Andy McDonald MP: written questions
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Government Departments: ContractsCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29890More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department plans to take to enable the government to break with outsourced government contracts in the case where the desired outcomes are not delivered.
Answer: The National Procurement Policy Statement will set out the Government’s policy priorities, and contracting authorities will have to have regard to it when carrying out procurements. The Policy Statement will consult on introducing a new public interest te...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: ContractsCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29889More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to review the effectiveness of meeting contractual requirements in outsourced services provided to government departments.
Answer: The National Procurement Policy Statement will set out the Government’s policy priorities, and contracting authorities will have to have regard to it when carrying out procurements. The Policy Statement will consult on introducing a new public interest te...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: ContractsCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29888More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to tackle(a) insecure work and (b) level of pay for workers employed in outsourced services in government departments.
Answer: The Employment Rights Bill will ensure the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation. This will include the introduction of the Two-Tier Code which will ensure fair and equitable employment conditions for public sector workers who have been trans...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: ContractsCabinet OfficeTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29887More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will initiate a programme of insourcing of facilities and maintenance services in government departments.
Answer: The National Procurement Policy Statement will set out the Government’s policy priorities, and contracting authorities will have to have regard to it when carrying out procurements. The Policy Statement will consult on introducing a new public interest te...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DeductionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that direct deduction orders do not leave people in relative poverty.
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) encourages paying parents to pay their maintenance on time in order to avoid accrual of arrears. Where a paying parent fails to pay on time or in full, the Service is committed to using its wide-ranging enforcement powe...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DeductionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28069More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the accessibility of the appeals process for deduction orders.
Answer: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) takes the accessibility of the appeals process for Regular Deduction Order (RDO) or Lump Sum deduction Order (LSDO) seriously.Guidance on how to appeal the deduction order is enclosed with the final lump sum deduction o...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DeductionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28068More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to assess the (a) number and (b) causes of incorrect deduction orders.
Answer: The data requested is not held centrally. To extract this data would involve the manual review of all relevant cases to identify those deduction orders with an error and the reason which would be at a cost to the department and taxpayer. CMS has taken pos...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28067More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have had their driving license suspended for failure to pay child maintenance in each of the last five years.
Answer: From January to September 2024, the courts issued 1 immediate and 5 suspended disqualifications for driving. From January to December 2023, the courts issued 4 suspended disqualifications for driving. From January to December 2022, the courts issued 1 imm...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DeductionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28066More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of social security payments were subject to one or more deduction in each of the past five years; and what the (a) mean and (b) median monthly deduction was by constituency.
Answer: Some of the requested information for Universal Credit is published and available here: Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 10 October 2024 - GOV.UK. Table 6 in the Universal Credit deductions statistics, supplementary data tables breaks down ho...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28065More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) mean and (b) median value was of deductions to social security payments for people in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency in each of the last five years.
Answer: Some of the requested information for Universal Credit is published and available here: Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 10 October 2024 - GOV.UK. Table 6 in the Universal Credit deductions statistics, supplementary data tables breaks down ho...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28064More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many recipients of social security payments are subject to deductions in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency; and for what reasons those people are subject to deductions.
Answer: Some of the requested information for Universal Credit is published and available here: Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 10 October 2024 - GOV.UK. Table 6 in the Universal Credit deductions statistics, supplementary data tables breaks down ho...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ProcurementMinistry of JusticeTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27859More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2025 to Question 21413, Prisons: Procurement, what recent estimate she has made of the potential savings to the public purse of awarding prison maintenance contracts to the pub
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring professional Facility Management services across its prison estate and has initiated a programme of work that will put in place new contracts for the provision of maintenance services for prisons. These are being co...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: InfrastructureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent delays by relevant authorities in the adoption of public amenities on housing estates.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244).
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: ConstructionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) developing and (b) approving a single mandatory consumer code for all housebuilders.
Answer: The government is committed to improving upon existing means of redress for new build homebuyers for when things go wrong. The government responded to the CMA Housebuilding Study in October 2024 and committed to implementing recommendation 2.1, namely a s...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordProperty Management CompaniesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of prohibiting new embedded management arrangements in residential developments.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244).
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordProperty Management Companies: Fees and ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of improving protections for residential freeholders from unnecessary costs charged by estate management companies.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244).
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: InfrastructureMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing common adoptable standards for public amenities on new housing estates.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244).
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18552More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking help support local authorities to access suitable accommodation for homeless people to meet their (a) interim duty to accommodate and (b) main housing du
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This Government recognises the devastating impact this can have on those affected, especially children.We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Government is looking at these issues carefully and will...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordTemporary Accommodation: ChildrenMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18551More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many children were housed in unsuitable temporary accommodation in each local authority in the North East in each year since 2010.
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This Government recognises the devastating impact this can have on those affected, especially children.We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Government is looking at these issues carefully and will...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18550More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many (a) in-area and (b) out-of-area awards for housing accommodation for homeless people were made under local authorities' (i) interim duty to accommodate and (ii) main hou
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This Government recognises the devastating impact this can have on those affected, especially children.We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Government is looking at these issues carefully and will...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18549More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of local government capacity to provide suitable accommodation for homeless people within the same local authority boundaries.
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This Government recognises the devastating impact this can have on those affected, especially children.We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Government is looking at these issues carefully and will...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHomelessnessMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18548More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of local government (a) processes and (b) resources for identifying suitable accommodation for homeless people in the context of th
Answer: Homelessness levels are far too high. This Government recognises the devastating impact this can have on those affected, especially children.We must address this and deliver long term solutions. The Government is looking at these issues carefully and will...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordProbation: InjuriesMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many probation delivery units in England and Wales operate (a) a Linkworker Scheme and (b) another dedicated support scheme for people with acquired brain injury.
Answer: The requested information is not held centrally. Collating it would involve contacting each of the 108 Probation Delivery Units, which could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: InjuriesMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons in England and Wales operate (a) a Linkworker Scheme and (b) another dedicated support scheme for people with acquired brain injury.
Answer: The requested information is not held centrally. Collating it would involve contacting 122 prisons individually, which could not be done without incurring disproportionate cost.
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordBrain: InjuriesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18133More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what social care pathways are available for people whose acquired brain injury is identified when they are in the criminal justice system.
Answer: People in prison are entitled to the same range and quality of health services that they would receive in the community. Offender health services are commissioned by NHS England.All people in prison should receive an early health screening within the firs...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
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