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Andrew Lewin

Labour - Welwyn Hatfield

3,799 (7.8%) majority - 2024 General Election

First elected: 4th July 2024


Select Committees
Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (since April 2025)
2 APPG memberships (as of 7 May 2025)
Cricket, New Towns
Andrew Lewin has no previous appointments


Division Voting information

During the current Parliament, Andrew Lewin has voted in 187 divisions, and never against the majority of their Party.
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Debates during the 2024 Parliament

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Sparring Partners
Keir Starmer (Labour)
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
(5 debate interactions)
Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op))
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
(4 debate interactions)
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Department Debates
Cabinet Office
(15 debate contributions)
HM Treasury
(7 debate contributions)
Ministry of Defence
(5 debate contributions)
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Welwyn Hatfield Petitions

e-Petitions are administered by Parliament and allow members of the public to express support for a particular issue.

If an e-petition reaches 10,000 signatures the Government will issue a written response.

If an e-petition reaches 100,000 signatures the petition becomes eligible for a Parliamentary debate (usually Monday 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).

Andrew Lewin has not participated in any petition debates

Latest EDMs signed by Andrew Lewin

Andrew Lewin has not signed any Early Day Motions

Commons initiatives

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Andrew Lewin has not been granted any Urgent Questions

Andrew Lewin has not been granted any Adjournment Debates

Andrew Lewin has not introduced any legislation before Parliament

Andrew Lewin has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting


Latest 15 Written Questions

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Written Questions can be tabled by MPs and Lords to request specific information information on the work, policy and activities of a Government Department
2nd Sep 2024
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the number of households with less than £1,000 in savings in (a) Welwyn Hatfield constituency and (b) England.

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon Gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 2 September 2024 is attached.

Georgia Gould
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
31st Oct 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential economic impact of retaining British Summer Time all year round.

The Government has no current plans to change the approach to Daylight Savings.

Justin Madders
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
10th Feb 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of children in England who (a) are aged between four and 18 and (b) have an EHCP that attend schools rated (a) Outstanding, (b) Good and (c) Requires improvement and (d) Inadequate.

Data on children with education, health and care (EHC) plans broken down by a schools’ single headline grade is not held by the department. Ofsted has, as of September 2024, ceased providing headline grades as part of the move to a comprehensive school report card to provide greater information for parents and proportionate accountability for schools. Subject to the ongoing consultation report, cards will include reporting on inclusion.

Information on the total number of pupils in schools in England with an EHC plan by their age is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/4c599f37-7eed-462d-6cbe-08dd48e2728c.

Information on the special educational needs of pupils in schools in England is published as part of the statistical release, Special Educational Needs in England. The release is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england.

Catherine McKinnell
Minister of State (Education)
10th Feb 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children aged four to 18 who have an EHCP attend schools rated (a) Outstanding, (b) Good, (c) Requires Improvement and (d) Inadequate in Welwyn Hatfield constituency.

Data on children with education, health and care (EHC) plans broken down by a schools’ single headline grade is not held by the department. Ofsted has, as of September 2024, ceased providing headline grades as part of the move to a comprehensive school report card to provide greater information for parents and proportionate accountability for schools. Subject to the ongoing consultation report cards will include reporting on inclusion.

Information on the total number of pupils with an EHC plan by school, including the constituency of the school, is published in an additional supporting file as part of the statistical release. It is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england.

Catherine McKinnell
Minister of State (Education)
10th Feb 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in year three who are eligible for free school meals attend schools rated (a) Outstanding, (b) Good, (c) Requires Improvement and (d) Inadequate in England.

Data on the number pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) broken down by a schools’ single headline grade is not held by the department. Ofsted has, as of September 2024, ceased providing headline grades as part of the move to a comprehensive school report card to provide greater information for parents and proportionate accountability for schools. Subject to the ongoing consultation report, cards will include reporting on inclusion.

Information on the total number of pupils in year 3 who are eligible for FSM is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/d86ace7e-c9c0-4fd6-6cbc-08dd48e2728c.

Information on the number and percentage of pupils eligible for FSM by school, is published as part of the statistical release. The release is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.

Stephen Morgan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
10th Feb 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children in year three and above who are eligible for free school meals attend schools rated (a) Outstanding, (b) Good, (c) Requires Improvement and (d) Inadequate in Welwyn Hatfield constituency.

Data on the number pupils eligible for free school meals broken down by a schools’ single headline grade is not held by the department. Ofsted has, as of September 2024, ceased providing headline grades as part of the move to a comprehensive school report card to provide greater information for parents and proportionate accountability for schools. Subject to the ongoing consultation report, cards will include reporting on inclusion.

Information on the total number and percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals at school level, including the constituency of the school, is published in an additional supporting file as part of the statistical release. The release is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics.

Stephen Morgan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
2nd Sep 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average funding per pupil was in mainstream schools in (a) Welwyn Hatfield constituency, (b) Hertfordshire and (c) England in over the past five academic years.

The tables below set out funding statistics for Welwyn Hatfield constituency, Hertfordshire and England in each of the last five years. The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) funding cycle is on a financial year basis, rather than an academic one, so this is what has been provided in this answer.

For Hertfordshire and England, the figures represent the funding provided through the schools block of the DSG. The figures in table one include premises funding but exclude falling rolls and growth funding (funding for local authorities to support schools with significant increases or decreases in pupil numbers).

The DSG is allocated at local authority level and, as such, the equivalent figures are not available for Welwyn Hatfield constituency. The constituency level data for Welwyn Hatfield is instead calculated based on the notional schools national funding formula (NFF) allocations for all mainstream schools in the constituency. The figures in table two are not comparable to those in table one because DSG funding cannot be broken down to constituency level, so the context of the funding figures are not the same.

The tables below provide average per-pupil funding for the last five years, 2020/21 to 2024/25:

Table one

Year

DSG Schools Block per-pupil funding *

Hertfordshire

England

​2020/21

£4,642

£4,845

​2021/22

£5,024

£5,228

​2022/23

£5,330

£5,534

​2023/24

£5,634

£5,838

2024/25

£5,764

£5,957

* Additional grants, such as the School Supplementary Grant (SSG) and the Mainstream Schools Additional Grant (MSAG) are included in these figures once they have been incorporated into the DSG.


Table two

NFF Schools Block per-pupil funding *

Year

Welwyn Hatfield

​2020/21

£4,806

​2021/22

£4,981

​2022/23

£5,150

​2023/24

£5,445

2024/25

£5,755

* The allocations that schools within a constituency actually receive are determined by the local funding formula in their area. Additional grants, such as the SSG and the MSAG are included in these figures once they have been incorporated into the DSG.

Catherine McKinnell
Minister of State (Education)
6th May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's document entitled Volumetric concrete mixers: fact sheet March 2025, published on 18 March 2025, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' guidance entitled Assessing environmental impact, updated on 1 November 2023, if she will make an environmental impact study of the potential impact of reducing the maximum weight limit of volumetric concrete mixers from 2028.

The 18 March publication is not a change to the policy on weights for volumetric concrete mixers. The ten-year temporary exemption will come to an end, as planned, in 2028. The Department assessed the potential environmental impacts when preparing the environmental principles policy statement assessment, to assist me with complying with my duty to have due regard to the environmental principles when making policy under section 19(1) of the Environment Act 2021.

Lilian Greenwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
6th May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GP surgeries in England have a vaccination rate for (a) Diptheria, (b) Tetanus and (c) Polio for babies under 8 months of age of (i) less than 90 per cent, (ii) 90-93 per cent, (iii) 94-95 per cent and (iv) greater than 96 per cent.

The DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB vaccine protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, also known as whooping cough, polio, haemophilus influenzae type b, and hepatitis B. The number and percentage of general practices (GPs) in England with a vaccination rate of less than 90%, 90 to 93%, 94 to 95%, or more than 96% for diptheria, tetanus, and polio, for babies under eight months of age, is as follows:

  • 1,830 GPs, or 29.2%, at less than 90%;
  • 1,600 GPs, or 25.6%, at 90 to 93%;
  • 1,102 GPs, or 17.6%, at 94 to 95%; and
  • 1,727 GPs, or 27.6%, at 96% and above.

The above data is drawn from the latest published annual GP vaccine coverage data for April 2023 to March 2024 for the DTaP/IPV/Hib/HepB vaccine, measured at 12 months of age. GPs that submitted zero data for this indicator and GPs with fewer than five patients, whose data was suppressed to protect patient identifiable information, were excluded from the above response. Further information regarding the coverage data is available in the tables attached.

Ashley Dalton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
21st Oct 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many adults who are eligible for the Child Trust Fund have not accessed their fund in (a) England and (b) the East of England.

Information on Child Trust Funds is available in HMRC’s Annual Savings Statistics.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-savings-statistics-2024

HMRC does not hold information on the geographical locations of Child Trust Fund account holders, therefore the requested regional breakdowns cannot be provided.

James Murray
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
21st Oct 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of Child Trust Fund accounts (a) accessed and (b) claimed in (i) England and (ii) the East of England since 1 September 2020.

Information on Child Trust Funds is available in HMRC’s Annual Savings Statistics.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-savings-statistics-2024

HMRC does not hold information on the geographical locations of Child Trust Fund account holders, therefore the requested regional breakdowns cannot be provided.

James Murray
Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)
19th Dec 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve defence relationships with European allies.

Deepening our defence relationships with European allies continues to be a priority.

Since July 2024 we have signed several new agreements to deepen cooperation, including the UK-Germany Trinity House Agreement and the UK-Estonia roadmap. During 2025 we will also reinvigorate the UK-France Lancaster House Agreement.

Our NATO first approach will complement this work. Investing in our collective defence and security is crucial to further improving our defence relationship with Europe as a whole.

Luke Pollard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
21st Oct 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people requiring a fully wheelchair accessible home are on the social housing waiting list in (a) England, (b) the East of England and (c) Welwyn Hatfield.

The data requested is not held centrally although the English Housing Survey does collect data on accessibility and adaptations within the home.

Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
21st Oct 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of new homes built in the last five years are fully wheelchair accessible in (a) England, (b) the East of England and (c) Welwyn Hatfield; and how many of those homes are (i) one, (ii) two and (iii) three bedroom dwellings.

The data requested is not held centrally although the English Housing Survey does collect data on accessibility and adaptations within the home.

Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
2nd Sep 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many homes for social rent were built by (a) housing associations and (b) local authorities in (i) Welwyn Hatfield, (ii) Hertfordshire and (iii) England in the last five years.

The number of new social rent homes delivered, split by provider, geography and whether they are new build or acquisitions can be found via the affordable housing supply statistics, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-affordable-housing-supply.

The number of new social rent homes delivered in England by provider, including acquisitions, can also be found in Live Table 1013, available from the same page.

Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)