Jim McMahon MP: written questions 2025
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Breakfast ClubsDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the nutritional value of food and drinks available to school breakfast clubs in England.
Answer: The department supports the provision of nutritious food in schools to enable pupils to be well nourished, develop healthy eating habits and to concentrate and learn in school.The Requirements for School Food Regulations 2014 regulate the food and drink p...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: Deprivation IndicatorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of community pharmacies in England relative to indices of multiple deprivation.
Answer: NHS Business Services Authority publishes quarterly consolidated NHS pharmaceutical lists with all community pharmacies in England. As of the end of September, there were twice as many pharmacies located in the lowest two deprivation deciles than there we...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAcademies: Service ChargesDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92140More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the value for money of management and service charges paid by academy and free schools to related parties in England.
Answer: Academy trusts are permitted to use a proportion of their funding to pay for central services for their schools. This can be more efficient and cheaper than individual academies running or procuring the functions themselves. Where trusts top slice for cen...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: Service ChargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the value for money of management and service charges paid by GP surgeries to related parties in England.
Answer: General practice surgeries are independent contractors, and as private businesses it is within their own remit to consider the value for money of management and service charges paid to related parties in England.
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: Offensive WeaponsDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many knives and other weapons were confiscated in schools in England in the most recent year for which data is available.
Answer: Every child must be safe and the government is committed to making schools safer places for every child by tackling the root cause of serious violence.The department does not hold data on the number of knives and other weapons confiscated in schools in En...
Answered 5 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Workers: EnforcementHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many illegal working enforcement visits have been undertaken in (a) England, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) Oldham in each year since 2015.
Answer: To maintain the highest standards of accuracy, the Home Office prefers to refer to published data, as this has been subject to rigorous quality assurance under National Statistics protocols prior to publication.Our published data on illegal working visits...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHospital WardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital wards are not in active use in England; and what the patient capacity is of those wards.
Answer: Data for the occupancy and utilisation rates of clinical rooms in the NHS Estate for the latest period, which was 2023/24, published in December 2024, is available at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Media: ArrestsHome OfficeTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) hate crime and (b) non hate crime arrests have taken place for social media posts, messages and interactions in England in each year since 2015.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold arrest data specific to social media posts, messages and interactions.
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: RegistrationDepartment for TransportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicle registration numbers are held on expired retention certificates; and what the estimated value of those registration numbers is.
Answer: While the information requested about expired retention certificates may be available, it would need to be extracted from different databases and can only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMedia: LanguagesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with TV and film production companies who receive public funding or tax incentives on the inclusion of English regional dialects in their programmes.
Answer: [I] do not engage with TV and film production companies regarding editorial decisions relating to programming content due their independence from Government. However, we want British storytelling to reflect the full diversity of people, communities and ex...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployee OwnershipTreasuryTabled 18 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92050More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of effectiveness of the tax incentives available to increase the formation of Employee Ownership Trusts.
Answer: An evaluation of the Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) tax regime commissioned by HMRC and published in May 2025 found that the tax reliefs encourage company owners to transition their companies to employee ownership under the EOT model. This evaluation can ...
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFly-tipping: ProsecutionsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many fly-tipping incidents were reported and how many prosecutions were secured for each year from 2015 to date.
Answer: Local authorities in England are required to report fly-tipping incidents and enforcement action, such as prosecutions, to Defra, which the department have published annually since 2012, at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fly-tipping-in-england. ...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordIncome Tax: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91629More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of personal allowance threshold freezes on people in each income decile for each year from 2015 to date.
Answer: The previous government made the decision to freeze the income tax Personal Allowance at its current level of £12,570 until April 2028.The previous government published a Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) setting out the impacts.
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMotorways: Road Signs and MarkingsDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many incidents of inoperable active lane signage were recorded on smart motorways in each year since 2015.
Answer: It is vital that roadside technology is working as intended to best support driver safety and confidence. Smart motorways have a system of inter-related features that work together to keep drivers moving safely and reduce reliance on one single feature.Th...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMotorways: AccidentsDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) fatal accidents, (b) serious accidents, (c) minor accidents and (d) near misses were recorded on smart motorways for each year from 2015 to date.
Answer: National Highways reports annually on smart motorway safety performance. The latest report was published in September 2025 using DfT’s most up to date validated STATS19 casualty dataset and annex A contains a breakdown of casualties by severity from 2015....
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: TaxationDepartment for TransportTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many vehicles (a) are taxed, (b) have Statutory Off Road Notifications, (c) are untaxed and (d) are undeclared as having Statutory Off Road Notifications by nation and region.
Answer: The information requested is shown in the table below. Please note the table includes vehicles for which there is a current registered keeper on record and where a postcode match was found:England regionsTaxed vehicles Vehicles for which a SORN has been m...
Answered 21 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHouseholds: TaxationCabinet OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91620More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of household income is spent on (a) Council tax, (b) Income tax, (c) National Insurance and (d) VAT by income decile.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 17th November is attached.
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Trusts: ParkingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91619More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the value of car parking income generated by NHS trusts in England; and how much was spent maintaining and operating car parks in those trusts in each year since 2015.
Answer: No estimate has been made of the car parking income generated by National Health Service trusts in England. The following table shows the income generated for car parking and car parking services costs for England from 2017/18 to 2023/24:YearCar parking s...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of dispersed accommodation procured by her Department in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) Oldham is in Selective Landlord Licensing areas.
Answer: The Home Office holds seven Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts across the UK. The Home Office has contracted Serco Ltd as the AASC Provider for the North West region, including Greater Manchester. Responsibility for the provision of all dispersal ...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which contracts valued over £25,000 for dispersed accommodation providers have been contracted by Serco in Greater Manchester.
Answer: The Home Office holds seven Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts across the UK. The Home Office has contracted Serco Ltd as the AASC Provider for the North West region, including Greater Manchester. Responsibility for the provision of all dispersal ...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMultiple OccupationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many Houses of Multiple Occupation there were in England in each year since 2010.
Answer: Estimates of the number of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in England in each year since 2000-01 can be found in my Department’s Local Authority Housing Statistics open data, which can be found on gov.uk here.The latest figures for 2023-24 show an es...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordProperty Development: Recreation Spaces and Tree PlantingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of tree planting and the provision of public open space for completed residential developments in England since 2015.
Answer: My Department has made no such assessment. The implementation of national planning policy is a matter for local planning authorities. The National Planning Policy Framework sets out clear policy regarding tree planting and the provision of public open spa...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDiplomatic Immunity: Criminal ProceedingsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many criminal cases were not prosecuted because the offender had diplomatic immunity broken down by nationality from 2015.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement (HCWS1075) made on 19 November 2025 which sets out the serious and significant offences allegedly committed by those with immunity in the UK. We do not share details of individual cases.
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91611More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS England staff will be employed by successor organisations and other government bodies.
Answer: Subject to the passage of the NHS Reform Bill, NHS England will be abolished and most of its functions brought together in a new centre. Our ambition is to reduce staff numbers by up to 50% across the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS Engla...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordBroadcasting Programmes: Political ImpartialityDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91609More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of Ofcom's enforcement of news channel impartiality.
Answer: Ofcom, by law, carries out its duties independently of the Government. Ofcom is required by legislation to enforce a Broadcasting Code for television and radio, to ensure that news, in whatever form, is reported with due accuracy and presented with due im...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
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