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HANSARD NHS Pension Scheme: Tapered Annual AllowanceThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. One of the key issues is that because it reduces the tax allowance in the current year of work, it is impossible to work out what the…02 Apr 2019HANSARD NHS Pension Scheme: Tapered Annual AllowanceThat is exactly right. I asked for a Treasury Minister to reply to this debate, because the underlying legislation is a Treasury issue, but it is important to have a Health…02 Apr 2019HANSARD NHS Pension Scheme: Tapered Annual AllowanceThe hon. Gentleman raises a good point. Our constituencies share a health board. The examples of people who work for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde show exactly the consequences…02 Apr 2019HANSARD NHS Pension Scheme: Tapered Annual AllowanceI thank the hon. Gentleman for raising another specific case. I hope the Minister will bear in mind the added weight of evidence. Another of my constituents, who has worked as an…02 Apr 2019HANSARD NHS Pension Scheme: Tapered Annual AllowanceI thank my hon. Friend for his kind comments, which are undeserved. There is a wider issue of the general complexity of the systems of reliefs and allowances in the UK pensions…02 Apr 2019HANSARD Business of the HouseAt a time of great uncertainty and angst, may we have a debate about things that make us happy? A survey released this week shows that East Renfrewshire is the happiest place to…28 Mar 2019HANSARDElite-level Professional TennisOf course Scotland’s reputation in elite tennis extends beyond the Murray brothers to the likes of Gordon Reid, Jonny O’Mara and the late and much missed Elena Baltacha. Will my…27 Mar 2019HANSARD Clydesdale Bank and SMEsThank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. I have met too many individuals in my constituency who ran serious, sensible businesses and were a model in their…19 Mar 2019HANSARDOlder PensionersI welcome the Government’s response this morning to the collective defined-contribution scheme consultation. What does it mean for posties in East Renfrewshire, a number of whom…18 Mar 2019HANSARD UK’s Withdrawal from the European UnionIf the right hon. Gentleman is so confident in the views of the Scottish people and that they want a second independence referendum, why does he not suggest to his colleague the…14 Mar 2019HANSARD Disability Assessment ServicesI congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Gillian Keegan) on securing this debate. I welcome the Secretary of State’s recent announcement of the change in the…13 Mar 2019HANSARDTopical QuestionsA not insignificant number of parents feel compelled to take their children out of school and into home-schooling as a result of bullying. Will the Department’s call for evidence…11 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillMy hon. Friend says the Bill is of a technical nature, and I agree in some respects, but ultimately it authorises the spending of billions of pounds in Northern Ireland. Can it…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) (No. 2) BillThe hon. Lady mentions her role on the Public Accounts Committee. Does she think that, for as long as Stormont continues to not sit, there would be any merit in having the reports…05 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityI should point out that I spent 10 years as a pensions specialist before coming into this place. The hon. Lady is not actually correct. What has happened is that the increase in…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityThe greatest achievement of the modern capitalist system has been its ability to consistently deliver rising living standards across the globe. With higher living standards come…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Stronger Towns FundMy I press home the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont)? If this money is simply Barnettised, the Scottish Government will…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityI thank the hon. Lady for that intervention, but I would point out that that is not what the hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss) actually said. I want to address the…04 Mar 2019HANSARD Social SecurityI thank the hon. Gentleman for that point. I will come on to some of the questions about universal pensioner benefits in just a second. As the hon. Member for Wirral West…04 Mar 2019HANSARDHolocaust (Return of Cultural Objects) (Amendment) Bill (First sitting)I want to speak briefly, partly to put on record my thanks and the thanks of the Jewish community in East Renfrewshire to my right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet for…27 Feb 2019