John Glen is MP for Salisbury and Jeremy Lefroy is MP for Stafford Over the last few weeks there has been some debate around a return to the ‘contributory principle’ for welfare. We believe this is a valuable idea: recovering the sense of ‘social insurance’ that originally formed the basis for government welfare provision. The […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury. Follow John on Twitter. Last month, I published Completing the Reform, Freeing the Universities under the auspices of the Free Enterprise Group of MPs. The paper identified four main challenges currently facing UK universities: insecure long term funding; international competition; unnecessary bureaucracy; and government influence over research. In order […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury. Follow John on Twitter. I recently stepped down from sitting as a magistrate in Westminster, having served for six years. During this time I, and my colleagues on the bench, frequently wondered whether when fines were levied by the court they would ever be fully paid off. […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury. Follow John on Twitter. In some of this morning’s media’s headlines there is praise for the Labour leader’s conference performance. The 65 minute speech without notes seems to have neutered those in the Blairite ranks who, a few days ago, were talking up the prospects of David […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury. Follow John on Twitter. Today the House of Commons Defence Select Committee publishes its second report on the Military Covenant in Action, this time focussing on the accommodation provided for serving men and women and their families. Evidence was taken from a number of individuals and organisations, […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury. Follow John on Twitter. There is a good chance that you are reading this on your smartphone or tablet. After all, devices connected to high speed networks are in the pockets and bags of millions of us. There are more connected devices in the UK than there […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury and a member of the Defence Select Committee. Follow John on Twitter. Davis Lewin is the Political Director of the Henry Jackson Society and a Special Adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Transatlantic and International Security. Follow Davis on Twitter. The NATO summit set […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury. Follow John on Twitter. After disappointing performances in mid-term elections there is naturally (and rightly) a period of introspection within the party – what is going wrong, where we need to put things right, and so on. This analysis is always infused with a measure of personality […]
John Glen is the MP for Salisbury and Karen Lumley is the MP for Redditch Most people will perceive the Maldives as an idyllic paradise of sun-soaked resort islands. Sadly this is only one part of the reality. This week, the fledgling democracy has seen a bloody coup d’etat with the first democratically-elected President Nasheed […]
John Glen is the MP for Salisbury On Good Friday 2011, Michael Bates (Lord Bates) set off on a 3000-mile walk that would take him from Olympia to Westminster, through 16 countries over 300 days. He arrives back in the UK – at Dover – today, and on Wednesday next week he will cross Westminster […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury. Follow John on Twitter. The House of Commons Defence Committee today publishes its 8th report of this parliamentary session on the MOD’s Annual report and accounts (2010/11). The key underlying question facing the Committee was, how responsible is the MOD each year with over £33 billion […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury. The debate around how best to deal with unfair pay – where the salaries of top executives rise irrespective of performance and often contrary to it – has provoked a range of suggested solutions. Some legislative changes can make shareholders’ votes over pay more binding and […]
John Glen is the Member of Parliament for Salisbury. Today the Defence Select Committee publishes their first report on the Armed Forces Covenant, which looks at military casualties. Future reports will examine housing and other aspects of the covenant. In recent years the Armed Forces have been operating in both Afghanistan and Iraq and have […]
John Glen is the Conservative MP for Salisbury. I was pleased on Monday to read “Innovation, Health and Wealth”, the report of the review into innovation in the health service led by Sir Ian Carruthers. In October I called for a debate in Westminster Hall on the subject of innovation in the NHS. The statement […]
John Glen is MP for Salisbury. Follow John on Twitter. For too long, procurement in the Ministry of Defence has been expensive, unpredictable, and inefficient. To outside observers, defence procurement is a closed shop where large, specialist defence contractors hold the Government to ransom whilst others argue that government should make extensive use of cheaper, […]