Written questions

2,704 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to increase the rate paid to nurseries for childcare.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how she plans to increase the supply of childcare.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Academies: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received on the amount of notice given by academies of their closure.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on recruiting teachers in each year since 2010.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many unqualified teachers are teaching in England and Wales.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Schools: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what definition her Department uses of coasting schools.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare: Circuses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effectiveness of a licensing regime for the use of wild animals in circuses.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare: Circuses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to prevent the use of wild animals in circuses.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Animal Welfare: Circuses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals on the use of wild animals in circuses.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Academies: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academies are rated (a) outstanding, (b) requiring improvement, (c) inadequate and (d) coasting.

3 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Education Maintenance Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of the allocation of the education maintenance allowance on participation rates in post-16 education.

2 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total cost to the Exchequer has been of paying (a) working families tax credits and (b) child tax credit to those who earn less than the living wage in each of the last five years.

2 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in each parliamentary constituency who earn less than the living wage are in receipt of (a) working families tax credit and (b) child tax credit.

2 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Working Tax Credit

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people working in the retail sector received working families tax credits in each of the last five years.

2 Jun 2015 · HM Treasury

Welfare Tax Credits

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people working in the retail sector are in receipt of tax credits.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of those previously unemployed found work as a result of an apprenticeship in the last three years.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many apprenticeship places were taken up by people (a) already in employment with the same employer, (b) already in employment with a new employer and (c) who were previously unemployed in each of t

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Energy and Climate Change

Natural Gas

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of OFGEM's plans to re-examine the current gas mains replacement programme on long term stability of gas supply in the UK.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many qualified STEM teachers there are per (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupil in each parliamentary constituency.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

STEM Subjects: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of levels of supply and demand for qualified teachers in STEM subjects.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department assesses demand for teachers in each subject area.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what records her Department keeps on the number of job applications for each advertised teaching position.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Classroom Assistants: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the number of hours outside contracted hours worked by teaching assistants in (a) Sheffield and (b) England over the last three years.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Schools: Asbestos

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department will spend to remove asbestos from primary and secondary schools in the next financial year.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Classroom Assistants: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average salary is for teaching assistants in (a) state maintained schools, (b) free schools and (c) academy schools.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Classroom Assistants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the number of teaching assistants who are performing a full teaching role in schools in England.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

School Support Staff Negotiating Body

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will reinstate the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Teach First teachers in each (a) subject and (b) parliamentary constituency (i) began teaching and (ii) left the teaching profession in each of the last five years.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Teach First teachers remain in the teaching profession after (a) two years and (b) five years.

2 Jun 2015 · Department for Education

Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many STEM teachers remain in the teaching profession (a) two years and (b) five years after their initial qualification.

Source: official written-questions record.