James McMurdock MP: written questions 2025
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Unemployment and VacanciesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99423More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to Answer of 5th December 2025 to Question 94817, what estimate he has made of the proportion of unemployed people included in the most recent unemployment-to-vacancy ratio figures who were cla
Answer: The Office for National Statistics publishes figures each month on the number of long-term unemployed people and what proportion of people who are unemployed are long-term unemployed in tab 9 of table A01 - A01: Summary of labour market statistics - Offic...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUnemployment and VacanciesCabinet OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99422More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to Answer of 5th December 2025 to Question 94817, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) duplicate listings and (b) placeholder vacancies on commercial job platforms on the accuracy
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 11th of December is attached.
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDelivery Services: VettingHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99421More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the regulatory framework for delivery operators, excluding Royal Mail, relating to a) employee vetting and b) security during peak trading periods.
Answer: The Postal Services Act 2011 designates Ofcom as the independent regulator for the postal sector, with the powers to impose and enforce regulatory requirements on postal operators. In its review of postal regulation in 2022, Ofcom committed to ongoing mon...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDelivery Services: VettingHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99420More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on ensuring consistent security standards across private delivery operators during periods of rapid temporary recruitme
Answer: The Postal Services Act 2011 designates Ofcom as the independent regulator for the postal sector, with the powers to impose and enforce regulatory requirements on postal operators. In its review of postal regulation in 2022, Ofcom committed to ongoing mon...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSchool DayDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of variations in the amount and quality of breaktime provision between schools.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member for South Basildon and East Thurrock to the answers of 25 November 2025 and 5 December 2025 to Questions 91834 and 95249.
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordFoster CareDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99418More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support she is providing to local authorities to help ensure they have a sufficient number of foster carers to meet local demand.
Answer: Foster care is one of my top priorities as Minister. The department is already investing £25 million of transformation funding for foster care, which is additional to the £15 million announced at the Autumn Budget covering the 2025/26 financial year. We a...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99417More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to ensure that data on illegal migrants whose whereabouts are unknown can be published in a verified form.
Answer: The nature of absconding is complicated because individuals frequently come in and out of contact. Whilst the Home Office has processes for the recording of absconder events, and for seeking to bring such individuals back into contact, the recording of in...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented MigrantsHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99416More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to establish the number of illegal migrants whose whereabouts are unknown.
Answer: The nature of absconding is complicated because individuals frequently come in and out of contact. Whilst the Home Office has processes for the recording of absconder events, and for seeking to bring such individuals back into contact, the recording of in...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrantsHome OfficeTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99415More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish data on the number of migrant absconders in each of the last three years.
Answer: The nature of absconding is complicated because individuals frequently come in and out of contact. Whilst the Home Office has processes for the recording of absconder events, and for seeking to bring such individuals back into contact, the recording of in...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLevel Crossings: TilburyDepartment for TransportTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99414More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of level crossing barrier down time at East Tilbury is attributable to freight services; and what the average and maximum barrier down times are for freight movement compared with passenger serv
Answer: The Department does not hold this information in the format requested. I have asked Network Rail, as the infrastructure manager responsible for East Tilbury Level Crossing, to write to you as soon as the information is available.
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLevel Crossings: TilburyDepartment for TransportTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99413More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to Answer of 9 December 2025 to Question 96030 on Level Crossings: Tilbury, what the longest barrier closure recorded at East Tilbury level crossing was during the most recent risk assessment; and what
Answer: The Department does not hold this information in the format requested. I have asked Network Rail, as the infrastructure manager responsible for East Tilbury Level Crossing, to write to you as soon as the information is available.
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLevel Crossings: TilburyDepartment for TransportTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will request that the Office of Rail and Road review Network Rail’s compliance with its statutory duties at East Tilbury level crossing in the context of a) freight-related barrier closures and b) commun
Answer: ORR is the independent rail safety regulator, and we do not direct it in its role. ORR will review Network Rail’s compliance with its statutory duties at level crossings as part of any inspections of such sites and if deficiencies are found, then it will ...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99411More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the number of children with EHCPs whose preference was for a specialist school place, but were instead placed in a mainstream school.
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. To support local authorities with this duty, in December, the department announced at least £...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: South Basildon and East ThurrockDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of SEND spaces needed in South Basildon and East Thurrock to meet forecast demand.
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. To support local authorities with this duty, in December, the department announced at least £...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: ThurrockDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2025 to Question 94577 on Special Educational Needs: Admissions, whether she has provided guidance on the number of additional SEND places required to meet forecast demand i
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. To support local authorities with this duty, in December, the department announced at least £...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Basildon and ThurrockDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the levels of unmet demand for SEND places in (a) Thurrock and (b) Basildon.
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. To support local authorities with this duty, in December, the department announced at least £...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPilot Schemes: Chronic IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2025 to Question 94814, what his timetable is for deciding whether the NHS Health Accelerator model will be expanded beyond the three currently funded Integrate
Answer: The 2025 Spending Review was published on 11 June 2025 by HM Treasury and sets out departmental budgets for day‑to‑day spending until 2028/29, and until 2029/30 for capital investment. The 2025 Spending Review is available at the following link:https://ww...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordJobcentresDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of claimants who move into work via Jobcentre support who remain in work for more than six months.
Answer: The department has made no estimate of the proportion of claimants who move into work via Jobcentre support who remain in work for more than six months. The Department monitors Jobcentre performance through an internal performance framework aligned with t...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordJobcentresDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99405More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the feasibility of requiring JobCentre Plus districts to report outcomes for (a) full-time work, (b) part-time work and (c) training and skills provision.
Answer: The Department monitors Jobcentre performance through an internal performance framework aligned with the priorities set out in Get Britain Working White Paper. The framework is designed for internal management purposes and the data is not published extern...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99026More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether reporting requirements are in place for police forces to notify her Department of their utilisation of live facial recognition technology.
Answer: There are no mandatory reporting requirements for police forces to notify the Home Office when they deploy live facial recognition (LFR) technology. However, transparency is an important safeguard, and the College of Policing’s national guidance requires ...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Fees and ChargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99025More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 3 December 2025 to Question 94075 on Health Services: Foreign Nationals, when he last reviewed the operation of the NHS cost-recovery regime with NHS England: and what milesto
Answer: The Department and NHS England publish data annually on the income identified, recovered, and written off from chargeable overseas visitors in England in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts and in NHS England’s Consolidated NHS provider accounts. ...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Fees and ChargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99024More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much income was (a) invoiced, (b) collected, and( c) written off under the NHS cost-recovery regime in each of the last three financial years.
Answer: The Department and NHS England publish data annually on the income identified, recovered, and written off from chargeable overseas visitors in England in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts and in NHS England’s Consolidated NHS provider accounts. ...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBiometricsHome OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99003More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to expand the use of live facial recognition technology for non-criminal matters.
Answer: Live facial recognition technology, which involves processing live video footage of people passing a camera, is used in England and Wales to help locate people who are wanted by the police, in public spaces. The College of Policing has produced national g...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99002More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has conducted a cost-benefit analysis on the fiscal implications of utilising live facial recognition systems; and how this compares to traditional policing methods.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold data on the number of convictions made following the police’s use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology. Where police forces are using live facial recognition technology, the number of arrests made following each deplo...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordImmigration Controls: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99001More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of live facial recognition on security and passenger flow at UK borders and airports; and what evaluation has been undertaken in
Answer: Facial comparison technology is currently in operation at the eGates at the UK border. eGates provide a safe, secure and efficient method for millions of passengers to cross our border each year. Technology deployed at the UK border is rigorously tested t...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
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