Written questions

Helen Hayes

2,538 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Dec 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Charities

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions her Department has had with the charity sector on the effect of bank branch closures on charities’ ability to bank cash collections.

13 Dec 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the statistical release, Children looked after in England including adoptions, for the financial year 2020-21, how many of the 12,430 looked-after children who were cared for in a family and f

3 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Diagnostic Centres: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the additional staff it may need to deliver the 100 new Community Diagnostic Centres announced at the Spending Review 2021.

3 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ethiopia: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2021 to Question 58899, on Tigray: Armed Conflict, what recommendations have been put forward following the scoping mission into gender-b

3 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ethiopia: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with her Ethiopian counterpart on the need to ensure that all sides in the conflict in northern Ethiopia and the Tigray region commit to (a) allo

3 Dec 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Ethiopia: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how much and what proportion of the £29 million of humanitarian aid allocated to people affected by the conflict in northern Ethiopia, announced on 15 October 2021, has been

3 Dec 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Hedges and Ditches

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the removal of cross compliance in 2024 on hedgerows on agricultural land in terms of (a) sustainable management and (b) carbon sequestrati

1 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of assessing universal credit entitlement for working claimants who are paid by their employers (a) weekly, (b) fortnightly and (c) every four weeks

1 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that working claimants who are paid by their employers (a) weekly, (b) fortnightly and (c) every four weeks do not see their universal credit entitlement disrupted if

1 Dec 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact of reductions in universal credit entitlement for working claimants who are paid by their employers on a (a) weekly, (b) fortnightly and (c) four-weekly basis.

30 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Community Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential barriers to community energy projects; and what steps he is taking to tackle those barriers.

30 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Community Energy

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to encourage growth of community energy projects.

29 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked after children who were placed in a foster placement with a family or friend as of 31 March 2021 had previously been in (a) an unrelated foster placement, (b) another family and friends care pla

29 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked after children there were as of 31 March 2021 and in each preceding year for which comparable statistical information is available.

29 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked after children were cared for in a family and friends foster placement as of 31 March (a) 2021, (b) 2020, (c) 2019, (d) 2018 and in each preceding year for which comparable statistical informati

29 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked after children were cared for in a family and friends foster placement, broken down by local authority, as of 31 March 2021.

25 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle staff shortages in the cancer diagnostic workforce.

25 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, how much and what proportion of the additional funding for training NHS staff will be directed towards the cancer workforce.

24 Nov 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Migrant Workers: Arts

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure the UK attracts talented workers in the creative industries at all stages of their career in response to the lack of eligible prize holders that have a

24 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Migrant Workers: STEM Subjects

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in the context of no eligible prize holders having applied for the Home Office's fast-track Global Talent visa in the first six months of that scheme, what steps he is taking to h

24 Nov 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Migrant Workers: STEM Subjects

24 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in the context of no eligible prize holders having applied for her Department's fast-track Global Talent visa in the first six months of that scheme, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the i

24 Nov 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Aviation: Civil Servants and Ministers

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) financial costs and (b) environmental impacts of the use of domestic flights for business travel undertaken by Ministers and civil servant

24 Nov 2021 · Cabinet Office

Travel: Civil Servants and Ministers

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2121 to Question 75043 on Travel: Civil Servants and Ministers, if he will publish a breakdown of the Government spending on (a) dom

22 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Hate Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on her plans to direct police forces to record violent crimes motivated by hostility to a person’s sex.