Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Classroom Assistants
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to develop professional standards for teaching assistants working with children with special educational needs and disabilities.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is planning to take with Cabinet colleagues to address workforce shortages in roles which support children with special educational needs and disabilities and their families.
22 Mar 2023 · Treasury
Religious Buildings: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Valuation Office Agency's requirements for signage in designating places of worship.
22 Mar 2023 · Treasury
Religious Buildings: Business Rates
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Valuation Office Agency's process for assessing non-traditional buildings which are places of worship.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of the affordability of Council Tax for residents who own a share of an equality share property that has been valued at Bands D or above.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Social Rented Housing: Council Tax
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of the affordability of Council Tax on social tenants in housing valued in Bands D or above.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of access to an Education Health Care Plan on supporting young people with SEND.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Classroom Assistants
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of skills that teaching assistants require in supporting people with SEND; and what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the remuneration of teaching assistants o
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of all children with SEND having access to a Family Hub.
22 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on establishing a strategy group to commence the workforce planning across SEND.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Classroom Assistants: Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that teaching assistants working with children with SEND are rewarded for studying for qualifications specifically to support children with SEND.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Classroom Assistants: Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she make it her policy to provide more pathways for teaching assistants to become qualified teachers.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Classroom Assistants: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the (a) remuneration and (b) terms and conditions of teaching assistants contributes to their being seen as a vital part of school staff.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Education
Classroom Assistants: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made for the reasons that teaching assistants are not employed on 52 week contracts.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
World Heritage Sites
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to publish the new UK Tentative List of potential future UNESCO world heritage sites.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Day Care Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of providing adults using day care services with 30 hours of free care support each week.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Housing Revenue Accounts
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of the use of the Housing Revenue Account by (a) City of York Council and (b) other local authorities; and what steps he is taking
21 Mar 2023 · Treasury
Affordable Housing: Construction
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking to support the building of more affordable housing.
21 Mar 2023 · Treasury
Social Rented Housing: Construction
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to increase the number of social houses built, in addition to the Affordable Homes Programme.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide NHS dentists with (a) additional funding for advanced training and (b) paid annual leave.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Occupational Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide access for all NHS dentists to NHS occupational health schemes.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the proportion of dentists from overseas working in NHS dental roles requiring fewer professional competencies while waiting to sit their dental exams.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of (a) the quality of dental services, (b) the dental workforce and (c) oral health outcomes for (i) children and (ii) adults in the UK and other countries.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any of the pilot Integrated Care Boards have made an assessment of the potential merits of replacing the NHS Dental Contract.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on in-patient NHS dental treatment for (a) children and (b) adults in each of the last five years.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish a dentistry workforce plan.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish a dentistry workforce plan which sets out the number of full time equivalent people working in each dental profession role.
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: Registration and Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's response to the consultation entitled Changes to the General Dental Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council's international registration legislation, update
21 Mar 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will allocate NHSE dentistry budget underspend to Integrated Care Boards in 2023-24 for the provision of NHS dental services for children.
21 Mar 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Age Addition
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in each year since 2010 for which figures are available, how many letters his Department sent to pensioners approaching the age of 80 to inform them that after they reached that age their pension would
Source: official written-questions record.