Written questions

1,304 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death Certificates: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the average time taken for deaths to be reviewed under the national medical examiner system since 9 September 2024; and if he will make an assessment of the potential i

10 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were granted to (a) people and (b) family dependents in each quarter since January 2021.

10 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Asylum: LGBT+ People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to update the LGB asylum data tables, last updated on 25 August 2022.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Academies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of (a) primary and (b) secondary schools secured academy status in each year since 2010; and how many of these were in a multi-academy trust.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Faith Schools: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish a response to the consultation on Faith school designation reforms.

10 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people seeking (a) asylum and (b) humanitarian protection are in accomodation on his Department's property.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Migrant Workers: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people were referred by job centre advisors to a course to improve their English language skills in each year since 2015.

10 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the work his Department commissioned from the Adult Social Care Research Unit on updating the 2013 Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formula.

10 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people were working in the Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence team in (a) total, (b) the East of England, (c) the East Midlands, (d) the North West, (e) the North East, (f) the South Eas

10 Dec 2024 · Home Office

Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will list (a) all the contracts for asylum accommodation and support services the Department has agreed since 2017 and (b) the (i) value of, (ii) regions covered by and (iii) period covered by

4 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Jobcentres and Universal Credit: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2024 to Question 15704 on Jobcentres and Universal Credit: Telephone Services, how many calls were translated by language code since 2021; and what the cost was of t

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of new claimants of (a) Universal Credit, (b) Employment Support Allowance, (c) Personal Independence Payment, (d) Jobseeker's Allowance and (e) income support had (i) Level

27 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) apprenticeship courses started and (b) apprenticeship levy spent were for (i) Level 6 and (ii) Level 7 apprenticeships in each year since 2016.

26 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Employers Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.41 of the Autumn Budget, published on 24 October 2024, what estimate he has made of the potential cost to the public purse of the increase in the employment allowance in each year of th

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools were (i) newly graded inadequate or (ii) received a second consecutive Requires Improvement by Ofsted in each year since 2010.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the average cost of a child receiving SEND support in a state school.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Private Education: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2024 to Question 14487 on Private Education: Special Educational Needs, if she will publish the information that informed her Department's assessment of the potential impac

25 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Education: Business Rates

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill, what definition her Department is using of mainly, in the context of schools that are mainly con

21 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: WiFi

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of wifi available across the rail network.

20 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Non-crime Hate Incidents

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-crime hate incidents were recorded by each police force in each year since 2014.

20 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Asylum and Immigration: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many reports were produced by Independent Social Workers for the immigration and asylum tribunals which recommended that a person liable to be removed from the UK should be allowed to stay in the last year fo

20 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Asylum and Immigration: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many reports were produced by Independent Social Workers for the immigration and asylum tribunals in the last year for which data is available.

20 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Asylum and Immigration: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the asylum and immigration tribunal system was of commissioning reports from Independent Social Workers in each of the last five years.

20 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Immigration: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many Independent Social Workers are recognised by the Tribunal system as qualified to provide independent reports in immigration cases.

20 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

Labour Force Survey

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the outputs from the Transformed Labour Force Survey will be published.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Apprenticeship Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of apprenticeship levy funds were spent on Level 7 Appenticeships in each year since the creation of the levy.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people starting apprenticeships in each year of this Parliament.

19 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Married People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of partner visas were granted where the applicant used cash savings to count towards the minimum income threshold in each year since 2012.

19 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Growth and Skills Levy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to allow firms to use up to 50% of the Growth And Skills Levy to fund non-apprenticeship training.

18 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Almshouses: Affordable Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to amend the National Planning Policy Framework to allow almshouse charities that are not registered providers to receive Section 106 funds for the provision of

Source: official written-questions record.