Esther McVey

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are in care; and how many such children are looked after under kinship care.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Social Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many social workers live in the local authority for which they work.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Social Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many social workers are (a) permanent and (b) agency staff: and what the cost is of employing each group.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Social Workers: Home Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average duration of a social work visit was in each of the last five years.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Social Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many social work visits were carried out (a) in person and (b) online in each of the last five years.

25 May 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Pumps: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department has made (a) an assessment of the effectiveness of heat pumps in older homes and (b) the potential cost to rural home owners of upgrading their home insulation to incre

22 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mortality Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will conduct an investigation into the excess deaths in England in the last 12 months.

22 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mortality Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the data published by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities entitled Excess Mortality in England, published on 12 May 2023, if he will commission an investigation into

17 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies on covid-19 vaccinations of the study by Fraiman, J., et al., entitled Serious adverse events of special interest following mRNA C

2 May 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Influenza: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Government has spent on antiviral medication stockpiles against influenza in each year since 2005.

24 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Skilled Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has produced for UK Visas and Immigration caseworkers on handling requests to escalate delayed applications on the skilled worker route; and what information her Departmen

24 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Skilled Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of (a) the average length of time for a Skilled Worker visa application from outside the UK to be approved and (b) the number of applications for a Skilled Worker visa tha

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Abstraction: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she bring forward legislative proposals to help ensure that a food risk assessment is made when changes to abstraction licences or restrictions are implemented to ensure that due re

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Abstraction: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with the Environment Agency on helping to ensure that the process for abstraction licences is adaptable and flexible.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Farms: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he has taken to (a) invest in and (b) fast-track the planning process for water storage, recycling and treatment on farms.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Renewable Energy: Agriculture

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on support for planning applications by agricultural businesses to (a) install solar p

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Horticulture: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking with local government to deliver a planning policy that encourages horticultural growers to expand and modernise.

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Biofuels: National Grid

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, If he will make it his policy to increase the national grid capacity and network to encourage horticulture growers to invest in renewables .

14 Apr 2023 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy Intensive Industries: Agriculture and Horticulture

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will extend the definition of energy-intensive industries to include (a) horticulture and (b) other energy intensive agriculture sectors.

14 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Scheme to a five-year rolling programme.

14 Apr 2023 · Home Office

Agriculture: Seasonal Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme to 9 months.

20 Mar 2023 · Cabinet Office

Vaccination: Death

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2023 to Question 151283 on Vaccination: Death, and with reference to Tables 6 to 9 of the Age-standardised mortality rates for deaths by vaccination status, England: deaths occu

20 Mar 2023 · Department for Education

Care Homes and Foster Care: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many in-person inspections were carried out by Ofsted in (a) children’s and (b) foster homes in each of the last five years.

8 Mar 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Electronic Cigarettes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has issued guidance to schools on reducing the use of e-cigarettes in schools.

8 Mar 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Electronic Cigarettes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the accessibility of vapes in schools.

8 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Influenza

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what definition is given by his Department to the term flu and whether it relates to specific pathogens.

8 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Vaccination: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to correspondence from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Primary Care and Public Health to the Rt. hon Member for Tatton on 2 March 2023, on what evidential basis his De

8 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs and Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the use by the NHS of (a) vaccines and (b) antiviral drugs on trends in the level of excess deaths.

28 Feb 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department is taking steps to safeguard tenants in buildings where the owner would qualify for the building safety fund to repair unsafe cladding but chooses not to apply

23 Feb 2023 · Cabinet Office

Vaccination: Death

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Office for National Statistics publication entitled Deaths by vaccination status, England, published on 21 February 2023, for what reason data for under 18s was omitted from that publicatio