Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Theatres: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that theatres are financially viable.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Arts: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to invest in the digital arts.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Archaeology: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to invest in archaeological projects (a) overseen by or (b) that directly support museums.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Museums and Galleries: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he will take to ensure the adequate funding of regional museums.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Museums and Galleries: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of museum entry fees on access to the arts for low income families.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Arts: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the amount of funding allocated to arts in each of the last twenty years.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Arts: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to provide funding to support the arts.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Floods
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to rapidly protect communities that experience flooding in winter 2021-22.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Floods: Home Insurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions has he had with Flood Re on extending the scheme to homes built after 2009 that are not protected by resilience measures.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewers
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made if the adequacy of the (a) capacity and (b) viability of England's sewage system.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that surface water flooding infrastructure is resilient to extreme weather events.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to tackle surface water flooding.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Sewers: Property Development
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of mandating the use of SuDs where recommended in planning.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Local Government: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities undertake equality impact assessments on their policies.
8 Dec 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Retail Trade: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what plans he has to support high streets to regenerate that have not benefited from Government funding to date.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Education
Holiday Activities and Food Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the reach of the Schools Holidays and Activities Programme was over summer 2021; and what proportion of children on free school meals accessed that programme.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the caseload for social workers working with children (a) nationally and (b) in York.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to attract (a) people and (b) mature students into social work careers with children and young people.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to develop strong leadership in children's social work.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to ensure stability in the social worker workforce.
7 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Work: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has a workforce plan for social work for (a) adults and (b) children.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Services: Voluntary Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of supply of volunteer youth workers to meet demand on youth services.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) adequacy of funding for and (b) effectiveness of youth services.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Voluntary Organisations: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to ensure that voluntary sector organisations working with young people are adequately funded.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Work
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has established a ratio for youth worker to young people to deliver safe services.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Work: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of training places for youth workers.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Work: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate she has made of the number of qualified youth workers.
7 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Holiday Accommodation: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans he has to bring forward proposals for the licensing of Airbnb and other short term holiday let providers.
7 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Public Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of public health messaging and its impact on community and personal compliance.
7 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Influenza
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the level of winter flu (a) infection, (b) hospitalisation and (c) mortality.
Source: official written-questions record.