Robert Rogers - Clerk of Legislation
Robert Rogers is the Clerk of Legislation and has been since October 2006. He joined the civil service as an Assistant Clerk in the House of Commons in 1972. He has served in all the Offices of the Clerkâs Department. He was Parliamentary Counsellor to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1992 to 1995. Robert was appointed a Principal Clerk in 1998 and since then has been Clerk of Delegated Legislation, Principal Clerk of Select Committees, Secretary of the House of Commons Commission, Clerk of the Journals, and Principal Clerk of the Table Office.
He is a Fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust and an Associate of the National School of Government. He has contributed to various books and journals on European and Parliamentary Affairs, and is co-author of the 6th edition of How Parliament Works (2006). He was educated at Tonbridge School and then Lincoln College, Oxford where he read linguistics, Norse and Celtic.
