Stephen Williams MP, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokeman
Stephen Williams MP has today published an utterly bonkers proposal to distribute the UK state’s shareholding in the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group to all UK adults.
I was planning to comment on his blog article in which he describes his proposals, but the comments system [...]
Members of the public can have their say on a review into the UK’s extradition arrangements.
The Home Office is currently inviting members of the public to have their say on a review into the UK’s extradition arrangements.
The closing date was 31st December 2010, but it has now, almost silently, been extended to the 31st [...]
Was Cambridge’s MP Julian Huppert Too Hasty to Describe the Local Government Settlement as Good News for Cambridge City Council?
On Monday the 31st of January 2011 the amounts to be paid to local councils from central government for the 2011/12 financial year were announced. Cambridge’s MP Julian Huppert welcomed the settlement in a tweet saying:
Good [...]
Statistics on the use of TASER weapons by the UK police used to be published quarterly by the Home Office. This routine pro-active publication has stopped and the latest published data available at the time of writing is from September 2009*; it is well over a year old.
I have been chasing the [...]
On the 7th of December Cambridge MP Julian Huppert and his fellow members of the Home Affairs Select Committee held a session on the police use of TASER weapons.
I wrote an article prior to the meeting in which I suggested a number of questions it might be worth asking of the Chief Police Officers and [...]
TASER Preferred Target Areas Shown In Blue (Source: TASER International Training Bulletin 15)
A couple of days ago Cambridge MP Julian Huppert forwarded me a press release from the Home Affairs Select committee alerting me to a one-off evidence session on the use of tasers by UK police forces to be held on Tuesday [...]
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert
On Friday the 19th of November I attended a public lecture organised by the Centre for Science and Policy titled: “The future of science in Parliament” The speakers were Cambridge MP Julian Huppert and ex. MP Evan Harris.
Cambridge’s previous MP David Howarth is now an Associate Fellow at the Centre [...]
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert
Earlier this evening I listened to Cambridge MP Julian Huppert speaking on the subject of : “The future of science in Parliament” at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
During his speech Mr Huppert stated that he had agreed with his chief whip not to talk about tuition fees in public.
I tweeted [...]
On the morning of Tuesday the 2nd of November 2010 the Government announced, via the news media rather than through a statement in Parliament, that they are planning to give prisoners the right to vote.
Cambridge’s MP Julian Huppert responded to the news with a tweet saying:
It’s great to wake up to hear that prisoners [...]
Image: Houses of Parliament, London, Monet c.1904
Since I wrote my last article on Cambridge MP Julian Huppert’s Parliamentry voting record, which I published on the 9th of September 2010, there have been 44 more votes in the House of Commons.
On the day I published that previous article Mr Huppert rebelled against the coalition [...]