Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Dave Doogan Excerpts
Tuesday 21st March 2023

(1 year, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Jeremy Hunt
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I completely agree and, thanks to the brilliant efforts of the tech sector in South Cambridgeshire, we have now become the third largest tech sector in the world, after the United States and China, thanks to the Conservative Government.

Dave Doogan Portrait Dave Doogan (Angus) (SNP)
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My constituent Fiona Cooper was seeking to close the national insurance contribution gaps in her pension just before retirement and was frustrated that the advice she got about her missing years from HMRC needed validating by the Department for Work and Pensions. Does the Chancellor agree that one set of numbers is the cornerstone of any enterprise, and is he also frustrated that she has been advised that she will need to close full years before she can close part years?

Victoria Atkins Portrait Victoria Atkins
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If the hon. Gentleman would like to write to me about this, I will look into it, but I remind him that I issued a written ministerial statement recently, extending the deadlines precisely to help women in the situation he describes.