Emma Lewell

16 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to reform children’s social care.

11 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS and Social Services: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the reasons for his decision to require people providing social contact within a care setting to wear face masks as published in updated guidance on 15 December 2022.

10 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support her Department provides for young people in supported housing when they earn enough to take them off Universal Credit and lose their entitlement to full housing benefits.

9 Jan 2023 · Treasury

Treasury: South Tyneside

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much money have South Tyneside Council returned to his Department from Government Grants allocated over the past two years as of 6 January 2023.

9 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: South Tyneside

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much of the money allocated for Covid Business Grants have South Tyneside Council returned to his Department; and for what reasons this money was returned.

6 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2022 to Question 111600 on Holiday Activities and Food Programme, how much and what proportion of the funding allocated to each local authority was spent on (a) administrat

6 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Families

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has taken recent steps to ensure that family groups are not prevented from entering the UK because one or more family members has not yet been issued with a visa.

6 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 January 2023 to Question 111601 on Visas: Ukraine, whether her Department (a) has undertaken and (b) plans to undertake research on the reasons for which 55,500 Ukrainian v

15 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Minister of State for Social Care's Answer to the Question from the hon. Member for South Shields at Health and Social Care questions on 6 December 2022, Official Report, colu

15 Dec 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the reasons for 55,500 Ukrainian visa holders not arriving in the UK since their visa has been issues; and if she will make an estimate of the number of Ukra

15 Dec 2022 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Holiday activities and food programme 2022, published on 28 January 2022, how much and what proportion of the funding allocated to each local authority for t

30 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Visas: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of family groups who applied for the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme who were prevented from coming to the UK due to one or more family members having a delay in

29 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on the pass rate for the Chief Mate Stability paper of the Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping exam in each of the last five years; whether he has had dis

14 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the increase in absolute child poverty in (a) the North East and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber.

14 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Poverty: Regional Planning and Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans his Department has to tackle increasing levels child poverty through levelling up policies.

8 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Siblings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2022 to Question 75936 on Children in Care: Siblings, how many siblings and half siblings were split up under local authority care in each of the last three years.

1 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Siblings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish all data and statistics on sibling and half sibling contact for children under local authority care.

27 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the funding allocated to each local authority for the Holiday Activities and Food Programme 2022 has been spent on (a) administration, (b) publicity and marketing, (c) organisati

24 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing local authorities to (a) submit more than one need as a reason for why a child is being looked after in their SSDA03 data returns and (b) include

21 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will increase the value of Healthy Start payments to keep in line with food price inflation.

21 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many eligible Beneficiaries for the Healthy Start voucher scheme there were in (a) England, (b) Northern Ireland and (c) Wales between April and September 2022.

21 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications to Healthy Start payment have been made by parents with No Recourse to Public Funds with British children; and (b) how many beneficiaries are currently in receipt of payments.

21 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many beneficiaries of Healthy Start paper vouchers have not yet re-enrolled via the new online registration system.

20 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Multi-role Ocean Surveillance Ships: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on his Department’s procurement of multi-role surveillance vessels.

20 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Multi-role Ocean Surveillance Ships: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his department has made on (a) designing and (b) building a new multi-role surveillance vessel; and what estimate he has made of the potential cost of that project.

20 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Multi-role Ocean Surveillance Ships: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress his Department has made on acquiring the Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ships; and what recent estimate he has made of the cost of this project.

20 Oct 2022 · Ministry of Defence

Multi-role Ocean Surveillance Ships: Crew

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ship will be crewed by directly employed civilian seafarers who will be covered by collective agreements with maritime trade unions.

14 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Podiatry: South Shields

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made (a) podiatry vacancy rates in the NHS in South Shields constituency and (b) the impact these vacancies will have on patient treatment for diabetic foot complications.

11 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Independent Reviewing Officers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, relating to the Independent review of children’s social care if she will (a) publish all evidence and research to support the removal of Independent Reviewing Officers, (b) publish any plans around Independent

11 Oct 2022 · Treasury

Shipping: Minimum Wage

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the National Minimum Wage for Seafarers on UK flagged ships is monitored; and what plans his Department has to publish monitoring data.