November 2015

1200 miles of Scottish Roads without phone coverage: ACTION NEEDED!

SNP MP Drew Hendry has called on the UK government to prioritise rural areas for mobile phone coverage as it is revealed Scotland has over a thousand miles of roads without phone coverage. The RAC Foundation report highlights how drivers who break down on over 1200 miles of Scotland’s roads cannot call for help because …

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UK Government needs to stop ‘dragging its feet’ on payments for tainted blood vicitims

MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Drew Hendry has renewed calls for the UK Government to increase winter fuel payments for those who contracted HIV and hepatitis C as a result of contaminated NHS blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. Health Minister Shona Robison wrote to UK Public Health Minister Jane Ellison in …

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HMRC office closure plans must be scrutinised by Parliament

It is estimated that more than 2,000 jobs are to go with the closure of HMRC tax offices in Scotland. The decision comes as a direct result of the Treasury’s demands for a swingeing 30% cuts to their budget – to satisfy George Osborne’s austerity agenda. Following discussions with various stakeholders since the shock announcement which includes …

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Universal Service Obligation for Broadband Welcome.. but rural communities still face same old catch up

Drew Hendry MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey has called on the UK Government to put rural communities at the front of the queue for digital development and put an end to the digital divide once and for all.  Drew has been at the forefront of calls for a Universal Service Obligation to benefit …

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HMRC Job Losses

On the news that the Inverness HMRC Office will be closing between April 2017 and April 2018, affecting 64 staff Drew Hendry MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey said: “It is a devastating blow given that the scale of the job losses are far worse than anyone was prepared for. It is unacceptable that …

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“Head in sand” UK Treasury getting “sums wrong” over Inverness HMRC redundancies says Local MP

U.K. Government dodges reply and refuses to meet Drew Hendry MP over fate of skilled HMRC jobs. According to the HMRC’s own data recently published just 68.3% of 1,433,235 calls about tax credits received in March of this year were dealt with compared with 98.3% of the 1,124,860 calls made on the same subject in …

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