Written questions

2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what percentage of state-funded pupils benefited from a partnership between an independent school and a state-funded school in (a) 2016, and (b) 2017.

9 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons fewer than a third of local authorities received a grant from the 2017-2018 delivery support fund; and if he will publish the criteria by which his Department judged whether such a grant would

9 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2018 to Question 125657, whether the £398,250.00 allocated for local authorities in his Department's guidance, 30 hours delivery support fund: grants for local authorities f

9 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Department's guidance, 30 hours delivery support fund: revenue funding allocations for 2017 to 2018, if he will publish the methodology used to calculate those allocations.

8 Mar 2018 · Department for Transport

Blue Badge Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish how many people were registered for the Blue Badge scheme in each of the last five years.

8 Mar 2018 · Department for Transport

Department for Transport: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much money his Department has spent on each (a) consultant and (b) consultancy firm since 2010-11.

8 Mar 2018 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's most recent estimate of the total cost of High Speed Rail 2 is; and how much of that funding has been spent.

8 Mar 2018 · Treasury

Personal Income

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page two of Walking on Thin Ice: the cost of financial insecurity, published by Citizens Advice on 22 February 2018, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of that report

8 Mar 2018 · Treasury

Credit

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the total cost cap on payday lending to high-cost credit products.

8 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Temporary Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money NHS trusts have spent on agency and contract staff in (a) each year since 2010-11 and (b) 2017-18 to date; and how much each NHS trusts plans to so spend in 2018-19.

8 Mar 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Ethnic Minority Engagement Stakeholder Group

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will list the meetings he has attended with former members of the Department’s Ethnic Minority Engagement Stakeholder Group since its closure.

8 Mar 2018 · Treasury

Bank Services: Travellers

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he has taken to encourage the banking sector to improve financial inclusion for Gypsies and Travellers.

8 Mar 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Travellers: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the report of the Ministerial working group on tackling inequalities experienced by Gypsies and Travellers, published in April 2012, what recent steps his Depar

8 Mar 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Gypsies and Travellers: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the report of the Ministerial working group on tackling inequalities experienced by Gypsies and Travellers, published in April 2012, what recent discussions he

7 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Travellers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to include the health care needs of Gypsies and Travellers in the commissioning of health services.

7 Mar 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 13 of the DWP claimant service and experience survey 2015 to 2016, published on 17 January 2017, what steps her Department has taken in response to the findings that there was a d

7 Mar 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 11 of the DWP claimant service and experience survey 2015 to 2016, published on 17 January 2017, what steps her Department has taken in response to the findings that as universal

7 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Vulnerable Adults

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has responded to the recommendations of the report by the Data and Research Working Group of the National Inclusion Health Board, Effective health care for vulnerable groups

7 Mar 2018 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Hate Crime: Travellers

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps he has taken to improve the recording of hate crimes against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.

6 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Children: Day Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Childcare survey 2018, published by the Family and Childcare Trust, if his Department will publish a response to that report; and if he will publish a response to the findings in that report t

6 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the evidential basis of the effectiveness of baseline assessments.

6 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Baseline Assessment: Why it doesn't add up, published by More than a Score in February 2018, whether his Department plans to revise its support for baseline assessments following the publicati

6 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to 2017/18 Workforce Study, published by the National Day Nurseries Association, if he will publish a response to the findings of that report that (a) 69 per cent of level 3 leavers were moving o

1 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to revise the Government’s Early Years Workforce Strategy following the findings of the National Day Nurseries Association 2017-18 workforce survey.

1 Mar 2018 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will respond to the Chief Executive of the National Day Nurseries Association comments to Nursery World that the workforce survey indicates a staffing crisis in nurseries.

1 Mar 2018 · Home Office

Police Pursuits: Motorcycles

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending s2(A)(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to ensure that the police are able to chase alleged criminals on mopeds without the

1 Mar 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Property: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many properties there were in (a) London and (b) Hampstead and Kilburn constituency which were registered to owners based overseas in each year since 2016.

1 Mar 2018 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the accuracy of claims that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has (a) been offered home imprisonment instead of furlough by an Iranian judge and (

28 Feb 2018 · Home Office

Police Community Support Officers: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many community support police officers there were in each London borough in each of the last five years.

28 Feb 2018 · Home Office

Knives: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to publish a knife crime strategy in response to recent fatalities in London.

Source: official written-questions record.