QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Are you my MP?

How much are you paid, and what other allowances do you get?

What are you doing about local issues?

Are you a spokesman for your party in the House of Commons?

Are you my MP?

Following constituency boundary changes in May 2010, I represent the new constituency of Thornbury and Yate, which is to the north of Bristol. 

The area covers most of the old seat of Northavon, including:

  • Acton Turville
  • Alveston
  • Aust
  • Badminton
  • Charfield
  • Chipping Sodbury
  • Coalpit Heath
  • Falfield
  • Frampton Cotterell
  • Hawkesbury Upton
  • Iron Acton
  • Little Sodbury
  • Marshfield
  • Oldbury-on-Severn
  • Olveston
  • Pucklechurch
  • Rangeworthy
  • Thornbury
  • Westerleigh
  • Wick
  • Wickwar
  • Yate

If you are not sure whether you live in the Thornbury and Yate constituency, check the constituency locator on the Parliament homepage. Simply type your postcode into the locator and it will tell you whether I am your MP.

How much are you paid, and what other allowances do you get?

Salary: From 1 April 2010, an MP's salary is £65,738. Whilst I hold ministerial office I receive an additional £33,000 in respect of additional responsibilities.

Pension: Since the 1997 election, MPs were required to contribute 6% of their salaries towards the Parliamentary pension scheme. Recently, new rules were drawn up to improve MPs' pensions and increase their contributions to 9%.  I voted against this measure, and remain on the 6% level.

Allowances: Click here for a summary of MPs' allowances and the expenses I have claimed.  The allowances system is changing from May 2010 with the establishment of the new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

What are you doing about local issues?

I often speak out in Parliament about issues that affect the constituency.  Click here to link to my debates.

I also aim to raise many important issues in the local newspapers. Click here to read some of my press releases.

Are you a spokesman for your party in the House of Commons?

I am the Minister of State for Pensions in the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition Government, working in the Department for Work and Pensions and speaking in Parliament on pensions issues.

Before becoming a Minister I was spokesman on work and pensions issues for the Liberal Democrats, from January 2009 to May 2010. My brief included most aspects of pensions, unemployment, social security benefits, the Child Support Agency and tax credits issues.

In 2008 I spoke for the party on climate change, environment and energy issues.  During 2007 I headed up the manifesto writing group for the next General Election. From May 2005 to December 2006, I was the party's spokesman on health issues, and from 1999 to 2005, I was work and pensions spokesman.

Read some of my Parliamentary contributions on Work and Pensions issues here.

Read some of my Parliamentary contributions on Environment and Energy here.

Read some of my Parliamentary contributions on Health issues here.

 


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