Tag: Gregg McClymont

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2013-05-08.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with officials in his Department on how the accounting officers’ conventions would apply to investment in Scotland in advance of the referendum on Scottish independence in 2014.

Danny Alexander

I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Treasury.

The UK Government is not planning for independence as it believes that people in Scotland will vote to remain within the UK. As such, the Government has made no assessment of the risk of losses to the public purse, and has no plans to change accounting officers conventions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2014-04-29.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the number of staff required at HM Revenue and Customs in Cumbernauld following his Department’s decision to award the mail management contract to the EDM Group.

Mr David Gauke

The timetable for implementation is still being finalised, HMRC does not yet have details of how and when teams currently handling post will be impacted.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2014-04-29.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what consultation his Department had with HM Revenue and Customs staff prior to awarding the mail management contract to EDM Group.

Mr David Gauke

Regular consultation took place between HMRC and staff representatives throughout the process up to the point the decision was made to go out to tender for a provider of scanning services to HMRC.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2014-04-29.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the savings to the public purse provided by the recent award of the mail management contract to the EDM Group.

Mr David Gauke

Over the three year contract term it is estimated that there is a minimum £8.9m saving to the public purse when comparing the contract cost with an in house provision.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people made requests of the pension tracing service to find lost pension pots in each year since May 2010; and how many of these were successful.

Steve Webb

Table below shows the total number of Pension Trace requests and those which were successful. Successful Pension Traces are where we are able to provide a customer with contact details of the pension administrator for the particular company or employer they had worked for.

1st April 10 to 31st March 11	Total 76,453 Successful 66,586
1st April 11 to 31st March 12	Total 77,757 Successful 67,068
1st April 12 to 31st March 13	Total 107,335 Successful 94,354
1st April 13 to 31st March 14	Total 144,169 Successful 126,904

Source:

The data is from the Pension Tracing System

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the average UK saver of delaying the pensions charge cap from April 2014 to April 2015.

Steve Webb

There has been no delay to the default fund charge cap. The Government has announced that it will put in place a charge cap set at 0.75% of funds under management for the default funds of all schemes used for automatic enrolment from April 2015. This means we will deliver on the timetable in our consultation document to have a full cap for all qualifying schemes in place by April 2015.