Written questions
1,705 written questions tabled, most recent first.
4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medicine: Student Numbers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to lift the cap on the number of medical degree places.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Childcare: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase the (a) availability and (b) affordability of childcare in Ashfield constituency.
4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign-born criminals (a) are in prison and (b) were released under the revised terms of the early release scheme since 10 September 2024 in (i) Ashfield constituency and (ii) Nottinghamshire.
4 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many irregular migrants are housed in Ashfield constituency; what accommodation is used to house those migrants; and what the cost is of housing those migrants.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people that will be affected by the proposed changes to pensioners' eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment in Ashfield constituency.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Housing Benefit and Pension Credit: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of bringing together the administration of Pension Credit and Housing Benefit.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department taking to improve the provision of SEND support for children in Ashfield constituency.
4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Council Tax: Single People
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people claimed the single person discount on council tax in (a) the UK (b) the East Midlands, (c) Mansfield and (d) Ashfield in the latest period for which data is avail
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of pensioners who will not be eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment in Ashfield constituency.
4 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners' Release: Victims
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans her Department has to inform victims of the early release of prisoners.
4 Oct 2024 · Home Office
Gender Based Violence: Nottinghamshire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to tackle violence against women and girls in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire.
4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Secondary Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that mental health services are accessible to secondary school children.
4 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on what evidential basis she set levels of means-testing for the Winter Fuel Payment.
9 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to tackle physical violence between prisoners in prisons.
6 Sep 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Winter Fuel Payment
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to support pensioners who are no longer eligible for winter fuel payments.
5 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
High Rise Flats: Insulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent steps her Department has taken to identify buildings affected by (a) dangerous cladding and (b) other fire safety issues.
5 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) provide funding and (b) improve access to NHS dental practices in Ashfield constituency.
5 Sep 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospices: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding for hospices.
5 Sep 2024 · Department for Transport
Roads: Nottinghamshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve road (a) maintenance and (b) conditions in (i) Ashfield constituency and (ii) Nottinghamshire.
5 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Veterans: Homelessness
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he plans to take to support homeless veterans in Ashfield constituency.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Education
School Rebuilding Programme: Nottinghamshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to continue the school rebuilding programme for (a) Kirkby College, (b) Ashfield School, (c) Outwood Academy and (d) Nottinghamshire.
30 Aug 2024 · Department for Transport
Electric Bicycles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps is she taking to ensure the health and safety of (a) pedestrians and (b) motorists, in the context of increases in the use of e-bikes.
27 Aug 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Affordable Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to build more affordable homes.
12 Apr 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Convictions: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to publish statistics on the (a) nationality and (b) visa status of offenders convicted in England and Wales every 12 months.
16 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Defence: Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to paragraph 18 of the Defence Command Paper 2023, what criteria his Department has developed for determining cases in which there is an essential national security requirement for certain industri
16 Feb 2024 · Ministry of Defence
Defence Equipment: Procurement
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Defence Command Paper 2023: Defence’s response to a more contested and volatile world published in July 2023, what steps his Department is taking in its pro
5 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Hate Crime: Police Cautions
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to issue guidance to the police on requirements to refer to the Crown Prosecution Service when using the new diversionary caution for hate crime offences.
5 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Hate Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what rehabilitative programmes are provided by the Probation Service to help tackle hate crime; and whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the impact of these programmes on levels of recidivism.
5 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Hate Crime
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people convicted of hate crimes in magistrates' courts were sentenced to undergo a rehabilitative programme in the latest period for which data is available.
5 Jan 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Hate Crime: Reoffenders
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the reoffending rates were for people convicted of (a) racially-aggravated, (b) religiously-aggravated and (c) other hate crime offences who (i) received a (A) caution and (B) fine and (ii) were imprisoned i
Source: official written-questions record.