Written questions

1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.

27 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) dedicated and (b) non-dedicated Emotional Literacy Support Assistant are employed by (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools across England and Wales.

25 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Condition Improvement Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools applied for and (a) received and (b) did not receive Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) financial support in (i) the North West, (ii) the North East, (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber, (iv) the East

25 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Condition Improvement Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools applied for and (a) received and (b) did not receive Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) financial support since 2017, by parliamentary constituency.

25 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many education settings have their requests for Government-funded air cleaning units (a) approved and (b) rejected in (i) the North West, (ii) the North East, (iii) Yorkshire and the Humber, (iv) the East M

25 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many education settings have had their requests for Government-funded air cleaning units (a) approved and (b) rejected, by parliamentary constituency.

24 Jan 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Food: Labelling

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing environmental impact labelling for food products and its potential impact on (a) consumer awareness and choice and (b

24 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Literacy: Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria his Department used to decide which systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programmes to validate.

24 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Literacy: Teaching Methods

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of schools moving to validated systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programmes.

20 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of Education Mental Health Practitioners working in schools in England as of 20 January 2022.

20 Jan 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, how many teams were set up as part of the implemented Children and Young People’s Mental Health Trailblazer programme pilot; and what the cost is to the public purse of each individual Mental Healt

20 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Education: English Language and STEM Subjects

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching hours per week, on average, are spent on (a) Maths, (b) English and (c) Sciences for children in Key Stage (i) one, (ii) two and (iii) three.

19 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding his Department plans to provide (a) schools and (b) local authorities for school improvements in financial year 2023-24.

19 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to extend eligibility for senior mental health lead training grants to all schools.

19 Jan 2022 · Treasury

Soft Drinks: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the revenue raised from the soft drinks industry levy is ringfenced for use by the Department for Education.

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

Tree Preservation Orders

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the answer of 5 January 2022 to Question 98458 on Trees: Biodiversity and Climate Change, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of giving greate

17 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Pupil Premium: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of pupil premium funding planned to be 2.7 per cent in 2022-23 in light of inflation figures.

17 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Pupils: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to change the method by which attainment is measured among disadvantaged pupils in the context of the recent significant increase in pupil eligibility for free school meals.

13 Jan 2022 · Treasury

Soft Drinks: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how revenue from the Soft Drinks Levy was allocated in financial years (a) 2018-19 (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21 .

11 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Numeracy

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to make the secondary legislation on the multiplication tables check.

10 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many grants for Senior Mental Health Lead Training have been made since April 2021.

7 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Soft Drinks: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contribution was made from the Soft Drinks Levy to the Healthy Pupils Capital Fund in (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.

7 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Soft Drinks: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contribution the Soft Drinks Levy made to the Sport Premium in (a) 2017, (b) 2018, (c) 2019 and (d) 2020.

7 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Schools: Ventilation

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish data gathered from the 350,000 carbon dioxide monitors distributed to schools across England from September 2021.

7 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Education: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) criteria and (b) data were used to determine the destinations of the 7,000 air purifier units announced on 2 January 2022.

7 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Education: Air Conditioning

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) Dyson Pure Cool Formaldehyde – TP09 and (b) Camfil City M air cleaning units have been purchased by (i) education and (ii) childcare settings through the marketplace opened by the Department.

5 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many retired and ex-teachers were recruited back into teaching in (a) December 2021 and (b) January 2022.

5 Jan 2022 · Department for Education

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Government spent on the campaign to bring retired and ex-teachers back to teaching to cover covid-19 absences in December 2021.

5 Jan 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Travel: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what basis the Government had made the decision of requiring a PCR test for those who have had covid-19 in the last 90 days, upon arriving in the UK, while the advice pre-departure had been to d

5 Jan 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Trees: Biodiversity and Climate Change

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment he has made of the impact of the (a) The Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation) (England) Regulations 2012 and (b) guidance issued on 6 March 2014 on (i) Tree

4 Jan 2022 · Home Office

Refugees: Afghanistan

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking with (a) the Department for Health and Social Care and (b) other specialist psychological services to provide (i) specialist and (ii) culturally sensitive mental health suppor

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