Viscount Younger of Leckie
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Became Member: 28th June 2010
Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)
(since September 2024)Division Voting information
Debates during the 2024 Parliament
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Sparring Partners
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
(20 debate interactions)
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
(2 debate interactions)
Department Debates
(14 debate contributions)
(1 debate contributions)
(1 debate contributions)
(1 debate contributions)
Legislation Debates
Viscount Younger of Leckie has not made any spoken contributions to legislative debateLords initiatives
These initiatives were driven by Viscount Younger of Leckie, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
2 Bills introduced by Viscount Younger of Leckie
A Bill to make provision about public service pension schemes, including retrospective provision to rectify unlawful discrimination in the way in which existing schemes were restricted under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 and corresponding Northern Ireland legislation; to make provision for the establishment of new public pension schemes for members of occupational pension schemes of bodies that were brought into public ownership under the Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008; to make provision about the remuneration and the date of retirement of holders of certain judicial offices; to make provision about judicial service after retirement; and for connected purposes
This Bill received Royal Assent on 10th March 2022 and was enacted into law.
A Bill to make provision about intellectual property.
This Bill received Royal Assent on 14th May 2014 and was enacted into law.
Viscount Younger of Leckie has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Latest 6 Written Questions
(View all written questions)As part of the £240m Get Britain Working SR package, the department will deliver eight inactivity trailblazers and three of these will be health and growth accelerators. The accelerators represent a shift by the NHS towards prevention and commitment to a role in addressing economic inactivity, including exploring the role of the fit note in this system.
The Government has no current plans to reform the fit note (Statement of Fitness for Work) in terms of the content of the form or the healthcare professionals who are legally allowed to issue them.
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
£240 million was announced in the Autumn budget to help us deliver and build on labour market reforms to Get Britain Working. Measures in the White Paper will include:
- £45m for Youth Guarantee Trailblazers so that all young people in England, aged 18-21, can access quality training and education opportunities or help to find work.
- £55m for the development of the new public employment and careers service, which will be open to everyone, transforming our ability to support people into and on at work.
- £125m for Trailblazers to tackle economic inactivity through increased engagement and tailored approaches in England and Wales.
- And £15m to support local areas in England to go further, developing their own Get Britain Working Plans.
We are working with trailblazers to create their local plans and we are developing an evaluation strategy to measure impacts, including savings to ensure we make the most effective interventions to Get Britain working.
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
4 Department of Health and Social Care Questions
(View all Viscount Younger of Leckie's DHSC questions)The Government inherited a £22 billion black hole in the nation’s finances, which has required necessary choices around spending priorities. Despite this backdrop, we were determined to identify the funding required to support additional places for NHS Talking Therapies and individual placement and support schemes.
The Get Britain Working White Paper confirms the Government’s commitment to expand access to both services, to help thousands of people with common or severe mental illness to find and keep employment
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government inherited a £22 billion black hole in the nation’s finances, which has required necessary choices around spending priorities. Despite this backdrop, we were determined to identify the funding required to support additional places for NHS Talking Therapies and individual placement and support schemes.
The Get Britain Working White Paper confirms the Government’s commitment to expand access to both services, to help thousands of people with common or severe mental illness to find and keep employment
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government inherited a £22 billion black hole in the nation’s finances, which has required necessary choices around spending priorities. Despite this backdrop, we were determined to identify the funding required to support additional places for NHS Talking Therapies and individual placement and support schemes.
The Get Britain Working White Paper confirms the Government’s commitment to expand access to both services, to help thousands of people with common or severe mental illness to find and keep employment
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government inherited a £22 billion black hole in the nation’s finances, which has required necessary choices around spending priorities. Despite this backdrop, we were determined to identify the funding required to support additional places for NHS Talking Therapies and individual placement and support schemes.
The Get Britain Working White Paper confirms the Government’s commitment to expand access to both services, to help thousands of people with common or severe mental illness to find and keep employment
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)