Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set a minimum wage for care workers.
10 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of issuing all hospitals an energy efficiency assessment and score.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Holiday Play Schemes: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils engaged with (a) academic teaching and (b) enrichment activities as part of the 2021 summer school activity programme in York.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Pupils: Food
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of pupils who had received free school meals by the end of the 2020-21 summer term in York; and how many of those pupils were in receipt of food support during the 2021 s
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Pupils: ICT and Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he take steps to ensure that all pupils at (a) primary and (b) secondary school have access (i) home IT equipment and (ii) an internet connection.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Pupils: ICT and Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) primary school and (b) secondary school pupils who have access to (a) IT and (b) internet outside of school.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Children: Broadband and ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of how many and what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary school children have access to (i) IT equipment and (ii) broadband (A) in York and (B) nationally.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Further Education and Schools: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment he has made of the demand and availability of mental health and wellbeing support under the Wellbeing for Education Return scheme.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Further Education and Schools: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what indicators and metrics are used by his Department to monitor and evaluate the impact of the Wellbeing for Education Return scheme.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Schools: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he made of the number and proportion of young people requiring mental health support at (a) primary school and (b) secondary school in (i) York and (ii) nationally.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Further Education and Schools: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) teaching staff and (b) support staff were trained in the city of York as a result of Wellbeing for Education Return scheme funding in academic year 2020-21; and what training those people received.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Further Education and Schools: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he made of the effectiveness of the Wellbeing for Education Return scheme in academic year 2020-21; and how much funding been allocated to the city of York under that scheme.
10 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Education: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate has has made of the number (a) secondary and (b) primary school-aged children who were not enrolled for education in a school or home setting in York in (i) September 2019 and (ii) September 2021.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Nurseries: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many nursery places were available in York in September 2019; and what estimate he has made of the number of nursery place available in York in September 2021.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Nurseries: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children in York unable to be placed in a nursery in York as a result of a lack of available places in that city.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of comprehensive childcare access on (a) levels of underemployment among parents and (b) improving local economies.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Schools: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of issuing schools with an energy efficiency assessment and score for the purposes of prioritising schools for energy saving measures.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Pupils: Respiratory Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to help ensure that clinically vulnerable pupils will be protected from health chiefs' predicted rise in childhood respiratory illness from September 2021.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he will make additional support available for SEND pupils from September 2021 to assist with (a) closing the attainment gap in accordance with their projected attainment and (b) wellbeing and mental hea
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Pupil Referral Units: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to provide additional funding support to pupil referral units to assist with (a) closing the attainment gap and (b) wellbeing and mental health support.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Home Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children registered for home schooling in York in (a) September 2019 and (b) September 2021.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak on the on the attainment of SEND pupils.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Assessments: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether pupils will be required to self-fund (a) A level and (b) GCSE exams that they plan to resit in Autumn 2021.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Education
Schools: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been allocated by his Department to schools in York to improve their energy efficiency in each of the last five years.
9 Sep 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tree Planting
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many trees (a) in number and (b) by hectare have been planted in England in each year since 2010; and what steps he plans to take to ensure that the Government achieves its commitm
9 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2021 to Questions 13127, 13128, 13129 and 13130, for what reasons NHS Test and Trace continues to be used instead of local public health teams for the purpose of c
9 Sep 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons he has set thresholds to access the elective recovery fund.
9 Sep 2021 · Treasury
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: York
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are still furloughed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in (a) York and (b) York Central constituency.
8 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to ensure that people who are street homeless this winter are given accommodation as they were at the beginning of the covid-19 outbreak.
8 Sep 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason the Government's policy is to support step programmes to tackle homelessness; and what comparative assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of such
Source: official written-questions record.