Written questions

1,298 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Jul 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support Partners in Practice has provided to each local authority to assist the setting up of Trust models or Community Interest Companies with regard to local authority children's services depar

18 Jul 2018 · Department for Education

Spring Consortium: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support his Department provides to the Spring Consortium; and what the set up costs were of that Consortium.

18 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Justice Board

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the Youth Justice Board publications concerned with safeguarding children in the secure estate commissioned and published in the last five years.

18 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Justice Board

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many registered social workers with a background in (a) child protection and (b) children’s residential care are employed in the Youth Justice Board.

18 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Secure Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will list the names of advisers contracted to assist the development of secure schools and the (a) qualifications and (b) professional backgrounds of those advisers.

18 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many registered social workers with a background in (a) child protection and (b) children’s residential care are employed in the (i) Youth Custody Service and (ii) Youth Custody Service Placement Team.

5 Jul 2018 · Department for Education

Coastal Academies Trust: Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking in response to the statement of the executive head of the Coastal Academies Trust that the trust will not be admitting out-of-county looked-after children without direction from the Secr

4 Jul 2018 · Cabinet Office

Food Poverty

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, who the members are of the Living Costs and Food Survey stakeholder group; what the criteria are for being a member of that group; and if he will he make the minutes of that group's meetings public.

4 Jul 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food Poverty: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will hold discussions with the Food Standards Agency on the potential merits of including questions that relate to child food insecurity in the next Food and You Survey.

4 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food Poverty: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to continue beyond 2019 the Food and You Survey.

4 Jul 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Food Poverty: Surveys

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for the review of the Food and You Survey; and if he will make a statement.

4 Jul 2018 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many special post-16 institutions were successful in their bid for high needs funding from the Education and Skills Funding agency for the 2018-19 academic year; and what the regional breakdown is of those

3 Jul 2018 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has made on inspecting (a) Priority I high risk, (b) Priority I non-high-risk and (c) Priority I international shipping calling at UK ports and anchorages in the

3 Jul 2018 · Department for Transport

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what savings the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has made from the Survey and Inspection Transformation Programme to date.

3 Jul 2018 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many seafarers have taken examinations at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s North East Exam Centre in South Tyneside College to date; and what the pass rate has been for (a) deck, (b) engine and (c) othe

3 Jul 2018 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Medical Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s administration of seafarers’ medical fitness certification.

3 Jul 2018 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Medical Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many ENG1 medical fitness certificates were issued to seafarer (a) Ratings and (b) Officers by doctors approved by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in each year from 2010-11 to 2017-18.

26 Jun 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his policy is on the implementation of proposed reconfigurations of hospital services by clinical commissioning groups and Trusts where such proposals (a) have been referred to him and (b) are

26 Jun 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the statutory guidance, Prevention of homelessness and provision of accommodation for 16 and 17 year old young people who may be homeless and/or require accommo

26 Jun 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of 16 and 17-year-olds who presented as homeless in 2017-18 (a) did not receive a formal assessment under the Housing Act 1996 or the Children Act 19

26 Jun 2018 · Department for Education

Chief Social Worker for Children and Families

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what policy and legislative changes his Department has actioned as a result of the work of the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families since 2013.

26 Jun 2018 · Department for Education

Children's Commissioner for England

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what policy and legislative proposals his Department has actioned as a result of the work of the Children's Commissioner since 2014.

26 Jun 2018 · Department for Education

Social Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his oral contribution of 25 June 2018, Official Report, column 589, what the evidential basis is for the statement that there are 35,000 child and family social workers.

26 Jun 2018 · Department for Education

Academies: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academies have used the right of appeal to disagree with a local authority's decision to place a child in their school; and what the outcome of those cases were in each of the last five years.

26 Jun 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Yemen: Armed Conflict

What steps he is taking to help resolve the conflict in Yemen.

21 Jun 2018 · Department for Education

Secure Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the merits of expanding local authority secure accommodation.

20 Jun 2018 · Department for Education

School Teachers' Review Body: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) staff and (b) full-time equivalent staff are employed in (i) payroll and (ii) non-payroll back-office functions in the School Teachers’ Review Body.

20 Jun 2018 · Department for Education

Children's Commissioner for England: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) staff and (b) full-time equivalent staff are employed in (i) payroll and (ii) non-payroll back-office functions in the Office of the Children’s Commissioner.

20 Jun 2018 · Department for Education

LocatED: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) staff and (b) full-time equivalent staff are employed in (i) payroll and (ii) non-payroll back-office functions in LocatED.

20 Jun 2018 · Women and Equalities

Equality and Human Rights Commission: Staff

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how many (a) staff and (b) full-time equivalent staff are employed in (i) payroll and (ii) non-payroll back-office functions in the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Source: official written-questions record.