Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department’s new Covid Workforce Fund for schools and colleges, whether he plans to make equivalent financial support to help with the cost of staff absences available to registered early

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of the early years workforce which is aged 23 to 24 years old.

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the effect of the national minimum wage changes due in April 2021 on the cost per hour of delivering childcare.

1 Dec 2020 · Treasury

Bank Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will (a) extend financial support to those facing a recent increase in bank overdraft interest rates and (b) discourage banks from increasing their overdraft interest rates during the covid-19 outbreak.

30 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Pregnancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will extend the maternity exemption certificate for dental care to new mothers who declined to access dental care whilst pregnant during the covid-19 outbreak.

30 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to allow people without covid-19 symptoms to get a rapid covid-19 lateral flow test in the run up to Christmas 2020.

30 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to issue certification to vaccinated individuals after a covid-19 vaccine becomes available.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the average length of time that children have spent in a temporary foster placements in each month of the last five years.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of distribution of funding to different local authorities to meet social care need in those areas.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department took to ensure that remote and virtual visits by social workers to (a) children’s homes and (b) other children’s care placement settings are adequate to understanding the potential iss

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department took to ensure that local authorities did not use the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 to avoid or delay dealing with complaints.

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what involvement his Department had in decisions taken by Ofsted to request information regarding the use legislative flexibilities provided by the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 20

27 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that Ofsted (a) provided oversight to local authorities in applying the legislative flexibilities provided by the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Re

27 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Migrants: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of children of (a) families with no recourse to public funds, (b) Zambrano carers, (c) families with no recourse to public funds with a right to rem

24 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Learning Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that staff in residential care homes for autistic people and people with learning disabilities are regularly tested for covid-19 even when those people are not dis

24 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contact Tracing: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to make the contract tracing covid-19 app accessible and user-friendly for deaf and hard of hearing people.

23 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the financial impact on early years providers of his Department's plans to base early years entitlement funding for the spring term 2021 on the January 2021 census.

23 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Children in Care: Missing Persons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how may and what proportion of looked after children have gone missing or away from their placement without authorisation (a) in the year ending 31 March 2020 and (b)in each of the previous four years.

23 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that people who are being considered for deportation have access to (a) sufficient legal support and (b) contact with family members.

23 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Immigration Removal Centres: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps have been taken to reduce the transmission of covid-19 in immigrant removal centres.

23 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Holiday Activities and Food Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to publish further details on the expanded Holiday Activities and Food programme.

23 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Covid Winter Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department plans to take to raise awareness of the Covid Winter Grant Scheme to families of children eligible for free schools meals who will be able to receive support over the upcoming

23 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Covid Winter Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish further details on the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.

20 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children using (a) the 15 hour free early years entitlement for (i) the most disadvantaged two year olds and (ii) parents of three and four year olds and (b) th

20 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the prevalence of foetal alcohol spectrum disorders among (a) children currently in care and (b) care experienced children; and whether his Department has undertaken re

20 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the cost of increasing the value of Healthy Start vouchers in line with inflation each year since 2009.

20 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason the cost of the contract for the delivery of the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme has reduced in recent years.

20 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to include all primary school age children in the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme.

20 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the saving to the public purse as a result of suspending the School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme from March to September 2020; and how those funds have been allocated.

20 Nov 2020 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of children with SEND in England who qualify for free school meals; and what steps his Department is taking to address the specific needs of those people.

Source: official written-questions record.