Damian Hinds

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she next plans to review the per-meal funding rate for free school meals.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

After School Clubs and Breakfast Clubs: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the availability of (a) in-school breakfast and (b) after school clubs on (i) workforce participation and (ii) average hours of work.

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Overcrowding

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of capacity made available through Operation Safeguard was used between its inception and July 2024.

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2025 to Question 36625 on Prison Accommodation, when she expects places to become available through the small house blocks programme.

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the gross number of prison places removed from the prison estate in England and Wales through permanent closures of whole (a) prisons and (b) wings was between (i) 1997 to 2010 and (ii) 2010 to 2024.

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the gross number of prison places added to the prison estate in England and Wales through new builds and extensions to prisons was between (a) 1997 and 2010 and (b) 2010 and 2024.

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Construction and Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison places for the estate in England were (a) under construction and (b) in planning, in (i) new build prisons (ii) prison extensions and small secure houseblocks and (iii) other projects as of May 20

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2025 to Question 36626 on Prison Accommodation, what breakdown is available of the figure of a net 28,000 places added to the prison estate in England between 1997 and 2010 in t

1 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will replicate the data line items included in the ad hoc publication Estimate of the number of prison places built and closed between 2010 and 2024, published on 25 October 2025, for each year from the ea

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Power Failures

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the average length of time was in which households were without power due to outage in (a) the (i) Basingstoke & Deane: Oakley and The Candovers, (ii) East Hampshire: Bentworth & Froyle,

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the annual operating cost for a 30 minute daily breakfast provision for a typical (a) single, (b) two and (c) three form entry primary school.

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of schools in the pilot for the new free primary breakfast provision are located in the 10% most deprived wards in England.

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of primary schools with breakfast provision supported under the National School Breakfast Programme are located in the 10% most deprived wards in England.

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of those primary schools in the 10 per cent most deprived wards in England have breakfast provision supported by the National School Breakfast Programme.

17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to payroll costs from the Autumn Budget 2024 on self funders in social care.

10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the number of prison places removed through (a) prisons closing, (b) parts of prisons being removed from use, (c) loss of modular units, (d) reductions in crowding places and (e) other removals was in each y

10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the number of prison places added through (a) prisons opening, (b) small secure houseblocks, (c) rapid deployment cells, (d) crowding places and (e) other additions was in each year from the earliest year fo

10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) number of prison places added, (b) number of prison places removed and (c) net change in the number of prison places was in each year from the earliest year for which data are available.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the average (a) length of (b) time off the job in apprenticeships in (i) England (ii) Germany.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the remit is of the (a) Information Commissioner's Office and (b) Ofcom for algorithmic recommender systems on social media.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of the schools participating in the new breakfast club pilot previously had no breakfast provision.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary schools run breakfast clubs with a duration of (a) 30, (b) less than 30 and (c) more than 30 minutes.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to measure the actual costs for the schools participating in the existing National School Breakfast programme.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is for her Department's funding allocations to schools for the National School Breakfast programme.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment she has made of rates of school absence in academic year 2023-24 in England relative to the other home nations.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Educational Visits: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Low Emission Zones on the cost of school trips made by coach by schools in (a) Greater London and (b) other parts of the country.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Educational Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of school trips made annually, by (a) region (b) mode of transport.

24 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the evidential basis is for the estimate that the new primary school breakfast programme will save parents £450 a year.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Voice over Internet Protocol: Competition

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of consumers being required to move to a VOIP connection for a new contract on market competition.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Voice over Internet Protocol

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what data his Department holds on the numbers of (a) residential customers and (b) business customers that have moved from a PSTN telephone connection to a VOIP connection (i) when thei