Written questions
2,198 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Jun 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions: Universal Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) civil servants, (b) special advisers and (c) contract staff in her Department who claim universal credit.
23 Jun 2020 · Cabinet Office
Opinion Polls: Coronavirus
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of money spent by the Government on opinion polling in relation to covid-19 (a) overall and (b) in each of the last six months.
23 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Schools: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools in England are in (a) financial deficit (a) and have been in financial deficit in each of the past five years.
23 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Primary Education: Assessments
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 41160 on Assessments: Coronavirus, if he will publish the feedback from stakeholders on the range of options available to his Department on the Reception Baselin
22 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Education: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) estimate he has made of the proportion and (b) assessment he has made of the adequacy of BAME representation among (a) pastoral and (b) disciplinary staff in the education system.
22 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
National Tutoring Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps with the Education Endowment Foundation to help ensure that none of the National Tutoring Programme volunteer tutors are unpaid interns.
22 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Coronavirus Catch-up Premium
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the press release entitled Billion pound Covid catch-up plan to tackle impact of lost teaching time, published on gov.uk on 19 June 2020, what steps he is taking to help ensure that head teach
22 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Coronavirus Catch-up Premium
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the additional £650 million of funding for school catch-up plans, announced on 19 June 2020, is derived from funding reallocated within his Department or additional funding allocated to his Department.
22 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Schools: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will meet with (a) teachers, (b) headteachers, (c) relevant experts, (d) unions and (e) opposition politicians in the coming days to achieve a consensus on a national plan for the reopening of schools.
22 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Schools: Bullying
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the KiVa anti-bullying programme on tackling (a) bullying and (b) racist bullying.
19 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Further Education: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the percentage of students further education establishments are allowed to readmit following the covid-19 outbreak.
15 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much each of the NHS Nightingale hospitals cost to (a) create and (b) equip.
15 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Schools: Sportsgrounds
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of school playing fields that have been sold in 2020.
9 Jun 2020 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Israeli Settlements
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential effect of Israel’s intended annexation of parts of the West Bank on Palestinian (a) livelihoods, (b) housing, and (c) freed
9 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development
Gaza: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department has taken to support (a) healthcare services and (b) disease prevention in Gaza since the covid-19 outbreak.
9 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood: LGBT+ People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to allow homosexual and bisexual men to participate in donating antibodies to help in the response to the covid-19 outbreak.
8 Jun 2020 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Utilities
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse has been of utility bills in prisons that have been officially closed in each of the last five years.
8 Jun 2020 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people have received grants through the plug-in car grant scheme in each financial year since the inception of that scheme.
8 Jun 2020 · Department for Transport
Electric Vehicles: Grants
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding from the public purse has been disbursed under the plug-in car grant scheme in each financial year since the inception of that scheme.
8 Jun 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Bounce Back Loan Scheme: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many business owners from BAME backgrounds have received loans under the Bounce Back Loans Scheme.
3 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development
Development Aid: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps she is taking to ensure existing programmes funded by her Department can be adapted to respond to covid-19 so that development progress is not lost.
3 Jun 2020 · Department for International Development
Schools: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what plans her Department has to help ensure that as schools reopen internationally, girls are not prevented from returning to education.
3 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of drug prices since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.
3 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Remote Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of (a) local (b) regional and (c) national levels of participation in remote learning; and what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of remote lea
2 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which (a) regions and (b) local authority areas have a covid-19 R rate of above one.
2 Jun 2020 · Department for Education
Free School Meals: Oxford West and Abingdon
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to provide financial support to the families of pupils on free school meals in Oxford West and Abingdon constituency during the 2020 school summer holidays.
2 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the cost to pharmacies of people failing to collect prescriptions in each of the last three months; and if he will make a statement.
1 Jun 2020 · Department for Transport
Cycling: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has to add cycling statistics to the transport slide presented at the daily covid-19 press conferences; and when he plans to make that addition.
1 Jun 2020 · Department for Transport
A34: Oxfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment (a) his Department and (b) Highways England has made of the effect of covid-19 restrictions on the completion date for the Lodge Hill diamond interchange on the A34.
1 Jun 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surgery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) operations and (b) types of operation have been cancelled in each NHS trust in England since the covid-19 lockdown measures were implemented in March 2020.
Source: official written-questions record.