Written questions
670 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of full-time equivalent teachers were without qualified teacher status in state funded (a) mainstream primary, (b) mainstream secondary, (c) special schools and (d) alternative prov
14 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Technical Excellence Colleges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how Technical Excellence colleges will differ from the Institutes of Technologies programme.
14 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Private Education: Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 6019 on Private Education: Teachers, whether any schools have (a) left the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and (b) entered phased withdrawal since 14 October 2024.
14 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the geographic level at which housing targets are set will change in the event of local government reorganisation.
14 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the target for an additional 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects this Parliament will be met.
14 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage change in net recruitment from the last Parliament will be needed to meet the target of an additional 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects this Parliament.
14 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new teachers in key subjects she expects to recruit each year.
13 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme: South East
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the impact of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme on religious minority groups in (a) Hampshire (b) South East England.
13 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the contribution of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme to the heritage crafts sector.
9 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Uniforms
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides on schools making second hand uniform available.
9 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Pupils: Absenteeism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment her Department has made of trends in levels of school absence in (a) schools with 40% or more pupils in bands A-F of the Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index and (b) other (i)
9 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Pupils: Absenteeism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of levels of disadvantaged pupils in schools on rates of absence in schools.
9 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Breakfast Clubs: Secondary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of free breakfast provision in secondary schools on levels of school attendance.
9 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Uniforms
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason a school tie is not permitted as an additional item of branded uniform in primary schools in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
9 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Extended Services: Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether costs for (a) before-school breakfast and (b) after-school clubs and programmes for children of (I) primary (II) secondary school age are eligible for reimbursement through universal credit as c
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to monitor trends in Education Health and Care Plan applications by local authority area.
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Admissions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is collecting data on trends in the number of in-year school applications in each local authority area.
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Private Education: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the average fees charged by independent schools for the term starting in (a) January 2024, (b) September 2024 and (c) January 2025.
3 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has changed the recipients by position entitled to pre-release access to reports since June 2024.
3 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release entitled One of the largest mental health trials launches in schools, published on 4 February 2019, what the results of those trials were.
3 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of spending on mental health services for children and young people in each year for which data are available.
3 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England's statistics entitled Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2023 - wave 4 follow up to the 2017 survey, published on 21 November 2023, whether he plan
12 Dec 2024 · Treasury
Employers' Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 December 2024 to Question 17780 on Employers' Contributions, if she will make an estimate of the (a) median and (b) mean average number of people employed by the employers that she expec
12 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Schools: Per Capita Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17084 on Schools: Per Capita Costs, if she will provide these figures adjusted for inflation by the (a) retail price index and (b) consumer price index.
12 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2024 to Question 17084 on Schools: Per Capita Costs, how much and what proportion of the additional funding will be used for pay increases already awarded to teachers in th
10 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Learning Disability: Work Experience
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that people with learning disabilities are able to access as many work experience opportunities as people without learning disabilities.
10 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Learning Disability: Work Experience
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that people with learning disabilities can access work experience opportunities.
10 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Further Education: Down's Syndrome
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve further education opportunities for people with Down syndrome.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Writing
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has she made of the potential merits of writing by hand in learning to write lessons.
9 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Natural History: GCSE
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she expects teaching of GCSE Natural History to begin.
Source: official written-questions record.