Anne McGuire: Does my hon. Friend agree that the fundamental fault line in Scottish politics at the moment is between those who support separation from the rest of the United Kingdom and those who want to stay part of the United Kingdom, and that any talk about the process of devolution and so on in the current context of discussing a referendum on independence is actually a diversionary tactic by the SNP...
Anne McGuire: Thank you very much, Mr Chope, for calling me to speak. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I thank the many Members who have made a contribution to this debate, and indeed I also thank the many Members who sat here in Westminster Hall but did not speak; they did not make a contribution but wanted to show their support for my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead (Ian Mearns),...
Anne McGuire: Yes, and because of the width of the spectrum of impact that we are having to deal with, it has been very difficult to highlight every particular aspect of that impact. I thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue. There is a hidden accumulation of disadvantages that this Government have consistently tried to hide, in the face of the evidence that has been presented to them over the past two...
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many disability living allowance claimants have carers claiming carer's allowance.
Anne McGuire: I thank the Minister for her statement and for the advance copy of it. Last Thursday we had the written announcement of the closure of Remploy factories, with more than 800 redundancies. This Thursday we have a statement that is intended, according to the Government’s own estimates, to remove a disability benefit from more than 500,000 disabled people. Let me make it clear that we are in...
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 26 October 2012, Official Report, column 1082W, on drugs: imports, how many of the 37 licence applications that were cancelled, were cancelled by (a) her Department and (b) the applicant; and what the reasons were for each cancellation.
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 26 October 2012, Official Report, column 1082W, on drugs: imports, whether any of the cancelled applications were cancelled despite the applicant companies having already been granted import licences for Oxycodone; and for what reasons in each case.
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 26 October 2012, Official Report, column 1082W, on drugs: imports, during the interim period, how many of the 122 approved import authorisations were granted to parallel import companies; and to how many different parallel import companies were such authorisations approved.
Anne McGuire: Before I became an MP, I worked with parents of learning disabled adults to establish supported community care homes, as those parents would have done anything rather than allow their adult children to go into institutional care. I welcome the Minister’s comments today. There is an emphasis on process, which is important, but does he agree that there is a challenge in the wider cultural...
Anne McGuire: Disabled people across the country currently have to cope with a torrent of piecemeal welfare reform changes that will impact on their lives. Disability Rights UK, the Joint Committee on Human Rights, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the Royal National Institute of Blind People, Mind, Scope, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Carers UK, among others, including tens of thousand of people...
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the likely level of overpayment of Access to Work due to (a) fraud and (b) error in each of the last five years.
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people who received Access to Work support had their support taken away due to a fraud on their part in each of the last five years.
Anne McGuire: Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the shellfish stock that is fished off the Outer Hebrides—lobster, crab, langoustine and prawns—are among the best in Europe? However, there is no sustainable infrastructure to take them down to the mainland British market, and much of the catch from his islands goes to the Spanish market, which is causing uncertainty at the moment.
Anne McGuire: Seldom then.
Anne McGuire: On 10 July, the then Minister for Disabled People slipped out a written statement on Remploy and had to be dragged to the House. This morning, the current Minister for Disabled People, the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Wirral West (Esther McVey), sneaked out another statement on Remploy, announcing 875 potential redundancies—[ Interruption. ] The...
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his Department's budget is for the promotion of access to work to (a) disabled people and (b) employers.
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people who have applied for access to work have not had their support preferences fully met; and for what reasons in each such case.
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people applied for access to work but did not receive it in each of the last five years by (a) impairment type, (b) constituency, (c) size of employer, (d) age that people started receiving access to work and (e) gender.
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people received access to work in each of the last five years by (a) impairment type, (b) constituency, (c) size of employer, (d) age that people started receiving access to work and (e) gender.
Anne McGuire: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost of administering access to work is; and what proportion of that cost was due to (a) applications, (b) assessments, (c) review, (d) monitoring and (e) processing payments.
