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Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ Gateshead Central and Whickham
📅 2024–2025
150 speeches on Hansard record
✅ Votes attended: 91.88% (#50 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.55%
📝 Topics: High Rise Flats: Insulation, Futibatinib, Mental Health Services: Gateshead
🤝 Member of 11 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
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23 written answers on parliamentary record
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Voluntary Work: Safety 12 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of workplace safeguarding rights for volunteers in the third sector.
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Department for Education
Schools: Finance 26 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average funding per pupil was in mainstream schools in (a) Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency, (b) the North East Combined Authority Area and (c) England in each of the last five years.
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Teachers: Standards 22 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of qualified teacher status on the quality of teaching.
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Free School Meals: Gateshead Central and Whickham 18 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school children are (a) eligible for and (b) registered to receive free school meals in Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency.
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Carers: Gateshead Central and Whickham 15 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many kinship carers are registered in Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency; and if she will make an estimate of the average number of kinship carers registered per constituency.
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Apprentices: Gateshead Central and Whickham 12 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships started in Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency in each of the last five years.
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Department for Transport
Driving Instruction: Qualifications 4 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps she has taken to help reduce waiting lists for Approved Driving Instructor exams; and what recent progress her Department has made in reducing those backlogs.
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Transport: Infrastructure 16 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate she has made of the (a) total cost to the public purse for, (b) proportion of her Department’s total expenditure that was spent on and (c) spend per head for transport infrastructure in (a) the North East and (b) England the last 15…
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Roads: Infrastructure 16 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what comparative estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of spending on road infrastructure in (a) the North East and (b) England over the last 15 years by (i) percentage of total Departmental spend and (ii) per head.
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Department of Health and Social Care
Futibatinib 11 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding is available for patients to receive the immunotherapy drug Futibatinib through the NHS; and what criteria his Department uses to determine whether a patient is eligible for any funding.
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Futibatinib 11 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the NHS supply of Futibatinib.
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Life Expectancy: Gateshead Central and Whickham 14 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average life expectancy is in (a) Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency and (b) each ward of that constituency.
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Care Quality Commission 4 November 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much has been (a) budgeted and (b) spent by the Care Quality Commission on the (i) design, (ii) development and (iii) rollout of its new regulatory platform.
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Mental Health Services: Gateshead 10 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have been waiting to access Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services support in Gateshead for more than six months.
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Mental Health Services: Gateshead 9 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals have been accepted by Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Gateshead in each of the last five years.
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General Practitioners: Gateshead Central and Whickham 9 September 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of open GP practices in Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency (a) on the most recent date for which figures are available and (b) in 2010.
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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Georgia: Democracy 16 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support democracy in Georgia.
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Mozambique: Homicide 28 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his (a) French and (b) Mozambique counterpart on the alleged massacre of civilians by Mozambican military personnel at the TotalEnergies plant in 2021.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
High Rise Flats: Insulation 8 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data her Department holds on the number of buildings over (a) 11 and (b) 18 metres in Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency that have aluminium composite material cladding.
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High Rise Flats: Insulation 8 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that leaseholders do not have to fund remedial building modifications associated with aluminium composite material cladding.
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High Rise Flats: Insulation 8 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is her policy that developers are responsible for financing (a) aluminium composite material assessments and (b) subsequent fire safety remedial modifications other than cladding.
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Ministry of Justice
Crown Court: Finance 18 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department takes to determine the level of funding required to facilitate an adequate number of crown court sitting days in each financial year.
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Scotland Office
Trade Agreements: India 4 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK-India free trade agreement on Scotland.
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