Andy McDonald MP: written questions
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TrialsMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 113095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the proportion of cases in the backlog are still pending the decision of the defendant to elect mode of trial.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes information about cases in the open caseload at both the magistrates’ courts and at the Crown Court. This includes breakdowns of volumes and durations as part of the Crown Court open caseload published as part of Criminal...
Answered 23 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: TrialsMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 113094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the percentage of cases in the overall Crown Court backlog which are either way cases that would be no longer eligible for jury trial under his proposed reforms.
Answer: As is usual practice, detailed impact assessments will be provided alongside the necessary legislation for these reforms. The Government will bring forward this legislation when parliamentary time allows.
Answered 23 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: TrialsMinistry of JusticeTabled 12 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 113093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of either-way cases in the present Crown Court backlog that have yet to elect mode of trial.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes information about cases in the open caseload at both the magistrates’ courts and at the Crown Court. This includes breakdowns of volumes and durations as part of the Crown Court open caseload published as part of Criminal...
Answered 23 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordPublic Order and Hate Crime Legislation ReviewHome OfficeTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the findings of the Independent Review of Public Order and Hate Crime Legislation will be available to i) the Home Affairs Select Committee and ii) hon. Members before the Crime and Policing B
Answer: Following the appalling attack on a synagogue in Manchester on 2 October 2025, the Home Secretary announced an independent review of public order and hate crime legislation on 5 October. The Review is being led by Lord Ken Macdonald of River Glaven KC, su...
Answered 27 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPublic Order and Hate Crime Legislation ReviewHome OfficeTabled 19 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects to (a) receive the findings of the Independent Review of Public Order and Hate Crime Legislation, (b) share those findings with hon. Members and (c) publish those findings.
Answer: Following the appalling attack on a synagogue in Manchester on 2 October 2025, the Home Secretary announced an independent review of public order and hate crime legislation on 5 October. The Review is being led by Lord Ken Macdonald of River Glaven KC, su...
Answered 27 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: AppealsDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on the SEND support that should be available to children with education, health and care plans while families are awaiting the outcome of a tribunal ap
Answer: The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) Code of Practice is statutory guidance for local authorities and other organisations that work with children with SEND. It explains the duties, policies and procedures in Part 3 of the Children and Fam...
Answered 26 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Tees ValleyDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what capital and revenue funding allocations have been made to local authorities in Tees Valley combined authority area and its Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees local authority areas for specialist school pla
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. To support this, the department has announced at least £3 billion of high needs capital fundi...
Answered 26 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Tees ValleyDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has undertaken of specialist school place sufficiency in Tees Valley combined authority area and its Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees local authority areas in each of the next f
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. To support this, the department has announced at least £3 billion of high needs capital fundi...
Answered 26 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Tees ValleyDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils with education, health and care plans in the Tees Valley combined authority area and its Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees local authority areas were initially placed in mainstream schools and
Answer: The information requested is not held by the department.
Answered 26 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Tees ValleyDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the expected delivery timescales and associated capital funding allocations are for new specialist school places in Tees Valley combined authority area and its Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees local auth
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. To support this, the department has announced at least £3 billion of high needs capital fundi...
Answered 26 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Tees ValleyDepartment for EducationTabled 16 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new specialist school places are planned to be created in Tees Valley combined authority area and its Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees local authority areas under Departmental programmes in each of t
Answer: The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places, including for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), sits with local authorities. To support this, the department has announced at least £3 billion of high needs capital fundi...
Answered 26 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordChildren: Temporary AccommodationDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93722More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the impact of long-term stays in temporary accommodation on (a) children’s physical and mental health and (b) children’s educational outcomes; and what steps they are taking to
Answer: The Child Poverty Strategy sets out a range of measures to support families in need of temporary accommodation.The government will end the unlawful placement of families in bed and breakfasts beyond the six-week limit and work with the NHS to end the prac...
Answered 6 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTemporary Accommodation: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93721More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to reduce (a) the duration of stays in temporary accommodation and (b) the use of out-of-area placements for households from Middlesbrough and Thornaby Ea
Answer: The Government publishes quarterly homelessness statistics which is available on gov.uk here. We must build more homes in the areas where they are needed so we can reduce the need for out of area placements and reduce the number of people in temporary acc...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordHomelessness: Temporary AccommodationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households owed a homelessness duty by (a) Middlesbrough Council and (b) Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council were placed in temporary accommodation (i) within the local aut
Answer: The Government publishes quarterly homelessness statistics which is available on gov.uk here. We must build more homes in the areas where they are needed so we can reduce the need for out of area placements and reduce the number of people in temporary acc...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTemporary AccommodationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93719More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many households are living in temporary accommodation (a) in England, (b) in Middlesbrough local authority area and (c) in Stockton-on-Tees local authority area; and what the
Answer: The Government publishes quarterly homelessness statistics which is available on gov.uk here. We must build more homes in the areas where they are needed so we can reduce the need for out of area placements and reduce the number of people in temporary acc...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of Education, Health and Care Plan assessments for children in the Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency were completed within the statutory 20-week timescale in the last year; and how ma
Answer: Information on the number of education, heath and care (EHC) plans issued with 20 weeks during 2024, in both Middlesbrough and Stockton on Tees local authorities, is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East ahead of the publication of the forthcoming SEND White Paper.
Answer: As part of our Plan for Change, the department is determined to fix the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system and restore the trust of parents. We expect mainstream schools to welcome pupils from across the whole community, including pu...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Tees ValleyDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) specialist school places and (b) resourced mainstream places for pupils with Education, Health and Care Plans are available in (i) Middlesbrough local authority area and (ii) Stockton-on-Tees local
Answer: As of May 2024, Middlesbrough has 681 special school places, and 369 special educational needs (SEN) unit or resourced provision places. Stockton-on-Tees has 667 special school places and 207 SEN unit or resourced provision places.The statutory duty to pr...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93715More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of GP appointments (a) offered, (b) attended and (c) cancelled by practices in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency in the most recent year for
Answer: General Practice Appointment Data is published monthly by NHS England and captures information on appointments that have occurred, rather than those that are offered. The data also only includes appointments that were attended or marked as 'Did Not Attend...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93714More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices are currently accepting new NHS patients in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East constituency; and what data his Department holds on waiting times for NHS dental treatment in t
Answer: Patients in England are not registered with a National Health Service dental practice, although many NHS dental practices do tend to see patients regularly. There is no geographical restriction on which practice a patient may attend. Some dental practices...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: Middlesbrough and Thornaby EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Dental patients to benefit from 700,000 extra urgent appointments, published on 21 February 2025, how many additional urgent dental appoint
Answer: We have asked integrated care boards (ICBs) to commission extra urgent dental appointments to make sure that patients with urgent needs can get the treatment they require. ICBs have been making extra appointments available from April 2025.Appointments are...
Answered 2 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordWind PowerDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 12 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 906407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of geothermal storage of energy from wind turbines on the mitigation of curtailment fees.
Answer: Clean Power will require greater levels of energy storage. Geothermal storage is relatively nascent but holds promise – particularly when there is demand for that heat nearby. We set out our ambition to unlock more flexibility from thermal storage in the ...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordProtestHome OfficeTabled 11 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 906361More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Crime and Policing Bill on the right to protest.
Answer: The right to peaceful protest is an important part of our democratic society. Measures in the Crime and Policing Bill strengthen the police's ability to manage disruptive and dangerous protests and prevent criminality.They will help prevent intimidation n...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordJhoots PharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Care of 15 October 2025 on Jhoots Pharmacy, Official Report, column 377, what estimate he has made of the number of locum pharmacists who
Answer: On 11 November, I wrote to all Members of this House with an update on actions taken to date.The Department is currently conducting an analysis of how pharmacies are regulated to ensure that all those with contract management and registration responsibili...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Care of 15 October 2025 on Jhoots Pharmacy, Official Report, column 377, what mechanisms his Department has put in place to monitor the p
Answer: On 11 November, I wrote to all Members of this House with an update on actions taken to date.The Department is currently conducting an analysis of how pharmacies are regulated to ensure that all those with contract management and registration responsibili...
Answered 14 Nov 2025
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