Written questions

1,298 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many jobseekers who have been diagnosed with hearing impairments have been sanctioned for failing to submit (a) paperwork and (b) online documentation to support claims for benefits in each of the l

2 May 2018 · Cabinet Office

Employment: Hearing Impairment

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

2 May 2018 · Cabinet Office

Unemployment: Hearing Impairment

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

2 May 2018 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

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

2 May 2018 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school children with hearing impairments were subject to (a) Education Health Care Plans and (b) statements under the previous SEN and learning difficulties assessments in each of the last five years.

2 May 2018 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria are used by his Department for the (a) identification, (b) assessment and (c) intervention for children with hearing impairments; and how adjustments for that condition at (i) GCSE and (ii) A leve

2 May 2018 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Hearing Impairment

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

2 May 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Human Rights: EU Grants and Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on which UK organisations receive funding from the EU Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme.

2 May 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Special Educational Needs: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many appeals there have been against Education and Health Care Plan decisions; how many such appeals have been successful; and what the cost to the public purse was of each appeal.

2 May 2018 · Department for Education

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what meetings he has held with representatives of local authorities on private fostering arrangements in the last 12 months.

2 May 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Dyspraxia

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many job seekers diagnosed with (a) dyspraxia and (b) other neurodivergent conditions have been sanctioned for failure to submit (i) paperwork or (ii) online documentation in each of the last five y

2 May 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Dyspraxia

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative estimate he has made of the number of school children with dyspraxia who are subject to Education Health Care Plans and those with statements under the previous SEN and learning difficulties as

2 May 2018 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department provides training for teachers to identify development co-ordination disorder in primary school children.

1 May 2018 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many special educational needs and disability students are there in (a) further and (b) higher education; and what proportion of those students have an Education, Health and Care Plan.

26 Apr 2018 · Cabinet Office

Employment: Dyspraxia

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

26 Apr 2018 · Cabinet Office

Unemployment: Dyspraxia

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

26 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Dyspraxia

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the nationally agreed criteria are for the identification, assessment and intervention for dyspraxia; and how adjustments for that condition at GCSE and A levels are determined.

26 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Pupils: Dyspraxia

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the current pathways for the identification of children at risk of dyspraxia in schools are.

26 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with development co-ordination disorder there are in primary school.

26 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Adoption: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to evaluate the performance of the Regional Adoption Agencies.

26 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendation of the Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse Interim Report, published on 25 April 2018 on introducing arrangements for

26 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2018 to Question 135397 and with reference to the report, Local area SEND inspections: one year on, published on 18 October 2017, how many unofficial exclusions were found by

26 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Disabled Students' Allowances

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 135391, how many non-medical help providers have had (a) no payments, (b) fewer than five payments and (c) fewer than 10 payments since the introduction of th

26 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Corporal Punishment: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the defence of reasonable chastisement and punishment is available to (a) nurses and (b) other staff acting in loco parentis in (i) mental health inpatient units and (ii) other health settings charged w

25 Apr 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Voluntary Work: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2018 to Question 136014, on Youth Social Action Review, on what date the Minister of Sport and Civil Society plans to meet with the Chair of the Indepe

19 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Social Workers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the open tender number 142495 on Tenders Electronic Daily which was submitted by his Department to train 700 to 900 social workers is related to the Frontline programme; and if he will make a statement

17 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a regulatory requirement for Ofsted to inspect children’s homes before they reopen.

16 Apr 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Social Action Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March 2018 to Question 132681, on Youth Social Action Review, whether the Minister of Sport and Civil Society has met with the Chair of the Independent revie

16 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to Answer of 5 March 2018 to Question 129958, what information his Department holds on the qualification levels held by children's residential care staff in England.

13 Apr 2018 · Department for Education

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to extend private fostering arrangements to children up to the age of 18 years; and if he will make a statement.

Source: official written-questions record.