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Autumn Statement Resolutions - Rates of Tobacco Products Duty (27 Nov 2023)

Andy McDonald: ...are already falling and unemployment is rising. The OBR now forecasts that unemployment will go even higher than previously thought, reaching 4.6% by 2025. If we have learned anything from the past 13 years of the Tories at the helm of the economy, it is that working people and the most vulnerable in our society are always the ones who are made to pay the price for their damaging...

Railway Ticket Offices — [Philip Davies in the Chair] (13 Sep 2023)

Andy McDonald: ...sure we will have a look at their entries in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. The proposals we are debating today are appalling. Let us get this matter into some perspective. These 13 companies are planning to close nearly 1,000 ticket offices. That will leave 2,300 working people in our constituencies right across the land out of work. I am concerned about the ticket office...

Public Bill Committee: Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (23 Mar 2023)

Andy McDonald: ...resource. That is in line with analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies that up-front spending on teaching resources per higher education student was 18% lower in 2022-23 than it was in 2012-13. The amendment would ensure that if the Secretary of State chooses—or rather, as the Minister pointed out, if Parliament votes—to increase tuition fees by any amount from their current...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pollution: River Tees (23 Mar 2023)

Andy McDonald: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to paragraph 13 of the report by the Chief Executive of the South Tees Development Corporation, published on 16 December 2021, whether she has had recent discussions with the South Tees Development Corporation on the potential impact of the the excavations of quayside at South Bank Quay Phase One on levels...

Middlesbrough Development Corporation (14 Mar 2023)

Andy McDonald: ...general meeting, convened by the monitoring officer, to determine whether the council supported the proposal to create a Middlesbrough development corporation. The proposal was put to the vote, and 13 councillors voted to approve and 17 voted against. Many councillors from the ruling Tory-independent coalition did not attend, although they were all given proper notice of the meeting....

Middlesbrough Development Corporation (14 Mar 2023)

Andy McDonald: ...transferring assets out of the domain of the MDC and into private hands, as per the recent shenanigans at the South Tees development corporation. Of course I want investment in Middlesbrough. After 13 years of this Government, almost half the children in our town live in poverty. The town mayor and the executive have just voted through a budget that will turn off the street lights, reduce...

Illegal Migration Bill (13 Mar 2023)

Andy McDonald: ...are never repeated. In their desperate bid to hold on to power and distract from their disastrous handling of the economy, where working people have seen their standards of living decimated under 13 years of austerity, the Tories are, at very best, playing culture war cards. They are trying to distract attention away from their failures by using the age old far right strategy of...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pollution: River Tees (13 Mar 2023)

Andy McDonald: ..., published on 16 December 2021, whether the (a) Marine Management Organisation and (b) Environment Agency have undertaken investigations into the land-based excavations set out in paragraph 13 of that report; and whether those organisations have provided advice on the (i) potential toxicity of the materials excavated, (ii) remediation and destination of those materials and (iii) steps to...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Shellfish: River Tees (13 Mar 2023)

Andy McDonald: ...Tees Development Corporation, published on 16 December 2021, whether she has had recent discussions with the Crustacean Mortality Expert Panel on the land-based excavations set out in paragraph 13 of that report.

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Pollution: River Tees (13 Mar 2023)

Andy McDonald: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to paragraph 13 of the report by the Chief Executive of the South Tees Development Corporation, published on 16 December 2021, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the the excavations of quayside at South Bank Quay Phase One on levels of contamination in the River Tees in the period...

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill: Clause 1 - Minimum service levels for certain strikes (30 Jan 2023)

Andy McDonald: ...which seems to be the motivation here.” He went on to say: “Brexit does not mean release from international obligations or even from our continuing obligation to comply with European law.” In 13 years of Tory rule, numerous pieces of anti-trade union legislation have been passed. The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is only the latest attempt to neuter the power of workers, and...

Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill (16 Jan 2023)

Andy McDonald: ..., where the ideological and deliberate attack on workers, along with the carefully choreographed under-resourcing of the public services that the people of this country hold dear over these past 13 years, which have been so blatantly carved up by the spivs and the profiteers, comes hard up against the inevitable neoliberal endgame of in-work poverty; and where workers are left with no...

Public Order Bill (23 May 2022)

Andy McDonald: ...”. Would exercising the fundamental right to protest count? Would the following example count, which I wish to bring to the Home Secretary’s attention, as set out in an early-day motion from 13 years ago, one of whose main signatories was the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May)? It begins: “That this House commemorates the 100th anniversary on 27 April 2009 of the day that...

Written Answers — Department for Transport: First Transpennine Express (29 Oct 2019)

Andy McDonald: ...House on 4 October 2019, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding that the operator’s (a) punctuality fell by 10 per cent ; (b) Moving Annual Average was 13 per cent below target and (c) customer satisfaction fell to 1 per cent below target over 2018-19.

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Govia: Pensions (21 Jun 2019)

Andy McDonald: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what agreement his Department has reached with Govia on the pensions liability risk sharing arrangements announced on 13 June 2019.

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Department for Transport: Motor Vehicles ( 1 Nov 2018)

Andy McDonald: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 March 2018 to Question 131715 on motor vehicles, what proportion of the fleet (a) owned and (b) leased by the (i) Government Car Service, (ii) Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency, (iii) Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency, (iv) Maritime & Coastguard Agency and (v) Vehicle Certification Agency are ultra-low emission vehicles.

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Northern: Timetables (17 Sep 2018)

Andy McDonald: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answers of 13 July 2018, 20 July 2018 and 10 September 2018 to Questions 161175, 164445 and 167289, if he will make an assessment of the accuracy of the finding of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership's report, Devolving our railways: learning the lessons from a summer of northern rail chaos, published on 30 July 2018 that the...

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Govia Thameslink Railway and Northern: Timetables (10 Sep 2018)

Andy McDonald: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answers of 13 and 20 July to Questions 161175 and 164445, for what reasons the Government did not provide an estimate of the economic cost of the disruption caused by the rail timetable changes introduced on (a) Northern Rail and (b) Govia Thameslink Railway from 20 May 2018.

Written Answers — Department for Transport: Govia Thameslink Railway and Northern: Timetables (20 Jul 2018)

Andy McDonald: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2018 to Question 161175, if will estimate in monetary terms the economic cost of the disruption caused by the rail timetable changes introduced on (a) Northern Rail and (b) Govia Thameslink Railway from 20 May 2018.

Transport Secretary: East Coast Franchise (23 May 2018)

Andy McDonald: My hon. Friend is entirely right. It is ludicrous that the reported cost of changing the livery yet again on this network is an estimated £13 million.


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