Written questions

993 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Jan 2017 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made based on the new early years funding formula of the maximum amount of funding each local authority would be able to retain in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19.

17 Jan 2017 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the technical correction to the dedicated schools grant at paragraph 38 of the Government response to the early years funding consultation, published in December 2016, which local authorities

11 Jan 2017 · Department for Education

Nurseries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding from the transitional protection for maintained nursery schools will each local authority area receive in each year for which that funding is available.

11 Jan 2017 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many two, three and four year olds in state-funded 15 hours' early education are in settings which are rated (a) requires improvement and (b) inadequate.

11 Jan 2017 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children not achieving a good level of development according to the Early Years Foundation State were attending a private or voluntary sector provider in the latest year for which data is ava

11 Jan 2017 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the gross local authority expenditure was on Sure Start Children's Centres and early years provision in each local authority area in each year since 2010.

11 Jan 2017 · Department for Education

GCSE: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) proportion and (b) number of children eligible for free school meals who achieved five A to C grades at GCSE including English and mathematics in each of the last three years attended a (i) maintained

11 Jan 2017 · Ministry of Defence

USA: Military Alliances

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 10 March 2016 to Question 30085, on unmanned air vehicles: deployment, whether the UK-US Memorandum of Understanding remains valid; and whether the provisions of that Understanding

9 Jan 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Written Answer of 26 September 2016, HL 1779, whether Joint Doctrine Publication 0-30.2, entitled The UK Approach to Unmanned Aircraft Systems, will address the conclusions and recommendations of

9 Jan 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Airspace

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on finalising the Joint Doctrine Publication 0-30, entitled UK Air Space Doctrine.

9 Jan 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Joint Doctrine Publication 0-30, entitled UK Air Space Doctrine, will cover the use of unmanned aerial vehicles.

19 Dec 2016 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of how many (a) parents and (b) lone parents with a youngest child aged three (i) nationally, (ii) by region, (iii) by local authority and (iv) by parliamentary constituency wi

19 Dec 2016 · Department for Education

Pupil Premium

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to early-years foundation stage profile results, what number and proportion of children in receipt of the early-years pupil premium achieved (a) a good level of development and (b) at least the e

14 Dec 2016 · Department for Education

Grammar Schools: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many year seven pupils received free school meals in each grammar school in (a) 2014, (b) 2015 and (c) 2016.

14 Dec 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are in the lowest-attaining (a) 18.6 and (b) 21.5 per cent within the early years foundation stage profile; and how many such children are in each (i) region and (ii) local authority area.

13 Dec 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of early years settings including maintained nursery schools, nursery classes, private, voluntary or independent nursery settings and child-minders are rated (a) outstanding, (b) good, (c) requi

13 Dec 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children attending (a) maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in schools, (b) private, voluntary or independent nursery settings and (c) childminders achieved (i) a good level of deve

7 Dec 2016 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Regional Planning and Development: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support businesses as part of the Northern Powerhouse.

30 Nov 2016 · Department of Health

Family Nurse Partnership Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much Government funding has been allocated to the Family Nurse Partnership in each year since that initiative was launched; and how many people worked in Family Nurse Partnerships in the last 12 months for whi

30 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the development gap at pre-school between children and their peers measured by the early years foundation stage (a) nationally, (b) regionally and (c) by local authority in the l

30 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities did not improve their early years foundation stage results in 2016 relative to their 2015 results.

30 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the lowest 20 per cent of children by attainment at the early years foundation stage are in each (a) region and (b) local authority.

30 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children attending (a) maintained nursery schools, (b) nursery classes in schools, (c) private, voluntary or independent nursery settings and (d) childminders achieved (i) a good level of dev

29 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: Greater Manchester

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Minister of State for School Standards on 8 November 2016, on the performance of Cedar Mount, Official Report, col 1447, when she plans to write to the hon. Member for M

28 Nov 2016 · HM Treasury

Child Tax Credit: Kinship Care

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether under the proposed limitation of child tax credits to the first two children in a household, a third child in that household with a date of birth after April 2017 would be eligible for child tax credit paymen

28 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what groups of children will be entitled to receive free school meals after the roll-out of universal credit.

28 Nov 2016 · Department for Education

Schools: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children and young people in secondary schools across England have access to a school-based counsellor; and how many of those children are in (a) maintained schools, (b) academy schools and (c) further

24 Nov 2016 · Department for Transport

Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with (a) the British Airline Pilots' Association, (b) the Civil Aviation Authority, (c) the Metropolitan Police and (d) other relevant stakeholders on the near-miss incident between

24 Nov 2016 · Department for Transport

Unmanned Air Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 27 April 2016 to Question 34680, what his Department's current involvement is with the European Aviation Safety Agency's development of EU-wide safety rules for drones.

24 Nov 2016 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is on the issuing of compensation of ex gratia payments to civilians killed or injured by UK airstrikes.

Source: official written-questions record.