Written questions

Bridget Phillipson

2,061 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Mar 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

South Sudan: Human Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support the strengthening of human rights in South Sudan.

28 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 222633 on Pre-School Education: Closures, if he will list £20 million investment in training and professional development for pre-reception early years’ st

28 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2019 to Question 222633 on Pre-School Education: Closures, what is involved in the network of English hubs in which there will be a £26 million investment.

27 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 February 2019 to question 222631, for what reasons his Department did not refer to whether his Department has made an estimate of the cost to other public services in areas where ma

27 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his Answer of 21 February 2019 to Question 222629, on Pre-school Education, for what reasons his Department did not refer to the reasons for the reduction in the number of maintained nursery schools

27 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his Answer of 21 February 2019 to Question 222632, on Pre-school Education: Closures, what estimate he has made of the number of children with SEND affected by the closure of maintained nursery scho

27 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what comparative assessment his Department has made of the effect on (a) value for money and (b) service provision of providing funding to local authorities through (i) long-term

26 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the article entitled UK free childcare funding woes forcing some providers out of business, published by the Financial Times on 28 April 2018, what assessment his Department has made of the ac

26 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what records his Department holds on the socio-economic background of those claiming free childcare for three and four-year-olds.

26 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much central Government funding childcare providers receive for providing free childcare to three and four-year-olds.

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the correlation between the (a) increased proportion of local authority spending on social care, (b) reduction in local authority overall spe

21 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an assessment of the correlation between changes in (a) local authority funding and (b) changes in the level of provision of local authority servi

21 Feb 2019 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to (a) improve affordability and (b) reduce complexity for parents to access childcare support for people in low-income families.

21 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to use the data it will hold on family circumstances through universal credit to provide more tailored support to parents in England on the types of childcare available to t

20 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of the Coram Family and Childcare's survey on Older People's Care, published in December 2018, which found that over 4.3

20 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities have sufficient resources to meet demand for older people’s care; and what steps he is taking to reduce levels of variation in a

20 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to encourage licensing authorities to provide mandatory disability equality training on the rights and needs of disabled passengers for taxi and private hire vehicle drivers.

20 Feb 2019 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department is taking steps to raise awareness of the mechanisms by which disabled people can report discrimination in the event of being refused access to a taxi or private hire vehicle.

19 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the report entitled A Bright Start, published by Save the Children and the Centre of Social Justice in November 2018, if she will make it her policy to raise the childcare element of u

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of changes in the level of funding for local authorities through the Public Health Grant on drug misuse treatment outcomes.

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of his Department’s transfer of the pooled treatment budget to the Public Health Grant in 2013 on the adequacy of funding for drug addi

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the adequacy of funding for (a) opioid substitution therapy and (b) other health programmes to reduce drug-related deaths.

19 Feb 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies on reducing drug-related deaths of the report entitled, Drug-related deaths in England: local authorities and how they