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Andy McDonald is a Labour MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Labour MPs.
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The Minister said that the report concluded that “a harmful algal bloom present in the area coincident with the event was identified as of significance.” We were in the area at the time, but we did not cause it, and neither did the harmful algal bloom. The report says it is “unlikely” that it caused it. So we want to know why DEFRA made such a fundamental mistake. The panel tells us...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which NHS Trusts have a formal written policy on (a) digital rectal examination, (b) digital rectal stimulation and (c) the digital removal of faeces for patients with neurogenic bowel dysfunction.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the potential merits of allowing disabled people who directly employ their own care workers to sponsor care workers from abroad.
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Entered the House of Commons on 30 November 2012 — Byelection
Andy McDonald campaigned to remain in the European Union Source: BBC
Last updated: 23 Jan 2023.
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