Information between 11th March 2024 - 10th April 2024
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13 Mar 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 147 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 170 Noes - 292 |
13 Mar 2024 - National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No. 2) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 147 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 169 Noes - 293 |
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 179 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 324 Noes - 253 |
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 179 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 320 Noes - 250 |
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 181 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 324 Noes - 251 |
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 181 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 328 Noes - 250 |
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 181 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 318 Noes - 255 |
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 180 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 320 Noes - 251 |
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 180 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 321 Noes - 252 |
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 182 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 324 Noes - 253 |
18 Mar 2024 - Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 180 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes Tally: Ayes - 312 Noes - 255 |
19 Mar 2024 - Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 154 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 218 Noes - 305 |
19 Mar 2024 - Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 151 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 217 Noes - 305 |
19 Mar 2024 - Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 152 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 219 Noes - 306 |
19 Mar 2024 - Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 153 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 224 Noes - 301 |
25 Mar 2024 - Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 120 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 171 Noes - 265 |
25 Mar 2024 - Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context Siobhain McDonagh voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House One of 121 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes Tally: Ayes - 171 Noes - 265 |
Speeches |
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Siobhain McDonagh speeches from: Sri Lanka: Human Rights
Siobhain McDonagh contributed 2 speeches (697 words) Wednesday 20th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office |
Siobhain McDonagh speeches from: St Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UK
Siobhain McDonagh contributed 2 speeches (35 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Northern Ireland Office |
Siobhain McDonagh speeches from: Children’s Cancer Care: South-East
Siobhain McDonagh contributed 2 speeches (440 words) Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Department of Health and Social Care |
Siobhain McDonagh speeches from: Budget Resolutions
Siobhain McDonagh contributed 1 speech (80 words) Monday 11th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport |
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NHS: Counter-terrorism
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department of Health and Social Care: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times did the NHS referred a member of the Armed Forces to Prevent in each year since 2018. Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women) As statutory partners to the Prevent duty, healthcare professionals have a responsibility to refer patients and colleagues when there is a concern that the individual may be becoming radicalised. The Department does not hold data regarding individual referrals, as this data is collated and acted on by Counter Terrorism Policing. |
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Aviation: Passengers
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2024 to Question 15272 on Aviation: Passengers, if he will estimate the number of general aviation flights that landed in the UK without providing advance passenger information in each year since 2015. Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery) Given our commitment to protecting the UK from harm, I remain unable to share figures which can reveal operational practices that could be exploited to evade border controls. |
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Sellafield: Security
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many breaches of (a) physical and (b) cyber security there were at Sellafield in each year since 2015. Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) I will write to the hon. Member on this matter, and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House. |
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Air Force: Advertising
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Defence: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the RAF spent on advertising (a) above the line, (b) on Tiktok, (c) on Facebook and Instagram, (d) on Snapchat and (e) on Twitter in each financial year since 2017. Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) This question has been interpreted as spend on advertising for Recruitment. With regards to the figures for 2017, I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House
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Army: Advertising
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Defence: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much the Army spent on advertising (a) above the line, (b) on Tiktok, (c) on Facebook and Instagram, (d) on Snapchat and (e) on Twitter in each financial year since 2017. Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) The table shows the cost of the Army’s recruitment advertising costs by financial year.
Please note the following notes/caveats:
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Armed Forces: Parachuting
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Defence: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2024 to Question 13532 on Armed Forces: Parachuting, if he will break down the data provided by (a) broken bones, (b) respiratory illness, (c) punctured lungs, (d) other injury and (e) death. Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) From 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2023, a total of 527 Service personnel sustained injuries from parachuting. Of these:
There was one fatality as a result of parachuting in 2021.
This information was drawn from a number of databases and relied on manual data extraction based on specific search terms.
The type of injury was identified from a number of different variables in the data including the free text narrative of the description of the incident. The MOD Health and Safety systems are not medical databases and do not contain clinical diagnoses. The databases are also live and therefore information is subject to change or revisions. As a result, there is a risk of inconsistency with the data, and the returns may not be exhaustive.
Any records that did not contain one of the search terms used has been categorised as ‘other’. These are reported conditions including but not limited to sprains, pain, bruising and lacerations.
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Civil Nuclear Constabulary: Counter-terrorism
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many times a member of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary was referred to Prevent in each year since 2018. Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) There were no referrals. |
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Civil Nuclear Constabulary: Labour Turnover
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many (a) officers and (b) other staff left the Civil Nuclear Constabulary in each year since 2015; and what the leaving rate was in each of those years. Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
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Civil Nuclear Constabulary: Staff
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many people were serving in the Civil Nuclear Constabulary on 20 February in each year since 2015. Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
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Armed Forces: Counter-terrorism
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times a member of the Armed Forces was referred to Prevent in each year since 2018. Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security) The Home Office publishes data on Prevent referrals in the annual Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent Programme statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) This includes publishing a breakdown of the ‘Sector of referral of those referred’. Table 1 provides a yearly breakdown of the number of referrals from ‘Other’ sectors. ‘Other’ sectors includes military, government (includes Home Office Enforcement and HMRC), or other private sectors of employment. At this time we are unable to disaggregate the military component for the full time series. |
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Prisons: Restraint Equipment
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Nico 9 stun grenades were used in prisons in each year since 2015, broken down by institution. Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) The information requested could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. |
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Reoffenders: Life Imprisonment
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people received a second life sentence after being released from prison in each year since 2010; and if he will list the offences which resulted in the (a) first and (b) second life sentence for each person. Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) The answer to this question could only be provided at a disproportionate cost, as it involves linking prison data with the Ministry of Justice extract of the police national computer. |
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Suspended Sentences
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders sentenced to a suspended sentence order were subsequently sent to immediate custody for (a) breaching the conditions of the order and (b) reoffending in each year since 2017. Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) The information requested could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. The below detail is provided as background information. A 2019 Ministry of Justice analysis of a matched cohort of over 30,000 offenders shows that those who serve sentences of immediate custody of less than 12 months reoffend at a rate higher than similar offenders given community orders and suspended sentence orders by the courts. Our latest quarterly statistics, January – March 2022, suggest that 55.5% of people given a custodial sentence of less than 12 months reoffend within one year. For offenders punished with suspended sentence orders with requirements that are served in the community, the reoffending rate is significantly lower at 24.2%. Based on this evidence, the Government introduced the presumption to suspend short sentences as part of the Sentencing Bill, currently before Parliament. The courts will retain a wide discretion to impose immediate custody in many circumstances. Offenders will then serve their sentence in the community. When the court imposes a suspended sentence, they can impose requirements on the offender and the sentencing framework provides a flexible range of requirements, such as unpaid work, drug and alcohol treatment, curfew, and electronic monitoring, with the intention of punishing the offender, providing reparation to the community, and addressing any criminogenic or rehabilitative needs of the offender which may otherwise increase the likelihood of their reoffending. |
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Reoffenders: Suspended Sentences
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and which offences were committed by people on a suspended sentence order in each of the last three years. Answered by Gareth Bacon - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The below detail is provided as background information. A 2019 Ministry of Justice analysis of a matched cohort of over 30,000 offenders shows that those who serve sentences of immediate custody of less than 12 months reoffend at a rate higher than similar offenders given community orders and suspended sentence orders by the courts. Our latest quarterly statistics, January – March 2022, suggest that 55.5% of people given a custodial sentence of less than 12 months reoffend within one year. For offenders punished with suspended sentence orders with requirements that are served in the community, the reoffending rate is significantly lower at 24.2%. Based on this evidence, the Government introduced the presumption to suspend short sentences as part of the Sentencing Bill, currently before Parliament. The courts will retain a wide discretion to impose immediate custody in many circumstances. Offenders will then serve their sentence in the community. When the court imposes a suspended sentence, they can impose requirements on the offender and the sentencing framework provides a flexible range of requirements, such as unpaid work, drug and alcohol treatment, curfew, and electronic monitoring, with the intention of punishing the offender, providing reparation to the community, and addressing any criminogenic or rehabilitative needs of the offender which may otherwise increase the likelihood of their reoffending. |
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Reoffenders: Life Imprisonment
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners serving (a) one life sentence, (b) two life sentences and (c) more than two life sentences were released from prison into the community in each year since 2015. Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) To determine the number of active life sentences at the point when an offender is released would require manually reading the record files of offenders with multiple life sentences and then linking these together from the different data systems which would incur disproportionate costs. |
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Prisons: Dogs
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times (a) the National Dog and Technical Support Group was deployed in prisons and (b) dogs were used in those deployments in each year since 2015, broken down by institution. Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) The information requested could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. |
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National Tactical Response Group: Youth Custody
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on how many occasions the National Tactical Response Group was deployed in the youth estate in each year since 2015, broken down by institution type. Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) The information requested could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost. |
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Community Orders
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Tuesday 19th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people given Community Payback as a community sentence did not complete the work assigned to them in each year since 2014. Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) The Government is investing an additional £93m in Community Payback over three years. This will allow us to increase delivery of Community Payback back to pre-covid levels of delivery. We have launched a national campaign to recruit more than 500 additional Community Payback staff to bolster resources in every probation region and new staff are arriving in post. The additional staffing will enable us to boost delivery of Community Payback to pre-covid levels. There will be a particular focus on delivering more outdoor projects that improve local areas, sustainability focussed and allow the public to see justice being done. The table below shows how many Community Payback requirements and the proportion that were not completed in each year since 2014. The data covers all reasons why Community Payback requirements may not have been completed including offender deaths, deportation, orders revoked and resentenced, successful appeals and Suspended Sentence Order (SSO) activated (i.e. offender imprisoned for the remainder of their sentence).
Data as of 7 March 2024.
Please note these data relate to Community Payback requirements, not individuals or hours. An individual may have had multiple Community Payback requirements across the time period and all of these have been counted separately. It is important to note that some of those incomplete Community Payback requirements may have a number of hours completed. Owing to the amalgamation of multiple legacy IT systems, with the introduction of Transforming Rehabilitation back in 2014, a slightly different methodology has been utilised to identify those cases where Community Payback had not been completed, in the years 2014 and 2015. This has been utilised to ensure that data are accurate, representative and consistent across the period shown. The year listed is when the Community Payback requirement was terminated. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented. |
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Community Orders
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Tuesday 19th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people did not complete community payback in each year since 2014. Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) The Government is investing an additional £93m in Community Payback over three years. This will allow us to increase delivery of Community Payback back to pre-covid levels of delivery. We have launched a national campaign to recruit more than 500 additional Community Payback staff to bolster resources in every probation region and new staff are arriving in post. The additional staffing will enable us to boost delivery of Community Payback to pre-covid levels. There will be a particular focus on delivering more outdoor projects that improve local areas, sustainability focussed and allow the public to see justice being done. The table below shows how many Community Payback requirements and the proportion that were not completed in each year since 2014. The data covers all reasons why Community Payback requirements may not have been completed including offender deaths, deportation, orders revoked and resentenced, successful appeals and Suspended Sentence Order (SSO) activated (i.e. offender imprisoned for the remainder of their sentence).
Data as of 7 March 2024.
Please note these data relate to Community Payback requirements, not individuals or hours. An individual may have had multiple Community Payback requirements across the time period and all of these have been counted separately. It is important to note that some of those incomplete Community Payback requirements may have a number of hours completed. Owing to the amalgamation of multiple legacy IT systems, with the introduction of Transforming Rehabilitation back in 2014, a slightly different methodology has been utilised to identify those cases where Community Payback had not been completed, in the years 2014 and 2015. This has been utilised to ensure that data are accurate, representative and consistent across the period shown. The year listed is when the Community Payback requirement was terminated. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented. |
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Asylum: Rwanda
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Tuesday 19th March 2024 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people from Rwanda were granted asylum on (a) human rights and (b) other grounds in each year since 2010. Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery) The UK has a proud history of providing protection to those who need it, in accordance with our international obligations under the Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Those who need protection are normally granted refugee status or humanitarian protection.
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on asylum decisions by nationality are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘Asylum Applications, Decisions and Resettlement detailed datasets’. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to 2023.
All asylum and human rights claims lodged from within the UK and admitted to the UK asylum system, including those seeking asylum from Rwanda, are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with our international obligations, and against the background of relevant case law, policy guidance and the latest available country of origin information. |
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Prisons and Young Offender Institutions: Pepper Spray
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Friday 15th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times was PAVA spray deployed in (a) Youth Offender Institutes and (b) prisons in each year since 2019. Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) PAVA is intended to protect staff and prisoners in very serious assaults. Safe implementation of PAVA use is accompanied by clear and explicit guidance ensuring staff are confident as to when PAVA spray should be used. Staff can use the PAVA spray where there is serious violence or an imminent or perceived risk of it, and there is an immediate need to create a safe and protective environment. It has been rollout out to prison officers in the adult estate only. PAVA may be deployed by specialist staff, on the authority of the Gold commander, in Young Offender Institutes that hold those under 18 years of age as a tactical option to resolve an incident for the safety of young people and staff. PAVA has been deployed once in 2019 at Feltham (A). There have been no other uses the under-18 YOI estate. There has been an increase in PAVA use as HMPPS have rolled out to all adult male prisons and therefore it is available to more staff to respond to violent incidents where appropriate. The information requested is in the attached tables for adult YOIs and prisons. |
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Offenders: Foreign Nationals
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Tuesday 19th March 2024 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many foreign national offenders were (a) subject to deportation action and (b) living in the community by the length of time since the end of their custodial sentence as of 1 March 2024. Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration) The Home Office does publish statistics on foreign national offenders (FNOs) subject to deportation action and living in the community by the length of time since the end of their custodial sentence. This is available from Table FNO_08 in: Immigration Enforcement data: Q4 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). The latest data is published to September 2022. |
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Children in Care
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Tuesday 19th March 2024 Question to the Department for Education: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of children that are looked-after. Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education) The latest information on the number of children looked after in England on 31 March 2023 can be found in the annual statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoptions’, which is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions.
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Universal Credit
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Monday 25th March 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the maximum benefit deduction rate for people on Universal Credit. Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) The primary aim of the deductions in Universal Credit is to protect claimants by providing a last resort repayment method for arrears of essential services.
Making deductions from a claimant’s benefit is a cost effective and efficient mechanism to recover third party debt and benefit debt. Regulations protect claimants from excessive deductions. There are limits set for individual deduction items, there is also an overall deduction cap set at 25% of standard allowance, although where necessary to support the claimant, this can be exceeded for rent and fuel debts. |
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Debts: Standard of Living
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Monday 25th March 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the findings in the Christians Against Poverty report entitled Pushed under, pushed out, published on 12 March 2024, relating to the impact of high debt repayments on people's living standards. Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) No formal assessment has been made. |
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Debts: Standard of Living
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Monday 25th March 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report entitled Pushed Under, Pushed Out, published by Christians Against Poverty on 12 March 2024. Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) No formal assessment has been made. |
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Community Orders: Suspended Sentences
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Monday 25th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hours of unpaid work handed down as part of suspended sentences were cancelled as a result of not having been completed within 12 months of the sentence being handed down, in each of the last five years. Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice) The disruption caused by the pandemic added to a backlog of Unpaid Work hours. The Government is investing an additional £93m in Community Payback over three years. This will allow us to increase delivery of Community Payback back to pre-covid levels of delivery. We have launched a national campaign to recruit more than 500 additional Community Payback staff to bolster resources in every probation region and new staff are arriving in post. The additional staffing will enable us to boost delivery of Community Payback to pre-covid levels. There will be a particular focus on delivering more outdoor projects that improve local areas, sustainability focussed and allow the public to see justice being done. Suspended Sentence Orders cannot legally be extended beyond the length of the operational period of the order which is set by the judiciary. A Suspended Sentence Order ceases the moment the operational period expires, regardless of any outstanding requirements such as unpaid work. Robust processes have been developed to ensure unpaid work requirements are completed in a timely manner, including prompt enforcement action where required. It is important to note that these hours have not been “cancelled” but due to the legal limitations of a Suspended Sentence Order, the Probation Service is unable to apply for an extension in order to work hours once the operational period has expired.
Data as at 27/02/2024 The expired Suspended Sentence Orders detailed here should be viewed in context of the total completed hours delivered as detailed in PQ 171423. By way of comparison, in 2023, 279,640 hours remained on expired Suspended Sentence Orders, while during the twelve months 01/04/2022 to 31/03/2023, over 4.7 million hours of Unpaid Work were delivered. A number of these expired orders will be as a result of persons being remanded in custody or otherwise unable to complete their hours within the operational period. Additionally, others may have expired due to delays in enforcement, particularly as a result of Covid. Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented. |
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Ministry of Justice: Procurement
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Monday 25th March 2024 Question to the Ministry of Justice: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish a contract and schedule of requirements for the contract with procurement reference tender_422492/1326965. Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice) The contract and schedule of requirements for reference tender_422492/1326965 was published on 20 March 2024 and can be found via the following link: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d08dc21c-90ec-4912-bc7b-766b17bf266b. HMPPS does not tolerate violence under any circumstance, therefore it is vital we do everything in our power to eradicate dangerous behaviour behind bars. This information relates directly to an early-stage trial of equipment, which alongside wider investments into prison security measures such as body warn cameras and x-ray body scanners, will ensure we enhance prison safety and security for our hardworking staff and prisoners. |
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Living Wage
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Monday 25th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she (a) is taking and (b) plans to take steps to encourage businesses to pay the real living wage. Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) The National Living Wage (NLW) will increase to £11.44 on 1 April and be extended to workers over 21. It is reaching two-thirds of median earnings, meeting our commitment to end low hourly pay for those eligible. The Government commends employers who are able to go beyond the legal minimum. However, the ability to do so varies across sector and region. Unlike other voluntary rates of pay, the statutory NLW is based on the advice of the Low Pay Commission, which takes into account the impact on business and the wider economy, as well as the living standards of workers. |
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Debts
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Tuesday 26th March 2024 Question to the Department for Work and Pensions: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on trends in the number of people with problem debt; and if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of those trends. Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions) DWP Debt Management holds information on people owing monies to DWP (benefit debt recovery) but does not hold data on general, personal/household indebtedness.
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UK Border Force: Corruption
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Tuesday 26th March 2024 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2024 to Question 15819 on UK Border Force: Corruption, if he will provide a breakdown of the allegations and referrals received by the Border Force Joint Anti-Corruption Intelligence Team by type in 2023. Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery) As the public rightly expect, we demand the highest standards from our Border Force officers and have measures in place to prevent and tackle corruption. There were 204 allegations and referrals received by Border Force Joint Anti-Corruption Intelligence Team in 2023, broken down as follows:
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Home Office: Standards
Asked by: Siobhain McDonagh (Labour - Mitcham and Morden) Tuesday 26th March 2024 Question to the Home Office: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations have been undertaken by his Department's professional standards unit in each year since 2015, broken down into the categories of (a) immigration, borders and citizenship, (b) policing and (c) counter-terrorism. Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office) The requested information is not centrally held, and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the department. |
Early Day Motions Signed |
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Monday 11th March Siobhain McDonagh signed this EDM on Tuesday 12th March 2024 Alleged comments by Frank Hester 71 signatures (Most recent: 17 Apr 2024)Tabled by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central) That this House expresses its shock regarding the alleged comments made by Frank Hester reported by The Guardian about the hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington and all Black women; believes these alleged comments to be both racist and violent in nature; notes that Mr Hester is a … |
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Sri Lanka: Human Rights
24 speeches (8,697 words) Wednesday 20th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) would be in front of me. - Link to Speech 2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Members for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) for their excellent - Link to Speech 3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) spoke powerfully about the need to - Link to Speech 4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) spoke movingly on behalf of her Tamil constituents - Link to Speech 5: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Members for Strangford (Jim Shannon) and for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh)—I have not yet - Link to Speech |
Westminster Hall
0 speeches (None words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Westminster Hall |
St Patrick’s Day: Irish Diaspora in the UK
48 speeches (16,992 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Northern Ireland Office Mentions: 1: Steve Baker (Con - Wycombe) Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) has stayed in the Chamber to listen to the rest - Link to Speech |
Planning Reform
47 speeches (13,800 words) Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Mentions: 1: Simon Clarke (Con - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland) Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh), who is a fellow PricedOut parliamentary champion - Link to Speech |
Children’s Cancer Care: South-East
58 speeches (9,522 words) Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Westminster Hall Department of Health and Social Care Mentions: 1: Paul Beresford (Con - Mole Valley) Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) about Jackson. - Link to Speech 2: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) and the right hon. - Link to Speech 3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh) talked about the cost implications of moving the - Link to Speech |
Budget Resolutions
140 speeches (45,032 words) Monday 11th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Mentions: 1: Gareth Davies (Con - Grantham and Stamford) Member for Mitcham and Morden (Dame Siobhain McDonagh), who is sadly not in her place, mentioned life - Link to Speech |
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Wednesday 20th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays UK, Santander UK, and NatWest Retail Banks - Treasury Committee Found: Q135 Dame Siobhain McDonagh: It is 10% in your case, yes. |
Wednesday 13th March 2024
Oral Evidence - HM Treasury, and HM Treasury Treasury Committee Found: Q241 Dame Siobhain McDonagh: Were you wrong in November 2022? |
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Oral Evidence - KPMG in the UK, Resolution Foundation, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and University of Warwick Treasury Committee Found: Q140 Dame Siobhain McDonagh: I don’t know why I am telling you guys this, because I think you know |
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Office for Budget Responsibility, Budget Responsibility Committee, and Budget Responsibility Committee Treasury Committee Found: Dame Siobhain McDonagh: I am okay, and apologies for my lateness. |
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Human rights in Sri Lanka - CDP-2024-0066
Mar. 19 2024 Found: Urgent Questions Sri Lanka 13 Jul 2022 | House of Commons | 718 cc345 -352 Siobhain McDonagh: |
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Mar. 27 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 27 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 26 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 26 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 25 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 25 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 22 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 22 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 21 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 21 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 20 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 20 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 19 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 19 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 18 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 18 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 15 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 15 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 14 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 14 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 13 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 13 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
Mar. 12 2024
Notices of Amendments as at 12 March 2024 Criminal Justice Bill 2023-24 Amendment Paper Found: Abbott John Spellar Richard Burgon Mr Virendra Sharma Paula Barker Dame Meg Hillier Dame Siobhain |
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Mar. 11 2024
Commission for Countering Extremism Source Page: Understanding and responding to blasphemy extremism Document: Understanding and Responding to Blasphemy Extremism in the UK (PDF) Statistics Found: listening my voice must make a resolve to protect the finality of prophethood.”102 This led then Labour MP Siobhain |
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Thursday 4th April 2024
Ministry of Defence Source Page: Letter dated 26/03/2024 from Andrew Murrison MP to Siobhain McDonagh MP regarding a question on how much the RAF spent on advertising on social media platforms in each financial year since 2017. 1p. Document: McDonagh.pdf (PDF) Found: Letter dated 26/03/2024 from Andrew Murrison MP to Siobhain McDonagh MP regarding a question on how much |
Thursday 4th April 2024
Source Page: Letter dated 27/03/2024 from Andrew Bowie MP to Siobhain McDonagh in response to a Written Parliamentary Question regarding the number of physical and cyber security breaches at the Sellafield site each year since 2015. 2p. Document: PQW2024-05138.pdf (PDF) Found: Letter dated 27/03/2024 from Andrew Bowie MP to Siobhain McDonagh in response to a Written Parliamentary |
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Wednesday 20th March 2024 10 a.m. Treasury Committee - Private Meeting View calendar |
Wednesday 20th March 2024 10 a.m. Treasury Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Retail Banks At 10:15am: Oral evidence Charlie Nunn - CEO at Lloyds Banking Group Paul Thwaites - CEO at NatWest Vim Maru - CEO at Barclays UK Mike Regnier - CEO at Santander UK View calendar |
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