Kate Osborne

25 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Offices

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the average annual rent costs for DVSA test centres across the UK.

25 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Jarrow

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much annual rent is paid by the DVSA for the South Shields Test Centre in the Jarrow constituency.

25 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Jarrow

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on what date the (a) ground lease and (b) any other leases are due to end at South Shields Driving Test Centre in the Jarrow constituency.

9 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Immigration Removal Centres: Independent Monitoring Boards

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason it is a requirement for volunteers to sign the Official Secrets Act when volunteering to be on an independent monitoring board for an immigration removal centre.

9 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many women have been moved or released from Derwentside immigration removal centre (IRC) since it opened; and how many of those women have (a) been moved to another IRC, (b) been deported, (c) acc

9 Mar 2022 · Home Office

Immigration Removal Centres: Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many in-person legal visits have taken place at (a) Brook House, (b) Tinsley House, (c) Yarl's Wood, (d) Dungavel, (e) Harmondsworth, (f) Colnbrook and (g) Derwentside immigration removal centres

7 Mar 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of people registered as homeless in temporary accommodation.

28 Feb 2022 · Home Office

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many in-person legal visits have taken place at Derwentside immigration removal centre since women were first detained there on 28 December 2021; and which contracted legal aid providers have made

10 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what (a) square footage, (b) facilities, (c) IT requirements, (d) energy supply, (e) health and safety and (f) specifications are required for each driving test centre examiner to carry out a test.

10 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the requirement on the number of parking bays required for each driving test centre is.

10 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Jarrow

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the overall running costs of the South Shields Driving Test Centre on the Bede Industrial Estate, Jarrow have been in each of the last five years.

10 Feb 2022 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Jarrow

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will meet with the hon Member for Jarrow to discuss the reported planned permanent closure of the South Shields Driving Test Centre on the Bede Industrial Estate in Jarrow in April 2022.

3 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Lifelong Loan Entitlement, for what reason a student studying a module at level 4 in higher education will be eligible for maintenance support, but an adult wishing to do a full level 3 qu

3 Feb 2022 · Department for Education

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the Government is introducing a Lifelong Loan Entitlement for modules and full years of study at levels 4-6 but not at level 3 and below.

17 Jan 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment and Support Allowance: Jarrow

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been affected by the underpayment of benefits after transitioning from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance in Jarrow consti

5 Jan 2022 · Home Office

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that women released from Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre (a) are able to access accommodation in the community and (b) can reach that accommod

5 Jan 2022 · Home Office

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from what date the first women were detained at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre (IRC); how many women are detained at that IRC as of 5 January 2022; and whether any women detained at that IRC h

5 Jan 2022 · Home Office

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what reasonable adjustments have been made in accordance with sections 20 and 29 of the Equality Act 2010, to accommodate incapacitated and mentally ill detainees at Derwentside Immigration Removal Ce

5 Jan 2022 · Home Office

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what arrangements, in terms of practice and contractual commitments, are in place at Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre to ensure adherence to rules 34, 35, 40, 42 and 45 of the Detention Centre R

15 Dec 2021 · Department for Education

School Games: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress his Department has made, in discussion with the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in agreeing funding for the School Games Organiser ne

15 Dec 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Menopause

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to include provisions for improving access to treatment for the menopause in the forthcoming Women’s Health Strategy.

9 Dec 2021 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish guidance on the rules for isolation of classrooms in the event that a pupil in the class tests positive for the Omicron Covid-19 variant.

6 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2021 to Question 79500 on Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre, whether (a) 30-minute appointments and (b) legal visits subsequent to a 30 minute appointment under the Deta

6 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 29 November 2021 to Question 79500, what plans there are for (a) 30 minute appointments and (b) legal visits subsequent to 30 minute appointments under the Detained Duty Advice Scheme to

6 Dec 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his Answer of 29 November 2021 to Question 79500, which existing providers at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre have expressed an interest in providing legal advice under the contingency arrangem

22 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contingency arrangements for legal advice provision will be put in place in response to the cancellation of the Detained Duty Advice Scheme procurement process for Derwentside immigration removal centre; whi

12 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Immigration Removal Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the (a) certified normal accommodation and (b) operational capacities are of (i) Colnbrook, (ii) Harmondsworth and (iii) Brook House immigration removal centres.

12 Nov 2021 · Home Office

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's planned timescale is for Derwentside immigration removal centre (IRC) to start holding women who are detained under immigration powers; and what the (a) certified normal accommod

12 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many legal advice surgeries will take place per week under the Detained Duty Advice Scheme at Derwentside immigration removal centre; and from what date those services will commence.

12 Nov 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Derwentside Immigration Removal Centre

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his planned timetable is for completion of the tender process for the Detained Duty Advice Scheme at Derwentside immigration removal centre; and when his Department plans to publish the outcome of that proce