Written questions

Alison McGovern

807 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Mar 2015 · Cabinet Office

Parkinson's Disease

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people died of Parkinson's disease in England in each of the last five years.

18 Mar 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what offences the foreign nationals in prison in England and Wales were convicted on the most recent date for which figures are available.

18 Mar 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Offenders: Literacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many literacy courses were enrolled on by offenders assessed as having a literacy need in each year since 2010.

18 Mar 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners there are in England and Wales by (a) country and (b) security category of each prison.

18 Mar 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost is to the public purse of repatriating a foreign national prisoner; and how many such prisoners have been repatriated since 2010.

18 Mar 2015 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign national prisoners (a) by nationality and (b) of no known country of origin were held in prisons in England and Wales on 31 December 2014.

17 Mar 2015 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what performance indicators he has agreed with NS&I for the delivery of tax-free childcare; how often NS&I will be benchmarked against those indicators; and what penalties he has agreed for poor performance against t

17 Mar 2015 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he expects registration for the tax-free childcare scheme to open; and when the first payments under that scheme will be delivered.

17 Mar 2015 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the Government intends to promote take-up of the tax-free childcare scheme; and what budget he is allocating for that purpose.

4 Mar 2015 · Cabinet Office

Children: Day Care

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in employment earn less than the average hourly cost of a nursery place in London.

4 Mar 2015 · HM Treasury

Employment: Females

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will estimate the benefit to the economy of London of a five per cent increase in the number of women in employment.

4 Mar 2015 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children from disadvantaged backgrounds have been unable to access free entitlement to childcare for (a) two-year-olds and (b) three and four-year-olds in London in each of the last five years.

4 Mar 2015 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and by what percentage the cost of childcare has increased (a) in nurseries and (b) for childminders in London since 2010.

23 Feb 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will provide guidance to families with variable incomes on how best to choose between universal credit and the tax-free childcare scheme; and if he will make a statement.

23 Feb 2015 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have used employer-supported childcare in (a) the North West and (b) Merseyside in each year since 2010.

23 Feb 2015 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Wirral

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places have been available in Wirral South constituency in each year since 2010.

23 Feb 2015 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many disabled two-year-olds have been (a) eligible for and (b) received free early years entitlement since September 2014.

23 Feb 2015 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have used the childcare calculator since it was launched.

23 Feb 2015 · Department for Education

Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the pilot allowing approved adopters to search the Adoption Register is now working.

23 Feb 2015 · Ministry of Defence

Nurseries

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to improve childcare infrastructure; and how much LIBOR funding has been used for that purpose.

23 Feb 2015 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average cost of providing childcare accounts for households in receipt of tax-free childcare will be per child; and how much has been set aside for the annual administration and running costs of the tax-free

23 Feb 2015 · Cabinet Office

Families

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of families in (a) England, (b) the North West and (c) Merseyside have one stay-at-home parent.

23 Feb 2015 · Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Students: Childcare

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) men and (b) women in further education received funding for childcare through the (i) Discretionary Learner Support scheme and (ii) Care to Learn scheme in the last academic y

11 Feb 2015 · HM Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what effect he expects the judgement in Edenred (UK Group) v HM Treasury & Ors to have on the timescale for roll-out for the tax free childcare scheme contract.