Rural Payments Agency heads should roll for ‘catastrophic shambles’
The cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee, of which North Cornwall’s MP, Dan Rogerson, is a member, published a report today (Thursday) following its inquiry into the Rural Payments Agency and its administration of the Single Payments Scheme. The report calls the introduction of the new EU scheme a “catastrophe” for farmers and a “serious and embarrassing failure for Defra and the Rural Payments Agency”. ... Read More
Two days left to claim Winter Fuel Payments
North Cornwall’s MP, Dan Rogerson, is today (Wednesday) reminding pensioners that they have just two days left to make their claims to a Winter Fuel Payment Anyone aged over 60 is entitled to the payment of between £100 and £300 – depending on age and circumstances – to help with rising energy prices. Most are paid automatically but pensioners who do not receive any state benefits need to apply using a claim form. Last year... Read More
MP welcomes St. Minver pupils to Parliament
Dan Rogerson MP with year six pupils and staff of St Minver School outside Portcullis House and the Palace of Westminster North Cornwall’s MP, Dan Rogerson, this week welcomed 21 Year Six pupils from St Minver School. The ten and eleven year olds came to London for a full parliamentary tour, and to put questions to their local Liberal Democrat MP in a special meeting at Parliament’s Portcullis House, which opened in 2000. Commenting after the... Read More
SERCO still has work to do – MPs
In response to comments by the Primary Care Trust about Cornwall’s Out of Hours service having improved, MPs have warned that SERCO still has work to do. Cornwall’s Liberal Democrat MPs said that in the last week SERCO have still missed targets. Over the last two weekends in particular, standards were not met on home and clinic appointments, and unacceptable numbers of patients were left waiting for treatment. Whilst better than its previous performance,... Read More
Fighting for Cornwall’s railways
Cornish MPs today (Thursday) vowed to do everything in their power to win hearts and minds for the cause of community railways at First Great Western’s Swindon headquarters, after a meeting with members of the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership. While passenger numbers on most of the county’s lines are rocketing and revenues increasing, the high cost of rolling stock is contributing to overcrowding problems on some of the busiest lines. First... Read More
Brown’s cynical tax switch
Chancellor Gordon Brown’s eleventh Budget was a cynical sleight of hand according to the five Liberal Democrat MPs for Cornwall. Mr Brown cut the basic rate of income tax by 2p but paid for it by abolishing the 10p starting rate, meaning many part-time and low paid workers will pay more tax, not less. Cornwall’s MPs have also criticised the Chancellor for doing little to address the startling unfairness of the tax system which sees 20% of households... Read More
Lyons review a long awaited disapointment
Cornwall’s 5 Liberal Democrat MPs have expressed their disappointment at the long awaited Lyons review of Local Government finance, which proposes only minor reforms to the Council Tax. The MPs have been campaigning for Council Tax to be abolished, and replaced with a fair system of local income tax, based on ability to pay – which means no one would pay more than they could afford. Commenting, Julia Goldsworthy, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson... Read More
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