Written questions
295 written questions tabled, most recent first.
8 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
School Rebuilding Programme: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding has been allocated in total for the school rebuilding programme.
8 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
School Rebuilding Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse has been of the school rebuilding programme broken down by spending on (a) completed projects and (b) ongoing projects.
8 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
School Rebuilding Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of school rebuilding projects have (a) been completed, (b) been completed within their intended time frame and (c) have passed their original deadline.
7 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
School Rebuilding Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which contractors have been chosen to carry out works under the school rebuilding programme; and on what criteria these contractors were chosen.
7 Jan 2025 · Department for Education
Schools: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many temporary classrooms are currently in use in schools across England, broken down by number in use in (a) primary schools (b) secondary schools and (c) special schools.
18 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Disability Aids: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) promote patient awareness of walking aid return and reuse schemes, (b) promote NHS staff awareness of the possibility of establishing those schemes and (c
18 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Disability Aids: Recycling
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of compulsory walking aid return and reuse schemes for NHS trusts.
17 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service: Courts
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 15843 on Child Maintenance Service: Courts, how many liability orders have been (a) applied for by the Child Maintenance Service and (b) granted by
16 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to improve staffing levels in the Child Maintenance Service.
11 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice
Prisoners: Transgender People
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to prevent transgender women being placed in male population prisons while their cases are reviewed.
10 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November to Question 14520 on Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients, how many people have been held in Section 136 suites for over 24 hours in the last five years;
6 Dec 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Broadband: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help support people in areas where (a) there is damage to broadband cables and (b) other repairs are required to access to broadband services.
6 Dec 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Broadband: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to speed up the pace of repairs to damaged broadband cables in rural areas.
5 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Mathematics: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) increase awareness and (b) raise the status with (i) universities and (ii) employers of the Level 3 Core Maths qualification.
5 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Mathematics: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of encouraging the Joint Council for Qualifications to include the Level 3 Core Maths qualification within the A level and Level 3 results documents to
5 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Sixth Form Colleges: Industrial Disputes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support the education of pupils at non-academised sixth forms in the context of planned industrial action.
5 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Further Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will undertake a review of further education funding, in the context of the pay dispute with teachers at non-academised sixth forms.
5 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Sixth Form Colleges: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help resolve pay disputes with non-academised sixth forms who were not included in the 5.5% pay award announced for teachers.
4 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Child Maintenance Service: Pilot Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will publish an evaluation of the pilot scheme on the use of single-named caseworkers by the Child Maintenance Service.
4 Dec 2024 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Establishing the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme in Regulations, published on 23 August 2024, what his planned timetable is to publish the second set
3 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to meet regularly with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care Board; and whether he plans to issue guidance to the Board on the the construction of a town
3 Dec 2024 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when applications for the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme will open to those infected after the cut-off date of 1991.
3 Dec 2024 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason he has maintained the cut-off dates for the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.
3 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Mathematics: Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for (a) her policies and (b) the labour market of changes in the level of the provision of maths in universities.
3 Dec 2024 · Department for Education
Mathematics: Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of maths provision in universities as part of the plan to recruit 6,500 new teachers.
2 Dec 2024 · Treasury
Higher Education: VAT
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2024 to Question 14160 on Higher Education: VAT, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of enabling groups of universities to share VAT-exempt costs at contr
26 Nov 2024 · Department for Education
Secondary Education: Pupil Exclusions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were (a) suspended and (b) permanently excluded from secondary schools in England in 2023-24; and what proportion of those pupils were identified as having SEND.
26 Nov 2024 · Department for Education
Pupils: Absenteeism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching hours have been missed by persistently absent pupils with SEND in the 2023-24 school year.
26 Nov 2024 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils had applications to state-funded mainstream schools rejected due to the school being unable to meet their identified SEND requirements in the 2023-24 school year.
26 Nov 2024 · Department for Education
Primary Education: Pupil Exclusions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils were (a) suspended and (b) permanently excluded from primary schools in England in 2023-24; and what proportion of such pupils were identified as having SEND.
Source: official written-questions record.