Written questions
2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.
20 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
National SEND Reference Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what involvement his Department had with (a) setting the terms of reference and (b) recruiting members of the National SEND Reference Group.
20 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
National SEND Reference Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish all (a) correspondence and (b) minutes including attendees of meetings between (i) officials and (ii) Ministers from his Department and the National SEND Reference Group since that group form
19 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Healthy Start Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to encourage wider uptake of Healthy Start Vouchers among eligible groups.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
National SEND Reference Group
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the process was for (a) establishing the terms of reference and (b) recruiting members for the National SEND Reference Group; and who participated in that process.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the potential effect of occupancy levels in early years settings in the January census on early entitlements for the spring term.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Covid Winter Grant Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether every child eligible for free school meals will be eligible for support from the Covid Winter Grant Scheme over the Christmas holidays.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Care Leavers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has to (a) provide additional social care support for care leavers and (b) integrate the support his Department provides to care leavers with other Government support programmes for th
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Children in Care: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason black children are disproportionately represented in the care system.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to commence the review of children’s social care in England.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the terms of reference for the upcoming review of children’s social care in England.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to include racial disparity within the terms of reference for the forthcoming review of children’s social care in England.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to provide maintained nursery schools with a long-term funding solution based on up-to-date assessments of need.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Remote Education: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many digital devices tailored to children with special educational needs and disabilities his Department has distributed for remote learning since March 2020.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Children: Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential rise in the level of demand for children’s services over the Christmas 2020 period.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children the Government has supported through the temporary extension of free school meals eligibility to no recourse to public funds groups.
19 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to end the temporary extension of free school meals eligibility to no recourse to public funds groups.
19 Nov 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Visits
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis is for the Government's guidance on family visits to hospital patients who are seriously ill as a result of covid-19.
17 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Government guidance that local authorities should continue to fund early years settings who are being forced to close for public health reasons during the autumn term 2020, what the definition
17 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities are complying with Government guidance to pass on early entitlement funding to childcare providers based on pre-covid occupancy levels.
17 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the financial effect on early years providers of basing early entitlements for the spring term 2021 on current occupancy.
17 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 23 September 2020 to Question 91680, what plans his Department has to supply private, voluntary and independent early years providers with covid-19 home testing kits.
17 Nov 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Free School Meals: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what support will be available under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme to ensure that shielding children on free school meals receive food support through the holidays.
17 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Remote Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding the Government has made available to ensure that (a) children without SEN who have to self-isolate and (b) vulnerable children that are shielding have adequate access to the equipment required for
17 Nov 2020 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Remote Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) support and (b) funding is available for local authorities to support parents, relevant therapists and educators for the effective delivery of vulnerable children’s education, health and care plans in
17 Nov 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has requested from the Iranian Government that representatives of the International Bar Association be allowed to attend (a) any future hearings of Naz
17 Nov 2020 · Ministry of Defence
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what risk assessment his Department undertook on the decision to postpone the IMS trial until after the original release date of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe; whether that assessment included the risk of new charges bei
17 Nov 2020 · Treasury
International Military Services: Iran
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether a decision has been made by his Department on whether to grant the outstanding March 2017 application for an Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation licence to discharge the IMS debt to the Central Bank
17 Nov 2020 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effect of the last eight months of release on furlough on the mental health of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe; and what steps he has taken to mi
17 Nov 2020 · Cabinet Office
Government Departments: Email
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Answer of 2 November 2020 to Question 107705 on Government Departments: Email, what cross-government controls exist to ensure that Ministers' and Special
17 Nov 2020 · Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office: Audit
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to his Answer of 3 November 2020 to Question 108274 on Cabinet Office: Audit and with reference to the joint ventures listed on page 26 of the Cabinet Office 201
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