Written questions

2,064 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Jun 2016 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to accelerate the family reunification process for unaccompanied children in Europe with family in the UK.

3 Jun 2016 · Department of Health

Patients: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many never events have been recorded in hospitals in England in the last five years.

26 May 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Housing Benefit: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has carried out an impact assessment on the effect of removing housing benefit from people aged under 25 on (a) disabled people and (b) care leavers.

26 May 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the efficacy of the current priority need system for allocating emergency housing in preventing homelessness.

25 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effects on recipients of disabled students allowances of transferring responsibility for funding support from Government to universities.

24 May 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 23 May 2016 to Question 37395, if she will estimate the number of cases of sexual assault recorded in schools in England in the last five years.

23 May 2016 · Department for Transport

Lakes Line: Electrification

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the expected date is for completion of the electrification of the Windermere Branch Line.

23 May 2016 · Home Office

Cumbria Constabulary

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents in the Cumbria Constabulary area were responded to by a single officer in each year since 2012.

23 May 2016 · Home Office

Cumbria Constabulary: Sick Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers in Cumbria Constabulary are absent from work as a result of sickness or injuries caused by violence inflicted on them in the course of their duties.

23 May 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Farmers: Cumbria

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average farm income is for (a) hill farmers and (b) dairy farmers in Cumbria.

23 May 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to page 14 of the Queen's Speech 2016: background briefing notes, if he will define the terms (a) very remotest properties and (b) contributing to the cost of broadband installatio

23 May 2016 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, on what basis the contribution to broadband installation costs for the very remotest properties will be calculated; and whether there will be an upper limit on the contribution which individual h

23 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Students: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will allow the Quality Assurance Agency to include an assessment of how well universities are meeting the needs of disabled students in their remit.

23 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of proposed changes to the disabled students allowance on the ability of disabled student to access non-medical help and to develop copi

23 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of proposed changes to the disabled students allowances on the number of disabled students accessing higher education.

23 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the funding of Band 4 specialist study skills tutors will be a permissible use of the disabled student allowance under the Government's proposed changes to that allowance.

23 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Students: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will take steps to ensure that academic staff are aware of their obligations under the Equality Act 2010 to make provision for the needs of disabled students.

23 May 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Students: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students received support from specialist study skills tutors in English universities in the most recent period for which figures are available.

19 May 2016 · Ministry of Justice

Bill of Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to carry out an (a) impact and (b) equality assessment of the Government's policy of replacing the Human Rights Act 1998 with a British Bill of Rights.

19 May 2016 · Department for Education

Children: Literacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to minimise the difference between the number of words to which young children in low-income and high-income households are exposed.

19 May 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Libya: Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many British military personnel have been embedded with US military personnel flying drones or planes over Libya in the last six months.

18 May 2016 · Department of Health

Patients: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many never events have been recorded in (a) Furness General Hospital and (b) Westmorland General Hospital in the last five years.

18 May 2016 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Rural Payments Agency: Performance Related Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will direct the Rural Payments Agency not to make any bonus payments to its Chief Executive until payments to eligible farmers have been completed.

18 May 2016 · Department for Education

Supply Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been spent on supply teacher pay by state-funded schools in England in the last five years.

18 May 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many cases of sexual assault have been recorded in schools in Cumbria in the last five years.

18 May 2016 · Department of Health

School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which bodies are responsible for maintaining food hygiene standards in state funded primary and secondary schools; and what steps he is taking to support those schools which are found to be in need of improvement

27 Apr 2016 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Floods: Lake District

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when he expects his Department to submit a final estimation of the damage caused by flooding in the South Lakes area to the European Commission as part of the UK's application to the EU S

19 Apr 2016 · Home Office

Police: Deployment

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to deploy British police officers to popular holiday resorts abroad as a result of the outcome of the pilot scheme in summer 2015.

19 Apr 2016 · Department for Education

Pupils: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children attending primary school were born outside the UK.

19 Apr 2016 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress his Department has made on reaching its target of £1 trillion a year in exports by 2020.

Source: official written-questions record.