Vital answers received at Westminster

I have just discovered that my local MP is steadfastly working on the vital issues of the moment.

With his keen eye for details and with his hand on the pulse of the Wirral West constituency he has launched a selfless campaign with written questions from the backbenches asking difficult and probing question to Ministers of the Crown!

I have copied three of these questions and the Minister answers below, but you can check them out for yourself at Hansard’s here!

On 27th March 2008 we had:-

Vegetarianism: Research

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research he has evaluated on the effect of vegetarianism on well-being. [195620]

Dawn Primarolo: The Food Standards Agency has not conducted any research on the link between vegetarianism and well-being.

On 20th March we got :-

Bus Services: Speed Limits

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many drivers of public buses were fined for breaking the speed limit when driving a bus in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. [195626]

Jim Fitzpatrick: There are no statistics of the types of vehicle driven in speeding offences.

18th March we got :-

General Practitioners

Stephen Hesford: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of UK residents not registered with a GP; and whether a recent assessment has been made of the reasons. [194419]

Mr. Bradshaw: This data is not collected centrally by the Department.

Any one seeing a trend?

Wirral Council - “Not corrupt just incompetent!”

Last night I took a break from delivering in Pensby and Thingwall and went to see the scrutiny committee meet about last years phone mast cock up.

Also there were Esther McVey, Councillors Chris Blakely, Leah Fraser (amongst others) all of whom had expected to be called as Witness to the committee.

However do you think they were given a fair chance?

Where they allowed to give their five minuet statement and be questioned by members of the panel?

No!  

The LibDem / Labour unholy alliance running the Council ruled that due to efficiencies of the meeting they had removed Esther , Chris, Leah  as well as  Cllr Andrew Hodson, and the Borough Solicitor, Roy Jones! 

Why can’t there be a Standing Order refusing planning permission for all telephone mast as a matter of principal so that the 56 day cock up can never be a problem again and blight the lives of so many residents?

I unfortunately had to leave to attend another meeting so I am grateful for Chris Blakely for keeping us updated with his blog which can be found here.

The crazy world (or should that be only Europe?) of the Lib Dems in the words of their own Blogging supporter…

Former Liberal Democrat councilor Nich Starling blogs under the name of Norfolk Blogger. 

From what I can see he is not a bad bloke apart from the Lib Dem connection… oh and being a fan of Norwich City!

He  had some interesting things to say on the Europe loving Nick Clegg after he was on Newsnight with Paxman. The blog can be read here! 

The bit I liked was : “rather like a starving man refusing a sandwich because “I prefer wholemeal bread”, the Lib Dem stance is just plain daft.”

When “the canary” knows the Libs are in trouble the voters will seek an alternative!