Written questions

1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to take steps to support businesses that want to implement a 32-hour four-day working week.

14 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of state-funded schools that have buildings affected by the rusting of steel reinforcements in concrete, so-called concrete cancer; and if she will provide a list of tho

9 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in ensuring that parents receive the money they are owed.

8 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to abolish the four per cent collection fee charged to parents receiving regular payments through the Child Maintenance Service.

8 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what powers the Child Maintenance Service has to (a) enforce or (b) sanction parents in the event that a parent refuses to pay money that they owe.

8 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bills Rebate

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how the Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Fund and the Alternative Fuel Payments Fund will distribute payments to households ineligible for the Energy Bills Support Scheme,

7 Nov 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 October 2022 to Question 69809 on Universal Credit: Children, how many children of compulsory school age lived in households in receipt of Universal Credit with a household

7 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) single-school academy trusts, (b) multi-academy trusts, (c) foundation schools and (d) voluntary-aided schools were liable to pay the apprenticeship levy in each year since 2017 for which

7 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship levy contributions paid by (a) voluntary-aided schools, (b) other maintained schools, (c) single-school academy trusts and (d) multi-academy trusts in England was returned to t

7 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was paid by (a) voluntary-aided schools, (b) other maintained schools, (c) single-school academy trusts and (d) multi-academy trusts in England in apprenticeship levy contributions in each year since 2

7 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship levy contributions paid by state-funded schools in England was returned to the Exchequer in each year since 2017 for which data is available.

7 Nov 2022 · Department for Education

Apprentices: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much was paid by state-funded schools in England in apprenticeship levy contributions, in each year since 2017 for which data is available.

1 Nov 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Energy Bill Relief Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to regulation 6 of the Energy Bill Relief Scheme Pass-through Requirement (Heat Suppliers) (England and Wales and Scotland) Regulations 2022, how an end user may ch

1 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to fill vacancies in the NHS workforce.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Literacy: Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the systematic synthetic phonics programmes validated by her Department are affordable for schools to purchase.

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Reading: Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what weight Ofsted inspectors give to whether a school uses a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by her Department when assessing the quality of the teaching of phonics; and how Ofsted assesses th

28 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Reading: Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria Ofsted uses to assess the quality of the teaching of systematic synthetic phonics by primary schools.

26 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Allied Health Professions and Educational Psychology: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of (a) educational psychologists, (b) speech and language therapists and (c) occupational therapists working with school-age children in England.

24 Oct 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Universal Credit: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many children of compulsory school age live in households in England in receipt of universal credit with a household income after tax and before benefits of less than (a) £7,400, (b) £8,350 and (c)

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2022 to Question 37614 on Schools: Buildings, when he plans to publish more detailed data from the Condition Data Collection.

10 Oct 2022 · Department for Education

Educational Institutions: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state (a) schools and (b) colleges placed an order with his Department's period product scheme in each year since that scheme was introduced.

10 Oct 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to provide all children who have type one diabetes with (a) insulin pumps and (b) continuous glucose monitoring through the NHS in (i) Twickenham constituency an

23 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools and colleges have claimed a grant for training a senior mental health lead in each year since that grant was introduced.

23 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria she used to determine which schools within each integrated care system area are prioritised to be allocated a mental health support team.

23 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Extracurricular Activities

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) financial support and (b) guidance his Department provides to state schools on the provision and expansion of extra-curricular activities before, during and after school.

22 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

Extended Services: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the announcement in the 2016 Budget that HM Treasury would provide up to £285 million to enable a quarter of secondary schools to extend the school day, (a) how much and (b) to which schools w

22 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

Extended Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools established (a) wraparound and (b) holiday childcare as a consequence of the right to request policy introduced by his Department in 2016.

22 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

School Meals: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department gives to state schools on the action to take when a pupil seeks to purchase a school lunch but cannot afford to pay.

22 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

National Tutoring Programme: Publicity

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what was the cost to the public purse of the outbound call campaign run by his Department in summer 2022 to encourage schools to use the National Tutoring Programme.

22 Sep 2022 · Department for Education

Teachers: Re-employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many participants of the Return to Teaching scheme returned in each subject area in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.

Source: official written-questions record.