Written questions

1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Mar 2025 · Home Office

Telecommunications: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of making the Telecommunications Fraud Sector Charter compulsory.

11 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2025 to Question 21417 on Equitable Life Assurance Society: Compensation, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing full financial redress in cases w

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

School Rebuilding Programme: Asbestos

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) 16-18 colleges identified as containing asbestos and listed on the Schools Rebuilding Programme (i) were scheduled to be and (ii) were

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

School Rebuilding Programme: Concrete

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) 16-18 colleges identified as containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete and listed on the Schools Rebuilding Programme (i) were

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

School Rebuilding Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) 16-18 colleges listed on the Schools Rebuilding Programme (i) were scheduled to be and (ii) were (A) complete and (B) in progress by 1

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Educational Institutions: Closures

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary state-funded schools, (b) secondary state-funded schools, (c) sixth-form colleges, (d) 16-18 state-funded vocational colleges and (e) state-funded nursery schools closed in the last 12 mont

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) three and (b) four year olds were recorded as eligible for the additional 15 hours of free childcare in the academic year 2024-25; and how many were unable to take up those hours due to shortage of

11 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Childcare

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many two year olds were recorded as eligible for 15 hours of free childcare in the academic year 2024-25; and how many were unable to take up those hours due to shortage of nursery places.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Now Teach

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of renewing her Department's contract with Now Teach, in the context of meeting teacher recruitment targets.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Now Teach

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what evidential basis she does not plan to renew her Department's contract with Now Teach, in the context of meeting teacher recruitment targets.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of career changers on meeting her target of recruiting 6,500 new teachers.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department is measuring its progress on recruiting 6,500 new teachers; and whether this measurement will account for teachers that leave the profession over the remainder of the Parliament.

10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress she has made on recruiting 6,500 new teachers.

6 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Juries: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the pilot scheme to provide support for jurors on the most traumatic cases will be (a) continued and (b) widened to include more courts.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, when she will lay regulations on ‘relevant accommodation’ provisions for children deprived of their liberty.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Carbon Emissions: Aviation and Shipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will amend the Climate Change Act 2008 to include International Aviation and Shipping in UK carbon budgets.

24 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Landlords: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes in mortgage interest tax relief on private landlords since the inception of those measures in April 2017.

12 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Epilepsy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into the causes of epilepsy.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices stopped accepting NHS patients in (a) Twickenham and (b) London in each year since 2019.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the total number of special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) in all schools.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Basic Skills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations of the AQA report entitled Towards new assessments for Numeracy, Literacy and Digital Fluency, published in O

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parking: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2025 to Question 27485 on Parking: Private Sector, if she will restrict access to DVLA records by private parking companies that consistently

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parking: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February to Question 27485, tabled on 29 January 2025 on Parking: Private Sector, if she will issue revised guidance on the operation and management o

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Parking: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a regulatory and competition authority for private carpark operators.

7 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to each integrated care board in England to provide for child and adolescent mental services for the next financial year.

7 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Parental Pay

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were in receipt of (a) Statutory Maternity Pay, (b) Statutory Paternity Pay, (c) Statutory Adoption Pay and (d) Statutory Shared Parental Pay in the (i) 2019-20 (ii) 2020-21 (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 20

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teacher vacancies were recorded by secondary schools in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022, (e) 2023 and (f) 2024.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teacher vacancies were recorded by primary schools in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022, (e) 2023 and (f) 2024.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which teacher recruitment and retention schemes that have received notice that funding will be (a) reduced and (b) ended since 30 October 2024.

6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the potential impact of the covid pandemic on levels of teacher (a) recruitment and (b) retention between 2020 and 2024.

Source: official written-questions record.