Written questions
1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Music
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school music teachers left the teaching profession in the period between (a) 2010 and 2015, (b) 2015 and 2020 and (c) 2020 and 2024.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Music
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school music teachers left the teaching profession in the period between (a) 2010 and 2015, (b) 2015 and 2020 and (c) 2020 and 2024.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Labour Turnover
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the retention of teachers when they become parents.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Twickenham
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve teacher (a) recruitment and (b) retention in Twickenham constituency.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Labour Turnover
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to implement a staff retention strategy in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Teachers: Mental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of Education Support's report entitled Teacher Wellbeing Index 2024, published in November 2024.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has met with the Licence UK Construction Task Force set up by the Federation of Master Builders.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Construction: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring builders to (a) have relevant qualifications and (b) demonstrate a certain competence level to undertake specific work.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Housing: Building Alterations
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating an ombudsman for home owner property extensions.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Construction: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Federation of Master Builders report entitled Licence to build: A pathway to licensing UK construction, published on 2
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Uniforms
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the average price of school uniform in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools, broken down by regions of England.
6 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport
Agriculture: Biofuels
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an estimate of the proportion of farmland that will be used to produce alternative aviation fuels in (a) 2030, (b) 2040 and (c) 2050.
5 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Wealth: Equality
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations outlined in the Fairness Foundation's report entitled Wealth Gap Risk Register, published on 15 October 2024.
5 Feb 2025 · Treasury
Wealth: Equality
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Fairness Foundation and King's College's report Identifying and mitigating the risks of wealth inequality in the UK, published on 26 January 2025, if she will make an assessment of the potential me
5 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Bicycles
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring e-bike owners to (a) have a driving license, (b) have vehicle insurance, (c) pay road tax and (d) take an annual MOT.
5 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Bicycles: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many e-bike riders were held responsible in an accident involving an e-bike in each of the last five years.
5 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Bicycles: Accidents
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many accidents involving the police have involved e-bikes in the last five years.
5 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport
Electric Scooters
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish the (a) schedule for e-scooter trials and (b) data obtained from those trials.
5 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
France and Spain: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made recent representations to his (a) French and (b) Spanish counterpart on long-stay visas for UK citizens who need to spend more than 90 days within a given
5 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Spain: British Nationals Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of negotiating a reciprocal agreement with his Spanish counterpart to allow British citizens with properties in Spain to
4 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prison Accommodation: Fire Alarms
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2025 to Question 23432 on Prisons: Fires, how many cell fire alarms in the identified prisons were found to be (i) working and (ii) not working.
4 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
Higher Education: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an estimate of the number of (a) universities and (b) higher education buildings where reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete is present.
4 Feb 2025 · Department for Education
School Rebuilding Programme: Concrete
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which schools that are awaiting refurbishment through the school rebuilding programme (a) have and (b) have not had those works brought forward due to the presence of RAAC.
31 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Detention and Training Orders: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of children under 18 that have received detention and training orders have had an identified SEND issue since 2023.
31 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of practitioners in the (a) early years and (b) childcare sectors that have received training on SEND identification.
30 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Streaming
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 22681 on Broadcasting, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact on the protection of children online of including podcasts in t
30 Jan 2025 · Treasury
Business: Inheritance Tax and Living Wage
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department plans to take to support family owned small and medium sized enterprises with changes in the level of (a) the National Living Wage and (b) Business Property Relief.
20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to (a) scale up and (b) roll out the DISCOVER workshop programme led by the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of results of the Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial, published in June 2024, by the National Instit
13 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many families are eligible for the Adoption and Special Guardian Support Fund; and how many of these have accessed the fund since 7 February 2024.
Source: official written-questions record.