Results 1-20 of 719 for speaker:Gregg McClymont
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Pension Credit (21 May 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of people in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East constituency who are eligible to receive pension credit but do not currently receive it.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: State Pension (20 May 2013)
Gregg McClymont: The Minister’s response to my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Gwynne) is to say that these women are in a far better position than equivalent men. Let me push him a little on this. How did he come to a calculation suggesting that these women are better off? My understanding is that, under the Government’s plan, 700,000 women currently aged between 60 and 62...
- Written Answers — Cabinet Office: Sovereignty: Scotland (20 May 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what assessment he has made of the potential risk of losses to the public purse arising from applying the current accounting officer conventions in the period leading up to the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014; (2) what discussions he has had with officials in his Department on how the accounting officers’ conventions would...
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Pension Credit (13 May 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment his Department has made of the take-up rate of pensions credit by those reaching retirement age in each of the last five years.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: State Retirement Pensions (13 May 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will estimate the cost to the public purse of setting the new single tier state pension at (a) £160 per week and (b) £180 per week.
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: State Retirement Pensions: Females (13 May 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effects of bringing forward the introduction of the proposed new single tier state pension on women born between April 1951 and April 1953.
- Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Minimum Wage (13 May 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will estimate the number of people who will earn no more than the national minimum wage over the course of their working lives.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (25 April 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the average waiting time is for a response to complaints regarding the Microrenewables Certification Scheme.
- Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Renewable Energy (25 April 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much financial support his Department provided to the Microgeneration Certification Scheme in each financial year since 2008.
- Scotland Office: Welfare Reform (24 April 2013)
Gregg McClymont: The Secretary of State will be aware that by far the largest single part of the welfare budget goes on pensions, including the state pension, pension credit and related pensioner benefits. What discussions has he had with the Scottish Government about how pensions would work in a separate Scotland?
- Alloa Crown Post Office (Franchising) (17 April 2013)
Gregg McClymont: One of the 70 post offices across the UK which is proposed to be franchised is Cumbernauld Crown post office. Cumbernauld is one of the largest towns in Scotland, and the post office is in a central location in Cumbernauld town centre. To echo my hon. Friend, there is no doubt that wherever such a franchise was placed in a supermarket or a shop around Cumbernauld town centre, the location...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Income Tax (12 March 2013)
Gregg McClymont: What estimate he has made of what the annual value of his planned reduction in the additional rate of income tax to 45% would be to a person earning £1 million a year.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Income Tax (12 March 2013)
Gregg McClymont: Well, that was very clear, Mr Speaker. The answer, of course, is £40,000 a year. Why is a £40,000 a year tax cut for millionaires this Government’s priority?
- Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Topical Questions (12 March 2013)
Gregg McClymont: Did the Business Secretary let the cat out of the bag yesterday? When asked on the “Today” programme whether his call for investment in infrastructure to kick-start the recovery would mean more borrowing, he replied: “Well we are already borrowing more”.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Women’s Single-Tier Pensions (11 March 2013)
Gregg McClymont: The Minister has so far provided cold comfort for the 429,000 women who will not benefit from the new state pension when men of precisely the same age will. May I ask the Minister about a specific group of 80,000 women who are represented in Parliament today? Under the Pensions Act 2011, which this Government passed, their retirement age increased with little notice. Now they will miss out on...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food Adulteration (7 March 2013)
Gregg McClymont: What recent discussions he has had with Ministers in the Scottish Government on the adulteration of food.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Food Adulteration (7 March 2013)
Gregg McClymont: The hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Miss McIntosh), who chairs the Select Committee, has been clear that the Government were caught flat-footed by the horsemeat scandal. In that case, how would the Secretary of State describe the Scottish Government’s response, given that they picked up the phone nearly a week after Asda began clearing its shelves?
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Social Security Benefits (6 March 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of people who are not in employment and do not receive jobseeker's allowance or incapacity benefit; (2) what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of people who are not in employment and do not receive any Government support.
- Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Food: Labelling (4 March 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what discussions he has had with the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment in the Scottish Government on food labelling and provenance policy since 5 February 2013; and if he will make a statement; (2) what discussions he has had with representatives of the Scottish Government on food labelling and...
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Occupational Pensions (4 March 2013)
Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what recent discussions he has had with European Union officials on proposals for the Insurance and Occupational Pensions directive; (2) what steps he is taking to ensure that the Solvency II capital rules will not form a blueprint for the new Insurance and Occupational Pensions directive.