Laurence Robertson
Laurence Robertson has been the UK Conservative Party MP for Tewkesbury since 1997.
Background
Robertson has served as: Opposition Whip (Commons) 2001-03, Shadow Minister (Trade and Industry) 2003-03, Shadow Minister (Treasury) 2003-05, Shadow Minister (Northern Ireland) 2005-10.[1]
In the 2015 general election, Robertson was re-elected with a majority of 21,972. [2]
Outside parliamentary earnings
In 2010 Robertson declared consultancy work for Westminster Parliamentary Research. The MPs' secretaries register of interests shows that he later sponsored the firm's owner Jennifer Bryant-Pearson for a parliamentary pass.
Guido Fawkes reported in March 2016 that:
- Robertson has been paid £10,000-a-year since 2013 for his position on the board of Veolia Environmental Services. Veolia are one of the main clients of JBP Public Relations, the lobbying company run by Bryant-Pearson. So not only did the pass-carrying lobbyist employ Robertson, her major client still does. Crucially, Robertson sponsored Bryant-Pearson for a pass while he was in the pay of her client. Robertson tells Guido:
- “Ms Bryant-Pearson carried out work supporting All Party Groups, secretarial duties, publicity, arranging and attending meetings and translation services.”
- Lobbyists were banned from having parliamentary passes through work on APPGs in 2013. Yet Robertson gave Bryant-Pearson a pass until 2015. Guido has asked Robertson if he denies this is a case of cash-for-access, and what “secretarial duties” this chief executive of a lobbying company carried out. He has yet to reply…
Affiliations
- Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee
- All Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy
- Treasurer of All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nigeria[3]
- Veolia board member
Notes
- ↑ Mr Laurence Robertson, www.parliament.uk, accessed 25 November 2013.
- ↑ Laurence Robertson parliament.uk, accessed 12 November 2015
- ↑ Nigeria APPG, www.parliament.uk, accessed 19 November 2015
