Written questions

1,298 written questions tabled, most recent first.

22 Feb 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Re-employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to prevent businesses using fire and rehire tactics.

21 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Hormone Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing training for registered medical practitioners offering bridging hormones to transgender patients while those pa

21 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish all the data it holds on (a) waiting (i) lists and (ii) times for gender identity services in England and (b) suicide rates among those waiting for gender identity se

21 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, (a) how many hotels and (b) in what locations does her Department currently have agreements with to provide accommodation for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many serious incident notifications were made to the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel in respect of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each month from 1 July 2021 to 31 January 2022.

18 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children staring to be looked after by local authorities between 14 July and 22 November 2021 were (a) accommodated in hotels upon or after arriving in the UK, (b

18 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were accommodated by her Department without a local authority assuming responsibility for them (a) from 14 July 2021 to 22 November 2021 and (b) from 23

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of Frontline on (a) retention and (b) vacancy rates in children’s social work.

18 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the abolition of the national assessment and accreditation system for children’s social workers, whether his Department plans to consult (a) representatives of the social work profession and (

9 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all (a) documents, (b) evidence and (c) research on the Government's decision to not allow bereavement support bubbles during the lockdowns in the covid-19 outbreak.

9 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Workers: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all Departmental documents, evidence and research in relation to the Government's mandatory covid-19 vaccination policy for social care staff.

8 Feb 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Resignations

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all Departmental documents, evidence and research in relation to NHS staff who have already left their positions as a result of the Government’s mandatory covid-19 vaccination po

3 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to enable children on free school meals to roll over unspent monies on their prepaid cards in the context of the introduction of prepaid cards that will enable Healthy Start recipients to r

3 Feb 2022 · Treasury

Infrastructure: Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has been spent on infrastructure per capita by the Government in (a) London, (b) the North East and (c) South Shields in each year from 2010 to 2022.

1 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will enable children on free school meals to roll over unspent monies on their prepaid cards in the context of the introduction of prepaid cards that enable Healthy Start recipients to roll over unspent m

24 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme: Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether a pregnant woman who will be giving birth to a child in England is eligible for Healthy Start coupons before the child is born.

24 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that recipients of Healthy Start coupons can continue to redeem those coupons with retailers that do not possess chip-and-pin machines once vouchers have been repl

24 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure recipients of Healthy Start vouchers are not excluded from the scheme once the vouchers have been replaced by pre-paid cards.

19 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish all Departmental documents, evidence and research in relation to the Government's mandatory covid-19 vaccination policy for (a) NHS staff and (b) social care staff.

19 Jan 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Television Licences: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many people over 75 years of age (a) have been (i) fined, (ii) arrested, (iii) imprisoned and (b) are subject to legal action for non payment of their television licence.

18 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the requirement for all non-medical help providers to offer face-to-face support on (a) providers who are unable to offer face-to-face s

8 Dec 2021 · Department for Education

PE and Sport Premium and School Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the impact on schools of the (a) lack of confirmation of funding for the School Games Organiser network beyond March 2022 and (b) uncertainty around the future of the

8 Dec 2021 · Department for Education

School Games: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress his Department has made on discussions with the (a) Department of Health and Social Care, and (b) Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, on confirming funding for the School Games Organ

18 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Child Rearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether parental alienation is part of a social worker's (a) initial and (b) ongoing training.

18 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Child Rearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether parental alienation is a category on children's services assessments.

17 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Public Sector and Social Services: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government is taking steps to make it easier for (a) charities, (b) local governments, (c) universities and (d) other service providers to remunerate people to give their feedback on public and social se

16 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Conditions of Employment

What plans he has to extend employment rights to (a) workers in the gig economy and (b) all workers.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, by what date all personal independence payment applicants will be offered the choice of an audio recording at their assessment.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has spent on defending initial decisions made at benefit or health assessments which were then overruled at a tribunal, in the most recent year for which data are available.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disqualification

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on the rollout of yellow card warnings in place of immediate benefit sanctions.

Source: official written-questions record.