James McMurdock

10 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his Department’s letter to Essex councils dated 26 March 2026, whether the total number of councillors per new local authority can be amended from the currently annou

10 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

South West Essex Council

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his Department’s letter to Essex councils dated 26 March 2026, whether new shadow council wards in South West Essex Council will be required to have three councillors

10 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Unitary Councils: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his Department’s letter to Essex councils dated 26 March 2026, whether shadow councils will be permitted to decide whether to retain the all out election frequency, o

10 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his Department’s letter to Essex councils dated 26 March 2026, whether nomination to be the Essex County Council representative on the Joint Committee will be determi

10 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to his Department’s letter to Essex councils dated 26 March 2026, for what reason it was decided that South West Essex and South East Essex councils’ Joint Committees wi

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, what timetable he has set for introducing legislation

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, what assessment he has made of the capacity of Compan

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, how the proposed re-domiciliation regime will interac

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, whether companies relocating under the proposed regim

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, what safeguards will be in place to prevent companies

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies: Location

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, what criteria will be used to determine whether an ov

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, whether companies from all jurisdictions will be elig

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, which types of overseas companies will be eligible to

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, what quantitative assessment he has made of the poten

10 Apr 2026 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Reforms to make it easier for overseas companies to move to the UK, published on 25 March 2026, what estimate he has made of the number of overseas c

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation: Cost Effectiveness

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, what the projected savings to the public purse are as a result of reduced consultations.

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation: Parliamentary Scrutiny

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, what mechanisms will be in place to allow Parliament to scrutinise decisions to reduce consu

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, whether Ministers will publish a list of consultation and reporting requirements that are re

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, whether any primary legislation will be required to implement the changes announced on 26 Ma

10 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Environmental Outcomes Reports

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, what differences will exist between Environmental Impact Assessments and

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, what human oversight will be applied to decisions informed by artificial intelligence in rev

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, what criteria will be used by AI systems to determine whether consultation requirements shou

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Bureaucracy

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, what systems of artificial intelligence will be used to identify disproportionate consultati

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, how many statutory consultation requirements Ministers expect to remove or amend as a result

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, how many of the 131 consultation requirements referenced in the press release were from gove

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, how many of the 131 consultation requirements referenced in the article were identified as b

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, which government department was consulting on a change to how it produces its annual report,

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Public Consultation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, if he will publish a list of the regularly identified excessive processes and checks which a

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Permanent Secretaries: Accountability

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, whether the new accountability framework for Permanent Secretaries, designed to focus on del

10 Apr 2026 · Cabinet Office

Collective Responsibility

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Department’s press release entitled Ministers rip up consultation culture, published on 26 March 2026, what the new process will be for collective Cabinet agreement of government policy.