News 16 April 2008

MP welcomes potential new football facility

David joined staff, governors and pupils of Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted, plus representatives of Berkhamsted Raiders Football Club and fellow MP, Mike Penning, to highlight a potential new footballing facility at the school.

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Parliamentary Question 3 April 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers

David Gauke asks the Foreign Secretary about contracts awarded to PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2000.

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Parliamentary Question 3 April 2008

Departmental Consultants: Home Office

David Gauke questions the Home Secretary about spending on consultants.

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Parliamentary Question 3 April 2008

National Savings and Investments: Marketing

David Gauke asks the Chancellor of the Exchequer about the advertising and sponsorship budget of National Savings and Investments.

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Parliamentary Question 1 April 2008

Children

David Gauke asks the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many copies of the Children's Plan Toolkit his Department has had printed and the cost of design,printing and distribution.

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Parliamentary Question 31 March 2008

Watford Hospital: Private Finance Initiative

David Gauke asks the of State for Health to make a statement on the progress of the private finance initiative redevelopment of Watford General Hospital.

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Parliamentary Question 27 March 2008

Departmental Data Protection: BERR

David Gauke asks the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many of his Department's computers and laptops have been stolen in 2007.

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Parliamentary Question 26 March 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers

David Gauke questions the Foreign Secretary about payments made to and contracts issued to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Parliamentary Debate 25 March 2008

Constitutional Renewal

David Gauke asks the Lord Chancellor whether he has considered the introduction of a recall mechanism whereby in certain specific and exceptional circumstances constituents could remove their MP during the course of a Parliament?

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News 19 March 2008

MPs raise concerns about flightpath proposals

Dacorum MPs, David Gauke and Mike Penning, have today met representatives of NATS, the organisation which air traffic control services in the UK, to raise concerns about proposals to change the flight paths for departures and arrivals to Luton airport.

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Parliamentary Question 14 March 2008

Income Tax: Overpayments

David Gauke asks the Chancellor for his estimate of the value of unclaimed income tax overpayments for the last period for which figures are available.

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Link: Telegraph Blogs 14 March 2008

An unhelpful intervention from Byers (for Brown)

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Speech 13 March 2008

Budget Debate

David Gauke winds up the second day of the Budget Debate for the Conservatives and tells MPs that after 11 years the Government has failed to deliver on welfare reform and has failed to use the good years to prepare for difficult years ahead.

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Link: Telegraph Blogs 13 March 2008

Gordon Brown snubs Peter Mandelson

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Speech 12 March 2008

HMRC (Northern Ireland)

David Gauke winds up a debate on behalf of the Conservatives on a structural reorganisation of the HMRC in Northern Ireland which could lead to the closure of regional offices such as those in Coleraine.

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Letter to The Guardian 11 March 2008

"Recall mechanism" for MPs

I welcome Nick Clegg's support for the proposal that voters should be allowed to collect petitions in their constituency if an MP is expelled or suspended from the Commons...

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Parliamentary Question 11 March 2008

VAT: Business

David Gauke asks the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of HM Revenue and Customs performance in repaying VAT owed to UK businesses.

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Parliamentary Debate 5 March 2008

European Union (Amendment) Bill

David Gauke challenges the Foreign Secretary over his comments that the constitutional treaty did not involve a fundamental shift of constitutional powers.

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Article 3 March 2008

Why should dishonest or incompetent MPs be secure until the next General Election?

The letter to the Daily Telegraph on Friday from 27 members of the 2005 intake of Conservative MPs, including myself, proposed that consideration should be given to introducing a 'recall mechanism' for MPs.

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Letter to The Telegraph 29 February 2008

Sanctions against MPs

At a time when trust in politicians continues to be diminished, there is an urgent need to look again at the sanctions available when an MP has been found to have behaved improperly.

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News 28 February 2008

MP seeks meeting on flight path proposals

David Gauke is seeking an urgent meeting with NATS, the body which provides air traffic control services in the UK, to discuss proposals to change flight paths in the area.

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Parliamentary Question 25 February 2008

Fuel Poverty: Standards

David Gauke questions the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs over the implications of the Government not meeting its target of eradicating fuel poverty by 2016.

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Parliamentary Question 25 February 2008

Child Benefit: Personal Records

In a written question, David asks the Chancellor to publish the guidance provided for HM Revenue and Customs staff on access to copying and dissemination of personal data.

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Parliamentary Question 25 February 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers

David Gauke questions the Home Secretary about payments made to and contracts issued to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Parliamentary Debate 21 February 2008

Social Security

David Gauke asks how the Government can increase benefits by 2.3 or 3.9% yet at the same time argue that public sector pay increases of above 2% would be inflationary and cannot be justified?

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Parliamentary Question 20 February 2008

Drug Smuggling (Northern Ireland)

David Gauke asks the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland about levels of drug smuggling in the province.

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Parliamentary Debate 18 February 2008

Worklessness

David Gauke tackles the Government over the high number people aged 16 to 24 who are out of work.

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Parliamentary Question 18 February 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers

David Gauke asks the Home Secretary about the value of contracts with PricewaterhouseCoopers on private finance initiative projects.

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Newsletter 14 February 2008

Newsletter from David Gauke, February 2008

Parliament is in recess this week, which gives me an opportunity to update you on what has been happening in the last few weeks.

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Parliamentary Question 7 February 2008

PricewaterhouseCoopers

David Gauke asks the Secretary of State for Justice about contracts awarded by his Department to PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2000.

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Speech 6 February 2008

Treaty of Lisbon

David Gauke raises concerns about the dropping of ‘free and undistorted competition’ from the objectives of the EU and the effect that too much EU regulation has on competitiveness.

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Parliamentary Debate 5 February 2008

Lisbon Treaty Debate

David Gauke presses the Government on his concerns that UK law is not protected from being changed as a result of European Court of Justice decisions on the Charter of Fundamental Rights being made in respect of other countries.

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Parliamentary Question 4 February 2008

Departmental Computers

David Gauke asks the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many of his Department's computers and laptops have been stolen in 2007.

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Speech 31 January 2008

National Insurance Contributions Bill

David Gauke tables amendments to the Bill aimed at retaining the ratio limiting any increase in the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions without proper parliamentary scrutiny.

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Speech 31 January 2008

National Insurance Contributions Bill - Third Reading

David Gauke winds up the debate for the Opposition raising concern that the increase in the upper earnings limit is yet another stealth tax on middle earners.

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Parliamentary Question 31 January 2008

Welfare Tax Credits: Fraud

David Gauke asks the Chancellor for an estimate of the level of fraud by tax credit claimants claiming to be living alone when living as part of a couple.

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Petition 28 January 2008

M25 Noise Pollution

The Secretary of State for Transport responds to the M25 Noise Pollution petition.

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Speech 28 January 2008

EU: Financial Management

Debating the Court of Auditors' refusal once again to sign off the EU budget, David Gauke examines their report.

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Parliamentary Question 25 January 2008

Foreign Office: Departmental Consultants

In a written question, David Gauke asks the Foreign Secretary for details of spending by his Department on consultants in each financial year since 2000.

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Parliamentary Debate 24 January 2008

Data Protection

David Gauke calls for the Government to answer questions about the missing child benefit data from HMRC instead of hiding behind the Poynter report.

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