15 Facts About Dan Rogerson

Dan Rogerson was the Member of Parliament for North Cornwall from the 2005 general election until his defeat at the 2015 general election.

Whilst a student, Dan Rogerson worked at the Proper Cornish pasty factory in Bodmin.

Dan Rogerson joined the Liberal Democrats whilst still at school in 1991 to help fight for the election of Paul Tyler at the 1992 general election.

Dan Rogerson worked at Bedford Borough Council before being elected to the Council himself in 1999 for the ward of Kingsbook.

Dan Rogerson served as councillor, and later Deputy Group Leader, until 2002.

In 2006 Dan Rogerson asked the government to make 5 March a public holiday in Cornwall to recognise celebrations for St Piran's Day.

Dan Rogerson was chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on cheese, and opposed Ofcom's inclusion of cheese in its new regulations restricting television advertising of junk foods to children aged under 16.

Dan Rogerson was a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on religious education.

On 14 July 2009, Dan Rogerson presented a Cornish "breakaway" Bill to Parliament.

Dan Rogerson was appointed the co-chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Committee for Education, Families and Young People in July 2010.

Dan Rogerson repeated his parliamentary oath in Cornish as he did after the previous election.

In December 2010, Dan Rogerson was one of the twenty-one Liberal Democrat MPs who voted against the tuition fee rise.

In 2013, Dan Rogerson voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage in England and Wales.

In July 2018, Dan Rogerson announced that he would not contest the North Cornwall seat again for the following general election, stating that someone new was needed to defeat MP Scott Mann.

Dan Rogerson married Heidi Purser in August 1999 in Bodmin.