Written questions

Ms Diane Abbott

330 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Jul 2022 · Home Office

Immigration Controls: Manston Airport and Port of Dover

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list the private security companies (a) contracted or (b) sub-contracted to process undocumented migrants in (i) the Port of Dover and (ii) Manston Airport.

18 Jul 2022 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: Port of Dover

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list the (a) value and (b) length of the contracts Border Force holds with (i) MITIE, (ii) Interforce and (iii) Definitive PSA in connection with the processing of undocumented migrants ar

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Children: Body Searches

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children are not strip-searched without a parent, guardian or appropriate adult present.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to tackle race disproportionality in the use of strip searches on children.

14 Apr 2022 · Home Office

Police: Body Searches

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review into the search of Child Q, what steps she has taken to help ensure that race and ethnicity do not influence the decision to strip search

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to take specific steps to promote and encourage teachers to undertake training on racial bias, discrimination and anti-racism.

14 Apr 2022 · Department for Education

Pupils: Body Searches

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to review (a) guidance and training for teachers and school staff and (b) guidelines on child safeguarding in relation to strip and intimate searches undertaken by police officers on sch

22 Mar 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Body Searches

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to introduce a legal requirement for schools to inform the parents or guardians of children before a police officer initiates a strip search or intimate search of a child.

22 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Independent Office for Police Conduct

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to take steps to speed up the time it takes for the IOPC to publish its reports.

22 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans the Government has to improve support to children who have been strip searched or intimately searched.

22 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Police: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the Authorised Professional Practice (APP) is complied with by serving Officers, specifically with reference to stop and search.

22 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps she has taken to help ensure that strip searches or invasive searches of children are reviewed (a) on the basis of safeguarding concerns and (b) by an appropriate body that is empowe

22 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure appropriate guidance is issued to police officers, to prevent unnecessary strip searches or intimate searches of children.

1 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under the age of 18 were (a) referred to the Prevent programme and (b) adopted as a Channel case in the financial year 2020-21.

24 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Iran: Detainees

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent representations she has made to the government of Iran on (a) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, (b) Anoosheh Ashoori and (c) the other British nationals detained in Iran

26 Oct 2021 · Ministry of Defence

Agnes Wanjiru

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what support the Government is providing to the Kenyan police in their investigation into the 2012 death of Agnes Wanjiru; and if he will make a statement.

13 Jul 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sleeping Rough: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support his Department plans to put in place to ensure effective future accommodation pathways can be offered to all rough sleepers currently in emergency accommodation.

8 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Immunosuppression: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to help reduce the risk of contracting covid-19 for immunocompromised people after the planned easing of covod-19 restrictions on 19 July 2021.

8 Jul 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Immunosuppression: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on covid-19 risk for immunocompromised people after the planned easing of covid-19 restrictions on July 19 2021.

1 Jul 2021 · Women and Equalities

Conversion Therapy

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what discussions she has had with her counterparts in Canada and Australian on the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to ban conversion therapy.

24 May 2021 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, , how many children under the age of 18 were adopted as a Channel Case in each year between April 2015 and April by (a) gender, (b) ethnicity and (c) religion of the individual referred.

24 May 2021 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under the age of 18 were referred to Prevent in each year between April 2015 and April 2020 by (a) gender, (b) ethnicity and (c) religion of the individual referred.

19 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the Government will ring-fence funding for the Palliative Care Unit at the Whipps Cross Hospital.

19 May 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the reduction in bed capacity at the proposed new hospital at Whipps Cross on bed capacity at (a) Homerton hospital and (b) other local hospitals.