Andy McDonald

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Deductions

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.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Deductions

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.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Deductions

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.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

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.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Deductions

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.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

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.

3 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

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.

31 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Procurement

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

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent delays by relevant authorities in the adoption of public amenities on housing estates.

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of (a) developing and (b) approving a single mandatory consumer code for all housebuilders.

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Management Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of prohibiting new embedded management arrangements in residential developments.

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Property Management Companies: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of improving protections for residential freeholders from unnecessary costs charged by estate management companies.

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing common adoptable standards for public amenities on new housing estates.

9 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking help support local authorities to access suitable accommodation for homeless people to meet their (a) interim duty to accommodate and (b) main housing du

9 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Temporary Accommodation: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many children were housed in unsuitable temporary accommodation in each local authority in the North East in each year since 2010.

9 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many (a) in-area and (b) out-of-area awards for housing accommodation for homeless people were made under local authorities' (i) interim duty to accommodate and (ii) main hou

9 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of local government capacity to provide suitable accommodation for homeless people within the same local authority boundaries.

9 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of local government (a) processes and (b) resources for identifying suitable accommodation for homeless people in the context of th

5 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many probation delivery units in England and Wales operate (a) a Linkworker Scheme and (b) another dedicated support scheme for people with acquired brain injury.

5 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons in England and Wales operate (a) a Linkworker Scheme and (b) another dedicated support scheme for people with acquired brain injury.

5 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what social care pathways are available for people whose acquired brain injury is identified when they are in the criminal justice system.

5 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Brain: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what health pathways are available for people whose acquired brain injury is identified when they are in the criminal justice system.

5 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of service users of the commissioned probation services for neurodiverse needs have a (a) known and (b) suspected brain injury.

5 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support the commissioned probation services for neurodiverse needs provides to people with an acquired brain injury.

5 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Probation: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance her Department has issued to probation professionals on the steps they should take if someone under post-custodial supervision is found to have previously had an acquired brain injury.

5 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Community Orders: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what guidance her Department has issued to probation professionals on the steps they should take if someone with a community order is found to have previously had an acquired brain injury.

5 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Community Orders: Injuries

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people aged (a) 14 to 17, (b) 18 to 25 and (c) 26 and older who were sentenced to community orders were screened for an acquired brain injury in the most recent period for which fi

5 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Police Custody

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues on the steps the police should take when someone who enters police custody is found to have had an acquired brain injury.

5 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Police Custody

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people aged (a) 14 to 17, (b) 18 to 25 and (c) 26 and older who were screened for acquired brain injury when they entered police custody were found to have a brain inju

5 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Police Custody

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people aged (a) 14 to 17, (b) 18 to 25 and (c) 26 and older who enter police custody were screened for acquired brain injury in the most recent period for which figures