech? I was involved in the debate on the Business Rate Supplements Bill and took the opportunity to leave the Chamber for a short while, anticipating that the next debate might continue for longer than it did. I am...

Delegated Legislation: NHS (Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly) (17 Jun 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is fair to say that different trusts have taken different views. For example, the Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, which covers Derriford hospital, has recently undertaken a review, and has introduced much cheaper shorter-stay parking for visitors, which I welcome. The trust consulted widely before doing that. Unfortunately, probably because of the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 29 — Regulations etc. (17 Jun 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: I echo the comments that other hon. Members have made: the problem is not of the Minister's creation. However, she said that the amendments are not the answer, which implies that there may well be an answer to the problem. Hon. Members in all parts of the House would welcome an idea of what that answer might be, so that they could decide whether they need to send a signal through the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 29 — Regulations etc. (17 Jun 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: Our debate has become a little lively for this time of the afternoon. Interestingly, in many of our discussion we have discussed the potential for things to have an influence on local communities and for business rate supplement projects to be introduced, but we are now talking about the backdating of business rates for ports, which is having an impact on communities and businesses up and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 16 — Interaction with BID levy (17 Jun 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford). He has pursued the issue keenly throughout the Bill's passage through both Houses, and there is an element of unfinished business in it for him, given that he presided over the introduction of BIDs and, along with many others, has been an advocate of them during our deliberations. He was keen to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 27 — Special introductory provision (17 Jun 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: I echo the comments just made by the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill). During the passage of the Bill, different parties sought in different ways to propose amendments, to highlight the fact that we felt that Crossrail was a scheme of a particular nature and that it had had a great deal of attention in the past. The debate on ballots and so on should not apply to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Clause 1 — Power to impose a BRS (17 Jun 2009) has video

Daniel Rogerson: We want to see far greater tax-raising powers devolved to the local level, but this issue involves a specific levy on business rate payers, and in those circumstances there should be a ballot. It is essentially a democratic measure, which we support at whatever level.