Written questions
3,557 written questions tabled, most recent first.
9 May 2018 · Department for Education
Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of trends in the level of the UK's international ranking as a destination for higher education in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
8 May 2018 · Department for Education
Children's Centres: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans Ofsted has to resume the inspection of Children's Centres; and if he will make a statement.
8 May 2018 · Department for Education
Children's Centres: Inspections
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children's centres were not inspected in the last five years.
8 May 2018 · Treasury
PAYE
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February 2018 to Question 127398 on PAYE, whether the contract agreed by HMRC routinely provides management information to HMRC summarising the volume of real time information BACS hashes
2 May 2018 · Home Office
Educational Testing Service
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what methods ETS has used to identify cheating in Test of English for International Communication tests; and what opportunities are available to people who want to challenge (a) allegations and (b) fi
2 May 2018 · Home Office
Educational Testing Service
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment his Department has made of the credibility of the allegations made by ETS that people cheated in the Test of English for International Communication.
2 May 2018 · Home Office
Educational Testing Service
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what sanctions his Department imposed on the American firm ETS after Panorama revealed in 2014 that there had been cheating in some of that company's Test of English for International Communication te
2 May 2018 · Home Office
Migrants: English Language
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy that an applicant whose leave to remain has been cancelled because of an allegation of cheating in a Toeic English language test will be able to submit an appeal in the U
2 May 2018 · Home Office
Immigration
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the criteria are for the use of a case arising from the tax affairs of an individual that was settled by HMRC in a decision to refuse an application by that person for renewed leave to remain in
1 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy that weekly repayments which are deducted from universal credit for past overpayments should be limited to 40 per cent of the standard allowance.
1 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Immigration: Windrush Generation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that members of the Windrush generation receive the benefits to which they are entitled in the event that they are unable to provide documents to prove their citizensh
1 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what transitional protection is provided to claimants with disabilities who lose their entitlement to disability premiums when they transfer to universal credit.
1 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timeframe is for people to backdate a claim for universal credit in the event that decision on the claim was delayed as a result of error on the part of her Department.
1 May 2018 · Department for Education
Teachers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Early Years Workforce Strategy published in March 2017, if he will make it his policy to implement a programme to increase the graduate early years workforce in disadvantaged areas.
30 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what circumstances a jobseeker participating in the Work and Health Programme can be made subject to a sanction.
30 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2018 to Question 137389, when she plans for the first performance data from the Work and Health Programme to be published.
30 Apr 2018 · Department for Education
Pupils: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the quality of educational support provided to 16 and 17-year-olds in need of help or protection.
30 Apr 2018 · Department for Education
Pupils: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to improve the educational outcomes of vulnerable 16 and 17-year-olds.
30 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants on the Youth Obligation offer since April 2017 have moved into employment lasting over six months.
26 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants are on the Youth Obligation by Jobcentre Plus (a) region and (b) office.
26 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many work coaches have supported claimants on the Youth Obligation to date.
26 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people have been sanctioned whilst receiving support through the Youth Obligation.
26 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of young people have stopped receiving benefits since beginning the Youth Obligation.
26 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment Schemes: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many young people have received support through the Youth Obligation; and how many of those people have subsequently gone on to (a) an apprenticeship, (b) a traineeship and (c) a work placement.
24 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what performance targets she has set for the Work and Health Programme.
24 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what criteria her Department plans to use to determine which jobseekers should be referred to the Work and Health Programme.
24 Apr 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
EU Grants and Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans he has for his Department to allocate resources from the Shared Prosperity Fund.
24 Apr 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions
Work and Health Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to publish the list of subcontractors for the Work and Health Programme.
17 Apr 2018 · Department for Education
Children's Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of Sure Start centres offer a referral-only service.
17 Apr 2018 · Department for Education
Children's Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children using Sure Start Children's Centres in each year since 2010.
Source: official written-questions record.