Written questions

2,337 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in care placed in homes more than 50 miles from their home are in provision rated (a) Outstanding, (b) Good, (c) Requires Improvement, and (d) Inadequate by Ofsted.

22 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Care Leavers and Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to implement a nationally agreed framework that sets out the expectations for supported living of (a) care leavers and (b) children in care.

22 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Boarding Schools: Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether it is his Department's policy that residential schools should be required to notify (a) Ofsted or (b) the Independent Schools Inspectorate on allegations of child sexual abuse.

22 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to increase the effectiveness of multi-agency working for children and young people with SEND.

22 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if his Department will extend the Government's guidance, Reducing the need for restraint and restrictive intervention, published on 27 June 2019, to secure (a) training centres, and (b) children's homes.

22 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to increase capacity in the the children’s home care system.

22 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills 2018-19 Annual Report, published by Ofsted in January 2020, what steps his Department plans to t

22 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the finding by Ofsted on page 16 of its Annual Report 2018-19, published on 21 January 2020, what steps his Department is taking to tackle the lack of children’s homes in the right places.

22 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the role played by academic achievement in the removal from the school roll of pupils without an exclusion.

22 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will make an assessment of the proportion of pupils removed from the school roll without an exclusion with special educational needs.

21 Jan 2020 · Home Office

Home Office: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to answer Questions 311, 312 and 313 tabled by the hon. Member for Croydon North on 20 December 2019.

21 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timetable is for the publication of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel First National Review.

21 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timetable is for the release of the analysis of serious case reviews from 2015 to 2018.

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Materials

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department (a) is undertaking and (b) plans to undertake on the toxicity of gases produced by the burning of (i) ACM cladding, (ii) high pressure laminate cla

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Materials

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral contribution of 20 January 2020, Official Report columns 24-36, if he will extend his Department's building materials audit of buildings of 18 metres t

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral contribution of 20 January 2020, Official Report columns 24-36, whether his Department's consultation on reducing the height at which the combustible b

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral contribution of 20 January 2020, Official Report columns 24-36, for what reasons the 10 buildings with ACM cladding referred to in that contribution ha

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral contribution of 20 January 2020, Official Report columns 24-36, what the names of the experts are that his Department is commissioning to develop the m

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral contribution of 20 January 2020, Official Report columns 24-36, what steps he plans to take to ensure ACM cladding is removed from all buildings.

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a material assessment service coupled with test houses to provide feedback on cladding system materials for

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral statement of 20 January 2020, Official Report, column 24, on Building Safety, whether his Department has made an assessment of the number of buildings

21 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England have Aluminium Composite Material cladding on them.

21 Jan 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many buildings across the National Health Service estate currently have Aluminium Composite Material cladding.

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral statement of 20 January 2020, Official Report, column 24, on Building Safety, whether it is his policy that Aluminium Composite Material cladding shoul

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the paper entitled Fire behaviour of modern façade materials – Understanding the Grenfell Tower fire, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials on 15 Apri

21 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the relative fire safety danger posed by Fire Resistant Aluminium Composite cladding combined with phenolic insulation compared with High Pressur

20 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Students: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that unsafe combustible cladding is removed from student accommodation.

20 Jan 2020 · Department for Education

Universities: Fire Regulations

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many university vice-chancellors have replied to his letter of November 2019 on the issue of fire safety procedures and safeguards across university residential, teaching and research accommodation.

20 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

High Rise Flats: Insulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the similarities between the cladding and insulation systems used on the Cube building in Bolton that caught fire in 2019 and on Lakanal House.

20 Jan 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Buildings: Fire Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2019 to Question 274550 on Buildings: Fire Prevention, what direct experimental information the Independent Expert Panel is relying on for their

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