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.