Written questions

1,304 written questions tabled, most recent first.

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Habitual Residence Test

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of (a) personal independence payments and (b) disability living allowance payments to households containing at least one claimant that passed

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Habitual Residence Test

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the total cost to the public purse of universal credit payments to households containing at least one claimant that passed a habitual residence test in each year since 20

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Refugees

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an estimate of the total cost to the public purse of universal credit payments to households where (a) one and (b) both claimants are refugees in each quarter since 2017.

20 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Higher Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which higher education institutions have been made subject by the Office for Students to (a) enhanced monitoring, (b) investigation, (c) a quality assessment report and (d) other quality related interventions;

14 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools' expenditure was on staff in each of the last three years.

11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Doctors: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people starting an (a) F1 and (b) F2 placement were international medical graduates in each deanery in each year since 2015.

6 Mar 2025 · Treasury

VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of changes to VAT legislation with the principal of fiscal neutrality.

6 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how private schools who were not previously VAT-registered but did produce taxable supplies that were under the registration threshold will be treated under the new VAT guidance.

6 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Business: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the new VAT legislation for private schools led to HMRC amending or redefining the scope of input tax recovery for business who made exempt supplies prior to registration.

6 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Private Education: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether independent schools under the new interpretation of VAT entities following the Autumn Budget 2024 are their own class of business.

6 Mar 2025 · Treasury

VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for what reason the publication of new VAT guidance in October 2024 was following the Budget.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Educational Institutions: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list all (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory guidance issued to schools and colleges since 4 July 2024, along with the dates on which the guidance was issued.

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

English Language and Mathematics: GCSE

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average proportion of students was obtaining the equivalent of (a) Grade 5 or better and (b) Grade 4 or better in GCSE (i) English and (ii) Maths in each Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index dec

6 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will list the (a) name and (b) URN of all currently open state schools alongside the (i) URN, (ii) Establishment number and (iii) name of the predecessor institutions for each.

4 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Government Communication Service: Social Media

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the comments of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on Newsnight on 29 July 2024, what the evidential basis is for the claim that the Government Communication Service spent hundreds of millions of

3 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of people (a) renting privately and (b) in the social rented sector were (i) born in the UK and (ii) not born in the UK in each region of England in

25 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of people that (a) applied for asylum, (b) were granted asylum and (c) were granted other forms of leave to stay in each year between 1995 and 2001.

25 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Medical Examinations

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) successful claim rate and (b) average number of points scored for PIP Assessments were for assessments undertaken (i) in-person, (ii) not in-person and (iii) across all modes in each of the

24 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the schools chosen to take part in the Breakfast clubs early adopters pilot already have a breakfast club; and how many already have a free breakfast club.

24 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients who have changed gender from female to male are still automatically invited to cervical screening.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

University of Greater Manchester: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of reports of financial irregularities at the University of Greater Manchester.

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Prisoners' Release: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders were released from prison in each quarter since 2012; and of these how many were released because (a) an immigration judge granted bail, (b)

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many FNO appeals against Deportation were (a) lodged, (b) Allowed and (c) Allowed, Human Rights grounds only in each Financial Year since 2008-09.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the predicted cost of children looked after is in 2024-25; and what proportion of this is allocated to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Children in Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Government spent on children looked after in 2023-24; and what proportion of this was on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Personal Records

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Single Unique Identifier that the Government are piloting is the NHS number; what the (a) locations, (b) timing and (c) size of the pilot is; and how families have been informed.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2025 to Question 28587 on Schools: Standards, how many and what proportion of the schools expected to experience mandatory intervention will be (a) academised and (b) rebro

13 Feb 2025 · Cabinet Office

Employment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the number of (a) employments and (b) employees was by (i) UK, (ii) EU and (iii) non-EU nationality in each month since July 2014.

12 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many deportations through enforced return there have been since 4 July 2024.

12 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Migrants: Deportation and Repatriation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were deported through (a) enforced return, (b) voluntary return, (c) after being refused entry at port and subsequently departed and (d) in total in each quarter between Q1 1995 and Q4

Source: official written-questions record.