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Jake Richards

Labour - Rother Valley

998 (2.4%) majority - 2024 General Election

First elected: 4th July 2024


1 APPG membership (as of 20 Nov 2024)
Choice at the End of Life
Jake Richards has no previous appointments


Division Voting information

During the current Parliament, Jake Richards has voted in 66 divisions, and never against the majority of their Party.
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Debates during the 2024 Parliament

Speeches made during Parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. For ease of browsing we have grouped debates into individual, departmental and legislative categories.

Sparring Partners
Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op))
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
(8 debate interactions)
Yvette Cooper (Labour)
Home Secretary
(7 debate interactions)
Angela Eagle (Labour)
Minister of State (Home Office)
(3 debate interactions)
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Department Debates
Home Office
(6 debate contributions)
Ministry of Justice
(6 debate contributions)
Leader of the House
(4 debate contributions)
HM Treasury
(4 debate contributions)
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Rother Valley 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).

Petitions with highest Rother Valley signature proportion
Petitions with most Rother Valley signatures
Jake Richards has not participated in any petition debates

Latest EDMs signed by Jake Richards

Jake Richards has not signed any Early Day Motions

Commons initiatives

These initiatives were driven by Jake Richards, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.

MPs who are act as Ministers or Shadow Ministers are generally restricted from performing Commons initiatives other than Urgent Questions.


Jake Richards has not been granted any Urgent Questions

Jake Richards has not been granted any Adjournment Debates

1 Bill introduced by Jake Richards


A Bill to require local authorities to publish information about looked after children in distance placements; to require local authorities to develop and publish sufficiency plans in respect of their duty under section 22G of the Children Act 1989; to require the Secretary of State to publish a national sufficiency plan in respect of looked after children in distance placements; and for connected purposes.

Commons - 20%

Last Event - 1st Reading
Wednesday 16th October 2024
Next Event - 2nd Reading
Friday 28th March 2025
Order Paper number: 2
(Likely to be Debated)

Jake Richards has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting


Latest 7 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
4th Nov 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many Government services have moved to the GOV.UK One Login system; and what his planned timetable is for moving all Government services to this system.

As of November 2024, users can access 50 government services within GOV.UK One Login. Approximately 100 services are expected to be onboarded in 2025, with more to follow thereafter. Government departments are actively developing delivery plans to onboard their services to GOV.UK One Login.

Feryal Clark
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
7th Oct 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in Rother Valley constituency (a) have EHCP plans and (b) are receiving specialist education for special educational needs; and how many of those have not been attending school in each of the last 5 years.

The special educational needs (SEN) publication publishes data on pupils in schools in England with Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans which can be accessed at the following link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england. The data file titled “School level underlying data 2024 (csv, 10 Mb)” under the section “Additional supporting files” includes the figures at school level, including the school type and parliamentary constituency. As these figures are taken from the January 2024 school census, the parliamentary constituencies are based on pre-election boundaries. Where statistics were published prior to the changes in parliamentary constituency boundaries, they will be updated to reflect the new boundaries in the next publication of statistics. This is expected to be in June 2025 for statistics on schools and pupils, including SEN. A table showing the number of SEN support and EHC plans is shown below:

Rother Valley

Total

SEN support

1,208

EHC plans

2,384

It may be useful to note that as the data requested is published at school level, it can be combined with information from ‘Get Information About Schools’ (GIAS) to identify parliamentary constituency. GIAS currently reflects the changes made following the general election parliamentary constituency changes and is accessible here: https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/. Updates to geographical data are made on a quarterly basis using data published by the Office for National Statistics.

Information on the number of all children and young people aged 0 to 25 in the Rother Valley who have an EHC plan and are educated other than in school is not readily available. Information is available on the placements of children and young people with EHC plans, for the Rotherham local authority in the publication: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/education-health-and-care-plans.

An extract showing the number with placements other than in school or further education establishments, is given at this link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/2c1e2c6d-9043-4ff0-410a-08dce44cbd16.

Due to changes in the method of data collection in 2023, information is available for two years only.

Catherine McKinnell
Minister of State (Education)
4th Nov 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress she has made on the introduction of digital drivers licences.

In September, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) introduced a digital representation of the photocard driving licence as the latest enhancement to its Driver and Vehicle Account.

The DVLA is in the process of introducing functionality which will enable customers to obtain a QR code to allow them to share information from their driving licence with third parties within the Driver and Vehicle Account in addition to the Share Driving Licence service.

Discussions continue on future developments in the area of digital driving licences.

Lilian Greenwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
27th Nov 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to increase economic productivity.

Boosting productivity growth across the country is a key aim of this government’s growth mission. By reforming the economy and increasing productivity, we will drive up prosperity and living standards across the UK. Our Budget showed that this government has a robust, comprehensive strategy for boosting productivity, and we are taking the steps needed to make up for fourteen years of stagnant productivity growth, including introducing planning reforms, protecting record R&D funding and launching Skills England.


Tulip Siddiq
Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
19th Nov 2024
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the money raised from the Immigration Skills Charge has been spent over the last five years.

The Immigration Skills Charge is administered by the Home Office and is classified as Trust Statement income. Government departments are required to surrender all Trust Statement income to the Consolidated Fund (CF).

Receipts surrendered to the CF are not ring-fenced for any specific area of government spending but will be used towards general government expenditure, which includes funding for departments’ budgetary Supply Estimates approved by Parliament.

Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
22nd Oct 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much the Immigration Skills Charge raised in (a) the last 12 months and (b) each of the last five years; and how the money raised has been spent so far.

The Home Office reports income for the Immigration Skills Charge on a financial year basis (April to March), in the Annual Reports and Accounts (ARA). Please refer to the links and references provided in the table below.

Year

Where to find

Link

2019/20

2019/20 ARA, note 2.1, page 195

Home Office annual report and accounts: 2019 to 2020 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

2020/21

2020/21 ARA, note 2.1, page 199

HO annual report and accounts 2020-21 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

2021/22

2021/22 ARA, note 2.1, page 216

Home Office annual report and accounts: 2021 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

2022/23

2022/23 ARA, note 2.1, page 292

Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022-2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

2023/24

2023/24 ARA, note 2.1, pages 298-299 (pages 302-303 on the pdf reader)

Home Office annual report and accounts: 2023 to 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Data for financial year 2024-25 will be published following the end of the financial year and once the accounts have been laid before Parliament.

The Home Office does not hold information on how the money raised has been spent so far as this income is not retained by the Home Office and is remitted to HM Treasury as Consolidated Fund Extra Receipts.

Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
11th Oct 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the process to determine the number of sitting days in the Crown Court in each financial year.

Every year, the Government and the Judiciary agree a number of sitting days and an overall budget in what is known as the Concordat process.

In June, the judiciary reached an agreement with the former Lord Chancellor to sit 106,000 days in the Crown Court within a total budget of £275 million.

To support efforts to maximise capacity, the Lord Chancellor has since agreed to fund an additional 500 days.

But there has been over listing against this budget – with more trials scheduled than the funding allows.

As a result of that, approximately 1,600 sitting days had to be withdrawn. The level of impact will vary across regions and is being managed closely to ensure there is minimal disruption to all involved.

The Lord Chancellor has said that the first concordat process under this Government will be different, and clearer.

Heidi Alexander
Secretary of State for Transport