Written questions

1,304 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals for masculinising chest surgery there were from the NHS Gender Dysphoria National Referral Support Service in each year for which data is available since 1997.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Gender Dysphoria: Surgery

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many gender (a) reassignment and (b) affirmation operations were carried out by the NHS in each year since 2000 for which data is available.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Public Sector: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people started apprenticeships at level (a) 2, (b) 3, (c) 4, (d) 5, (e) 6 and (f) 7 in each public service in each year since 2015.

10 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Migrants: English Channel

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people who have arrived on small boats since 4 July 2024 have been deported.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what was the average length of time taken between the point of application to join (a) the army, (b) the Royal Navy, (c) the RAF and attestation in each year since 1997.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department spent on Capita provided medical vetting for forces personnel in each of the last 10 years.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average length of time taken was between the point of application to join the (a) Army, (b) Royal Navy and (c) RAF and attestation in the latest period for which data is available.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools (a) initially applied to be part of the universal primary school breakfast clubs pilot and (b) subsequently pulled out.

5 Feb 2025 · Church Commissioners

Churches: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed Project Spire on (a) church parishes and (b) the maintenance of historic church buildings.

4 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's consultation entitled School accountability reform - school profiles, improvement and intervention, page 18, published on 3 February 2025, what estimate she has made of the nu

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of staff in her Department are qualified teachers.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the annual cost of providing free breakfast clubs in every primary school will be.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of providing free breakfast clubs in primary schools in each financial year to 2028-29.

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Languages: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the total number of pupils who (a) have participated in the National Consortium for Languages Education’s language hubs since they were established and (b) currently use

27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

ICT: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils are enrolled in a National Centre for Computing Education computing hub.

24 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Foreign Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2025 to Question 23834 on Offenders: Foreign Nationals, what types of offences were committed by foreign national offenders who have completed their sentence and a

24 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Armed Forces: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the consultation entitled Technical consultation - Inheritance Tax on pensions: liability, reporting and payment, published on 30 October 2024, if she will make an estimate of how much tax revenue

20 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: Married People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were exempted from the spouse visa financial requirements on account of receiving benefits which exempted them in the latest period for which data is available.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Translation Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many calls to her Department were translated in each month since January 2021 for which data is available by language code; and what the cost of that translation was.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Further Education and Schools: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21364 on Further Education and Schools: Employers' Contributions, in which month her Department plans to pay the grant for the cost of national insurance.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether teachers staffing free school breakfast clubs will count as directed time.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to local government of implementing the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

20 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether schools delivering free school breakfasts will be allowed to charge for provision outside the free 30 minute entitlement.

20 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Offenders: Deportation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of foreign national offenders who left prison following a sentence of 12 months or more were deported in each (a) quarter and (b) year for which data is available.

20 Jan 2025 · Treasury

Remittances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of personal remittances from the United Kingdom in each of the last five years, broken down by region.

17 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Undocumented Workers: Fines

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value of illegal working civil penalties was in the last five years; and how many and what proportion of those penalties have been paid.

16 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to set out the future of the Listed Places of Worship Grants Scheme before its current funding ends on 31 March 2025.

14 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how (a) many people were in receipt of and (b) much was spent on support under section (i) four, (ii) 95 and (iii) 98 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 in each year since 2015.

14 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on local authority spending on successful asylum claimants in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024.

14 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Asylum: Social Rented Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of successful asylum claimants who have moved into social housing since 2018 by local authority.

Source: official written-questions record.