Written questions
2,538 written questions tabled, most recent first.
16 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of local authority children’s social care budgets spent on private providers, by region in 2019-20.
16 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the total profits of children’s social care provider placements by local authority in 2021-22.
16 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the total profits of children’s social care provider placements, by local authority in 2020-21.
16 May 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the total profits of children’s social care provider placements by local authority in 2019-20.
16 May 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's SEND Review, if he will set out the planned funding per local authority provided through the (a) Safety Valve Programme and (b) Delivering Better Value programme; and whether
16 May 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's SEND Review consultation published on 29 March 2022, what plans he has for (a) the frequency and method of publication of and (b) benchmarks for intervention in the event of p
16 May 2022 · Department for Education
Alternative Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's SEND Review, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed reforms to alternative provision on children without SEND needs placed in alternative provision.
10 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Windrush Generation: Anniversaries
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to announce the 2022 Windrush Day Grant Scheme awards.
25 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department will publish an (a) braille and (b) easy read version of the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities review; and what steps he is taking to help ensure that the open consultation on that
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in the context of the SEND Review, whether parents will be able to seek a setting not specified on a local inclusion plan if they consider the specified settings were not suitable for their child.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in the context of the SEND Review, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure digitised EHCP processes do not exclude people without easy access to digital services.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, in the context of the SEND review, what oversight his Department will have of local inclusion plans, including how they are assessed and monitored.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ensure that families of children with SEND will be included in local SEND partnerships, following the SEND Review.
21 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which organisations his Department expect to sit on local SEND partnerships following the SEND review.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the number of children strip-searched by police officers in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in each year since 2017, and how many of these were co
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children searched by police officers in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in each year since 2017, and how many of these were conducted without
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel following the case of Child Q.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Children: Body Searches
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the suitability of the current guidance issued to (a) schools, and (b) local safeguarding partnerships regarding police searches of children following the case of Child Q.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Extended Services: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the impacts of inflation on wraparound childcare providers and the costs to parents and carers of childcare for school age children.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Extended Services: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the average cost of wraparound childcare for school age children during school holidays, by region, in each year since 2017.
20 Apr 2022 · Department for Education
Extended Services: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the average cost of wraparound childcare for school age children during term time, per region, in each year since 2017.
30 Mar 2022 · Home Office
Visas: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding applications there are from Ukrainian nationals for visas to enter the UK which were submitted before the Ukraine Family Scheme opened.
30 Mar 2022 · Home Office
Visas: Ukraine
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many outstanding applications there are from Ukrainian nationals for visas to enter the UK outside of the Ukraine Sponsorship scheme and the Ukraine Family Scheme.
30 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding announced in the Special Educational Needs and Disability and Alternative Provision Green Paper was previously announced in the (a) Spending Review 2021 and (b) any other announcement by his Depart
29 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been (a) of school age, (b) with an education, health and care plan (EHCP) and of school age, (c) in receipt of free school meals and (d) in receipt of free school meals, with an EHCP and
25 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the funding for new family hubs, announced in the spending review 2021, will support the local implementation of the Speech, Language and Communication Pathway, as set
25 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Communication Skills
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 February 2022 to Question125448, if he will set out how the £153 Early Years Recovery Package for professional development for early years practitioners will fund programmes on the
25 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Childminding: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support childminders who have lost work due to testing positive for covid-19 or due to a positive case in their household following the closure of Test and Trace Support Payment schem
25 Mar 2022 · Department for Education
Childminding: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to review covid-19 guidance to childminders following the changes to self-isolation guidance.
14 Mar 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Conditions of Employment and Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to help ensure parity of pay and conditions for social care staff to comparable roles in the NHS as part of the Government’s planned reforms to social care.
Source: official written-questions record.