Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of regional care cooperatives as proposed in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Adoption
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will increase support for families involved in the adoption process to ensure that contact with birth parents is achieved with support rather than independently.
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Social Workers: Career Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will bring forward a plan to institute an early careers framework for social workers enabling five years of supervised and supported professional engagement.
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to improve leadership in children’s social care.
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children's Social Care Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that young people and families with experience of care are engaged in the implementation of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children's Social Care Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that the Government's formal response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care sets out a clear programme of change, including (a) a timetable for delivery, (b) ambiti
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children and Young People: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that children and young people’s voices are strengthened in the social care system.
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen the transition points for children between (a) various stages of the child’s life including home and social care, (b) different forms of social care provision a
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the (a) implementation of family help and (b) steps being taken to help ensure that children get timely health interventions
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Final Report of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, published on 23 May 2022, whether his Department plans to undertake work on the intersection between (a) poverty and depri
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to establish a national pay framework for the children’s social care workforce; and if he will use the NHS Agenda for Change framework as an example of potential job evaluated scheme for t
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children's Social Care Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ensure that the implementation of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care is fully funded.
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children's Social Care Independent Review
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the Final Report of the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.
23 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that children at risk of harm have adequate access to safe placements.
19 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Planning Authorities
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the (a) leadership, (b) capacity or (c) capability of planning departments in local authorities.
19 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Housing: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make it his policy to regularly inspect the (a) policies and (b) practices of local authority housing departments to ensure that they are in line with Government policy.
19 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Housing and Planning Authorities: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the effectiveness of (a) local authority planning and (b) housing departments at providing adequate services.
19 May 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Research and Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of which areas of research and development in rail operations, planning and technologies would be of most benefit to British railways.
19 May 2022 · Department for Transport
Railways: Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he plans to take to increase the uptake of rail technologies across the rail industry.
19 May 2022 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department plans to allocate to research and development into advanced and digital rail.
19 May 2022 · Department for Transport
Great British Railways: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his oral answer of 19 May 2022, what funding his Department plans to allocate to research and development in advanced and digital rail as part of a rail cluster for York.
19 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Computers: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that all older people have access to free training on how to use a laptop or tablet.
19 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Computers: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling people on pension credit to loan a laptop or tablet from their library.
19 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Broadband: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling people in receipt of pension credit to receive free broadband.
19 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Internet: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase access to online services for those who have limited access to technology.
19 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Internet: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with IT companies on commissioning an app to help older people to use electronic devices and access basic services online.
19 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
ICT: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to support an e-cycle scheme in order that high quality IT equipment can be repurposed to be used by older people.
19 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Computers and Mobile Phones: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a loaning scheme to give older people laptops, tablets or phones to enable familiarisation and to trial usage of IT
19 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
ICT: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she (a) is taking and (b) plans to take enable older people to (i) engage with IT and (ii) learn how to use it.
19 May 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Digital Technology: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she will develop a strategy to increase digital inclusion for older people.
Source: official written-questions record.