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Written questions

Dame Siobhain McDonagh

580 written questions tabled, most recent first.

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of providing disadvantaged pupils with (a) devices and (b) other technology after covid-19 restrictions have ended.

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to issue new guidance on the use of technology in schools for self-isolating (a) pupils and (b) staff as covid-19 restrictions are eased.

23 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Mobile Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the remote education support scheme being offered by mobile phone networks in partnership with his Department, how many pupils are receiving support offered by (a) EE, (b) O2, (c) Sky Mobile,

23 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) laptops and tablets and (b) 4G wireless routers have been delivered to (i) schools, (ii) local authorities and (iii) academy trusts as of 22 February 2021.

19 Feb 2021 · Cabinet Office

Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average number of days taken to register a death has been in each of the last 12 months.

19 Feb 2021 · Cabinet Office

Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average number of days taken to register a birth has been in each of the last 12 months.

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Pupils: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school pupils (a) are eligible to take part in the mass asymptomatic covid-19 testing programme in schools, (b) have parental consent to take part in the scheme and (c) do not yet have parental consent

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Mobile Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the remote education support scheme being offered by mobile phone networks in partnership with his Department, how many pupils are receiving support offered by (a) EE, (b) O2, (c) Sky Mobile,

19 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) laptops and tablets and (b) 4G wireless routers have been delivered to (i) schools, (ii) local authorities and (iii) academy trusts as of 15 February 2021.

10 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what date he plans to publish guidance on the vaccination of unpaid carers against covid-19.

8 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Mobile Broadband

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the remote education support scheme being provided by mobile phone networks in partnership with his Department, how many pupils are receiving support from (a) EE, (b) O2, (c) Sky Mobile, (d) S

8 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) laptops and tablets and (b) 4G wireless routers have been delivered to (i) schools, (ii) local authorities and (iii) academy trusts as of 4 February 2021.

2 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the geographic variation in the uptake of funding to help schools set up remote learning platforms.

2 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to increase the funding for technical support to enable schools to access remote education platforms.

2 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse has been of technical support to help schools set up accounts for Google and Microsoft during lockdown; and (b) how much funding is left for that purpose.

2 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he is taking steps to ensure that the list of suggested digital education platforms in the Constituency framework: education and childcare setting (excluding universities) guidance includes the full ran

2 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he made of the potential merits of different platforms prior to including (a) Microsoft and (b) Google and not other commonly used platforms in the Constituency framework: education and childcar

2 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what framework he used to determine which digital platforms are included in the Department’s Constituency framework: education and childcare setting (excluding universities) guidance.

2 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria the Department used to include (a) Microsoft and (b) Google but not other commonly used platforms in its list of suggested providers in the Constituency framework: education and childcare setting

1 Feb 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools have a sibling who attends the same school in England and Wales.

29 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: Mobile Phones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with regards to the remote education support scheme being offered by mobile phone networks in partnership with the Department for Education, how many pupils are receiving the support offered by (a) EE, (b) O2,

29 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) laptops and tablets and (b) 4G wireless routers have been delivered to (i) schools, (ii) local authorities and (iii) academy trusts as of 28 January 2021.

21 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) laptops and tablets and (b) 4G wireless routers have been delivered to (i) schools, (ii) local authorities or (iii) academy trusts as of 21 January 2021.

11 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2020 to Question 98870, how many proposed redundancies were indicated on HR1 forms received by the Redundancy Payments Service in (a) October

30 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take in relation to the new Stamp Duty Land Tax non-UK resident surcharge to ensure that overseas buyers are not refunded a surcharge when they state only that they intend to live in the UK fo

30 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adopting the Association of Accounting Technicians proposal to extend the residency requirements for the Stamp Duty Land Tax non-UK resident surcharge from 183

30 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the new Stamp Duty Land Tax non-UK resident surcharge due to come into force in April 2021 can be avoided by being resident in the UK on at least 183 days.

30 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect on (a) revenue accruing to the public purse for (i) projects to tackle rough sleeping and (ii) other projects and (b) house price inflation of reducing the Stamp Duty Land T

30 Nov 2020 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on revenue accruing to the public purse of setting the Stamp Duty Land Tax non-UK resident surcharge at (a) 3 per cent and (b) 5 per cent; and if he will make a st

24 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Remote Education: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many dongles and mifi devices distributed to support remote education are in active use by families.

Source: official written-questions record.