Andy Burnham — AnswerTheQuestion

GREEN (78/100) 50% vibes

Up to June this year, the returns rate was 35% higher than it had been in the 12 months previously. Does the Home Secretary agree that this is in part due to the improved co-operative relationships that this Government have managed to forge with other countries around the world? Should that not give our constituents greater confidence that this Government take the issue of small boat crossings seriously?

RED (5/100) 50% point-scoring

We heard the Home Secretary make the claim that her changes to indefinite leave to remain would somehow act as a disincentive to people who sought to arrive in the UK on small boats, but she has failed to convince her Back Benchers and some of her Cabinet colleagues. Who has the upper hand on this in Cabinet, and would changes to ILR make a scintilla of a difference to people coming on small boats?

GREEN (78/100) 33% vibes

As a Portsmouth MP, I know how important it is that people living in ports along the south coast have confidence in our border security. Will the Minister outline the progress this Government are making in tackling dangerous small boat crossings and the criminal gangs behind them, and reassure my constituents that we will continue to take action? Will she also thank all the emergency services that have helped in this situation?

RED (22/100)

Some people, including the Prime Minister, argue that the small boats crisis was caused by our leaving the EU. It started in 2018. In the two years before Brexit, only 289 small boat people were sent back under agreements. What is the solution? The only solution, surely, is to detain and deport. As the Home Secretary will not leave the European convention on human rights, will she at least consider creating return hubs in a distant Council of Europe country, so that we can have a genuine deterrent?

AMBER (27/100)

We await more on the agreement with France, and perhaps with Belgium and many other countries. It might just be simpler to have an agreement with the entire EU. It grieves me to say this, but internal difficulties have arisen within the Labour party over migration. Cabinet members seem to be struggling to defend the Home Secretary’s position, and Government Back Benchers have a wide range of opinions. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has called for an “honest discussion” about EU freedom of movement. Will the Home Secretary back down and get behind the Prime Minister, who is open to freedom of movement, or will she stay loyal to her Back-Bench allies in the blue Labour faction, who are so hostile to it?

RED (5/100)

We inherited a situation in which gangs were profiting from our out-of-control borders and hotel operators were ripping us off, making the most of a backlog that had built up far too high. We have taken some welcome steps, but it is clear that more needs to be done. Returning people with no right to be here is a crucial part of that. How can we step up the processing of cases, and form closer links with other countries, so that we get strong returns agreements and finally get the costs of this out-of-control system down?

RED (18/100)

If small boat crossings were down by enough, the Government would not have to stand up asylum camps at places such as Ministry of Defence Bicester site A, which is just over the Oxfordshire border from my constituency. With 85,000 small boat crossings since the general election, the situation is at crisis point. MOD Bicester site A does not even offer value to the taxpayer; new modelling shows that over three years, the cost would come in at £385 per person per night—nearly double that of the equivalent asylum hotels. Will the Home Secretary actually get on and deport those who have come to our country illegally, rather than using sites like MOD Bicester site A?

RED (20/100)

1. What proportion of people arriving in small boats were removed in 2025.

GREEN (80/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment has been made of the extent to which the Be Ready campaign duplicates existing emergency preparedness communications delivered by local authorities, emergency services, utility providers and othe

GREEN (82/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how non-governmental organizations and think tanks are consulted during reviews of the National Risk Register.

AMBER (42/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what her timeline is for publishing the findings of the review into the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

AMBER (35/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the concerns raised in the letter sent by the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy to the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on 6 October regarding t

AMBER (36/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how international benchmarks are used to evaluate the UK's progress on national resilience.

AMBER (30/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what post-incident review framework is triggered when an incident impacts multiple critical national infrastructure sectors simultaneously.

RED (22/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what systems are in place to identify and apply lessons learned from international natural disasters and cyber attacks to UK frameworks.

AMBER (66/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the UK Resilience Academy is scaling its training capacity for local responders and civil servants.

RED (20/100)

I am concerned about young people and knife crime in my home city of Glasgow. Victim Support Scotland has asked the Scottish Government to carry out a comprehensive review of why young people become involved in knife crime and how effective Scottish programmes are at preventing it. This is backed by my constituent, Neil McCrimmon, and his family. Their beloved son Kory was stabbed to death, and the family has campaigned with great courage against knife crime. I fully support Victim Support Scotland’s call for a comprehensive review. Will the Home Secretary confirm that she would support the Scottish Government, were they to carry out such a review?

RED (15/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 9 October 2026, to Question 20910, on Angling: Licensing, whether the Cabinet Office itself holds the information on communication, marketing and advertising spending control approvals

GREEN (76/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to her written ministerial statement of 27 October 2026 on the National School of Government and Public Services, who has been appointed to lead the National School.

RED (15/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if she will publish the membership, terms of reference, and proposed reporting timelines of the cross-government task and finish group examining the issue of large domestic political donations announced at Commo

RED (12/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the salaries of Cabinet Office staff based in no10 north are (a) London or (b) National pay ranges, and whether transferred staff from London keep their London range.

AMBER (40/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government what measurable outcomes were achieved as a result of the two meetings held by the Council of the Nations and Regions since 2024.

RED (18/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the answer of 22 September 2026, to Question HL3240, on Josh Simmons, on what date did the Cabinet Office obtain a copy of the Labour Together / APCO Worldwide report.

AMBER (68/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what amount proportion of the increase in the National Insurance bill in 2025 was due to (a) increases in Civil Service salaries and (b) increases in the rate of National Insurance for employers.

AMBER (52/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the care and discharge planning provided to Mr Ravi Mehta by NHS South East London Integrated Care Board; and what steps they are taking to ensure that, since September 2025, individuals wh

AMBER (62/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps her Department has taken to monitor compliance by executive agencies and arm's-length bodies with the rules on purchasing Government-branded merchandise; and whether her Department holds information o

AMBER (35/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the need for a child health workforce strategy, in the context of the recommendations in the Health and Social Care Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 20

RED (22/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Cabinet Office guidance Privacy information relating to honours nominations, updated 6 October 2026, for what purposes information concerning the political opinions of an honours nominee ma

AMBER (42/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in consultation with the Department of Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what investment and support her Department is providing for the development of AI-enabled decision-support tools to a

AMBER (74/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 October 2026 to Question 35233 on Road Works: Utilities, what estimate her Department has made of the number of occasions on which the same section of highway has been excavated by

GREEN (78/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Smart Fund proposal to use funds from sales of electronic devices which copy, store, and share creative content to pay creators and performers whose work is accessed, distributed, and s

GREEN (88/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure financing business development is affordable for small UK firms.

AMBER (50/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to a) protect and b) promote community cohesion in a) Newcastle-under-Lyme and b) Staffordshire.

GREEN (85/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support employment by increasing skills levels in the engineering, construction and trades based sectors.

AMBER (72/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Coaker on 27 October (HL4032), when they will provide the information requested.

AMBER (30/100)

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to raise barriers facing touring artists as an agenda item at the forthcoming UK-EU Summit.

AMBER (68/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government which company holds the current contract for the supply of ministerial cars to the Ministry of Defence and how long they have held the contract.

GREEN (80/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they consider whether vehicles are manufactured in the UK when awarding the contract for Ministry of Defence ministerial cars.

AMBER (65/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government how many vehicles are provided to the Ministry of Defence under its ministerial car contract.

AMBER (46/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath on 21 October (HL Deb col 679), when they expect to launch and publish the public consultation on V Levels; and whether that consultation will set out how universitie

GREEN (85/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Office for Equality and Opportunity on 18 September (HC28997), what plans they have for the Office for Equality and Opportunity's Class Unit to asse

RED (10/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Home Office has carried out or commissioned any assessment of transfers of personal data outside the United Kingdom arising from police forces' use of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 against the requirements o

AMBER (72/100)

To ask His Majesty's Government what guidance they have issued to police forces on meeting the international transfer provisions of Part 3 of the Data Protection Act 2018, as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, in respect of their use of Micros

AMBER (30/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to secure sustainable replacement funding for disabled support services following the loss of the European Social fund.

AMBER (30/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason her Department determined that external consultancy support was required under contract RRSG0009.

RED (8/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions she has had with her French counterpart on the removal of people to France under the former UK-France One In, One Out pilot arrangement following its formal conclusion.

AMBER (55/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an evaluation of the UK-France One In, One Out pilot scheme; and whether she will publish the findings.

AMBER (30/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any human rights impact assessments were undertaken in relation to the UK-France One In, One Out pilot scheme before, during or after its operation.

AMBER (48/100)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the total cost to the public was of the UK-France One In, One Out pilot scheme; and whether she will publish a breakdown of those costs.

NOT A QUESTION

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to the publication of Agenda: Trade Specialised Committee on Level Playing Field for Open and Fair Competition and Sustainable Development under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: sixth meeting,