Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Test and Trace Support Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will instruct that receipt of previous overtime payments alongside a salary should be disregarded when determining eligibility for people seeking to claim payments under the Test and Trace Su

12 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Test and Trace Support Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the payments under the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme in deterring people from physically attending their workplace.

12 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Test and Trace Support Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the threshold set for eligibility to receive payments under the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme on the number of people who have tested positive f

12 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring people to provide their employer's details when presenting for covid-19 tests to assist with the contact tracing of their work

12 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there is a delay in data being inputted onto the national covid-19 contact tracing database.

12 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people who are (a) housebound and (b) unable to travel beyond their community are able to access covid-19 vaccinations.

12 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people who are not registered with a GP have the same level of access to the covid-19 vaccine as people who are.

12 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Supermarkets: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the covid-19 security practices of supermarkets compared with the first lockdown; and what additional steps he plans to advise supermarkets to take to re

12 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether a child who is the joint custody of two households can be collected from household one and transported to household two by someone from a third household who is in a support bubble with the

12 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will provide financial support to schools to enable them to occupy larger buildings so that they can provide education to pupils in a covid-secure environment in classroom settings.

12 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Inspections

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will instruct Ofsted to prioritise their role in supporting and advising schools in responding to the covid-19 outbreak above returning to their inspection regime while the national covid-19 lockdown rema

12 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Pupils: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will consider the potential merits of requiring two parent households where one parent is a key worker to keep their children at home during the January 2021 covid-19 lockdown period.

12 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the eligibility for attendance at school by pupils during the January 2021 covid-19 lockdown on (a) the numbers of children attending school and (b) the ability of s

11 Jan 2021 · Leader of the House

Westminster Hall: Debates

To ask the Leader of the House, what discussions he has had with the House authorities on enabling full virtual participation in Westminster Hall debates.

11 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Children: Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure a child-focused approach to safeguarding children is taken in homes with domestic violence.

11 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Vocational Education: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that BTEC students who will not sit exams receive a fair grade at the end of their courses during the covid-19 outbreak.

11 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people are able to continue to use their bubbles to support their childcare needs during the covid-19 lockdown that has been in place since 5 January 2021.

11 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason nursery providers are not included in his Department's lateral flow testing programme to support covid-19 testing to detect asymptomatic cases; and if he will make it his policy to include nurse

11 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Remote Education: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking with local authorities to ensure that they have sufficient supplies of mobile broadband dongles to distribute to pupils so that they can participate in remote education during the covid-

11 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Health and Care professions that can currently administer medicines, through Patient Group Directions and Independent Prescribing Rights, will be granted rights to assist with the rollout o

11 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what catering and refreshment facilities have been made available for staff at each of the NHS Nightingale Hospitals.

11 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking in response to the consultation on a Sharia compliant alternative student finance product.

11 Jan 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether businesses are eligible to apply for additional Government-backed loans from £2,000 up to the value of £10,000 to increase their borrowing in the event that they have alre

11 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government: NHS Test and Trace

What recent discussions he had with Cabinet colleagues on the role of local authorities in the NHS Test and Trace programme.

6 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish his equality impact assessments on the impact of covid-19 on end of year assessments.

6 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Children: Remote Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when all pupils will have access to the IT and broadband required to access education remotely if not in school during the covid-19 outbreak.

6 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what training and support has been put in place for (a) school staff and (b) volunteers to provide Lateral Flow Device testing.

6 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many volunteers have signed up to support the delivery of Lateral Flow Device tests in schools; and how those volunteers will be vetted to ensure the school site is safe.

6 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Secondary Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary schools were zoning children in year group bubbles; how effective that approach has been; how many entire year group bubbles have been isolated since the introduction of that approach; and ho

6 Jan 2021 · Department for Education

Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the covid-19 infection rate is for (a) students in (i) higher and (ii) further education, (b) secondary school pupils, (c) primary school pupils and (d) nursery-aged pupils.

Source: official written-questions record.