Written questions

2,620 written questions tabled, most recent first.

9 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Assessments: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Expert Group established to look at how to make the 2021 exams fair, will be allowed to assess the potential merits of optionality in exams.

9 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Trade Marks

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on UK Chartered Trade Mark Attorneys in the event that EEA attorneys continue to have access to both the UK and EU markets and

9 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Intellectual Property: Reciprocal Arrangements

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of allowing EEA and UK practitioners to have reciprocal rights of representation across (a) the UK Intellectual Property Office

9 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date she plans to publish the child sexual abuse strategy.

9 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has established an external reference group of experts to review the Government's research on group-based child sexual exploitation.

9 Dec 2020 · Home Office

Offences against Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to publish her Department's paper on group-based child sexual exploitation.

8 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Public Houses: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when further (a) guidance and (b) funding will be provided to local authorities to enable them to pay the £1,000 grant to wet-led pubs in tier 2 and 3 local covid alert level area

8 Dec 2020 · Treasury

Hospitality Industry: Coronavirus

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what additional support, further to the Additional Restrictions Grant Scheme, he will make available to local authorities for (a) pubs and (b) hospitality businesses who are able to trade but have been adversely aff

8 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Hospitality Industry and Leisure: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to provide local authorities with additional guidance on support schemes for the (a) leisure and (b) hospitality sector in tier 2 local covid alert level areas.

7 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will commence a pilot study as permitted under section 58 of the Children and Families Act 2014 to allow claims to the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal to be brought by children in

4 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether every school has received its first allocation of catch-up premium funding; and how many tutors funded by the National Tutoring Programme have been working in schools in England during the autumn 2020 t

4 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Public Houses: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November to Question 109692, whether wet-led pubs are able to engage outside catering contractors under tier 2 rules as they did under tier 3 rules on

3 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Fossil Fuels: UK Export Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2020 to Question 78468 on Mozambique: Liquefied Natural Gas, if he will publish the most recent conclusions relating to his Department from t

2 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

China General Nuclear Power Corporation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of the role of the China General Nuclear Power Group in Britain's nuclear power plants on UK security.

2 Dec 2020 · Department for International Trade

Liquefied Natural Gas: Mozambique

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September to Question 78468 on Mozambique: Liquefied Natural Gas, what assessment he has made of when his Department will be able to conclude whether the Mozambique gas pro

2 Dec 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Disease Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish (a) the algorithm or methodology that combines the five indicators to determine the covid-19 tier system for an area and (b) how that methodology incorporates (i) geographic and

2 Dec 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Drugs: Litter

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the prevalence of pollution from littering of (a) nitrous oxide cannisters, (b) plastic balloons and (c) other paraphernalia from the use of that

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gambling Act 2005

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what his timescale is for his Department's review of the Gambling Act 2005.

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the Early Years Alliance survey's finding that one in six early years providers and one in four in the most deprived local authorities could c

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of giving maintained nursery schools the same status as schools by adequately covering their (a) statutory responsibilities (b) staff obligations and (c) cost

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to commence the review into the early years funding formula.

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Undocumented Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of extending eligibility for free school meals to undocumented children.

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to inform schools of the extension in the eligibility for free school meals to children from low-income families with No Recourse to Public Funds; and whether his Department provided an

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 November to Question 106891, when the Government plans to publish the (a) terms of reference and (b) scope of the review on how immigration status and no recourse to public funds int

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 2 November to Question 106891, when the review on how immigration status and no recourse to public funds interact with free school meals and other educational entitlements will b

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Education

Free School Meals: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of children in low-income families with No Recourse to Public Funds that are (a) eligible for and (b) have access free school meals since the extension of that scheme to

1 Dec 2020 · Cabinet Office

Honours

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people who declined an appointment to an Order of the British Empire award cited (a) anti-imperialism and (b) an unwillingness to be associated with the former B

1 Dec 2020 · Cabinet Office

Honours

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have declined an appointment to each Order of the British Empire award in each of the last five years.

1 Dec 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Nuclear Reactors: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding the Government has allocated to the research and development of fourth generation nuclear reactors to date.

30 Nov 2020 · Home Office

Deportation: Jamaica

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will (a) cancel the deportation flight to Jamaica scheduled for 2 December 2020 and (b) halt any further such flights from the UK.

Source: official written-questions record.