Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that all local authorities are fully briefed about her plans for reforming Children's Social Care; and whether authorities outside of the formal pilot areas will be able to tr
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of piloting reforms to children’s social care in 12 areas on the recruitment and retention of social workers in neighbouring authorities.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Children and Young People: Care Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans to make changes to the private residential care sector for children and young people.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to help support local authorities to provide family-help models of multi-agency interventions outside of her Department's pilot projects.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Care Leavers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure that all care leavers have access to at least two secure and trusted relationships with adults when leaving care.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Mothers: Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the availability of care arrangements for mother and baby and if this is something that she is looking at.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Mothers: Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of potential impact of a mother and baby care arrangement on supporting a mother in the raising of their baby or child.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the levels of (a) suicide and (b) attempted suicide of parents who have had their children permanently removed from their care.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the impact of permanently removing a child from the care of their birth parents on the mental health and wellbeing of the parents.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how she will select which local authorities host pilots for her proposed reforms to children's social care.
2 Feb 2023 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason she has decided to introduce twelve pilots for the planned reforms to children's social care.
2 Feb 2023 · Treasury
Public Sector: Pay
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of public sector pay restraint on the economy.
2 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set out a long term recruitment and retention strategy for adult social care.
2 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to announce long term funding settlements for the NHS in order to allow investment in the future of the service.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Visitors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure (a) every parent has adequate access to a health visitor and (b) a safe ratio of health visitors to parents.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Antenatal Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help ensure that every parent has access to free ante natal classes.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled The best start for life: a vision for the 1,001 critical days, published on 25 March 2021, what steps he is taking to help ensure that every
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Schools
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of school nurses.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Nurses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of district nurses.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Visitors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase the number of health visitors.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Visitors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of changes in the number of health visitors since 2010.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Electronic Cigarettes: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to discourage vaping.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons his Department is publishing a major conditions strategy rather than a 10 year cancer plan.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Obesity
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle obesity.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care: Publications
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) strategy papers and (b) white papers announced by Ministers in his Department have not been published in the period since 2010.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Preventive Medicine: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase funding for preventative healthcare.
1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle health disparities.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to create a legal definition of bullying at work.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying and Harassment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle workplace bullying and harassment.
1 Feb 2023 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Bullying and Harassment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an assessment of the adequacy of statutory protections for someone who has experienced (a) bullying and (b) harassment at work.
Source: official written-questions record.