Written questions
702 written questions tabled, most recent first.
24 Mar 2021 · Department for Work and Pensions
Employment: Learning Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what (a) assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities and (b) recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that peop
8 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice
HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of HM Courts and Tribunals staff are agency staff.
8 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of whether social distancing will be required in courts after June 2021.
8 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cracked trials there were in each of the last six months.
8 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Nightingale Courts are being used for criminal trials.
4 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Quarantine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how often individuals and their recent contacts who are required to self-isolate are contacted; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the monitoring of adherence to the requiremen
4 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Contact Tracing staff have recently been made redundant from the UK-wide symptomatic Covid Testing service; and what the reasons are for those redundancies.
1 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Loneliness: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will provide additional support to organisations working to tackle loneliness and isolation amongst older people in Budget 2021.
19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Women's Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will publish the Departmental modelling that led to the announcement of up to 500 new prison cells in women’s prisons; and what assessment his Department has made of the effect of those new cells on (a) wom
19 Feb 2021 · Department for Education
Schools: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the recently announced £300 million of catch up tutoring will go directly to schools.
19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Greater London
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of whether additional funding is required to support prison leavers at risk of homelessness in the region of London compared with (a) East of England, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber, (c)
19 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether new dedicated staff set to act as brokers for prisoners to secure quicker access to accommodation and services on release in eleven prisons will receive training on gender specific accommodation challenge
19 Feb 2021 · Attorney General
Domestic Abuse
To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the interim charging protocol introduced in March 2020 for cases relating to domestic violence, (a) when it will cease to operate and (b) what assessment has been made of the efficiency of the protocol.
1 Feb 2021 · Attorney General
Crown Prosecution Service: Recruitment
To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the CPS annual report 2019-20, how many (a) additional prosecutors have been recruited, (b) operational delivery staff have been recruited and (c) offers of employment have been made to new lawyers since 2019
1 Feb 2021 · Ministry of Justice
Courts: Domestic Abuse
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many courts the Domestic Abuse Best Practice Framework was rolled out to in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021; and when he plans to publish the results of the effect of that framework on those courts.
26 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the funding support available to the care home sector for the long-term financial viability of that sector.
26 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that working age adults living in care homes receive prioritised access to covid-19 vaccines.
26 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the (a) efficiency and (b) availability of PCR covid-19 testing for care home employees and residents.
26 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the capacity for regular covid-19 testing for care home employees.
26 Jan 2021 · Attorney General
Crown Prosecution Service: Eurojust
To ask the Attorney General, how many outstanding cases the CPS were working on as a part of EuroJust in December 2020.
26 Jan 2021 · Attorney General
Crown Prosecution Service: Eurojust
To ask the Attorney General, what steps she has taken to ensure the CPS can operate (a) effectively and (b) to the same standard when prosecuting international crime in the context of no longer being a member of Eurojust.
26 Jan 2021 · Attorney General
Crown Prosecution Service: UK Relations with EU
To ask the Attorney General, what assessment her Department has made of the effect of the UK withdrawing from participation in (a) the European Arrest Warrant, (b) membership of Europol and (c) membership of EuroJust on the work of the CPS in prosecuting
26 Jan 2021 · Attorney General
Crown Prosecution Service: Staff
To ask the Attorney General, how many CPS staff were employed and (a) in what role and (b) at what grade those staff were employed in each year from 2010 to 2020.
26 Jan 2021 · Attorney General
Crime: Victims
To ask the Attorney General, following the recent HMCSPI inspectorate report on victim communication, what steps she is taking to implement the recommendations in that report.
26 Jan 2021 · Attorney General
Sentencing: Appeals
To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Victims Commissioner's annual report 2019/20, what steps the Attorney General is taking with the Lord Chancellor to promote the changes to the review into the unduly lenient scheme to ensure victims are a
26 Jan 2021 · Attorney General
Crown Prosecution Service: Coronavirus
To ask the Attorney General, how many and what proportion of CPS staff have had to self-isolate as a result of the covid-19 outbreak; and what the (a) role and (b) staffing grade of those staff is.
20 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Extended Services: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of closures in the wraparound care sector during the covid-19 outbreak on the (a) learning and (b) development of children.
20 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Extended Services: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to provide financial support to the wraparound care sector in response to the covid-19 lockdown announced in January 2021.
20 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Extended Services: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effect of the level of funding support available to the wraparound care sector on the ability of businesses within that sector to remain financially viable during the covid-19
20 Jan 2021 · Department for Education
Extended Services: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what financial support he is providing to the wraparound care sector in response to the covid-19 lockdown announced in January 2021.
Source: official written-questions record.