Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Transport

Great British Railways

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to bring forward (a) legislative proposals on the establishment of Great British Railways and (b) a Transport Bill.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase the number of parents willing to adopt children and young people.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is she taking to help increase the number of foster carers; and how she assesses the effectiveness of initiatives to do so.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps is she taking to help reduce the number of placements for children in the care system.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Care Homes: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help reduce the costs of residential care placements with private providers for children and young people.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that young people in care receive a comprehensive package of support as they transition to independence.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are in the social care system; and how many of these are in (a) foster care, (b) regulated residential care and (c) unregulated residential care arrangements.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Childcare: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of levels of pay of those working in child care on recruitment and retention in that sector.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Classroom Assistants: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons her Department has not implemented a national pay system for teaching assistants.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Classroom Assistants: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national (a) pay scale and (b) process for the negotiation of pay awards for teaching assistants.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has taken recent steps to help ensure that (a) teaching assistants and (b) support staff in schools are paid at a level which aids the (i) recruitment and (ii) retention of those staff.

16 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the impact of inflation on the affordability of (a) the staff payroll and (b) other aspects of school budgets.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make provision to place an enabling team within a trust where mental health trusts receive an inadequate or requires improvement rating from the Care Quality Commission.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS mental health crisis teams; and what steps he is taking to help improve those services.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Trieste model of mental health care delivery; and how his Department could help local communities transition towards it.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) effectiveness of NHS eating disorder services.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of children and young people requiring placement in institutional mental health facilities.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of how the NHS and local authorities could work more closely in order to help improve assessments of causation and environmental factors impacting on mental health.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Integrated Care Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the importance of joining up Mental Health trust areas with Integrated Care Systems.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Quality Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission as the regulator of community and inpatient mental health services facilities; and if he will make a stat

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Quality Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission to bring about culture change in organisations that have been noted as requiring such change in their reports.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Quality Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission in facilitating change where there have been systemic failings in the health and care sector.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Quality Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of Care Quality Commission reports which have found repeated failings of regulated providers of services.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Home Office on the potential impact of housing asylum seekers in hotels on hotel accommodation used by NHS staff.

15 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with representatives from York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on hotel rooms used by NHS staff.

15 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of using of hotels used by York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust staff as temporary accommodation for people seeking a

15 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any NHS staff have been displaced due to the use of hotel rooms in York as temporary accommodation asylum seekers.

15 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had discussions with representatives from York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on hotel rooms used by NHS staff before signing contracts to use hotels in York f

15 Nov 2022 · Home Office

Asylum: Hotels

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of signing contracts to use hotels to house asylum seekers on the existing residents of those hotels.

14 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Learning Disability: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of health professionals working with people with learning difficulties and complex needs.

Source: official written-questions record.