It was International Development questions yesterday. Former Shadow Cabinet member Nigel Evans (right) posed a question on AIDS in Africa. This issue has been given prominence recently following the Pope's assertion that condoms could make the AIDS crisis worse. Mr Evans asked: "Antiretroviral drugs are rightly being made more affordable and generally more available, thanks to […]
Yesterday the House of Commons had Work and Pensions questions. Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans asked what can be done to make parents take responsibility for their children: "Poverty for youngsters is often reinforced when a married couple separates by a missing parent who refuses to take their responsibility. The Child Support Agency is often […]
Nigel Evans has been MP for Ribble Valley since 1992, is a member of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee and lives next door to a pub. Today sees the launch of the Save the Pub Campaign to halt plans to increase beer tax and as Vice-Chair of the All Party Beer Group, I […]
Update: Brian Binley’s EDM had been tabled very shortly before this post was written, and has since attracted lots of signatures. Early Day Motions are effectively petitions signed by MPs to draw attention to an issue; although they are motions for debate, few actually end up being debated. They can be serious, they can be […]
It wasn’t initially intended that this should be an ongoing series, but once again the Government has shown a staggering inability to answer a written Parliamentary question. Nigel Evans (incidentally the only MP with the surname ‘Evans’, which seems statistically surprising) asked about people buying drink on behalf of the underaged: "Mr. Evans: To ask […]
On the day that seventeen peers sign a letter calling for action to stop deportations to Iran we highlight the two Conservative MPs who have identified themselves with the cause of Mehdi Kazemi through this EDM: "That this House is concerned by the case of Iranian teenager Mehdi Kazemi who is currently living in Holland; […]
Mark Field MP on non-doms: Essentially, this was a paralysis Budget. There was virtually nothing in the Chancellor’s speech that had not already been announced several times over. It is clear that the Government are hoping that the ever-darkening economic clouds will pass soon, but that might be wishful thinking. I want to say a […]
Nigel Evans is MP for Ribble Valley and was Shadow Secretary of State for Wales under Iain Duncan Smith. To say I was stunned by Quentin Davies’s defection is somewhat an understatement. I have been in the Commons for 15 years and have worked alongside Quentin in the shadow cabinet during Iain Duncan Smith’s leadership. […]
Nigel Evans has been MP for Ribble Valley since 1992 Margaret Thatcher, a chemistry graduate, started her career in plastics. Her first job was at an Essex-based firm called BX Plastics. “I love argument, I love debate,” she once said. “I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their […]