Written Question
Thursday 27th April 2017
Asked by:
Alex Salmond (Scottish National Party - Gordon)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the needs of people with MS as part of the Government's recently launched consultation on disability, health and work.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The Government wants all disabled people and people with a long term health condition to have the opportunity to work and share in the economic and health benefits that appropriate work can bring. That is why we published ‘Improving Lives the Work, Health and Disability Green Paper’ setting out the action we plan to take and starting a far-reaching, national debate on what more we can do to ensure everyone, including people with multiple sclerosis, is supported to reach their full potential.
During our three-month consultation, we heard from a wide range of stakeholders, including organisations who work with and represent people with multiple sclerosis. We are now taking stock of what we have heard.
Written Question
Wednesday 26th April 2017
Asked by:
Alex Salmond (Scottish National Party - Gordon)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Gordon dated 2 March 2017 on behalf of a constituent.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
I apologise for the delay in responding to your letter on behalf of your constituent Ms Kimberly Roy. A response has been issued to you today (26 April 17).
Written Question
Wednesday 15th February 2017
Asked by:
Alex Salmond (Scottish National Party - Gordon)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken in response to the National Audit Office's December report on the UK's benefit sanctions system; and if he will launch an independent review of the sanctions regime.
Answered by Damian Hinds
It is not normal practice to comment on any National Audit Office report where this is followed up by a Public Accounts Committee hearing. We are currently awaiting the Committee’s report following the Benefit Sanctions hearing held on 12 December 2016.
Once their report is published, we will wait until HM Treasury formally commissions the Department’s official response to any comments and recommendations made by the committee. We anticipate the committee’s report to be published at the end of February 2017 and for the Treasury commission to be issued shortly afterwards.
Written Question
Wednesday 23rd November 2016
Asked by:
Alex Salmond (Scottish National Party - Gordon)
Question
to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to respond to the letter dated 23 September 2016 from the hon. Member for Gordon on toilet facilities in Ebury House, Aberdeen.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
A reply was sent to the Rt Hon member by the Department’s Work Services Director for Scotland, Denise Horsfall, on behalf of the Secretary of State on 16 November 2016.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Nov 2015
Employee Pay (DWP)
"As my hon. Friend knows, in 2011, when we were in the very depths of the recession, the Scottish Government were able to introduce a living wage for all civil service staff in Scotland, along with a non-redundancy clause agreement. Why was such a move not possible for either the …..."Alex Salmond - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 18 Nov 2015
Employee Pay (DWP)
"I am listening carefully to the Minister, but the reality is that the Government have been rumbled on tax credits. They have been rumbled on payments to junior doctors, and now they are going to be rumbled on the treatment of DWP staff. When will the Minister address the very …..."Alex Salmond - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2015
European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]
"Listening to the hon. Gentleman, I am wondering whether the BBC finds it more difficult when an organisation such as the European Commission gives it money or, in respect of human rights, when money is taken away, as is being done by the UK Government?..."Alex Salmond - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2015
European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]
"Was not the right hon. Gentleman’s political heroine the late Lady Thatcher, who pursued majority voting—which, by definition, means accepting some decisions with which one did not agree—in order to complete the European single market?..."Alex Salmond - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2015
European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]
"Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for squeezing me into this vastly over- subscribed debate. That brings me to one of only two points I wish to make. The purpose of the Bill is to fulfil the requirement in section 8 of the European Union Act 2011 that EU legislative proposals …..."Alex Salmond - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2015
European Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]
"The fact that the Bill is so full of motherhood, apple pie and things that even the right hon. Gentleman finds difficulty in disagreeing with, as we heard in his speech, illustrates that even the serried ranks of Euroscepticism could scarce forbear to cheer this particular piece of legislation...."Alex Salmond - View Speech
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