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Information between 10th October 2024 - 20th October 2024

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Division Votes
15 Oct 2024 - Division - View Vote Context
Laurence Turner voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 363 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 105 Noes - 453
16 Oct 2024 - Carer’s Allowance - View Vote Context
Laurence Turner voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 329 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 87 Noes - 335
16 Oct 2024 - Access to Primary Healthcare - View Vote Context
Laurence Turner voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 326 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 80 Noes - 337


Speeches
Laurence Turner speeches from: International Investment Summit
Laurence Turner contributed 1 speech (39 words)
Thursday 17th October 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Laurence Turner speeches from: Telegraph Poles: Planning Permission
Laurence Turner contributed 7 speeches (1,471 words)
Thursday 17th October 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Laurence Turner speeches from: House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Laurence Turner contributed 1 speech (48 words)
2nd reading
Tuesday 15th October 2024 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Laurence Turner speeches from: Gaza and Humanitarian Aid
Laurence Turner contributed 1 speech (381 words)
Thursday 10th October 2024 - Westminster Hall
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office


Written Answers
King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Monday 14th October 2024

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will have discussions with the Standards and Testing Agency on its planned timetable for responding to the representation made by King Edwards VI Balaam Wood Academy on 10 September 2024.

Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)

The Standards and Testing Agency received an allegation of maladministration from King Edwards VI Balaam Wood Academy on 10 September. It is currently carrying out an investigation in line with its standard procedures. The outcome of the investigation will be communicated to the headteacher of King Edwards VI Balaam Wood Academy once it is complete. The Standards and Testing Agency will respond as quickly as it can.

Early Day Motions
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Thursday 17th October 2024

Question

To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, what the average cost was to the public purse of administering an Early Day Motion in the latest 12 months for which data is available.

Answered by Nick Smith

It is difficult to provide an accurate figure for the cost of administering an Early Day Motion as staff in the Table Office and the Procedural Publishing Unit who process EDMs have a wide range of other responsibilities and time spent exclusively on EDMs is not recorded.

We are able to provide a broad estimate based on staff time alone, but it should be noted that this takes no account of other fixed costs such as office accommodation and, notably, the cost of developing and maintaining the digital systems used to process EDMs.

The Table Office estimates that processing an EDM takes about five minutes of staff time if it is submitted electronically, 10 minutes if submitted by email and 15 minutes if submitted in hard copy.

The approximate staff costs (based on 2023 payscales) for processing EDMs by the Table Office are:

Submission method

Table Office staff cost

Electronically (via MemberHub)

£2.70

By email

£4.10

Hard copy

£5.50

Although the Table Office does not record how many signatures it adds to EDMs through hard copy signatures and by email each day, we estimate that it takes approximately one minute to add each signature (at a staff cost of approximately £0.27). In 2023, there was an average of 11 signatures for each EDM.

After EDMs have been processed by the Table Office, they are published by the Procedural Publishing Unit. This involves downloading script, moving the information into a template, checking the content and publishing to the website. The process costs approximately £6.90 in staff time. The additional time for publishing each EDM is low – i.e. the cost is likely to be very similar whenever more than one EDM is published in a day. In 2023, on average eight EDMs were published on every sitting day. The average cost for publishing each EDM to the website was therefore £0.86.

In 2023, the average daily cost for printing paper copies of all EDMs tabled on each sitting day was £43.

Therefore, the average cost of administering an EDM submitted electronically in 2023 is estimated to be £11.90, which as noted above does not include certain fixed costs or expenditure on digital systems.

NHS: Pay
Asked by: Laurence Turner (Labour - Birmingham Northfield)
Thursday 17th October 2024

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to publication entitled Government and Agenda for Change trade unions offer in principle, published by NHS Employers on 16 March 2023, whether it remains his Department's policy to implement the measures listed under the sub-section of that document entitled Pay setting process.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Department is progressing work on all non-pay commitments covered in the 2023/24 Agenda for Change pay deal, including reviewing aspects of the pay setting process. Recommendations from this work will be considered at the earliest opportunity.




Laurence Turner mentioned

Parliamentary Debates
Telegraph Poles: Planning Permission
19 speeches (3,670 words)
Thursday 17th October 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Mentions:
1: Chris Bloore (Lab - Redditch) Friend the Member for Birmingham Northfield (Laurence Turner) about engagement. - Link to Speech
2: Chris Bryant (Lab - Rhondda and Ogmore) Friend the Member for Birmingham Northfield (Laurence Turner) on his election; it is good to see him - Link to Speech




Laurence Turner - Select Committee Information

Calendar
Tuesday 5th November 2024 4 p.m.
Transport Committee - Private Meeting
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Wednesday 6th November 2024 9:15 a.m.
Transport Committee - Private Meeting
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