Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Children's Centres and Family Hubs: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of early years practitioners working in (a) children's centres and (b) family hubs.

30 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Nurses: Training

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the equity of the Government’s tax-free childcare offer to student nurses who do not have job-related income.

30 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Nurses: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the accessibility of the Government’s free childcare offer to student nurses who are required to work a weekly minimum of 16 hours in the NHS but do not receive a job-related inco

22 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce inequalities in healthcare for women.

16 Nov 2021 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Malnutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of reductions to the aid budget on global levels of child malnutrition; and what steps she is taking to tackle child maln

16 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fertility: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS backlog does not restrict access to fertility treatments.

16 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS dental services take on new patients.

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

Swimming Pools: Access

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase public access to swimming pools.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the Covid Local Support Grant scheme.

15 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

England Infected Blood Support Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide a specific timeframe for when (a) bereaved partner payments and (b) back payments to 2019 will be issued under the England Infected Blood Support Scheme.

15 Nov 2021 · Cabinet Office

Blood: Contamination

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending financial compensation to bereaved parents and children of people given contaminated blood.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to publish the SEND review.

15 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) forecast and (b) actual expenditure was for the tax-free childcare scheme in the last five financial years to date.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the adoption letterbox contact system; and what steps he is taking to improve the experience of communication between adoptive and birth families.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to make changes to the required child to staff ratios in early years settings.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will set out the process by which data covering the outcomes of placements of looked after children from England in (a) other nations of the UK and (b) overseas is collated and evaluated.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 18 August 2021 to Question 41094 on Children in Care, if he will publish the data on how many looked after children from England are placed outside of England, by the country where the

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Family Hubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his oral contribution of 1 November 2021, Official Report column 615, if he will publish the data source which lists the 3,000 family centres referred to in his reply; and if he will make a st

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

Dogs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what evidence his Department has used to inform any policy or legislation on the use of electric (a) fencing, (b) netting and (c) collars for the control of dogs.

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Flexible Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents have been granted payments through the Flexible Support Fund to pay for (a) the full upfront cost of childcare or (b) part of those costs when they entered employment in England and Wal

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans her Department has to introduce a non-repayable childcare grant for parents on low incomes entering work on a similar basis to the measure introduced in Northern Ireland in October 2021.

15 Nov 2021 · Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 28 June 2021 to Question 32460 on Tax-Free Childcare, if he will publish any expenditure forecasts for the tax-free childcare scheme in the financial year 2020-21 made prior to the Spring B

15 Nov 2021 · Department for Education

Childminding and Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) childminders and (b) group-based early years settings (i) in total, (ii) rated good and (iii) rated outstanding by Ofsted have left the Early Years Register in each month of the last three years.

15 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Coroners

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether officials in his Department are required to provide him with all evidence relating to a death inquest when its findings are under review and subject to a ministerial decision.

15 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Coroners: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve the experience of bereaved families who appeal decisions by coroners.

15 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Osteoporosis: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase research funding for osteoporosis.

15 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Osteoporosis: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve early-diagnosis rates for osteoporosis.

18 Aug 2021 · Treasury

Childcare Vouchers

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making unused tax-free childcare vouchers transferable to other families in need of childcare support.

18 Aug 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Quarantine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to provide financial support to incoming international students who are required to undertake a period of covid-19 hotel quarantine upon entry to the UK.

18 Aug 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Quarantine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of relaxing covid-19 quarantine measures for fully vaccinated passengers arriving to the UK from a country on the travel red list.

Source: official written-questions record.