Written questions

1,298 written questions tabled, most recent first.

9 May 2018 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Academies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked-after children were refused a place at an academy school in each of the last three years.

9 May 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to provide independent reviewing officers with an unredacted copy of the Volume 5 manual showing the Minimising and Managing Physical Restraint authorised restraint techniques to assi

9 May 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to provide local authorities with an unredacted copy of the Volume 5 manual showing the Minimising and Managing Physical Restraint authorised restraint techniques to enable them to in

9 May 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to provide independent advocates with an unredacted copy of the Volume 5 manual showing the Minimising and Managing Physical Restraint authorised restraint techniques to help them sup

9 May 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to provide the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman with an unredacted copy of the Volume 5 manual showing the Minimising and Managing Physical Restraint authorised restraint techniques to

8 May 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the names of local authority and independent providers who have notified him or his predecessors of the death of a child in one of their children’s homes in each of the last ten years; and ho

8 May 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department holds on the (a) age, (b) gender, (c) ethnic origin and and (d) disability status of children who died while living in a children’s home in each of the last ten years.

8 May 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many notifications of the death of a child in a children’s home he or his predecessors have received in each of the last ten years.

3 May 2018 · Cabinet Office

Employment: Dyslexia

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of school leavers and adults with Dyslexia who are (a) in work and (b) in training or further education.

3 May 2018 · Cabinet Office

Unemployment: Dyslexia

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people with Dyslexia who are (a) unemployed and (b) not in training or further education.

3 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job seekers diagnosed with Autism have been sanctioned for failure to submit (a) paperwork and (b) online documentation in each of the last five years.

3 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Dyslexia

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job seekers diagnosed with dyslexia have been sanctioned for failure to submit (a) paperwork and (b) online documentation in each of the last five years.

3 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative estimate he has made of the number of school children with Autism who were subject to (a) education, health and care plans and (b) statements under the previous SEN and learning difficulties as

3 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides training for teachers to identify Autism in primary school children.

3 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what pathways his Department has established at schools for the identification of children with autism in schools.

3 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Dyslexia

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides training for teachers to identify dyslexia in primary school children.

3 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Dyslexia

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative estimate he has made of the number of school children with dyslexia who were subject to (a) education, health and care plans and (b) statements under the previous SEN and learning difficulties

3 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Dyslexia

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what pathways his Department has established at schools for the identification of children with dyslexia.

3 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Funeral Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Social Fund Budgeting loans to cover funeral costs were (a) approved and (b) rejected in each of the last five years; and what the (a) average and (b) lowest payment was for a Social Fund Budge

3 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Funeral Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Social Fund funeral payments were made in each year between 2015 and 2018; how many such applications were refused; and what the (a) average and (b) lowest payment that was mad

3 May 2018 · Department for Education

Schools: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which (a) schools and (b) colleges received funding from the £520 million allocated by his Department to disadvantaged students aged 16-19 years old; and how much of that funding was spend by each institution.

3 May 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been spent from the public purse under section 17 of the Children’s Act 1989 by public bodies in 2017-2018.

3 May 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offender Institutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which young offender institutions have facilities for children to eat their meals communally.

3 May 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offender Institutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children in young offender institutions were locked in their cells for (a) 22 hours a day and (b) more than 22 hours a day in each of the last 5 years.

3 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides training for teachers to identify visual impairments in primary school children.

2 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job seekers with visual impairments have been sanctioned for failure to submit (a) paperwork and (b) online documentation in each of the last five years.

2 May 2018 · Cabinet Office

Employment: Visual Impairment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of school leavers and adults with visual impairments who are in (a) work (b) training and (c) further education.

2 May 2018 · Cabinet Office

Unemployment: Visual Impairment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people with visual impairments who are (a) unemployed and (b) not in training or further education.

2 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the nationally agreed criteria are for the (a) identification, (b) assessment and (c) intervention for children with visual impairments; and how adjustments for that condition at (i) GCSE and (ii) A-level

2 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Visual Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the current pathways for the identification of children with visual impairments in schools are.

Source: official written-questions record.