Results 81–100 of 2000 for speaker:Ann McKechin

Written Answers — Advocate-General: Devolution ( 7 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Advocate-General what devolution issues she has considered since 1 December 2002.

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Democratic Republic of the Congo ( 7 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment his Department has made of the Final Report of the UN Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Business of the House ( 9 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: My right hon. Friend may be aware that the Department of Trade and Industry recently completed a public consultation on the World Trade Organisation negotiations on the general agreement on trade in services. Given the importance of those negotiations to the supply of services, particularly in the public sector in fields such as education, health and transport, will he agree to hold a debate...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: GATS Negotiations (16 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: If she will make a statement on her Department's recent consultation on the World Trade Organisation general agreement on trade in services negotiations.

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: GATS Negotiations (16 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: I thank my right hon. Friend for her reply. She will be aware that in the current GATS agreement the European Union placed a horizontal limitation on its service commitments to strengthen the protection against the use of public utilities and the manner in which they provide public services. Can she assure the House that she will resist calls in the negotiations to remove that limitation? How...

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: African Great Lakes (21 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the situation in the African Great Lakes region.

Written Answers — Treasury: Capital Modernisation Fund Applications (21 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on his Department's assessment of the application by Citizens Advice Scotland to the Treasury's Capital Modernisation Fund in 2001 for funding of an electronic case recording system; and for what reasons the application was declined.

Written Answers — Treasury: Capital Modernisation Fund Applications (21 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on his Department's assessment of the application by the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux to the Treasury's Capital Modernisation Fund in 2001 for funding of an electronic case recording system in England and Wales; and for what reasons the application was successful.

Pathways to Work (23 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: I welcome the Government's paper on issues surrounding incapacity benefit, and I congratulate the Department on the imaginative solutions that it proposes to encourage and support substantially more claimants back into the labour market. Sadly, it is in my home city of Glasgow that the worst problems exist.

Pathways to Work (23 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: Thank you very much, Sir Nicholas. Sadly, it is in Glasgow that the worst incapacity benefit problems exist. I believe that Glasgow needs special attention, and I hope that I can establish a case for that today. Glasgow, by a very long way, has the highest number of claimants—39,000, which is more than any other city outside London. Incredibly, although our population is only 609,000, about...

Pathways to Work (23 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: Thank you again, Sir Nicholas. Third time lucky, I hope. Although the city population of Glasgow is only 609,000, we have more than 25 per cent. more incapacity benefit claimants than Birmingham and almost double the number in Manchester—both are cities which, like Glasgow, have experience of heavy industry in their recent past. According to the latest statistics, seven of Glasgow's...

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Citizens Advice Scotland (28 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will make a statement on the representations her Department made regarding the refusal of the application by Citizens Advice Scotland to the Treasury's Capital Modernisation Fund in 2001 for funding of an electronic case recording system.

Written Answers — Treasury: Capital Modernisation Fund (31 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his answer of 21 January, Official Report, column 246W, what his Department's priorities were for funding under the Capital Modernisation Fund in 2001; and which of those priorities the application from Citizens Advice Scotland failed to meet.

Written Answers — Treasury: Capital Modernisation Fund (31 Jan 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his answer of 21 January, Official Report, column 246W, how many applications from Scotland were made to the Capital Modernisation Fund in 2001; and how many of those applications were successful in obtaining funds from his Department.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Good Friday Agreement ( 5 Feb 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on recent progress towards implementing the Good Friday Agreement.

Written Answers — International Development: Democratic Republic of Congo (13 Feb 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will place in the Library information received by her Department from the third report of the UN Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources in the DRC; and if she will request copies of all material collected in relation to allegations made in the report which she has found to be (a) inaccurate and (b)...

Panxhi Family (19 Mar 2003)

Ann McKechin: I am grateful for the opportunity to raise in the House this evening the case of the Panxhi family and their application for asylum in this country. As you are aware, Mr. Speaker, the family currently reside in your constituency of Springburn; I know that you are very familiar with the circumstances of their case and have taken a close interest. The family consist of Mrs. Valentina Panxhi and...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Devolution ( 9 Apr 2003)

Ann McKechin: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent talks he has had with the political parties in Northern Ireland on the future of political institutions.

Iraq (Humanitarian Situation) (10 Apr 2003)

Ann McKechin: I strongly agree with my right hon. Friend about the necessity of the UN's involvement in the creation of the interim authority, especially to aid reconstruction. Does she share my concern about the comments made in the past 24 hours by the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, to the effect that the coalition, not the UN, should determine the membership of such an interim administration? Such...

Tax Credits (Scotland) (10 Apr 2003)

Ann McKechin: This month marks one of the biggest-ever reforms of the Inland Revenue and the Benefits Agency, with the introduction of a new tax credits system for low-paid workers and people with families. It represents a comprehensive sea change in the way in which people are taxed on their income by recognising that everyone who is in work or bringing up children contributes to building a stronger...


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