James McMurdock

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that schools implement her Department's guidance entitled School and college security, updated on 12 July 2024; and what steps she is taking to monitor the implemen

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the proportion of schools in (a) Essex and (b) England that have adequate systems for preventing unauthorised access.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that all schools have effective (a) fencing, (b) access control systems, (c) CCTV and (d) other perimeter security measures to prevent unauthorised access to school

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of unreliable child maintenance payments on child poverty.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to improve the enforcement of child maintenance payments.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse: Family Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has provided guidance to (a) family court judges and (b) Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service officers on recognising and responding to psychological manipulation and coer

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the prevalence of parental alienation instances in family court cases in England and Wales.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Family Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that family court proceedings are (a) transparent, (b) equitable and (c) free from bias against either parent in cases involving allegations of parental alienation.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Shared Ownership Schemes: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in Essex who have a shared ownership property which are subject to ground rent escalator clauses.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Help to Buy Scheme: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people in Essex who have been able to successfully utilise the help to buy scheme.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

First Time Buyers: Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of first-time buyers in (a) Essex and (b) the UK unable to purchase homes due to ground rent escalator clauses.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Home Ownership: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of Essex homeowners in financial hardship due to escalating ground rent clauses.

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of homeowners in Essex unable to sell properties due to mortgage lenders refusing to lend to prospective buyers due to ground

10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Leasehold: Ground Rent

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the number of leaseholders who are affected by escalating ground rent clauses in (a) Essex and (b) the UK.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of maintaining two different types of state pension on the economy.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Uprating

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to review the uprating mechanism for the pre-2016 State Pension.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment his Department has made of rates of pensioner poverty between people receiving the (a) pre-2016 and (b) new state pension.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that pensioners who retired before April 2016 do not fall into poverty.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Police Stations

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the estimated annual cost to police forces is of maintaining vacant police station buildings in (a) Essex and (b) the UK.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Police Stations: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides to police and crime commissioners on the (a) maintenance, (b) security and (c) future use of disused police station buildings.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Police Stations: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of permanently closed police stations on (a) local community safety and (b) public confidence in policing.

10 Oct 2025 · Home Office

Police Stations: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police stations in Essex have been closed or left vacant since 2020; and what plans her Department has to support the repurposing or renewal of those sites.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with Thurrock and Basildon councils on reducing serious and fatal road traffic collisions.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to improve road safety for young drivers in South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency.

10 Oct 2025 · Department for Transport

Roads: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of road traffic fatalities in South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency.

10 Oct 2025 · Treasury

Pensioners: Income Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to increase the Personal Allowance for pensioners in line with the level of the State Pension.

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to amend the first past the post voting system for local council elections in Essex following local government reorganisation.

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Reorganisation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has issued guidance to local councils due to be reorganised encouraging the creation of joint committees to advise on measures to synchronise plans for provision of lo

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that newly created councils holding shadow elections in 2027 have newly drawn wards compliant with the Local Government Boundary Commissi

16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether shadow council elections in 2027 for new councils will utilise existing district magnitudes.