Andy McDonald MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Personal Independence Payment: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39854More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are in receipt of personal independence payments in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency.
Answer: In January 2025, there were a total of 11,800 people in receipt of Personal Independence Payment in the Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency. This information can be found on Stat-Xplore in the ‘PIP Cases with Entitlement from 2019’ dataset’.
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are in receipt of the health element of universal credit in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency.
Answer: Quarterly statistics for the number of People on Universal Credit with a health condition or disability restricting their ability to work in Great Britain are published on Stat-Xplore. The latest release provides figures up to December 2024 which can be b...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the green paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, if she will publish the criteria for membership of the panel to ensure that the views
Answer: As part of wider efforts to put disabled voices at the heart of policy, the Get Britain Working White Paper announced a commitment to establishing a panel to consult disabled people. We are in the process of establishing this panel, which will also consid...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the green paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working, if she will publish the membership of the panel to ensure that the views of (a) disabl
Answer: As part of wider efforts to put disabled voices at the heart of policy, the Get Britain Working White Paper announced a commitment to establishing a panel to consult disabled people. We are in the process of establishing this panel, which will also consid...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence PaymentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will launch a consultation on proposals to introduce an additional requirement for people to score at least four points in one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living part of PI
Answer: We have committed to introduce a new requirement that, in addition to the existing eligibility criteria, claimants must score a minimum of four points in at least one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living component of Personal Independ...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Public ConsultationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will launch a consultation on proposals to rebalance Universal Credit (a) standard allowance, (b) health element and (c) new payment rates.
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. Therefore, there are some measures announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper on the 18 March 20...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39848More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will launch a consultation on proposals to (a) end the Work Capability Assessment and (b) use the single Personal Independence Payment assessment to assess entitlement for the Universal Credit he
Answer: We urgently need reform to stop people from falling into inactivity, restore trust and fairness in the system and protect disabled people. Therefore, there are some measures announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper on the 18th March 2025, that we wil...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of future (a) applicants and (b) recipients of personal independence payments in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency as a result of the green paper en
Answer: No such estimates have been made. Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course with some information published this week alongside the Spring Statement. A further programme of analysis to support developme...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the number of future (a) applicants and (b) recipients for the health element of universal credit in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency as a result of the green
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published alongside the Spring Statement. A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper will be developed and undertaken in the coming mont...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payments: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the change in number of recipients of personal independent payments in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency as a result of the green paper entitled Pathways to Wo
Answer: No such estimate has been made.Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published in due course with some information published this week alongside the Spring Statement. A further programme of analysis to support development ...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39844More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the change in number of recipients of the health element of universal credit in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency as a result of the green paper entitled Pathw
Answer: Information on the impacts of the Pathways to Work Green Paper will be published alongside the Spring Statement. A further programme of analysis to support development of the proposals in the Green Paper will be developed and undertaken in the coming mont...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 20 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the (a) equality and (b) poverty impact analysis were not published with the green paper entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working.
Answer: The equalities analysis and poverty analysis includes detailed information which would have pre-empted the OBR forecast. That forecast is market sensitive until the Spring Statement. The analysis was published alongside the Spring Statement this week.
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordResettlement: AfghanistanHome OfficeTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38360More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps are available to applicants to the Afghan civilian resettlement scheme who have evidence of biometric data taken for application where the Home Office (a) did not retain the content of and
Answer: Everyone seeking resettlement under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) is required to meet the eligibility requirements published on gov.uk.The window to submit a referral under ACRS Pathway 1 Stage 2: Separated Families was opened on 30 July ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordResettlement: AfghanistanHome OfficeTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department's policy that an application for family relocation may be pursued under the Afghan civilian resettlement scheme criteria where the Home Office did not (a) retain the conte
Answer: Everyone seeking resettlement under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) is required to meet the eligibility requirements published on gov.uk.The window to submit a referral under ACRS Pathway 1 Stage 2: Separated Families was opened on 30 July ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordShipping: PayDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33470More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether Dover Harbour Board has requested an equivalence declaration from P&O Ferries under Section 5 of the Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024.
Answer: The Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023 and Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024 do not require harbour authorities to inform the Secretary of State of requests for declarations, or of responses to requests of declarations from operators.
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordShipping: PayDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33469More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether P&O Ferries has responded to the request for an equivalence declaration from the harbour authority in (a) Larne, (b) Cairnryan, (c) Teesport, (d) Hull, (e) Tilbury and (f) Dover under section 5 of the S
Answer: The Seafarers’ Wages Act 2023 and Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024 do not require harbour authorities to inform the Secretary of State of requests for declarations, or of responses to requests of declarations from operators.
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordShipping: PayDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33468More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether any harbour authority in the UK has issued a surcharge notification to a ferry operator under the Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024.
Answer: We have not received any notifications from harbour authorities of surcharge notifications being issued. Given that operators have 3 months from the date of the request of an equivalence declaration to provide a declaration before a surcharge is imposed a...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordShipping: PayDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33467More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish the names of the ferry service operators that have been required to make a declaration under the Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024.
Answer: The Seafarers' Wages Act and Regulations do not make provision for the publication of requests for declarations under the Act.
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordShipping: PayDepartment for TransportTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33466More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish which UK harbour authorities have requested declarations from ferry operators under the Seafarers’ Wages Regulations 2024.
Answer: The Seafarers' Wages Act and Regulations do not make provision for the publication of requests for declarations under the Act.
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWarm Home Discount Scheme: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33465More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the number of households eligible for the Warm Homes Discount in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency in winter 2025-26.
Answer: The latest published Warm Home Discount statistics are for 2023/4 and use the constituency boundaries operating prior to the 2024 General Election. Most (82%) of the residential premises in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency come from Middlesbro...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordWarm Home Discount Scheme: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33464More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many households are (a) eligible for and (b) in receipt of the Warm Homes Discount in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency.
Answer: The latest published Warm Home Discount statistics are for 2023/4 and use the constituency boundaries operating prior to the 2024 General Election. Most (82%) of the residential premises in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency come from Middlesbro...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: Price CapsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring Ofgem to consider average changes to wages in future energy price cap methodology.
Answer: The Government continues to work closely with Ofgem to ensure that the price cap continues to protect consumers from unfair prices.
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: Price CapsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33462More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of Ofgem's criteria for conducting future reviews of the energy price cap methodology.
Answer: The Government continues to work closely with Ofgem to ensure that the price cap continues to protect consumers from unfair prices.
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: Price CapsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the rate of earnings before interest and tax allowance in OFGEM's energy price cap methodology.
Answer: The setting of the energy price cap is a matter for the independent regulator Ofgem. The earnings before tax and interest (EBIT) allowance allows energy suppliers to make a reasonable profit that ensures long-term investment, while limiting excess profits...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordIsraeli Settlements: ExportsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33460More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of UK companies involved in (a) producing and (b) otherwise developing (i) weapons, (ii) surveill
Answer: The UK Government considers Israeli settlements illegal under international law and goods produced in these settlements are not entitled to benefit from tariff and trade preferences under the UK's current trade agreements with the Palestinian Authority an...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
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