Written questions

810 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a human rights impact assessment of the transition from Biometric Resident Permits to eVisas.

4 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an equalities impact assessment on the transition from Biometric Resident Permits to eVisas.

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Pupil Exclusions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 7596 on Special Educational Needs, how many and what proportion of children who had been excluded from school were then registered at special schools by (a)

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Pupil Referral Units: Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answers of 14 October to Questions 7569 on Special Educational Needs and 7570 on Pupil Referral Units, how many and what proportion of children who attended Special Educational Needs schools wer

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Pupil Referral Units

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2024 to Question 9795 on Pupil Referral Units, if her Department will undertake a manual audit of all children registered at Pupil Referral Units since 1 November 2023 to se

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Pupil Referral Units

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2024 to Question 9795 on Pupil Referral Units, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of recording the number of children registered at Pupil Referral Units

4 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Food Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of surveys undertaken by the Food Foundation Food entitled Food insecurity tracking, published in July 2024, on a potent

28 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme: Public Appointments

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to appoint a Windrush Commissioner.

28 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to take steps to lower the burden of proof for Windrush compensation scheme claims.

28 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to (a) improve the efficiency of the application process for the Windrush compensation scheme and (b) limit further delays.

28 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Windrush Compensation Scheme: Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timeline is for the review of accounting for the loss of private and occupational pensions under the Windrush Compensation Scheme.

22 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Breakfast Clubs: Primary Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing kitchen facilities available to primary schools, in the context of the roll-out of new breakfast clubs.

22 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing auto-enrolment for Healthy Start.

22 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Infant Foods

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish guidance on the sugar and salt content of baby foods.

22 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential link between poor (a) mental health and (b) access to nutritious food.

21 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Radicalism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 15 October 2024 to Questions 7571, 7572, 7573, 7574, 7575, and 7576 on Radicalism and Counter-terrorism, what the terms of reference are for the rapid review of extremism; a

17 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Sentences

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of people serving an imprisonment for public protection sentence in prison were originally given a tariff of (a) six months, (b) 12 months, (c) 18 months, (d) two years, (e) three yea

17 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Pupil Referral Units

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answers of 14 October 2024 to Question 7569 on Special Educational Needs and Question 7570 on Pupil Referral Units, how many and what proportion of children who had been excluded from school wer

14 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Asylum and Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to consult civil society before publishing the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.

10 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department confidentially destroys third party data received as part of Equifax checks conducted in fee waiver applications.

10 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to minimise unnecessary data (a) collection and (b) sharing through Equifax during the fee waiver application process.

10 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Immigration: Applications

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department began using Equifax checks as part of the fee waiver assessment process for leave to remain applications.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Pupils: Travellers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Education Policy Institute's Annual Report 2024, published on 16 July 2024, what steps she plans to take to tackle disadvantage gaps identified in that report for (a) Gypsy and Roma pupils

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Education

Alternative Education: Travellers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Institute for Public Policy Research's report entitled Who is losing learning, the case for reducing exclusions across mainstream schools, published on 5 September 2024, what steps her Departm

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Rented Housing: Furniture Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the child poverty taskforce plans to make an assessment of the potential impact of furniture poverty on families in social rented homes.

8 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the end of the Household Support Fund on the number of people in poverty.

8 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing: Furniture Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate she has made of the number of households living in social housing without essential pieces of furniture.

8 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Racial Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government, whether she plans to respond to the report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination entitled Concluding observations on the combined twenty-fourth to twenty-

7 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish an equality impact assessment of the potential impact on groups with protected characteristics of the counter-extremism strategy review.

7 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Counter-terrorism

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to ensure that her Department's new counter-extremism strategy effectively distinguishes between (a) legitimate political or religious expression and (b) actions that pose

Source: official written-questions record.