Alex Sobel

25 Jun 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Discipline

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the Government’s policy is on the use of isolation booths for discipline in schools; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the use of isolation booths.

25 Jun 2019 · Department for Education

Further Education: Low Incomes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding his Department has allocated to further education colleges in low-income communities in each of the last five years.

25 Jun 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Yorkshire and the Humber

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that schools in Yorkshire and the Humber achieve the England average for the number of Ofsted schools ranked good.

25 Jun 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Counselling

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Research and analysis entitled, Supporting mental health in schools and colleges conducted by his Department, what steps the Government has taken to increase the provision of counselling s

24 Jun 2019 · Treasury

Homelessness

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to include funding for homelessness services in his forthcoming spending review.

24 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport

Motorways: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) traffic incidents and (b) fatal traffic incidents there have been on (i) traditional motorways, (ii) motorways running a Smart Motorway Scheme, and (iii) motorways with an all-lane running scheme i

20 Jun 2019 · Home Office

Refugees: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to tackle homelessness among newly recognised refugees who are unable to secure housing in the 28 days provided by the Home Office to move-on from asylum accommodation.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Refrigerators: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Office for Product Safety and Standards has plans to implement the new CENELEC refrigerating appliances standard.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Tumble Dryers: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to Whirlpool’s handling of its tumble dryer safety issue and concerns about its repair programme, what steps his Department is taking to help protect consumers from

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Whirlpool Corporation: Tumble Dryers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how correspondence sent to the Office for Product Safety and Standards by members of the public as a result of its review of Whirlpool’s handling of its tumble dryer safety issue

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Whirlpool Corporation: Tumble Dryers

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many members of the public contacted the Office for Product Safety and Standards as a result of its review of Whirlpool’s handling of its tumble dryer safety issue announced

3 Jun 2019 · Home Office

Retail Trade: Crimes of Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to (a) make an assessment of the level of attacks on retail workers and (b) review the effectiveness of sanctions for perpetrators of such attacks.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many ESA65B letters her Department sent to GPs in Yorkshire and the Humber in 2018.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to improve protection and preservation of ancient woodlands as part of future national planning policy.

3 Jun 2019 · Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Tibet: Human Rights and Political Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what diplomatic steps the Government is taking with the Chinese Government to help (a) secure the release of Tibetan political prisoners, (b) ensure access by independent observers to Tib

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that sex health education in schools includes the protection of the mental as well as physical wellbeing of young people.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Education

Relationships and Sex Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to prioritise issues of sexual consent within sexual health education.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Charities: Plastic Bags

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he is taking steps to encourage charities to (a) stop using plastic bags to collect charity donations and (b) explore alternatives.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disability living allowance claimants who applied for personal independence payments after their 16th birthday were unsuccessful in their claims.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Metro Newspaper

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which minister in her Department authorised the recent universal credit campaign in the Metro newspaper in May 2019.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Metro Newspaper

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to rectify any potentially misleading messages on universal credit published in the Metro newspaper in May 2019.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when Highways England plans to publish a plan to meet legal levels of nitrogen dioxide on the strategic road network.

3 Jun 2019 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many roads managed by Highways England as part of the Strategic Road Network have illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide.

3 Jun 2019 · Department of Health and Social Care

Antibiotics: Rivers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the concentration of antibiotics in UK rivers.

20 May 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department issued to (a) schools and (b) nurseries on protecting children from pollution episodes in England in April 2019.

20 May 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to protect children in (a) schools and (b) nurseries from pollution episodes.

20 May 2019 · Department for Education

Schools: Pollution

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department took to alert (a) schools and (b) nurseries to pollution episodes in England during April 2019.

13 May 2019 · Home Office

British Nationality: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans he has to include adult and child safeguarding in the Life in the UK Test.

13 May 2019 · Department for Education

Pupils: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils do not have English as their first spoken language in each primary school in the Leeds City Council area.

13 May 2019 · Department for Education

Pupil Premium: Leeds

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils received the pupil premium in each primary school in Leeds City Council area in 2017-18.