Andy McDonald MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
Israeli SettlementsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33459More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of taking steps to prohibit UK-based investments in Israeli (a) companies and (b) banks that ar
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
Original Parliament recordIsraeli Settlements: Import ControlsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33458More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) introducing tracking systems and (b) taking other steps to prohibit UK trade in goods from Israel
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
Original Parliament recordIsraeli SettlementsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33457More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) bringing forward legislative proposals and (b) taking other steps to prohibit UK (i) nationals, (
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
Original Parliament recordADHD: Mental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30668More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects NHS England to publish a national ADHD data improvement plan.
Answer: NHS England is currently working on the national ADHD data improvement plan, and is engaging with system and stakeholder partners to quality assure this work with a view to publication once it has been through NHS England’s internal assurance and governan...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve attention deficit hyperactivity disorder assessment waiting list times.
Answer: There is, at present, no single, established dataset that can be used to monitor waiting times for the assessment and diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) nationally or for individual organisations or geographies in England. Althou...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30666More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for (a) children and (b) adults to have an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder assessment in Middlesbrough & Thornaby East constituency.
Answer: There is, at present, no single, established dataset that can be used to monitor waiting times for the assessment and diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) nationally or for individual organisations or geographies in England. Althou...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30665More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) children and (b) adults are waiting for an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder assessment in Middlesbrough & Thornaby East constituency.
Answer: There is, at present, no single, established dataset that can be used to monitor waiting times for the assessment and diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) nationally or for individual organisations or geographies in England. Althou...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools she plans for each regional improvement for standards and excellence team to support in (a) the North East and (b) each region, per year.
Answer: The department expects regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) teams to have worked with around 600 schools by March 2026. RISE teams will focus their efforts on schools which are stuck and have not had a change of structure since their l...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding will be made available for the schools supported by a regional improvement for standards and excellence team.
Answer: Support delivered by regional improvement for standards and excellence teams has been backed by an over £20 million investment. They will draw up, working with high quality organisations, bespoke improvement plans with eligible schools, with the departmen...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: StandardsDepartment for EducationTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29891More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria will be used by regional improvement for standards and excellence teams to identify the schools it will be engaging with to deliver improvement in standards.
Answer: The department has introduced its new regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) teams to help drive high and rising standards. In advance of Ofsted school report cards being introduced later this year, schools will be eligible to receive be...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment 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
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