Written questions
807 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Apr 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Sports: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government has taken to support the sporting sector during the covid-19 emergency.
20 Apr 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Football: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate the Government has made of the financial losses incurred by football clubs as a result of cancelled matches due to covid-19 outbreak.
20 Apr 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Football: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment the Government has made of the long-term financial effects of the covid-19 outbreak on lower league football clubs.
10 Feb 2020 · Treasury
Public Sector: Workplace Pensions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to resume the 2016 valuations for public sector pension schemes which were paused in January 2019.
20 Jan 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Climate Change: International Cooperation
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking with his counterparts in the (a) Chinese Government, (b) US Administration and (c) EU on limiting global temperature increases.
4 Oct 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Climate Change: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the role of schools in promoting knowledge of the effect of human behaviour on climate change.
4 Oct 2019 · Department for Education
Climate Change: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he has taken to ensure the national curriculum includes (a) up to date scientific understanding of climate change and (b) the role of human behaviour in affecting the global climate.
3 Oct 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the most recent annual estimate is of the cost of ending the two child limit for universal credit between now and 2033/34.
3 Oct 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost of increasing the child element of the universal credit payment by (a) £10 a week and (b) 70 per cent; and how many children would be taken out of poverty as a r
3 Oct 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the Scottish Government has requested that her Department administer the new Scottish child payment and; and what estimate she has made of the cost of administering that payment.
1 Oct 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Personal Independence Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people of pensionable age receiving personal independence payments have been sent a notification requiring them to reapply for that benefit.
20 May 2019 · Department for Education
Academies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to help ensure staff working for academy trusts can raise concerns about schools' governance.
20 May 2019 · Department for Education
Academies: Disclosure of Information
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of whistleblowing policies throughout academy trusts.
24 Apr 2019 · Department for Education
Schools: Counselling
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to conduct research on the adequacy of counselling services provided in schools in England.
23 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department used to decide which Care Commissioning Groups would be included in the pilots for the new mental health support teams.
23 Apr 2019 · 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 steps his Department plans to take to utilise the existing mental health practitioner workforce as part of its joint initiative on transforming children and young people’s mental health provis
23 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to integrate the new mental health support teams with existing services in (a) schools and (b) the NHS.
23 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on the training programme for new mental health support teams; and if he will publish the content of that programme.
23 Apr 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria were used by his Department to decide on applications to train to be part of the Government mental health support teams.
15 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Salisbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps are being taken as part of the long-term programme that has been developed to reposition Salisbury after the Novichok attack last year; and what the objectives of that
15 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Refuges: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many nominated members of staff there are employed in job centres across the UK whose role it is to liaise with women's refuges in their local area.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps staff in her Department are authorised to take when they suspect an abusive partner is attending an appointment with a universal credit claimant.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Salisbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the criteria were for the Government decision to allocate the city of Salisbury a ministerial champion in his Department.
12 Feb 2019 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Urban Areas: Departmental Responsibilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, which towns in the UK have a ministerial champion in the Government.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is taking steps to reduce universal credit claimants' anxiety of the threat of sanctions.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of meetings at job centres for universal credit claimants have been missed due to ill health in each year for which information is available.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Jobcentres: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the ratio is of male to female staff members in job centres throughout the UK.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Refuges: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many referrals have been made to women's refuges in the past six months by work coaches in job centres in the UK.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Telephone Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time is for a call to the universal credit hotline to be answered.
12 Feb 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the process is for beginning a new universal credit application in the event of a relationship breakdown as a result of domestic violence.
Source: official written-questions record.