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Stockton South

 

  • Dari Taylor (Labour) - No response received
  • James Wharton (Conservative) - No response received
  • Jacquie Bell (Lib Dem) - see response 
  • Peter Braney (UKIP) - No response received
  • Yvonne Hossack (Ind) - No response received

 

Name: Dari Taylor

Party: Labour

Contact details: stocktonsouth.labourparty@gmail.com


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Name: James Wharton

Party: Conservative

Contact details: james@jameswharton.co.uk


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Name: Jacquie Bell

Party: Lib Dem

Contact details: jacquie.bell50@googlemail.com


I have been contacted by a number of PCS members today. Thus felt it best to send a response to the generic e mail address - I hope people will have access to it.
My husband was a Civil servant for many years with the Forestry Commission.
Pledge 1
As a social worker I have been concerned by the reduction in local offices for some services over the years e.g. I used to be able to contact a local office for Disability Benefits and Income Support/Pension Credit. Its now Preston to make new Disability Benefit claims and Dundee for Pension Credit. The latter makes use of expensive 0845 number and the claimlines are difficult for older people to use.
Ive also been concerned at the news of cut backs in office opening hours at HMRC in Stockton South.
Nevertheless with the current economic situation I feel I could not guarantee that thre will be no local office closures or job losses.
Politicians need to be open and honest when they make tough decisions. Lib dems want to be fair and protect our public services, wherever we can.
Lib dems want to make sure there is a level playing field between private and puiblic providers.
At present Government accounting schemes mean that much of the cost of PFI Schemes is hidden from Treasury balance sheets. We want to ensure that the real cost is known so that they are only used when thre is real value for money.
Pledge2
Lib Dems want to transform tax policies - we want to close lopholes and make the tax system fairer. We feel it unfair that the less well paid pay a greater proportion of their income out in tax than the wealthiest.
We want to raise the tax threshold to £10,000 - this would take 3.6 million people out of paying tax.
At the other end we want to equalise capital gains Tax with income tax, levy 1% tax on homes worth over £2 million and develop green taxation.
We want to invest in more HMRC staff focussed on tax avoidance so that we can clamp down on this.
Pledge3
With the UKs vast budget deficit thre is a need for public sector pay restraint. However, we want to ensure that rather than labour's 1% cap thre would be a £400 cap on pay increases so that workers on low and middle incomes get a larger percentage increase than the highly paid.
Pledge4
Public sector workers (including my husband) are entitled to know that their existing accrued rights will be maintained. Lib dems would not retrospectively remove pension rights which have already been built up - that would be unfair to people who have been working under those conditions.
Pledge 5
Lib dems believe that thre should be a full assessment made of the impact of changes to public services to differnt groups. I would be interrested to hear more from local PCS members in Stockton South.
Finally I am keen to hear from people who work in the public sector about how local public services might be improved. I am always keen to have dialogue with PCS members in Stockton South on issues that affect them.
 

Name: Peter Braney

Party: UKIP

Contact details: peterbraney@ukip.org.uk


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Name: Yvonne Hossack

Party: Independant

Contact details: info@hossackssolicitors.com


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