Written questions
1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Teachers: Re-employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what was the cost to the public purse of the Return to Teaching scheme in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
21 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Heat Networks: Price Caps
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he will publish specific energy bill support for households connected to communal heat networks; and whether that support will be equivalent to the two-year cap for other UK
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bill Relief Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of providing the energy bills support scheme announced on 8 September 2022 to (a) businesses and (b) public sector organi
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Schools: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance he has given to schools and colleges whose fixed-term energy contracts have recently ended on whether to sign new contracts before the energy bills support scheme announced on 8 September 2022 is
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Schools: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will revise the provisional funding allocations for schools for 2023-24 in order to provide ongoing financial support to schools with energy costs once the six-month energy bills support has ended.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Schools: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 May 2022 to Question 495 on Schools: Energy, if he will publish a summary of the findings of the survey sent to schools about their energy contracts.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Schools: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to reopen the Schools Energy Efficiency Loan Scheme.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bill Relief Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the support scheme for energy bills will apply to existing fixed-term energy contracts agreed by public sector organisations.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bill Relief Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the support scheme for energy bills for (a) schools and (b) other public sector organisations will cap the unit price of (i) gas and (ii) electricity.
20 Sep 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 the Prime Minister's oral contribution on 8 September 2022, Official Report, column 398, whether (a) early years providers, (b) schools, (c) colleges and (d) uni
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bill Relief Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish further details on how the energy bills support announced on 8 September 2022 will apply to (a) schools and (b) other public sector organisations.
20 Sep 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Energy Bill Relief Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on what date he expects the energy bills support scheme announced on 8 September 2022 for schools and other public sector organisations will be implemented.
7 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department collects data on the average length of time patients detained under the Mental Health Act who are admitted to Section 136 suites spend in those units before being transferred
6 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the document entitled Mental Health Support Teams for Children and Young People in Education: A Manual, published on the Healthy London Partnership website in October 2015, whethe
5 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Teachers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there are accredited initial teacher training providers in all parts of England after September 2024 through its re-accreditation process of those providers.
5 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Teachers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish the criteria that his Department is using to assess applicants in round two of the initial teacher training accreditation process that closed on 27 June 2022.
5 Sep 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Culture: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment her Department has made of the impact of rising inflation on the heritage and culture sector; and whether her Department has plans to increase funding to (a) museu
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Fish: Animal Welfare
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to improve animal welfare protections for fish at the time of slaughter.
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Social Rented Housing: Air Conditioning
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment his Department has made of the vulnerability of social housing stock to overheating; and what steps he is taking to ensure social housing is (a) designed and (
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times the London Ambulance Service has experienced computer system failures in (a) one and (b) more than one of its control centres in the last (a) 30 days, (b) six months, and (c) twelve
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how long patients detained under the Mental Health Act who are admitted to Section 136 suites spend on average in these units before being transferred to specialist mental health wards in (a) South
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of patients detained under the Mental Health Act spend over 72 hours in a Section 136 suite or other triage units before being transferred to a specialist mental health ward in (a)
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish a list of all discretionary funding streams administered by his Department that local authorities in England are able to bid or apply for that relate to (a) education and (b) support for chil
2 Sep 2022 · Department for Education
Schools: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to prepare schools for a potential increase in covid-19 cases in winter 2022 in respect of (a) helping schools to improve their ventilation and (b) minimising disruption to learning caus
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent (a) steps his Department has taken and (b) research his Department has commissioned to understand the (i) causes and (ii) potential solutions of the pressures being experienced by NHS A
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Emergency Calls and NHS 111
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of levels of public knowledge of (a) the roles and purposes of 999 and NHS 111 and (b) when it is appropriate to contact each service respectively.
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Emergency Calls
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the triage and call categorisation scripts used by NHS Ambulance Trust call handlers.
2 Sep 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Junior Doctors: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of training placements for junior doctors that will be funded in London in (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25, (c) 2025-26, (d) 2026-27 and (e) 2027-28.
19 Jul 2022 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
BBC News
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of the merger of BBC News and BBC World News on the effectiveness of public service news broadcasting (a) in the UK and (b) overseas
18 Jul 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Poultry: Animal Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his Department's timescale is for launching a consultation on the use of cages for laying hens.
Source: official written-questions record.