James McMurdock MP: written questions
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Carers AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31243More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the age people can receive full Carers allowance above retirement age.
Answer: I refer the honourable member to the answer I gave on 14 October 2024 to question UIN 6904.
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make a comparative assessment of the rates of youth unemployment in (a) the UK and (b) other OECD countries.
Answer: OECD youth unemployment rate data is available at: OECD Data Explorer • Infra-annual labour statistics
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to encourage employers to hire young people.
Answer: As part of the “Get Britain Working” White Paper the government announced that we will launch a new Youth Guarantee for all young people in England aged 18-21 to ensure that they have access to further learning, help to get a job or an apprenticeship. As ...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of youth employment on the mental health of young people.
Answer: We know that quality employment contributes positively to mental health and leads to independence and a feeling of fully participating in society. In 2023, one in five 16–24-year-olds who were not in education, employment, or training in England reported ...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support young people aged 16-24 who are not in education, employment or training.
Answer: As part of our plan to Get Britain Working, we will launch a new Youth Guarantee for all young people aged 18-21 in England to ensure that they can access quality training opportunities, an apprenticeship or help to find work. The Youth Guarantee will bui...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the level of unemployment in young people aged 16-24 in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: The latest 16-24 UK unemployment level is published and available at: A01: Summary of labour market statistics - Office for National Statistics
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: VeteransDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of making changes to military compensation so that it is not considered as income for the purposes of calculating means-tested benefits.
Answer: I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 5 December 2024 to question UIN 16635.
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFraud: Telephone ServicesHome OfficeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with telecommunications providers to help prevent fraud through (a) scam calls and (b) text messages.
Answer: This Government is working extremely closely with industry, regulators, law enforcement and consumer groups to close the vulnerabilities that criminals exploit in telecoms networks to stop scams reaching people. The Government and Industry are currently d...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Media: FraudDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30863More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to introduce regulations to prevent the sharing of scam content on social media platforms.
Answer: Government takes the issue of fraudulent content on social media platforms seriously – which is why fraud is listed as a priority offence in the Online Safety Act.In-scope services, including social media platforms, will have to take steps to prevent frau...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Media: FraudDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30862More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with social media companies on the role of their platforms in perpetrators committing online fraud.
Answer: The government is committed to tackling online fraud, as demonstrated through the strong duties in the Online Safety Act to protect users from this content.In addition, the Joint Fraud Taskforce is a partnership between government, the private sector and ...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: RecruitmentMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure the recruitment of prison officers stays in line with planned expansion of prison capacity.
Answer: We know that sufficient and skilled frontline staffing is fundamental to delivering safe, secure, and rehabilitative prison regimes. We remain committed to ensuring prisons are sufficiently resourced and that we retain and build levels of experience, both...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison AccommodationMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to start releasing annual statements on prison capacity.
Answer: The first annual statement on prison capacity was published on 11 December 2024. This can be found on the government website: Annual Statement on Prison Capacity: 2024 - GOV.UK.
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: OvercrowdingMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the long-term impact of (a) early release schemes and (b) other emergency prison measures.
Answer: In July 2024, the Lord Chancellor took decisive action to avoid imminent gridlock across the Criminal Justice System (CJS) by changing the automatic release point for those serving eligible Standard Determinate Sentences (SDS) from 50% to 40%. The measure...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Capacity ReviewMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30848More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will publish the Terms of Reference for the review into the handling of prison capacity.
Answer: The Terms of Reference for the review into the handling of prison capacity were published on Friday 7 February following a Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament. The Terms of Reference can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pris...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: ConstructionMinistry of JusticeTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to achieve the construction of 14,000 additional prison places by 2031.
Answer: This Government will build the prison places that the previous Government promised but failed to deliver because of their inability to stand up to their own backbenches.We are investing over £2.3 billion in prison building this year and next. The Lord Cha...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30846More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to publish the long-term housing strategy; and what key objectives will be included to provide long-term certainty to the housing market.
Answer: The government intend to publish a long-term housing strategy later this year.
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordConveyancing: Digital TechnologyMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30845More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the written ministerial statement of 10 February 2025 on Homeowners next steps, HCWS427, what her planned timeline is for digitalising property data and transac
Answer: The government committed to two projects to digitalise the home buying and selling process, including opening up local authority data and developing common data standards. These will be launched in the spring.
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: ElectionsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with local authority (a) officers and (b) elected representatives on the cancellation of the local elections in Thurrock, and if she will publish the
Answer: The Secretary of State has not had discussions with this local authority on the cancellation of the local elections.
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: AppealsMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30559More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of times courts have cited (a) the UN Global Compact for Migration and (b) other non-binding international agreements in rulings on asylum and immigration cases
Answer: The Ministry of Justice does not have policies in relation to asylum and immigration, responsibility for which sits with the Home Secretary. Nor does the Ministry of Justice consider or hold any data on the number of times in which the UN Global Compact f...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Workers: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to deport the migrants arrested for working illegally in raids in January 2025.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the Answer I gave on 14 February to Question 30090.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVisasHome OfficeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30556More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, was steps she is taking to reduce the number of people overstaying legitimately-granted visas.
Answer: All visa applications are assessed on their individual merits in accordance with Immigration Rules. Visa routes have different conditions, and these are published in route guidance on Gov.uk and stated on the visa or e-visa (digital status). The Home Offi...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners: Transgender PeopleMinistry of JusticeTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to ensure that biological males who identify as female are not housed in women’s prisons.
Answer: We take the allocation of transgender prisoners very seriously. It is right that there are safeguards in place to protect the safety of vulnerable women, and well over 90% of transgender women in custody are held in men’s prisons.Transgender women who hav...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Recognition CertificatesWomen and EqualitiesTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30554More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the medical assessment required for an individual to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate under the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
Answer: All medical reports submitted to the Gender Recognition Panel must be supplied by a doctor or a registered psychologist, registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) or the Health and Care Professions Council. The doctor must be both registered with ...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSports: WomenDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30553More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to support national sports governing bodies to ensure that women’s sports categories remain reserved for biological females.
Answer: Sporting bodies have a responsibility to protect the integrity and fairness of women's sport and the safety of all participants, particularly when it is not possible to balance those factors with inclusion.National Governing Bodies set their own policies ...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordGenderWomen and EqualitiesTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30552More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether her Department plans to issue updated guidance to service providers on rights under the Equality Act 2010 to lawfully exclude biological males from single-sex spaces.
Answer: It is vitally important that service providers understand the single-sex service exceptions in the Equality Act 2010 and feel confident using them. The Government has committed to ensuring that there is guidance in place which gives service providers assu...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
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