Written questions

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1,687 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Oct 2021 · Department for Transport

Buses: Driving

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the recruitment and retention of adequate numbers of bus drivers nationally.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Transport

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has contingencies in place to ensure that HGV drivers are available to deliver school meals during the period of driver shortages and supply chain issues.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

School Meals: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of delays in DBS checks on staffing levels in the school meals industry.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

School Meals: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has investigated the (a) time taken for DBS checks and (b) effect that is having on staff availability in the school meals sector.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

School Meals: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether there are contingencies in place to ensure that schools continue to receive food in the event of supply chain issues.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

School Meals: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has met with the school food industry to discuss staff recruitment and retention challenges in that sector.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

School Meals: Finance and Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he last met with representatives of the school food industry to discuss (a) funding and (b) supply chain issues impacting the industry.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

Primary Education: Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of not increasing the cost of universal infants free school meals on the (a) quality of the meals provided and (b) ability for the industry to retain and recruit

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

Primary Education: Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on increasing funding for universal free school meals for infants in the next Spending Review.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

School Meals: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on supply chain issues impacting the school meals sector.

19 Oct 2021 · Department for Education

School Meals: Supply Chains

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the school food industry on supply chain issues affecting that industry.

18 Oct 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the UK becoming a signatory member of the School Meals Coalition established at the 2021 United Nations Food Systems S

15 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments: Side Effects

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 22 July 2021 to Question 33177, on Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, whether a decision has been made on the mandatory reporting of adverse events.

15 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve transparency of the data that underpins NICE's conclusions, in response to the findings in BMJ Open (Vol 11, Issue 10, Osipenko) that documents supporting NIC

15 Oct 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on transparency of data redaction in technology appraisals and highly specialised technology evaluations issued by the National Institute for H

23 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Visitors: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Health Visiting services feature in his Department’s submissions to the Spending Review.

10 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what impact assessment her Department has undertaken of the potential effect of the end of the £20 uplift to universal credit on young women.

7 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Teachers: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Initial teacher training market review report published in July 2021, what plans his Department has made to tackle the potential shortfall in teacher trainee positions.

7 Sep 2021 · Department for Education

Arts: Secondary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer on 24 June 2021 to Question 16805 on Pupil Premium: Arts, what recent progress he has made towards the allocation of the arts premium to secondary schools.