Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Children: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure that there is someone in every school that a child who is (a) anxious and (b) in distress can spend time with if they are de-regulated in their (i) behaviour and (ii) emoti

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Discipline

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure that policies on (a) behaviour and (b) discipline in school do not escalate a child's distress.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Children: Communication

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of dysregulated parents or guardians on children's regulation at school.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to (a) ensure that teacher training is using a trauma-informed approach to educating new teachers and (b) assess the adequacy of the delivery of that approach.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of trauma informed schools for (a) children with SEND, mental health challenges and childhood trauma and (b) other students.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure children not in school develop safe and secure relationships with (a) other pupils and (b) adult mentors.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) identify students who are at risk of school exclusion and (b) make (i) early interventions and (ii) trauma informed approaches to ensure that their needs are met.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Pupils: Absenteeism

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to capture data on the reasons for children not being in school settings.

11 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offenders: Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of young people in youth offender institutions who have previously been (a) suspended and (b) excluded from school in the latest period for which data is available.

11 Mar 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offender Institutions: Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of how many children in youth offender institutions are care experienced.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

ICT: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) adults and (b) young people have sufficient IT skills for work.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support she provides to employers to help their workforce gain a Level (a) 2 and (b) 3 IT qualification.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Training: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to help ensure every (a) young person and (b) adult receives free training to gain a Level (a) 2 and (b) 3 qualification.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of the access to work programme.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Musculoskeletal Disorders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that access to work support is targeted towards people with (a) arthritis and (b) a musculoskeletal condition.

11 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Musculoskeletal Disorders: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to increase the number of musculoskeletal hubs in local communities.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Musculoskeletal Disorders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to help people with (a) arthritis and (b) a musculoskeletal condition to remain in work.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme: Musculoskeletal Disorders

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an estimate of the number of people with (a) arthritis and (b) a musculoskeletal condition who have accessed support through the access to work programme in the last year.

11 Mar 2024 · Department for Education

Health Education: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that public health education is delivered to children and young people who are (a) not in school and (b) at particular risk from harm from (i) use of (A) nitrous oxide, (

7 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to ensure health intervention programmes have a focus on reducing adult obesity.

7 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Obesity: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help tackle childhood obesity.

7 Mar 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent cases of type 2 diabetes.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

National Insurance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the impact of reductions in national insurance on (a) public services and (b) investment in business.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing funding for (a) social care and (b) the Better Care Fund in the Spring Budget 2024.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing funding for SEND provision in the Spring Budget 2024.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Local Government Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of increasing funding for local government in the Spring Budget 2024.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

Electronic Cigarettes: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take with Cabinet colleagues to help tackle the trade in illicit vapes, in the context of the introduction of duties on vapes at the Spring Budget 2024.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

NHS: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.20 of the Spring Budget 2024, HC 560, if he will take steps to ensure the (a) governance and (b) accountability of the £3.4 billion allocated to the NHS.

7 Mar 2024 · Treasury

NHS and Public Sector: Productivity

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) Public Sector Productivity Programme and (b) NHS productivity plan.

7 Mar 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Funds

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Spring Budget 2024, HC 560, published on 6 March 2024, if he will hold discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how a transferrable pension fund would work.

Source: official written-questions record.