Tag: Gregg McClymont

  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    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

  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2014-04-07.

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people made the maximum allowed contribution to an ISA in each of the last three years; and how many he estimates will do so in each of the next three years as a result of changes announced in the 2014 Budget.

    Mr David Gauke

    HM TREASURY

    Gregg McClymont MP

    CUMBERNAULD, KILSYTH AND KIRKINTILLOCH EAST

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people made the maximum allowed contribution to an ISA in each of the last three years; and how many he estimates will do so in each of the next three years as a result of changes announced in the 2014 Budget. 195422

    DAVID GAUKE

    In 2010-11, around 1.2 million individuals made full use of their (£10,200) ISA allowance. Figures for more recent years are not yet available.

    As announced at Budget 2014, from 1 July 2014 the overall annual New ISA subscription limit will be increased to £15,000 and can be used for either cash or stocks and shares investments, or any combination of the two, up to this limit. Over 6 million people are expected to benefit from these increases, including over 5 million adults currently making full use of the cash ISA limit.

    Estimates of the numbers of individuals expected to save at the new limit in each of the next three years are not available.

  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Gregg McClymont on 2014-04-07.

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish an impact assessment of planned changes to pensions from 2015 as announced in the 2014 Budget.

    Mr David Gauke

    HM TREASURY

    MP Gregg McClymont MP

    CUMBERNAULD, KILSYTH AND KIRKINTILLOCH EAST

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish an impact assessment of planned changes to pensions from 2015 as announced in the 2014 Budget 195423

    DAVID GAUKE

    The expected Exchequer impacts over the forecast period of the changes made to private pensions taxation as announced at Budget 2014 were included in the Taxes Information and Impact Note “Increasing Pension Flexibility” published on 19 March 2014 and can be found in Table 2.1 (p.56) of the Red Book.

    The Treasury announced in paragraph 1.13 of “Freedom of Choice in Pensions” that “it intends to publish draft legislation for a short technical consultation prior to the introduction of the legislation that will enact the changes from April 2015”. A consultation impact assessment will be published alongside this draft legislation.

  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

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

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the PCS Union on the future of HM Revenue and Customs Debt Management and Banking operations.

    Mr David Gauke

    Details of Ministerial and permanent secretary meetings with external organisations on departmental business are published on a quarterly basis and are available at:

    http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/minister_hospitality.htm.

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  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

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

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to privatise HM Revenue and Customs Debt Management and Banking operations; and if he will make a statement.

    Mr David Gauke

    HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has no plans to privatise its Debt Management and Banking (DMB) Operations.

    HMRC has been using debt collection services provided by private sector suppliers for several years. This has given HMRC additional capacity to complement its in house operations and increase the flexibility of its business operations, with Debt Collection Agencies (DCAs) working alongside in house debt collection activity.

    HMRC plans to continue to use private sector services – the overall aim being to strengthen further HMRC’s debt collection service, making optimal use of both internal and external collection specialists.

    In the future, HMRC will purchase those externally provided services through the Debt Market Integrator (DMI), a Cabinet Office led initiative to create a “one stop shop” for all government departments to access a range of private sector debt collection services.

  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

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

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are employed by HM Revenue and Customs in regional post rooms at each location in the UK.

    Mr David Gauke

    As requested please find detailed below staff numbers employed in HMRC Regional Post Rooms employed solely in post room activities.

    Shipley 45

    Cardiff 65

    Bootle 35

    Newcastle 98

    Cumbernauld 46

    I also refer the Honourable Gentleman to my answer on 12 May 2014.

  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    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.

  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    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.

  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    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.

  • Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Gregg McClymont – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    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