Andy McDonald MP: written questions
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Written questions
Public Sector: PayTreasuryTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56213More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the real terms value of public sector wages in each year since 2010.
Answer: Pay for most public sector workforces is set based upon recommendations produced by respective independent Pay Review Bodies (PRBs). The PRBs consider a range of evidence when forming their recommendations, including the need to recruit, retain and motiva...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordShipping: Conditions of EmploymentDepartment for TransportTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54261More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which ferry operators have signed up to the voluntary Seafarers Charter published by her Department on 18 July 2023; and what steps she is taking to improve (a) seafarer working conditions and (b) maritime safe
Answer: A number of ferry operators have made commitments to comply with the voluntary Seafarers’ Charter and have provided evidence to the Department for Transport to support their compliance. Officials are assessing the evidence and working with operators to en...
Answered 3 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordShipping: Conditions of EmploymentDepartment for TransportTabled 22 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54260More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what she has had recent discussions with her French counterpart on the potential impact of legislation on seafarer working conditions on ferry routes between the UK and France since 28 June 2024.
Answer: On 9 April, the Transport Secretary met with Philippe Tabarot, the French Minister for Transport, where they discussed our shared commitment to seafarer protections and ongoing cooperation. Officials at the Department for Transport and the Maritime and Co...
Answered 3 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFreeports: SecurityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52248More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) withholding and (b) removing access to Freeport policy benefits where there has been continued (i) no
Answer: Freeport areas are subject to the same laws and regulations safeguarding security as the rest of the UK. A Freeport customs site is a secure, enclosed zone within the wider Freeport geography. All Freeport customs sites are required to obtain AEO(S) or eq...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFreeports: SecurityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52247More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether (a) the Freeports Security Forum and (b) any other government body has intervened where a Freeport has (i) underperformed, (ii) become non-compliant with regulations, (ii
Answer: Freeport areas are subject to the same laws and regulations safeguarding security as the rest of the UK. A Freeport customs site is a secure, enclosed zone within the wider Freeport geography. All Freeport customs sites are required to obtain AEO(S) or eq...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFreeports: SecurityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52246More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Freeports Security Forum has provided any recommendations to local Freeports to strengthen their local security apparatus.
Answer: Freeport areas are subject to the same laws and regulations safeguarding security as the rest of the UK. A Freeport customs site is a secure, enclosed zone within the wider Freeport geography. All Freeport customs sites are required to obtain AEO(S) or eq...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFreeports: SecurityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52245More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with each Freeport Governing Body on their engagement with local security stakeholders.
Answer: Freeport areas are subject to the same laws and regulations safeguarding security as the rest of the UK. A Freeport customs site is a secure, enclosed zone within the wider Freeport geography. All Freeport customs sites are required to obtain AEO(S) or eq...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFreeports: SecurityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the capacity of freeport governing bodies to conduct annual security audits.
Answer: Freeport areas are subject to the same laws and regulations safeguarding security as the rest of the UK. A Freeport customs site is a secure, enclosed zone within the wider Freeport geography. All Freeport customs sites are required to obtain AEO(S) or eq...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFreeports: SecurityMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish (a) the date on which each Freeport's Annual Freeport Security Audit was received and (b) the Freeport Security Forum's assessment of each of those audits.
Answer: Freeport areas are subject to the same laws and regulations safeguarding security as the rest of the UK. A Freeport customs site is a secure, enclosed zone within the wider Freeport geography. All Freeport customs sites are required to obtain AEO(S) or eq...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFreeports Security ForumMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52242More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the dates on which the Freeports Security Forum met in the last 12 months.
Answer: Freeport areas are subject to the same laws and regulations safeguarding security as the rest of the UK. A Freeport customs site is a secure, enclosed zone within the wider Freeport geography. All Freeport customs sites are required to obtain AEO(S) or eq...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFreeports Security ForumMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52241More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to publish the attendees at each Freeports Security Forum meeting.
Answer: Freeport areas are subject to the same laws and regulations safeguarding security as the rest of the UK. A Freeport customs site is a secure, enclosed zone within the wider Freeport geography. All Freeport customs sites are required to obtain AEO(S) or eq...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFreeports Security Forum: MembershipMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 14 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52240More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish the membership of the Freeports Security Forum.
Answer: Freeport areas are subject to the same laws and regulations safeguarding security as the rest of the UK. A Freeport customs site is a secure, enclosed zone within the wider Freeport geography. All Freeport customs sites are required to obtain AEO(S) or eq...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordParamedical Staff: PrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of paramedic prescribers.
Answer: The Department remains committed to exploring the extension of medicine responsibilities for non-medical professionals, where it is safe and appropriate to do so. This will support the aim that patients are cared for, and treated by, the most appropriate ...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordParamedical Staff: PrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to expand prescribing rights for controlled drugs by paramedic prescribers.
Answer: The Department remains committed to exploring the extension of medicine responsibilities for non-medical professionals, where it is safe and appropriate to do so. This will support the aim that patients are cared for, and treated by, the most appropriate ...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMisuse of Drugs (England and Wales and Scotland) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023Department of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of The Misuse of Drugs (England, Wales, and Scotland) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulation 2023 on patient care.
Answer: The Department remains committed to exploring the extension of medicine responsibilities for non-medical professionals, where it is safe and appropriate to do so. This will support the aim that patients are cared for, and treated by, the most appropriate ...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43972More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2025 to Question 39848 on Universal Credit: Disability, if she will publish the wider review of the PIP assessment before bringing forward legislation.
Answer: The review of the PIP assessment will be a major undertaking which will take time and require extensive engagement. To make sure we get this right, we will bring together a range of experts, stakeholders and people with lived experience to consider how be...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43971More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March 2025 to Question 39851 on Social Security Benefits: Disability, whether the collaboration committees will discuss new PIP qualification criteria.
Answer: We will establish ‘collaboration committees’ to further develop our reforms and we are currently working through which areas the committees will discuss. We particularly want to work with disabled people on how our additional investment in employment supp...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43970More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she had discussions with disabled people's groups on the introduction of the requirement that claimants must score a minimum of four points in at least one daily living activity to be eligible f
Answer: We urgently need reform to stop people from falling into inactivity, restore trust and fairness in the system and promote the interests of disabled people. This means we need to take decisive action to tackle a situation in which PIP claims are set to dou...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 28 March to Question 39845 on Personal Independence Payments: Middlesbrough and Thornaby East, if she will publish that programme of analysis before bringing forward legislatio
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, and some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get ...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityTreasuryTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43968More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy to provide hon. Members with an economic and fiscal outlook assessment by the Office for Budget Responsibility of the measures in the Pathways to Work Green Paper, published on 18 Marc
Answer: The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) published their latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook on 26 March 2025 alongside Spring Statement 2025. This included an assessment of some of the changes in the Pathways to Work Green Paper which the Government is ...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCarer's Allowance: North EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43967More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the aggregate financial value of the loss of entitlement to Carer's Allowance following proposed changes to entitlement to the Personal Independent Payment for people in (a
Answer: No assessment has yet been made. Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, and some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘Pathways to Work: Refor...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCarer's Allowance: North EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43966More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who will no longer qualify for Carer's Allowance following the proposed changes to entitlements to the Personal Independent Payment in (a) Middlesbroug
Answer: No assessment has yet been made. Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, and some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘Pathways to Work: Refor...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ConstituenciesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43880More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy paper entitled Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts, published in March 2025, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of add
Answer: No assessment has yet been made. Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, and some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘Pathways to Work: Refor...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: North EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the policy paper entitled Spring Statement 2025 health and disability benefit reforms - Impacts, published in March 2025, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of add
Answer: No assessment has yet been made. Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course, and some information was published alongside the Spring Statement. These publications can be found in ‘Pathways to Work: Refor...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43878More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the aggregate financial value of the proposed changes to Universal Credit Health rates for people in each Parliamentary constituency.
Answer: Information on the impacts of the “Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper” will be published in due course, with some information already published alongside the Spring Statement. However, the OBR does not publ...
Answered 11 Apr 2025
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