Written questions

2,786 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Local Broadcasting: Radio

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has had discussions with the BBC Board on the impact of BBC Local Radio proposals on working parents employed by those stations.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Local Broadcasting: Radio

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has held discussions with the BBC Board on the potential impact of the BBC's proposals for Local Radio on staff.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Local Broadcasting: Radio

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has held discussions with Ofcom on the BBC's proposals for local radio; and if she will make a statement.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Radio: Local Broadcasting

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has held with the BBC Board on conducting equality impact assessments on changes to BBC local radio coverage for rural communities.

19 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

UTC Portsmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department plans to announce whether UTC Portsmouth's bid to expand into Southampton has been successful.

13 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what information his Department holds on changes in the levels of projected housebuilding in each local authority area since January 2023.

13 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Private Rented Housing: Housing Benefit

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to restrict how landlords can use rent received from tenants on housing benefit in non-decent homes.

12 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Physics: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help encourage underrepresented groups of young people to study physics.

12 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Physics: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of specialist physics teachers in schools.

12 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Physics: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to meet its target of recruiting 2,820 specialist physics teachers in 2023.

12 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Hate Crime: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of hate crime laws for protecting LGBTQ+ people from hate crime; and if she will make a statement.

12 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Academic Year

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has plans for free school meals outside of school term time.

12 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Academic Year

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of free school meals outside of school term time on levels of child poverty.

12 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Children: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her policies aiming to reduce child poverty.

12 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Children: Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of recent trends in child poverty in Portsmouth South constituency.

12 Jun 2023 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Housing Associations

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he plans to take to help housing associations fulfil their new responsibilities under the Social Housing (Regulation) Bill, in the context of increases in the cost of livi

7 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Visas: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to permit Ukrainian nationals to stay in the UK beyond the three-year limit of existing visas.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Charities: Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she is taking steps to provide financial support to charities in Hampshire in the context of the rise in energy prices.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Charities: Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she is taking steps to financially support charities in Hampshire who have increased service demand.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Low Incomes: Portsmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of trends in the numbers of children living in low-income households in Portsmouth.

6 Jun 2023 · Treasury

Cost of Living and Mental Health Services: Hampshire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of trends in the levels of demand for financial and mental health support from families in Hampshire; and if he will make a statement.

6 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average waiting time is for applications for the five year route to settlement to receive an outcome; and if she will make a statement.

6 Jun 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Confectionery and Electronic Cigarettes: Sales

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to prevent shops selling exclusively vapes and sweets.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress she has made on the roll out of measures to improve air filtration in schools as set out in January 2022.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release entitled More support to keep pupils in the classroom published on 2 January 2022, whether this guidance remains in place for schools.

6 Jun 2023 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Cosmetics

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she is taking steps to revoke existing licenses which allow companies to test exclusive-use cosmetics ingredients on animals.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it is his Department policy to remove Low Traffic Neighbourhoods from the Active Travel Fund 4 Proforma.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Cycling: Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the Mini Holland Feasibility Studies on encouraging Low Traffic Neighbourhoods since that scheme was introduced.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Holiday Accommodation: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to set a deadline for bringing forward legislative proposals to deliver the legal framework for a short-term let registration scheme in England.

2 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

National Tutoring Programme: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the increase will be in funding for the National Tutoring Programme in the academic year 2023-24 following the decision to raise the subsidy rate to 50% for that year.

Source: official written-questions record.