Written questions
2,582 written questions tabled, most recent first.
30 Jun 2017 · Department for Education
Apprenticeship Levy: Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of the apprenticeship levy on the budgets of non-maintained childcare and early education providers.
30 Jun 2017 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect on the ability of working parents to access services of the difference in opening hours and term dates between maintained and non-maintained childcare and early educat
29 Jun 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect of business rate increases on the financial sustainability of non-maintained childcare and early-education providers.
29 Jun 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to encourage local authorities to offer business rate relief to non-maintained childcare and early-education providers.
29 Jun 2017 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the administrative burden on local authorities arising from the Government's 30-hours free childcare policy.
29 Jun 2017 · Home Office
Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of UK Visa and Immigration staff were employed to process EU casework in each month since January 2017.
29 Jun 2017 · Home Office
Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications from EU nationals seeking permanent residency in the UK are currently being processed; and how many have been processed in each month since January 2016.
29 Jun 2017 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of a reduction in the number of childminders on the implementation of her Department's 30-hours free childcare policy.
29 Jun 2017 · Department for Education
Children: Day Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timetable is for software allowing early years providers to check eligibility for 30-hours free childcare to be available for use.
29 Jun 2017 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to release new standards for early years apprentices at levels 2, 3, 4 and 5.
29 Jun 2017 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of planned increases in the national minimum wage and the national living wage on the financial sustainability of non-maintained childcare and early education provider
27 Jun 2017 · Department of Health
Mental Health: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government plans to introduce the green paper on children and young people's mental health.
27 Jun 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what financial support the Government plans to provide to residents affected by forced evacuations from buildings that fail aluminium composite materials tests.
27 Jun 2017 · Department for Education
Pre-school Education: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the OECD's Starting Strong 2017 report, published on 21 June 2017, what steps she is taking to improve early childhood development.
27 Jun 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, with reference to his oral statement of 26 June 2017, Official Report, column 347, what the membership is of the independent panel of experts on fire safety.
27 Jun 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government
Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what financial support the Government plans to provide to local authorities who have evacuated residents from buildings following the failure of aluminium composite material tests.
21 Jun 2017 · HM Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many phonecalls HM Revenue and Customs has received from parents and childcare providers on Tax-Free Childcare to date.
21 Jun 2017 · HM Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many childcare providers have signed up to provide Tax-Free Childcare to date.
21 Jun 2017 · HM Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of parents who will sign up for Tax-Free Childcare in 2017-18.
21 Jun 2017 · HM Treasury
Children: Day Care
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many parents have signed up for the Tax-Free Childcare scheme to date.
21 Jun 2017 · HM Treasury
Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the average call response time was to calls made to the Tax-Free Childcare helpline in (a) May and (b) June 2017.
13 Apr 2017 · Department of Health
Care Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 4 April 2017 to Question 69386, on care homes, how many (a) registered care home and (b) nursing home places there were in each clinical commissioning group area in (i) 2017, (ii) 2016 an
29 Mar 2017 · Home Office
UK Visas and Immigration: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of UK Visas and Immigration staff were employed to process EU casework in each month since January 2016.
29 Mar 2017 · Home Office
Immigration: EU Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that UK Visas and Immigration can manage the increased level of EU casework since January 2015.
28 Mar 2017 · Home Office
Immigration: EEA Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2017 to Question 68205, what the Government's policy is on retrospective removal of the status of non-UK EEA nationals who have already automatically achieved perman
28 Mar 2017 · Department for International Development
Occupied Territories: Overseas Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what assistance her Department has provided to the Occupied Palestinian Territories in each year since 2010-11.
28 Mar 2017 · Home Office
Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 20 January 2016 to Question 22366, how many migrants granted leave to remain in the UK did not have no recourse to public funds conditions imposed on them because of ex
28 Mar 2017 · Home Office
Marriage Certificates: Mothers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 9 February 2016 to Question 25738, what recent steps her Department has taken to amend marriage certificates to include mothers' names.
28 Mar 2017 · Department of Health
NHS: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost of backlog maintenance for each level of assessed risk was in the NHS (a) in total and (b) for each NHS organisation in each of the last three years.
28 Mar 2017 · Department of Health
Health Services: Weather
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 17 November 2015 to Question 902116, how much additional financial support in winter resilience funds the NHS received in each year from 2011-12 to 2016-17; and on what dates in tho
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