First elected: 7th June 2001
Left House: 30th March 2015 (Defeated)
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e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.
If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.
If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).
These initiatives were driven by David Wright, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.
David Wright has not been granted any Urgent Questions
David Wright has not introduced any legislation before Parliament
David Wright has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
The Electoral Commission informs me that the confirmation dry run involved matching all entries on the electoral registers against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System database. Entries would be marked as green if they matched with DWP, amber if they were a partial match or red if there was no match.
Results for all wards are available on the Commission's website here: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/163146/Confirmation-dry-run-2013-Results-Wards.xls
The ward results for Telford and Wrekin Council were as follows:
Ward | Green matches | Amber matches | Red matches |
Apley Castle | 84.4% | 1.3% | 14.3% |
Arleston | 81.3% | 1.8% | 16.9% |
Brookside | 81.0% | 1.2% | 17.9% |
Church Aston & Lilleshall | 82.5% | 3.7% | 13.7% |
College | 79.3% | 2.6% | 18.1% |
Cuckoo Oak | 81.4% | 1.7% | 16.9% |
Dawley Magna | 82.4% | 1.3% | 16.2% |
Donnington | 81.6% | 1.5% | 16.8% |
Dothill | 84.8% | 1.3% | 14.0% |
Edgmond | 81.8% | 5.3% | 12.9% |
Ercall | 83.3% | 1.9% | 14.8% |
Ercall Magna | 80.5% | 4.9% | 14.6% |
Hadley & Leegomery | 79.3% | 1.5% | 19.2% |
Haygate | 80.7% | 1.7% | 17.6% |
Horsehay & Lightmoor | 75.8% | 3.2% | 21.1% |
Ironbridge Gorge | 76.5% | 3.1% | 20.5% |
Ketley & Oakengates | 81.8% | 1.3% | 16.9% |
Lawley & Overdale | 81.7% | 1.7% | 16.6% |
Madeley | 83.6% | 1.0% | 15.4% |
Malinslee | 83.1% | 1.2% | 15.7% |
Muxton | 82.8% | 1.2% | 16.0% |
Newport East | 86.1% | 0.9% | 13.0% |
Newport North | 84.8% | 1.6% | 13.6% |
Newport South | 86.3% | 1.8% | 11.9% |
Newport West | 82.2% | 1.5% | 16.3% |
Park | 87.3% | 1.0% | 11.7% |
Priorslee | 82.4% | 1.0% | 16.6% |
Shawbirch | 86.0% | 0.8% | 13.2% |
St Georges | 82.1% | 1.2% | 16.7% |
The Nedge | 82.9% | 1.0% | 16.1% |
Woodside | 78.7% | 1.6% | 19.7% |
Wrockwardine | 82.3% | 2.4% | 15.3% |
Wrockwardine Wood & Trench | 84.5% | 1.2% | 14.3% |
Over the 7 year period from 07/08 to 13/14 there is an annual c£3m productivity improvement a year on average.
HM Revenue and Customs is in the process of preparing a Business Case to manage the end of the Aspire contract in June 2017.
HMRC has one of the largest outsourced IT contracts in the world, enabling us to deliver a very wide range of services to more than 50 million customers.
We are committed to delivering all this for the minimum cost to the taxpayer. As the NAO report recognises, the Aspire contract helped the department to collect almost £506 billion for the UK in the last year alone as well as improving services to customers.
The NAO also recognises the progress that HMRC has made over the last two years in developing in-house technical skills, so that we are less dependent on external suppliers. For instance, we recently opened a new Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle as part of our Digital transformation programme.
We will continue to improve the performance of the contract over the next three years.
The Tax Credits systems will continue to be supported by HM Revenue and Customs until such time as all Tax Credits customers have migrated to Universal Credits. We also expect some retrospective work on Tax Credits to continue after the migration has completed for error/fraud/debt reasons. Costs related to providing this continuing support will be included in the contract replacement work.
HM Revenue and Customs has undertaken limited decommissioning work on the Tax Credit systems. All decommissioning costs are paid through Cap Gemini as our prime supplier and the value of those payments is £1.2m.
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) trained and deployed a flexible resource of just over 2000 staff from across the Department and deployed them in stages from 23rd June until the end of the Tax credit peak to ensure that the peak was a better experience for customers this year than it has been in earlier years. The Tax Credit peak this year was a huge team effort with staff of all grades including senior members of staff volunteering to help support our customers by taking telephone calls.
We do not have a record of how many of these additional staff were apprentices.
Over the 7 year period from 07/08 to 13/14 there is an annual c£3m productivity improvement a year on average.
HM Revenue and Customs is in the process of preparing a Business Case to manage the end of the Aspire contract in June 2017.
HMRC has one of the largest outsourced IT contracts in the world, enabling us to deliver a very wide range of services to more than 50 million customers.
We are committed to delivering all this for the minimum cost to the taxpayer. As the NAO report recognises, the Aspire contract helped the department to collect almost £506 billion for the UK in the last year alone as well as improving services to customers.
The NAO also recognises the progress that HMRC has made over the last two years in developing in-house technical skills, so that we are less dependent on external suppliers. For instance, we recently opened a new Digital Delivery Centre in Newcastle as part of our Digital transformation programme.
We will continue to improve the performance of the contract over the next three years.
Fujitsu provide data centre hosting for many of HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) IT systems at multiple UK locations but they do so on HMRC's behalf and do not hold any data outside of the Department's direct control. HMRC ensure all of our systems are appropriately controlled so that IT providers do not have routine access to taxpayer information.
For security reasons we are unable to share the specific location of Fujitsu/HMRC data centres.
Any HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) costs that are a direct and clear consequence of supporting the introduction of Universal Credit are funded and met by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Universal Credit Programme and are included in the DWP Universal Credit Business Case.
Abbey House is occupied by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) under the provisions of the STEPS Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract, which runs until 2 April 2021. Parkside Court is occupied by HMRC under an inter department agreement with the Land Registry, who have principal responsibility for this property; the occupancy agreement expires on 5 January 2017. Matheson House is on the HMRC estate, and the lease is not due for renewal until 2 April 2021.
HM Revenue and Customs staff numbers for Consultancy and external contractors are reported in the HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 in the Statistical Tables, Table 5: Staff Numbers (page 83).
HMRC annual report and accounts: 2013 to 2014 - Publications - GOV.UK
This data is not available by business area.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) costs for external contractors are published on the Cabinet Office.gov.uk website.
HMRC costs for Consultancy are reported in the HMRC Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 under Other Administration Costs: Other Expenditure (page 138) and Programme Costs: Other Programme Costs (page 140) and are audited by the National Audit Office. These costs include those for the VOA, which are consolidated with the costs for the core department.
HMRC annual report and accounts: 2013 to 2014 - Publications - GOV.UK
There have been no explicit discussions abut a ‘Building for the Future’ programme.
However as part of the recently announced Growth Deal with The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership my officials are in regular discussion with both the Partnership and Telford and Wrekin Council about the use of land assets in Telford managed by the Homes and Communities Agency and the joint stewardship arrangements.