James McMurdock MP: written questions
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Roads: EssexDepartment for TransportTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30003More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions her Department has had with Essex County Council on achieving its Vision Zero target by 2040; and whether she plans to make additional funding available for local casualty reduction schemes.
Answer: There have been no discussions between the Department for Transport and Essex County Council on achieving its Vision Zero target by 2040. Decisions on funding will come at the conclusion of the current spending review.
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Tribunals ServiceMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29777More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time was between application to the Employment Tribunal and hearing in each of the last three years.
Answer: HM Courts and Tribunals Service does not hold the requested information.
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Media: ResearchDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29758More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to commission research on the potential correlation between trends in children's media literacy levels and their susceptibility to social media harms.
Answer: Media literacy can help tackle a wide variety of online safety issues for all internet users, including children.Media literacy is currently taught through the national curriculum for citizenship at key stages 3 and 4. The guidance can be accessed here: h...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Media: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29756More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve education in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools on media literacy to increase awareness amongst young people of social media harms.
Answer: Media literacy can help tackle a wide variety of online safety issues for all internet users, including children.Media literacy is currently taught through the national curriculum for citizenship at key stages 3 and 4. The guidance can be accessed here: h...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: EssexMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the services provided to irregular migrants by (a) Thurrock Council and (b) Basildon Council in the last two years.
Answer: For Thurrock, the final Settlement represents an increase in Core Spending Power of up to 6.9% - making available a total of up to £178.2 million in 2025-26. For Basildon, Core Spending Power is increasing by up to 1.5%, making available a total of up to ...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ThurrockMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions she has had with Thurrock Council on the services it provides for asylum seekers.
Answer: For Thurrock, the final Settlement represents an increase in Core Spending Power of up to 6.9% - making available a total of up to £178.2 million in 2025-26. For Basildon, Core Spending Power is increasing by up to 1.5%, making available a total of up to ...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal GovernmentMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the system of elected mayors in managing of local issues across large geographical areas.
Answer: Mayors have become vital local leaders, delivering on the promise of change in their area to drive growth, more joined-up delivery, and earning trust. We want to see all of England benefit from devolution and it is the government’s strong preference that ...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: DevolutionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that local councils remain accountable to residents under the Devolution Priority Programme.
Answer: On 5 February, the Deputy Prime Minister confirmed that the Government will be taking Greater Essex (Essex County Council, Thurrock Council, Southend-on-Sea City Council) forward on the Devolution Priority Programme. The government also agreed that, for E...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: DevolutionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29689More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Devolution Priority Programme on levels of (a) voter engagement and (b) democratic participation in future elections.
Answer: On 5 February, the Deputy Prime Minister confirmed that the Government will be taking Greater Essex (Essex County Council, Thurrock Council, Southend-on-Sea City Council) forward on the Devolution Priority Programme. The government also agreed that, for E...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBasildon University Hospital: Maternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29403More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to assist Basildon Hospital in improving their maternity services.
Answer: The Basildon Hospital entered the NHS England Maternity Safety Support Programme (MSSP) in October 2020 due to safety concerns identified in a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection which rated it ‘Inadequate’. Its latest CQC report in March 2024 rated ...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordInternet: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29402More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to include online safety education into the national curriculum in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
Answer: As part of the statutory relationships and health education (RHE) in primary schools and relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) in secondary schools, pupils are taught about online safety and harms. This includes being taught about what positive, ...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: Social MediaDepartment for EducationTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29401More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to provide (a) schools and (b) parents with guidance to protect young people from harmful content on social media platforms.
Answer: The department’s ‘Keeping children safe in education’ publication is the statutory safeguarding guidance that all school and colleges must have regard to.This guidance provides schools and colleges with robust information on how to protect pupils and stud...
Answered 20 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Media: ChildrenDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29400More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to strengthen age verification methods on social media platforms to protect children from having access to harmful content.
Answer: The government is committing to doing what is necessary to protect children online. The Online Safety Act requires in-scope services to use highly effective age assurance to prevent children from encountering specific types of harmful content. On 16 Janua...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBlasphemyHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025WithdrawnUIN 29399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reintroducing blasphemy laws in England and Wales.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HotelsHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of hotels required as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers in England on 31 December 2025.
Answer: This Government remains resolute in its commitment to reduce the costs of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of asylum hotels over time, through a number of actions including restarting the processing of asylum claims, establishing the new Bor...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: EssexHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost is of accommodating asylum seekers by Essex local authority.
Answer: This Government remains resolute in its commitment to reduce the costs of asylum accommodation, including ending the use of asylum hotels over time, through a number of actions including restarting the processing of asylum claims, establishing the new Bor...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPylons: Environmental ProtectionDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure engagement with (a) the public and (b) relevant stakeholders on the environmental impact of pylon projects before Development Consent Orders are granted to p
Answer: In England and Wales, the Planning Act 2008 requires developers to demonstrate that they have consulted adequately with local communities and relevant stakeholders before they submit applications for consent. This includes engagement on the environmental ...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordElectricity Generation: InfrastructureDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to engage with the public on the construction of new electricity network infrastructure.
Answer: In England and Wales, the Planning Act 2008 requires developers to demonstrate that they have consulted adequately with communities and to ensure their feedback is considered and incorporated into any new projects. Our objective is to ensure communities h...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMentally Disordered Offenders: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of violent offenders had (a) paranoid schizophrenia and (b) other mental health illnesses when convicted in each of the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMentally Disordered Offenders: Crimes of ViolenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of monitoring measures used to prevent people with (a) mental illness and (b) a history of violence and aggression from committing violent crimes.
Answer: In response to the Care Quality Commission’s review of the care and treatment provided to Valdo Calocane and of the services provided by the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, NHS England asked every provider of mental health services to rev...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCompulsorily Detained Psychiatric PatientsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29392More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the patient detention provisions in the Mental Health Act 1983.
Answer: The Mental Health Bill, currently making its way through Parliament, will deliver the Government’s commitment to modernise the Mental Health Act 1983. It will give patients greater choice, autonomy, enhanced rights and support, and will ensure everyone is...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordValdo CalocaneDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29391More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of NHS England's report entitled Independent mental health homicide report into the treatment of Valdo Calocan
Answer: NHS England and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have accepted all the recommendations in this report, and we have been clear that we expect these recommendations to be fully implemented.The trust has also been placed in the recovery suppor...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSchizophreniaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29390More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of care available for people with paranoid schizophrenia.
Answer: NHS England has made significant progress in expanding community-based services for people with severe mental illness, including paranoid schizophrenia.In the last 12 months more than 400,000 adults have received help through new models, which aim to give...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what services are available for asylum seekers on entry into the UK.
Answer: Guidance on the asylum support system is publicly available at:www.gov.uk/government/collections/asylum-support-asylum-instructions
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: EssexHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much funding local councils have spent on housing asylum seekers in (a) Essex and (b) South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency since 2022.
Answer: The requested data is not held centrally by the Home Office.
Answered 24 Feb 2025
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