Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many serious incident notifications his Department has received in each of the last 12 months regarding children in care placed in (a) unregistered and (b) unregulated accommodation.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of children in care placed in unregulated residential settings.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, under what circumstances it is permitted for a child in care to be placed in a unregulated residential care setting.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Family Hubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress he has made on integrating family hubs with the Troubled Families Programme.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Families: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many family hubs (a) have opened and (b) are planned to open as a result of the additional support announced in the March 2020 budget.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Families: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 2.64 of Budget 2020 on research to support vulnerable children, what progress has been made on delivering the £2.5 million for research and developing best practice around the integr

10 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the forecast expenditure is for the tax-free childcare scheme for (a) 2020-21 and (b) the next three financial years.

10 Sep 2020 · Treasury

Children: Day Care

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the (a) forecast expenditure and (b) actual expenditure for the tax-free childcare scheme in the last three financial years to date.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the financial stability of the nursery sector of the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals and Pupil Premium

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for the number of pupils eligible for (a) free school meals and (b) the pupil premium of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s projection for unemployment over t

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Pupil Premium: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department will bear additional costs associated with increases in the number of children eligible for the pupil premium due to the covid-19 outbreak.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many local authorities have authorised care placements for children in unregulated care settings in (a) each of the last ten years and (b) each of the last twelve months.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children (a) under and (b) over the age of 16 have been placed in unregulated residential care settings in each of the last twelve months.

22 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing funding for maintained nursery schools to support the implementation of the recent pay rise for public sector workers.

20 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2020 on Children’s Social Care Update, Official Report, HCWS368, how many inspections of children’s social care settings where safeguarding concerns have been

20 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2020 on Children’s Social Care Update, Official Report, HCWS368, how many reports of safeguarding concerns in children’s social care settings there have there

20 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2020 on Children’s Social Care Update, Official Report, HCWS368, which local authorities have used at least one regulation from the Adoption and Children (Coro

20 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Written Statement of 14 July 2020 on Children’s Social Care Update, Official Report, HCWS368, if he will publish his Department's analysis of the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amen

17 Jul 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Children's Play: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether soft play centres will be allowed to re-open from 25 July 2020 as part of the easing of covid-19 lockdown restrictions.

17 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Mental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the (a) membership and (b) terms of reference of the Government’s cross-departmental vulnerable children task and finish group .

17 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of permanently extending free school meals to children with no recourse to public funds.

17 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Children: Social Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authority children’s services will have adequate resources to manage any increase in demand for their support in autumn 2020.

17 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Children and Young People: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to develop a cross-departmental recovery plan for children, young people and families affected physically, mentally and emotionally by the covid-19 outbreak.

15 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Childminding: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that Ofsted expedites applications to set up childminding businesses during the covid-19 outbreak.

14 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish statistics on the number of covid-19 home testing kits that were available on each day since the NHS service was launched.

14 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

Childminding

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on ensuring that GPs complete health declaration forms required for people applying to set up childminding businesses.

14 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Health Hazards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the health risks of health declaration forms being completed in physical form during the covid-19 outbreak.

14 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Day Care: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that GPs complete health declaration forms required for people applying to set up childminding businesses.

14 Jul 2020 · Department for Education

After School Clubs: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the covid-19 outbreak, whether out-of-school clubs not based on school premises will be permitted to (a) operate and (b) look after children from different schools from September 2020.

14 Jul 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish the number of views for the web page entitled NHS Get a coronavirus test for each day since that page was launched.

Source: official written-questions record.