James McMurdock

18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish the minutes for any meetings held on Greater Essex's shadow elections scheduled for 2027.

18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether shadow elections for Greater Essex will proceed as previously planned for 2027.

18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer to Question 99612 on Local Government: Essex, if he will publish the minutes of any meetings held discussing the interim voting arrangements of the combine

18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Elections: Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer to Questions 99609, 99610, and 99611 on Local Government: Essex, whether financial support will be provided to (a) Thurrock, (b) Essex and its lower author

18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer to Question 99604 on Local Government: Essex, if he will publish the minutes of any meetings held with councils whose mayoral elections are not proceeding

18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer to Question 99603 on Local Government: Essex, if he will publish any meeting minutes for meetings held regarding the decision to delay multiple mayoral ele

18 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: Elections

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer to Question 99603 on Local Government: Essex, what discussions he had Cabinet colleagues prior to informing councils that multiple mayoral elections would

18 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce additional safeguards for patients assessed as being at higher risk of harm following discharge from mental health inpatient wards.

18 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the reasons for ICB non-compliance with the 72-hour follow-up requirement for mental health inpatients.

18 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2025 to Question 96915 on Mental Health Services: Standards, what steps he is taking to ensure that all people discharged from Integrated Care Board commission

18 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 December 2025 to Question 96915, what assessment he has made of the levels of variation in compliance with the 72-hour follow-up requirement between integrated care boa

18 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Crime: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps is she taking to support Essex Police in tackling rural crime.

18 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Police: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether slow police response times to rural crime contribute to repeat offending.

18 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Police: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether police forces are required to publish response time data broken down by rural and urban classification.

18 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Police: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delayed police response times on (a) crime reporting and (b) public confidence in rural communities.

18 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Police: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the difference in police response times to time-sensitive incidents such as (a) vehicle theft and (b) robberies of retail premises in (i) rural areas and (ii) urban are

18 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Workplace Pensions: Index Linking

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential disparity in treatment between members of private sector defined benefit pension schemes and members of the Pension Protection Fund and Financial Assistance

18 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how patients can raise concerns about GP practices not providing appropriate access to telephone appointments for a) elderly and b) vulnerable patients.

18 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that GP practices comply with GP Contract requirements on telephone appointment accessibility for a) elderly and b) vulnerable patients.

17 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crimes of Violence and Sexual Offences: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals convicted of sexual offences have been convicted of (a) a further sexual offence and (b) other violent offences after release from custody in the UK in each year since 2020.

17 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Sexual Offences: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign nationals convicted of sexual offences have been removed under the Early Removal Scheme in each year since 2020.

17 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals who were convicted of sexual offences were given suspended custodial sentences in each year since 2020.

17 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals currently serving custodial sentences for sexual offences are held in prisons in England and Wales.

17 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of visa applicants whose applications were denied due to criminal records relating to sex offences since 2020.

17 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what checks are carried out during visa applications to identify previous sexual offence convictions overseas.

17 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Sexual Offences: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the principal barriers have been to the deportation of foreign nationals convicted of sexual offences since 2024; and what steps her Department is taking to help tackle those barriers.

17 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Sexual Offences: Criminal Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the (a) number and (b) proportion of (i) foreign and (ii) British sex offenders who have claimed ignorance of the law as a defence in each year since 2020.

17 Dec 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Sexual Offences: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national sex offenders have been convicted in each year since 2020.

17 Dec 2025 · Home Office

Sexual Offences: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of foreign national sex offenders were subject to deportation orders in each year since 2020.

17 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS costs provided to EHIC and GHIC holders is not recovered from the patients’ country of residence; and what steps he is taking to reduce that proportion.