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MP Financial Interest
Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Original Source (15th April 2024)
4. Visits outside the UK
Name of donor: Labour Friends of Israel
Address of donor: BM LFI, London WC1N 3XX
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights, accommodation and meals, value £2,200
Destination of visit: Israel and Palestine
Dates of visit: 3 September 2023 to 7 September 2023
Purpose of visit: Fact-finding visit. Meeting with Israeli and Palestinian politicians, academics, activists and diplomats.
(Registered 14 September 2023)
MP Financial Interest
Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Original Source (15th April 2024)
3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources
Name of donor: UK Music
Address of donor: 33 Foley Street, London W1W 7TL
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: One ticket and hospitality at the Ivor Novello awards, value £646.68
Date received: 18 May 2022
Date accepted: 18 May 2022
Donor status: company, registration 03245288
(Registered 23 May 2023)
MP Financial Interest
Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)
Original Source (15th April 2024)
9. Family members employed and paid from parliamentary expenses
Name: Alan Hodgson
Relationship: Spouse
Role: Office Manager
Working pattern: Full time
Written Question
Agency Nurses: Expenditure
Tuesday 2nd April 2024

Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England spent on agency nurses in each of the last five years.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The amount spent on agency nurses by year for each of the last five years is set out in the table below.

Financial Year

Agency (nursing) spend

2018-19

£843 million

2019-20

£879 million

2020-21

£838 million

2021-22

£1.1 billion

2022-23

£1.37 billion

The Long Term Workforce Plan sets out a path to reduce the National Health Service’s reliance on agency. We estimate that the reliance on temporary staffing in FTE terms will reduce from 9% in 2021/22 to around 5% from 2032/33 onwards, with mostly bank staff fulfilling the requirement for temporary staffing.

Written Question
Treasury: Visits Abroad
Thursday 28th March 2024

Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Department's publication entitled HMT ministers’ overseas travel, published on 21 March 2024, how much of the £15,991 spent on his visit to the USA from 20 to 22 October 2023 was spent on air travel.

Answered by Gareth Davies - Exchequer Secretary (HM Treasury)

The Government publishes details of Ministerial travel on GOV.UK. As has been the case under successive administrations, the Government does not publish granular detail on Ministers' travel either at home or abroad.

Division Vote (Commons)
19 Mar 2024 - Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Sharon Hodgson (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 154 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 218 Noes - 305
Division Vote (Commons)
19 Mar 2024 - Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Sharon Hodgson (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 151 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 217 Noes - 305
Division Vote (Commons)
19 Mar 2024 - Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Sharon Hodgson (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 152 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 219 Noes - 306
Division Vote (Commons)
19 Mar 2024 - Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill [Lords] - View Vote Context
Sharon Hodgson (Lab) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 153 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 224 Noes - 301
Written Question
Free School Meals
Tuesday 19th March 2024

Asked by: Sharon Hodgson (Labour - Washington and Sunderland West)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2023 to Question 165185 on Free School Meals, what the complex data, systems, financial and legal implications are of a government-led rollout of automatic enrolment for all eligible children.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

​​​As previously communicated, the department has looked at auto-enrolment and considers there to be merit in local authorities exploring initiatives to maximise take up and to better understand the barriers that prevent such take up, whilst also ensuring adherence to legal and data protection constraints, which still remain an important consideration. These include constraints around data-sharing, as well as the need for families to make a claim for free school meals to be eligible under the current process.

The department continues to engage with key stakeholders in this area, noting the methods currently being trialled across a number of local authorities to increase and maximise take up.