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Maureen Burke
Maureen Burke
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ Glasgow North East
📅 2024–2026
23 speeches on Hansard record
⚠️ Votes attended: 69.54% (#353 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.73%
📝 Topics: Visas: Graduates, Civil Servants: Codes of Practice, Sports: Disadvantaged
🤝 Member of 18 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
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39 written answers on parliamentary record
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Department for Business and Trade
Conditions of Employment: Glasgow 10 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many workers in Glasgow are estimated to benefit from day-one rights when the Employment Rights Act comes into force on 1 April 2026.
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Conditions of Employment: Scotland 10 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what guidance and support is available to businesses in Scotland to help ensure compliance with the Employment Rights Act.
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Minimum Wage: Glasgow North East 17 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of people that will be impacted by the increase to the national minimum wage in Glasgow North East constituency.
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Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Sports: Disadvantaged 9 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the £8.14 million grassroots sports facilities fund on access to sport in deprived communities.
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Sports: Disadvantaged 9 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how the grassroots sports facilities fund will be used to promote women's football in Scotland.
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Video Games: Regulation 6 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has considered establishing a dedicated regulator for the video games industry.
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Commonwealth Games 2026: Community Development 22 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with the Glasgow 2026 Organising Company on ensuring an effective community legacy from the Commonwealth Games.
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Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme 28 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, for what reason a cap was introduced to the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme.
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Sports 17 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support Team GB and ParalympicsGB to build on their successes in 2024.
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Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Classroom Assistants 27 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support pupils with Additional Support Needs (ASN); and whether her Department provides additional funding for ASN courses in schools.
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Warm Homes Plan: Scotland 11 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department has taken with the Scottish Government to ensure the Warm Homes Plan helps support households in Scotland.
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Great British Energy: Glasgow 16 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, when he plans to announce more detail on the establishment of Great British Energy offices in Glasgow.
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Animal Experiments 24 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the non-technical summaries for project licences granted in October – December 2025, what steps she is taking to phase out the use of animals in science.
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Research: Finance 28 May 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to support UK Research and Innovation; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of increasing doctoral studentships in the UK on the level of financial support for researchers, in the…
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Department for Transport
Speed Limits: Rural Areas 20 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of amending the national speed limit for rural roads.
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Driving Tests: Glasgow 20 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will publish practical driving test results broken down via (a) age and (b) gender for each of the test centres in greater Glasgow.
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Driving Tests: Glasgow North East 8 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the waiting list for practical driving tests in Glasgow North East constituency.
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Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Rights Act 2025 11 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has been made of how the Employment Rights Act will help reduce economic inactivity.
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Poverty: Terminal Illnesses 6 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the report by Marie Curie, entitled Dying in Poverty, published in 2025.
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Civil Servants: Codes of Practice 30 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department takes to monitor enforcement of the Civil Service Code.
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Civil Servants: Codes of Practice 30 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to (a) ensure compliance with the Civil Service Code and (b) record breaches of that code.
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Life Expectancy: Glasgow North East 23 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the previous Government's policies on life expectancy in Glasgow North East constituency.
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Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Finance 6 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had recent discussions with Marie Curie on funding for the hospice sector.
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Health Services: Devolution 11 February 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce barriers to treatment and care between UK nations.
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Health Services 6 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to simplify health treatments between the UK nations.
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Medical Treatments 18 December 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help (a) reduce bureaucracy and (b) improve access to treatments.
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Home Office
Animal Experiments 24 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the enforcement of Section 2A of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
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Asylum: Private Rented Housing 4 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will set out how complaints relating to (a) cleanliness, (b) safety and (c) hygiene in landlord-provided asylum accommodation are (i) monitored, (ii) reported and (iii) investigated to ensure such accommodation is fit for purpose.
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Asylum: Private Rented Housing 4 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what contractual expectations are placed on landlords providing asylum accommodation.
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Immigration: Applications 20 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time is to process an application for (a) Leave to Remain and (b) Indefinite Leave to Remain; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time to process such applications.
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Visas: Graduates 17 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce processing times for applications for Graduate visas.
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Visas: Graduates 17 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the application window for international students to apply for a Graduate visa in the event of their university exam results being delayed.
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Visas: Graduates 11 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of allowing consideration of extenuating circumstances in decisions on Graduate visa applications.
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Ministry of Defence
Defence: Training 10 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of further education colleges in Scotland on the skills requirement for the defence industrial strategy.
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Veterans 9 January 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to support veterans.
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Scotland Office
Question 30 October 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on support for women on maternity leave in Scotland.
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Treasury
Tax Avoidance 11 March 2026
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure individuals with large liabilities under the Loan Charge are given adequate support, particularly in cases involving financial and personal distress.
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Prize Money: VAT 17 February 2026
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will confirm that ticket sales for prize draws offering both paid and free entry routes – as set out by the voluntary Code of Conduct published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport – are subject to VAT under the Value Added Tax…
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Springburn Winter Gardens Trust: Finance 15 July 2025
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing funding from the Growth Mission fund to Springburn Winter Gardens.
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