Written questions

658 written questions tabled, most recent first.

20 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

School Teachers' Review Body

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has received the recommendations of the School Teachers' Review Body's 33rd report.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Education

Students: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Education,what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in the cost of living on students.

6 Jun 2023 · Department for Transport

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to correspondence of 3 April 2023 from the hon. Member for Lewisham East, case reference JD33646.

5 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 17 May 2023 to Question 184843 on Prison Officers: Restraint Techniques, what estimate he has made of the potential cost of answering that Question.

5 Jun 2023 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to respond to correspondence of 15 March 2023 from the hon. Member for Lewisham East, case reference JD33004.

5 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Victims' Commissioner: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when he plans to announce the appointment of the new Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.

2 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2023 to Question 185406 on Prisons: Restraint Techniques, if he will set a target date for publication of national use of force statistics.

2 Jun 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 May 2023 to Question 185401 on Prisons: Pepper Spray, if his Department will publish the full evaluation of the roll out of PAVA.

16 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 21 November 2022 to Question HL3309 on Prisons: Rehabilitation, whether HM Prison and Probation Service has introduced additional measures to build relationships between prison off

16 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to centrally collect data on the ethnicity of prison officers deploying PAVA incapacitant spray on prisoners.

16 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of potential trends in the use of PAVA incapacitant spray on (a) Black, (b) Muslim and (c) young adult prisoners.

16 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to commitments given by his Department to the Equality and Human Rights Commission on preventing the unlawful use of PAVA spray in prisons in October 2020, when he plans to publish national use of

16 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what criteria his Department uses to assess whether a prison has (a) demonstrated that their monitoring of potential disproportionality in the use of force is effective, (b) understood potential trends in the use

16 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, under what circumstances HM Prison and Probation Service is authorised to withdraw the use of PAVA incapacitant spray from prisons.

16 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisons have been equipped with PAVA incapacitant spray.

16 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to obligate prisons to complete a readiness assessment prior to the introduction of PAVA incapacitant spray.

16 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in which prisons his Department plans to introduce PAVA incapacitant spray.

15 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2023 to Question 180193 on Ministry of Justice: Equality, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of his Department having no central record of Equality Impact Asse

15 May 2023 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions: Appeals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to allow school exclusion decisions to be appealed to first-tier tribunals in cases where racial discrimination is alleged.

15 May 2023 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of diversity in schools' senior leadership teams on exclusion rates.

15 May 2023 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential benefits of providing specialist support to children identified as at risk of exclusion.

15 May 2023 · Department for Education

Schools: Managers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to increase diversity in senior leadership teams in schools.

15 May 2023 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to increase protections for victims of child criminal exploitation who are excluded from school.

15 May 2023 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to improve (a) monitoring and (b) oversight of school exclusion rates.

15 May 2023 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to tackle potential disparities in school exclusions among (a) different racial groups and (b) people with multiple protected characteristics.

15 May 2023 · Department for Education

Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including a list of student groups with disproportionately high exclusion rates in her Department’s statutory exclusion guidance.

12 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle potential racial disparities in the use of force in prisons.

12 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Officers: Restraint Techniques

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information (a) his Department and (b) HM Prison Service holds on the ethnicity of prison officers that have completed annex A of a use of force report in each of the last five years.

10 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 180189 on Prisons: Pepper Spray, if he will publish the equality impact assessment on the pilot of the rollout of PAVA spray; and whether his Department has mad

10 May 2023 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Pepper Spray

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 180189 on Prisons: Pepper Spray, if his Department has guidance on the circumstances where it would be inappropriate to apply the explain or reform principle.

Source: official written-questions record.