Written questions

1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Jan 2023 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bills Discount Scheme: Leisure Centres and Swimming Pools

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will review the list of Energy and Trade Intensive Industries eligible for increased support under the Energy Bills Discount Scheme to include swimming pools and leisure cen

9 Jan 2023 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Emergency Services: Voluntary Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential benefits of establishing a National Volunteer Corps to support emergency services.

9 Jan 2023 · Treasury

Housing Improvement: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of abolishing VAT on household refurbishments.

6 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Mathematics: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the speech made by the Prime Minister on 4 January 2023, what estimate she has made of the number of additional maths teachers required to enable all children to study mathematics until the ag

6 Jan 2023 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 December 2022 to Question 98899 on Free School Meals, what estimate she has made of the proportion of children in each region of England who are entitled to free school meals but hav

19 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bill Relief Scheme: Heat Networks

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is taking steps to provide advice to heat networks customers on the level of support available through the Energy Bill Relief Scheme.

14 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Special Educational Needs: Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time between registering an appeal and the date of the final hearing in the First-tier Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal was in each of the last 5 years for which data is availabl

12 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Houseboats: Energy Bills Rebate

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether houseboat residents will be eligible for the £200 Alternative Fuel Payment.

12 Dec 2022 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Land

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Office of Government Property's policy is on the disposal of surplus land following the withdrawal of that office's previous guidance on that matter on 1 June 2021.

9 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Probate: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many caveats have been entered with the Probate Registry in each year since 2017.

9 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Measurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he expects to publish the UK Measurement Strategy.

9 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Property: Probate

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds on the number of properties currently held in the probate process pending resolution of a dispute in a probate matter.

9 Dec 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Administration of Estates

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of changing laws governing estate administration to allow caveats to be put in place which can stop indefinitely (a) a grant of probate or (b) letters of admini

7 Dec 2022 · Department for Education

Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to announce the results of appeals made by initial teaching training providers who were unsuccessful in her Department's reaccreditation process.

7 Dec 2022 · Department for Education

Universities: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times (a) Ministers and (b) officials from her Department have met representatives of (a) the University and College Union, (b) Universities UK and (c) the Universities and Colleges Employers Associati

7 Dec 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Heat Networks

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for what reasons it is his Department's policy that heat network customers are receiving equivalent support under the Energy Bill Relief Scheme to those eligible for the Energy Pr

6 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish details of his Department's 10-year plan for dementia.

5 Dec 2022 · Department for Transport

Motor Vehicles: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he will put in place a scrappage scheme to support people in London switching to greener vehicles.

5 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients detained under the Mental Health Act spend (a) up to 24, (b) 25-48, (c) 49-72 and (d) over 72 hours on hospital triage wards, including A&E, before being transferred to

2 Dec 2022 · Department for Education

Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, why she has decided to close the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board.

2 Dec 2022 · Department for Education

Department for Education: Trade Unions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times (a) Ministers and (b) officials from her Department met representatives of the (i) National Education Union, (ii) NASUWT, (iii) Association of School and College Leaders and (iv) National Associ

29 Nov 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Forests: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce deforestation (a) in the UK and (b) overseas.

29 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Free School Meals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children who are eligible for free school meals but who have not applied for them.

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish revised provisional allocations under the national funding formula for (a) schools, (b) high needs and (c) central school services for 2023-24 to reflect the additional funding announced for

25 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Autumn Statement 2022, how the additional funding for the core schools budget will be distributed.

21 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

School Rebuilding Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the estimated cost to the public purse is of the capital projects announced in each of the three rounds of the school rebuilding programme.

18 Nov 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Homelessness: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to offer additional funding to organisations supporting the homeless, in the context of the rising cost of living.

17 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Schools: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.41 of the Autumn Statement, CP 751 published on 17 November 2022, if he will publish the core schools budget figures after their adjustment to account for the removal of the compensatio

17 Nov 2022 · Treasury

Schools: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 2.41 of the Autumn Statement 2022, published on 17 November 2022, if he will publish the methodology by which the core schools budget in England will receive an additional £2.3 billion of

15 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Students: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to help support university students with the rising cost of living in winter 2022.

Source: official written-questions record.