Written questions

141 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Jul 2026 · Department for Transport

Southeastern: Rolling Stock

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of new metro rolling stock for the southeastern network on performance and costs.

10 Jul 2026 · Department for Education

Schools: Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Kent’s Communities of Schools model complies with her Department's guidance.

19 Mar 2026 · Department for Education

Pupils: Meningitis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her department is taking to ensure pupils, particularly those with imminent exams, can continue to attend schools safely in the context of the meningitis outbreak.

19 Mar 2026 · Department for Education

Pupils: Meningitis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether school children who have been in a classroom, dining hall, shared areas with someone who now has confirmed meningitis are being offered a)antibiotics b)vaccinations.

11 Mar 2026 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2026 to Question 108298, when she estimates to complete their work on producing robust repayment figures broken down by British citizen status.

25 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the £4bn announced in her Department's policy paper entitled Every child achieving and thriving, published on 23 February 2026, is from her Department’s existing spending envelope.

25 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the £3.5 billion funding announced in the White Paper entitled Every child achieving and thriving, published 23 February 2026, is additional funding beyond that announced at the Spending Review.

20 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to provide compensation for civil servants impacted by administrative failures in the civil service pension scheme.

20 Feb 2026 · Cabinet Office

Capita and MyCSP

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the respective responsibilities of MyCSP and Capita are for administrative failures in the civil service pension scheme; and what steps he is taking to hold them to account.

20 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport

Waste Disposal

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many deaths involving refuse collection vehicles have been recorded in each of the last five years.

10 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to Answer of 14 January 2026 to Question 104334, how many students with settled status obtained a student loan in 2024-25; and how much was spent on repaying these loans in the same time period.

28 Jan 2026 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Social Media: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when his Department will launch its consultation on children's social media use.

27 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Arts: Vocational Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether RSL levels will continue once V-Levels are introduced in September 2027.

8 Jan 2026 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether a student with settled status, who has lived in the UK for three years, can obtain a student loan.

16 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that funding being provided for secondary schools on the National School Breakfast Programme in the 2026/2027 academic year is used as effectively as possible.

16 Dec 2025 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the funding that mainstream primary schools with SEN Units receive to fund their free breakfast club.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many complaints has OIA received from disabled students in each of the last 5 years, what proportion were upheld, and how many reasonable adjustments were made during complaint processes.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Complaints

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many OIA settlements have been reported as breached to Office for Students in each of the last 5 years, and what enforcement action was taken in each case.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to support parents to manage children's levels of screen time.

20 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of using evidence-based parenting programmes, like Triple P and Incredible Years, to ensure more families receive more support to manage their children’s onl

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that school-based nurseries opened as a result of the school-based nursery grant are supplementing PVI setting provision.

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Nurseries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applicants for school-based nurseries have served notices to quit to PVI settings operating on their premises in the last two years.

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Nurseries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of banning schools who have evicted PVI settings from their premises in the last two years in order to apply for the school-based nursery grant from future

22 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Nurseries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to prevent schools removing PVI settings operating on their premises in order to apply for future expansions of the school-based nursery grant.

21 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Work Experience: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the effective delivery of two weeks’ worth of work experience for every young person, in the context of business operational constraints.

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Breakfast Clubs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the schools that started the breakfast club pilot scheme on 22 April 2025 have withdrawn; and for what reason each withdrew.

15 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with early years providers to help tackle early years staffing shortages in areas identified as childcare deserts.

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Nurseries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the potential impact of new nursery provision on childcare (a) availability and (b) affordability in areas already served by existing providers.

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will publish a list of (a) the proposed locations for new school-based nurseries and (b) the criteria used to select them.

10 Jul 2025 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that the expansion of school-based nurseries is focused on addressing childcare deserts and areas with significant unmet need.

Source: official written-questions record.