Parmjit Dhanda: The Minister for the West Midlands has issued 16 press releases in his capacity as a Regional Minister as follows: Liam Byrne MP, West Midlands Minister, To visit Ludlow, Shropshire on Monday, 16 July 2007; Liam Byrne—Challenges Region's Public Services on British Jobs For British Workers; Liam Byrne Challenges Region's Public Services on British Jobs In Britain; Liam Byrne—Brings the...
The Presiding Officer: The result of the division on amendment 4, in the name of Johann Lamont, is: For 53, Against 68, Abstentions 0. Amendment 4 disagreed to. Group 2 is on the threshold for and operation of offences relating to stirring up hatred. Before I call the first amendment, in the name of Liam Kerr, as we are already nearing the agreed time limit, I am prepared to exercise my...
Fergus Ewing: Yes, I will be happy to raise those issues with SSE. I will also shortly meet Councillor James Stockan who, as Liam McArthur knows, chaired the Orkney grid constraints working group. The group’s report was submitted in December last year and we will study it carefully. Members across the chamber will want to ensure that the islands achieve their potential in renewables. I am keen to work...
Humza Yousaf: At stage 2, Liam McArthur agreed to work with me and my officials to refine the proposal in his amendment 6, the aim of which is, as he said, to establish an advisory group to provide the commissioner with advice on legal and ethical issues relating to biometric data and technologies. I am pleased that we were able to make constructive adjustments to the stage 2 amendment to simplify how the...
Anne McGuire: holding answer 13 December 2006 The Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People Ministerial Group is responsible for leading the cross-Government strategy for improving the life chances of disabled people, for establishing priorities, for identifying and securing resources, for maintaining collective commitment to the programme of work in order to ensure progress, and for reporting...
Liam Spender: I am Liam Spender, representing the UK Cladding Action Group, and I am a leaseholder affected by cladding issues.
Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which unit forms the Small Scale Contingent Battle Group; whether it is presently fully equipped; whether the present group is deployed; and when the future Small Scale Contingent Battle Group will take over from the current group.
Liam Byrne: A representative from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was not invited to sit on the care closer to home demonstration group as membership of this group was limited in number to maintain focus. However, there will be other opportunities, for groups not represented on the demonstration group to participate in the care closer to home work.
Humza Yousaf: The Scottish Government was delighted, in our budget discussions, to give a one-off payment in the budget to Orkney and Shetland, which was supported by both Liam McArthur and Tavish Scott—begrudgingly perhaps, but supported nonetheless. The second part of that commitment, which is important, was that we would, through the working group, ensure that we have a long-term solution. On my...
Liam Byrne: ...England (HEFCE) will be looking at the case for further expansion of undergraduate medical education, including the potential for expansionof graduate entry medical degrees. A joint implementation group, chaired by the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, and the Chief Executive of HEFCE, Sir Howard Newby, has been established to lead this review.
Patrick Harvie: I will briefly make some comments similar to Liam McArthur’s. At stage 2, a great many members, including Angela Constance—who I also congratulate on her reappointment to Government—had similar concerns. However, I think that we came forward with a wee bit of a scattergun approach to the different changes that we wanted to see, with Angela Constance’s amendments on purpose, Liam...
Liam Byrne: Our Race Equality Impact Assessment Advisory Group included representation from groups such as the Afiya Trust, Diverse Minds and the All Wales Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health Group. In addition to consultation events, close consultation with the Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health Network, focus groups in 13 hospitals and web based consultation, we have also had direct...
Liam Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence which regiment or battalion forms the Small Scale Contingent Battle Group; whether it is fully equipped; whether the present Small Scale Contingent Battle Group is deployed; and when the future Small Scale Contingent Battle Group will take over.
Liam Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what proportion of employment and support allowance claimants in (a) the work related activity group and (b) support group find paid employment; (2) what the off flows from the (a) work related activity and (b) support groups have been to date, by reasons for leaving.
Iain Gray: I, too, thank the cabinet secretary for early sight of his statement. I begin by associating the Labour group with the cabinet secretary’s praise for Jordan Daly, Liam Stevenson and the TIE campaign, which was not only powerful and passionate, but tactically astute and carefully cross-party. As a result, it has—as we have heard today—been very effective indeed. The formation of the...
Claudia Beamish: Will Liam McArthur take back to the corporate body that, if we have the equipment, we need the support? A lot of marginalised communities, groups and individuals come to a wide range of CPG meetings. To be frank, I am disappointed by the response that the equipment is there—we are not all IT experts, and I have been put in the same position as Maurice Corry in the past. I ask Liam McArthur...
Liam Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what his projections are for caseloads for employment and support allowance (a) Support Group and (b) Work Related Activity Group for each year for the next five years; and how those projections have changed since May 2010; (2) what his projections are for benefit expenditure for employment and support allowance (a) Support Group and...
Tricia Marwick: The next item of business is consideration of motion S4M-15911, in the name of Liam McArthur, on the reimbursement of members’ expenses scheme. I invite Liam McArthur to move the motion on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. Motion moved, That the Parliament, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 81(2) and (5)(b) and 83(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, determines...
Liam Byrne: The clinical governance group for immigration removal centres was set up in 2006 to provide an internal forum for Border and Immigration Agency and Department of Health officials to discuss health matters relating to immigration detainees and to manage any resulting work. There are no current plans to widen membership of the group, on an observer basis or otherwise. The appropriate forum for...
Liam Byrne: The companies which currently have contracts for providing security at the Department's premises are as follows: Capita Carlisle Security Chubb Security Personnel Ltd. First Security Group Group four Securicor ICTS Ltd. Legion Security OCS Pegasus Security Group Taylormade Investigations Security Services Ltd. The list does not cover buildings where the Home Office is the minority occupier of...