Written questions

1,117 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released in 2018 did not complete any education or employment training while in prison.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders who finished their sentence in 2018 did not have the equivalent of five GCSEs graded A* to C.

4 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many prisoners released in 2018 applied for welfare support (a) within seven days and (b) after seven days of their release.

4 Jan 2019 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many offenders entered employment within six weeks of the end of their sentence in 2018.

4 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many offenders received a benefits sanction within six months of the end of their sentence in 2018.

4 Jan 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Offenders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many offenders sentenced in 2018 received a benefits sanction within the previous six months of their sentencing.

13 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral contribution of the Minister for Prisons of 13 November 2018, Official Report, column 171, how many prisoners have been referred to employment or education since 1 April 2018.

13 Dec 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners died within 48 hours of release in (a) 2010, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.

13 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Refugees: Bangladesh

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that refugees in the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh who are eligible to apply for leave to remain in the UK are able to access the (a) identity and

29 Nov 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Foundation Trusts: Subsidiary Companies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS Foundation Trusts will be required to comply with the new NHS Improvement regulatory framework on wholly owned subsidiary companies.

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that asylum seekers accommodated as part of the asylum accommodation and support contracts are not placed in shared bedrooms with non-family members.

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that asylum seekers are not made homeless if new asylum accommodation and support contracts are not in place before the expiry of the current contracts.

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many properties are currently maintained as part of the existing asylum accommodation and support contracts in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber region.

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers his Department plans to accommodate in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber region under the new asylum accommodation and support contracts in each year from the commencement o

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the information his Department has produced on why it was not possible to award the new asylum accommodation and support contracts under the original procurement exercise.

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment he has made of adequacy of the nine-month timescale for the (a) mobilisation of and (b) transition to the new asylum accommodation and support contracts.

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many bids were received by the Home Office for the asylum accommodation and support contracts to begin in 2019 in (a) the original procurement exercise and (b) the second procurement exercise.

20 Nov 2018 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers reside in (a) the UK and (b) the North East, Yorkshire and Humber region.

8 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Heatstroke

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many members of staff in each prison were recorded as suffering from sunstroke in the period 1 May 2018 to 30 July 2018.

8 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Drinking Water

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons do not have water coolers or water fountains inside communal areas.

8 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Temperature

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the maximum recorded temperature was and the date of that recording in each prison in 2018.

8 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Segregation of Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the longest length of time spent in segregation was by a young offender in each year since 2010.

8 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Segregation of Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time spent in segregation by a young offender was in each year since 2010.

8 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Segregation of Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many young offenders were placed in segregation for more than 22 hours in each institution holding child prisoners in each year from 2010.

8 Oct 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Holiday Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many instances of annual leave of Band 3-5 prison officers planned to take place during the period of 1 May 2018 to 30 September 2018 have been cancelled in each prison.

3 Sep 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Governors

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prison governors since 2010 who were transferred to another prison had served as prison governors in the prison they were transferred from for between (a) 0 to 6 months, (b) 6 to 12 months and (c) 12 to

19 Jul 2018 · Cabinet Office

Sick Leave: Mental Illness

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of days of sick leave taken for reasons of mental health in each year since 2010.

16 Jul 2018 · Department for International Trade

Overseas Trade: Burma

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what information his Department holds on UK companies exporting (a) goods or (b) services to the (i) Burmese military or (ii) Burmese military-owned or controlled companies.

16 Jul 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Burma: Rohingya

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assurances Burmese State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has given to the Government on the status of Rohingya in Burma.

13 Jul 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the £5 million of funding announced in the Female Offender Strategy for community provision for women will come from (a) additional resources or (b) the existing Departmental budget.

Source: official written-questions record.