Roger Williams MP

Roger in Parliament

Here is news of Roger's recent activity in Parliament, as found in the Parliamentary record - Hansard at theyworkforyou.com. This gives responses to questions Roger has asked, Roger's contribution to debates and more:

• May 14, 2012:
  • Written Answers - Environment Food and Rural Affairs: National Parks (14 May 2012)
    Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many applications Natural England is considering for the designation of a national park; and for which areas such applications have been made.
• Apr 26, 2012:
  • Oral Answers to Questions - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Topical Questions (26 Apr 2012)
    Roger Williams: The farming community are very worried about the outbreak of the Schmallenberg virus. Will the Secretary of State tell us whether pan-European work will be done to produce a vaccine against this terrible disease?
• Apr 25, 2012:
  • Police and Crime Commissioners (25 Apr 2012)
    Roger Williams: The hon. Gentleman makes some good points. What worries me is that there will be no publicly funded mailing, and that individual candidates will be able to issue their own literature. That, surely, creates the possibility that the person who can afford the most literature will win the election, which is profoundly unfair.
  • Oral Answers to Questions - Wales: Budget (Welsh Assembly) (25 Apr 2012)
    Roger Williams: Does the Minister agree that with new law-making powers and a £15 billion budget, the Welsh Assembly Government have both the tools and the money to make a real and lasting difference in Wales?
• Apr 19, 2012:
  • Business of the House (19 Apr 2012)
    Roger Williams: The people of Hay-on-Wye in my constituency are twinned with the people of Timbuktu in Mali, where they carry on many good projects involving health, education and agriculture. They are now concerned about the well-being of their friends in that trouble-torn country. Will the Leader of the House either make time available for a debate or ask the Foreign Secretary to come to the House and make...
• Apr 17, 2012:
  • [Mr Jim Hood in the Chair] (17 Apr 2012)
    Roger Williams: It is a great pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Mr Hood. I congratulate the hon. Member for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire (Simon Hart) on securing the debate. I have fond memories of his constituency. Back in 1999, I stood in the first Assembly elections and managed to come fifth. The good people of his constituency were not ready for me then, but I enjoyed the experience...
  • [Mr Jim Hood in the Chair] (17 Apr 2012)
    Roger Williams: I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, and it is not only the absence of broadband. Sometimes, older people do not have the facility or the aptitude to take advantage of online banking, so we still need the face-to-face presence and advice that bank customers greatly value. The issue also goes a little further. Today, I was sad to see that the number of complaints about banks made by small...
  • [Mr Jim Hood in the Chair] (17 Apr 2012)
    Roger Williams: I commend the legislation introduced in England by the Government on small businesses' right to buy. I point to two examples in my constituency. The Shoemakers' Arms, a pub in Pentre Bach that was closed, has been taken over by the local community and is now flourishing. The community in Llanbadarn Fynydd have done the same with their village shop and filling station. Those are...
  • Written Answers - Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Tibet (17 Apr 2012)
    Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will raise with the Chinese government the number of self-immolation cases in Tibet and surrounding provinces.
• Apr 16, 2012:
  • Written Answers - Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Somalia (16 Apr 2012)
    Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to his counterparts in countries surrounding Somalia to act collectively against acts of piracy.
• Mar 27, 2012:
  • Small Business Administration (27 Mar 2012)
    Roger Williams: I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to establish a Small Business Administration with the remit of acting as an ombudsman and advocate within government for small businesses, promoting a regulatory environment appropriate for small businesses, providing advice to those wishing to set up small businesses, improving access to finance for small businesses, developing and...
• Mar 26, 2012:
  • Written Answers - Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Phosphates: Western Sahara (26 Mar 2012)
    Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether any UK companies or ships are involved in exporting phosphates from occupied Western Sahara.
  • Written Answers - Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Western Sahara (26 Mar 2012)
    Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will raise with his Moroccan counterpart the attack of 24 February 2012 by Moroccan police on Saharawi attending a reception in El Aaiun for participants in the UN-sponsored family exchange programme.
  • Written Answers - Business, Innovation and Skills: Square Kilometre Array Telescope (26 Mar 2012)
    Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what his policy is on implementation of the recommendations of the Square Kilometre Array Site Advisory Committee; and if he will make a statement.
  • Written Answers - Business, Innovation and Skills: Square Kilometre Array Telescope (26 Mar 2012)
    Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will publish the location recommended by the independent Square Kilometre Array Site Advisory Committee; and if he will make a statement.
  • Written Answers - Business, Innovation and Skills: Square Kilometre Array Telescope (26 Mar 2012)
    Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) whether the independent Square Kilometre Site Advisory Committee has completed its evaluation of the cost and infrastructure implications of the African and Australian and New Zealand bids to host the Square Kilometre Array telescope; and if he will make a statement; (2) whether the independent Square Kilometre Array...
• Mar 20, 2012:
  • Written Answers - Wales: Income Tax (20 Mar 2012)
    Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) if she will estimate the number of taxpayers in each (a) region and (b) local authority area in Wales who will no longer be eligible to pay income tax following the increase in the personal allowance in April 2012; (2) if she will estimate the number of taxpayers in each (a) region and (b) local authority area in Wales who will no longer be...