Written questions
3,020 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Nov 2014 · Department for Education
Headteachers: Retirement
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many headteachers retired in (a) 2009-10, (b) 2010-11, (c) 2011-12, (d) 2012-13 and (e) 2013-14.
6 Nov 2014 · Department for Education
Science: Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of additional teachers that will be needed in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18, (d) 2018-19, (e) 2019-20 and (f) 2020-21 in (i) mathematics, (ii) physics and (iii)
6 Nov 2014 · Department for Education
Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of additional teachers that will be needed in 2015-16.
5 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014, to Question 212599, what estimate he has made of the number of court staff who interact with vulnerable and intimidated witnesses.
5 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014 to Question 212599, how many officials in his Department have undergone Vulnerable and Intimidated Witnesses Awareness training in each year since May 2010.
5 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2014 to Question 212599, how many officials in his Department have undergone Crown and Magistrates' Court Witness Liaison Oficer Awareness training in each year since May 2010
5 Nov 2014 · Home Office
Drugs: Misuse
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to ban the use of new psychoactive substances; and whether a timetable has been agreed for implemention of that ban.
5 Nov 2014 · Department for Education
HMYOI Cookham Wood
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the written answer of 3 November 2014, to Question 212297, what the reasons were for the requests by HMYOI Cookham Wood for cancellation of education hours.
4 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his policy is on allowing former offenders to visit youth custody environments.
4 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the proportion of offenders in youth custody who are black, Asian and minority ethnic in each year since May 2010.
4 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average and (b) longest periods of time is that offenders in youth custody have been placed in segregation units in each year since May 2010.
4 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Youth Custody
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders in youth custody have been placed in segregation units in each year since May 2010.
4 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
HMYOI Wetherby
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons Wetherby Young Offenders Institution has been redesignated to a Secure College of Learning.
3 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Crown Court: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2014 to Question 212299, how many witnesses have received support from the court-based Witness Service in each year since 2010.
3 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have represented themselves in court in each year since 2010; and what proportion of such people had previously applied for legal aid for that case.
3 Nov 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Police Cautions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of police cautions issued for (a) rape, (b) sexual offences and (c) violent crimes in each year since 2010.
31 Oct 2014 · Department of Health
Mental Health Services: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 28 October 2014 to Question 211725, on mental health services: young people, in which areas there is anecdotal evidence of increasing waiting times.
30 Oct 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many opposed applications for placement orders have been issued by local authorities in family courts since 2010; and how many of those applications have been ordered by the court.
30 Oct 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals against placement orders have been issued in family courts since 2010; and how many of those appeals have been allowed.
30 Oct 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of violent incidents in prisons linked to legal highs in the last five years.
30 Oct 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of officials in his Department have undergone specialist training on working with victims of sexual assault in a court environment.
28 Oct 2014 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes in employment and support allowance and personal independence payments on people with progressive conditions such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson
28 Oct 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much has been paid in forfeiture because of the Prison Service's use of barbed and razor wire in each of the last four years.
28 Oct 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Crown Court: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many witness care staff were employed at each Crown court in each year since 2010.
28 Oct 2014 · Department for Education
HMP/YOI Hindley and HMYOI Cookham Wood: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many hours per week of education juvenile boys in Hindley and Cookham Wood young offender institutions had in each week in June 2014.
28 Oct 2014 · Department for Transport
Taxis: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to enable local authorities to retain information on sex offenders to inform the granting of licences to taxi drivers.
23 Oct 2014 · Department of Health
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of waiting times for young people attempting to access child and adolescent mental health services; and if he will publish average national waiting times in each of the years 2011, 2012
22 Oct 2014 · HM Treasury
Welfare Tax Credits: Telephone Services
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to reduce waiting times experienced by (a) people on a low income and (b) other people using the HM Revenue and Customs tax credits helpline.
22 Oct 2014 · Ministry of Justice
Criminal Proceedings: Veterans
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times officials conducting his Department's review of veterans in the criminal justice system have formally consulted the review's Advisory Committee since the launch of the review.
22 Oct 2014 · Department of Health
Cystic Fibrosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to support research into new treatments for people with cystic fibrosis.
Source: official written-questions record.