Written questions

667 written questions tabled, most recent first.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if the Government will include a target on reducing premature deaths from air pollution in its new clean air strategy.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Air Pollution: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Government’s planned clean air strategy will include a commitment to reaching WHO limits for particulate matter.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment the Government has made of the potential merits of offering financial incentives to encourage people to buy an electric car; and if he will make a statement.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Social Media: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to raise awareness of the link between mental health issues and the use of social media in young people.

8 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have been provided with alternative social housing as a result of being removed from existing social housing for which they

8 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the cost to the public purse was of tenants living in social housing who do not have succession rights appealing local authority decisions in each year since 2012.

8 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people have been removed from social housing because they did not have succession rights to remain following the death of the previous sole or joint tenant in each year

8 Feb 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of statutory rights of occupiers of social housing to succeed to a tenancy on the death of the previous sole or joint tenant.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money his Department has spent on advertising for teacher recruitment in each year since 2010.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Resignations

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers have left the profession by (a) gender and (b) age in each year since 2010.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to improve the retention rate of teachers in England.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps the Government has taken to encourage professionals into teaching.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Migrant Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state school teachers in England were recruited from EU countries.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment has he made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on the recruitment of teachers in England.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many non-repayable bursaries the Government has allocated to support trainee teachers in the last year; and what the value was of those bursaries.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of tuition fee costs on teacher training applications.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the School Direct route into teaching.

8 Feb 2018 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: ICT

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the additional cost to the public purse was of delays of more than three months in the completion of Government IT projects in each Department since 2010.

8 Feb 2018 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: ICT

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse is of the delayed completion by more than three months of Government IT projects since 2010.

8 Feb 2018 · Cabinet Office

Carillion

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which (a) completed and (b) ongoing public sector contracts in (i) Bethnal Green and Bow, (ii) Tower Hamlets and (iii) Greater London involved Carillion in the last three years for which figures are available.

8 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Schools: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment the Government has made of the potential effect on the provision of education when Ofsted inspections do not occur routinely due to a school going through the process of converting to aca

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people were not accepted onto a teacher training programme in England in 2017-18 because they failed either or both professional skills tests.

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have applied to take PGCE courses in England in each year since 2010.

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the drop-out rate has been of trainees who start on the School Direct training programme over the last twelve months for which data is available.

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the retention rate of teachers and trainee teachers has been in each region of England in the last twelve months for which data is available.

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state school teachers in England do not have Qualified Teacher Status.

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many School Direct (Salaried) programme places there are planned to be in each region of England for the academic year 2018-19.

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have been accepted onto the (a) School Direct (Salaried) and (b) School Direct (Non-Salaried) programme in England in each year since 2014.

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have applied for the (a) School Direct (Salaried) and (b) School Direct (Non-Salaried) programmes in England in each year since 2014.

7 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Schools: Asbestos

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will list those schools in each local authority area in England that have been found to have asbestos that is yet to be treated.

Source: official written-questions record.