Written questions

810 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to ensure that bodies providing independent validation of organisations seeking Disability Confident Leader status or to renewal of that status are fit for purpose.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, which bodies provide independent validation of organisations seeking Disability Confident Leader status or renewal of that status.

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a public inquiry into the policy of so-called educationally subnormal schools in the 1960s and 1970s and (a) the number and proportion

26 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Cases Review Commission

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, as at 26 February 2025, how many applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission have been open for (a) over one year, (b) over two years, (c) over five years, (d) over ten years and (e) over fifteen years.

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

British Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s guidance entitled Good character: caseworker guidance, updated on 13 February 2025, whether adults granted ref

21 Feb 2025 · Home Office

British Nationality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department’s guidance entitled Good character: caseworker guidance, updated on 13 February 2025, whether children granted refugee status who arrived in the UK unaccompanied can n

21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the availability of free period products at (a) primary care and (b) secondary care settings in England.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Students: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing free period products to learners in (a) further and (b) higher education settings in England.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will meet with representatives of trade unions to discuss the potential impact of workplace visa rules on staff in her Department.

21 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Vacancies

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the number of vacancies in her Department.

12 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Offenders: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences on licence in the community have taken their own lives in each year since 2005.

31 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed deletion of the Gang Violence Matrix on (a) legal risks and (b) access to justice for affected people.

30 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will instruct the Metropolitan Police to delay the deletion of its Gangs Violence Matrix.

30 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of identifying an independent body to safeguard data relating to the Metropolitan Police’s Gangs Violence Matrix.

30 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving custodial sentences were convicted based on evidence from the Gang Violence Matrix.

30 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of people in the Metropolitan Police’s Gangs Violence Matrix who have been convicted under joint enterprise laws.

30 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Metropolitan Police on (a) the potential impact of its gang violence matrix on ethnic minority groups and (b) the steps it is taking to ensure that its policing p

30 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Metropolitan Police on taking steps to allow people who have been wrongfully included on the gang violence matrix to challenge their inclusion before the deletion

27 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Police: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help improve the transparency of processes for the (a) collection, (b) retention and (c) use of data by the police.

27 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Metropolitan Police on the steps it is taking to ensure that data shared with third parties from the gang violence matrix is not (a) misused and (b) further disse

27 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crimes of Violence: Convictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of deleting the Gang Violence Matrix on the ability of wrongfully convicted people to appeal their convictions.

27 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to contact people who were included on the Gang Violence Matrix to enable them to access their information before its deletion on 13 February 2025.

27 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Crimes of Violence: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of people who have been (a) charged, (b) prosecuted and (c) incarcerated based on information obtained from the Gang Violence Matrix since 2011.

27 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to ensure people who were convicted using information from the Gang Violence Matrix can appeal their convictions after the database is deleted.

27 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Gangs: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the permanent deletion of the Metropolitan Police's Gang Violence Matrix database on access to justice for people who were wrongfully included o

23 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the annual cost to the public purse of people serving imprisonment for public protection sentences.

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question HL3055, Prisons: Repairs and Maintenance, whether the public sector will be allowed to bid for new contracts for the provision of maintenance services for pr

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence have been recalled to prison due to criminal allegations made against them which did not result in further polic

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence have been recalled to prison by (a) category and (b) reason for recall, in each of the past eight quarters.

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Homelessness

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people serving an IPP sentence have been recalled to prison because of homelessness in each of the last 12 months.

Source: official written-questions record.