Fighting for a fair deal for Cornwall

Fighting for a fair deal for Cornwall

As Member of Parliament for North Cornwall, I am proud to represent the community I grew up in. I still live here, and I’m now raising my own family in Bodmin, with my wife, Heidi.

This website allows people to observe my work both in Parliament and in all the different parts of North Cornwall. The constituency has seventy parishes and I try to get to all of them regularly, to meet residents, and to listen to their concerns, so I can raise the issues that matter to people here when I speak up for us in Westminster.

Representing the people of North Cornwall in Parliament is an honour and contact with my constituents is key. On this site you will find details of how to contact me in person, by email or by post. Please contact me if there are any issues that you would like me to pursue on your behalf.

- Dan Rogerson.

Lib Dems secure extra cash for Cornwall’s schools

Lib Dems secure extra cash for Cornwall’s schools

Cornwall’s Lib Dem MPs have welcomed the Government’s plans to give extra cash to local schools targeted at children from less well off backgrounds. The policy, known as the “pupil premium,” which will commence in September 2011, will help thousands of the worst off pupils in Cornwall.

The Government is consulting on using free school meal entitlement as the measure of deprivation for the scheme. Following a recent Parliamentary Question from Stephen Gilbert MP, it has emerged that across Cornwall more than 1 in 10 pupils are eligible for free school meals, making Cornwall a key beneficiary of the new proposals.

In total, significant extra investment will be made from outside of the current schools budget. This investment could be used to cut class sizes and recruit more teachers.

Commenting, Stephen Gilbert, MP for St Austell & Newquay, said:

“This is another great example of what the Liberal Democrats are doing in Government.  We’ve been campaigning for more money for disadvantaged children for years, and we’re now going to see real help for Cornwall.

“When I was at Fowey School, now in my constituency, I was entitled to free school meals and I saw, first hand, the need to target extra support at the most disadvantaged in our society.”

North Cornwall MP, and newly appointed Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Education Committee, Dan Rogerson added:

“The Liberal Democrats made clear during the election campaign that a Pupil Premium targeted at the most disadvantaged pupils was an absolute priority.

“Labour’s unequal education system left too many of our children falling behind.  This new investment is vital if we are to give all Cornish children the fair start in life that they deserve.”

Press Releases

Lib Dems secure extra cash for Cornwall’s schools

Thursday, July 29, 2010 ·

Cornwall’s Lib Dem MPs have welcomed the Government’s plans to give extra cash to local schools targeted at children from less well off backgrounds.

Avoid sky-high mobile bills this summer – Rogerson

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 ·

North Cornwall’s MP, Dan Rogerson, has warned constituents travelling abroad that they could get back to sky-high mobile bills if they access the internet while overseas.

MPs’ call to keep Cornish schools funding

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 ·

Local Liberal Democrat MPs have called on the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to ensure that funding allocated to Cornwall under the previous government’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme is retained in Cornwall.

Call for North Cornwall to be fuel duty rebate pilot area

Tuesday, July 13, 2010 ·

Local MP Dan Rogerson has called on the Chancellor to start a fuel duty rebate scheme in North Cornwall.

Comment on Environment Agency tackling diffuse water pollution

Thursday, July 8, 2010 ·

Commenting on the NAO’s report, Tackling Diffuse Water Pollution in England, Liberal Democrat MP for North Cornwall, and member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee in the last Parliament, Dan Rogerson, said:

“Vigilance in tackling this problem is admirable but what’s clear is that the approach the last Government pursued neither engaged farmers nor helped them reduce pollution.

Wadebridge ‘Save our Supplements’ campaign receives boost from local MP

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 ·

North Cornwall’s MP, Dan Rogerson, has given a boost to the campaign to stop alternative medicines and vitamin supplements being over-regulated by the EU.