Written questions

504 written questions tabled, most recent first.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40830 on Dyslexia: Screening, how she plans to use the £1 billion provided for high needs budgets in the 2025-26 financial year.

17 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Specific Learning Difficulties

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 31 March 2025 to Question 40830 on Dyslexia: Screening, whether her Department has considered international (a) evidence and (b) best practice in the support of pupils with specific le

17 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Warwickshire Police: Disciplinary Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of current gross misconduct hearings for Warwickshire Police; and what the average length of time taken to conclude gross misconduct hearings for Wa

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fly-tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support people affected by fly-tipping required to clear waste on private land at their own expense.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fly-tipping: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help support (a) local authorities and (b) enforcement agencies to tackle fly-tipping in rural areas.

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Young Offender Institutions: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the condition of (a) young offenders institutions and (b) education provision in these institutions.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Protection: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to provide support to people affected by environmental crimes.

8 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Domestic Abuse and Gender Based Violence: Victims

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to support survivors of domestic abuse and violence against women through the criminal justice system.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Manufacturing Industries: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of recent changes to National Insurance contributions on small manufacturing businesses.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Manufacturing Industries: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the growth of (a) small and (b) medium-sized manufacturing businesses.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Further Education: Conditions of Employment and Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve (a) pay and (b) working conditions in further education colleges.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Further Education: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of students that will be entering further education colleges in the 2025-26 academic year.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Further Education: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase (a) teaching capacity and (b) student places in further education colleges.

8 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Adult Education: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on budgets for the devolved adult skills fund.

8 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Construction: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Spring Statement of 26 March 2025, how the £625 million for construction skills will be allocated; and when providers will receive (a) funding allocations and (b) bidding information.

7 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sewers: Property Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help ensure that local authorities have adequate (a) powers and (b) resources to (i) adopt and (ii) manage sustainable drainage systems.

7 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Sewers: Property Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory power for local flood authorities to (a) adopt and (b) maintain sustainable urban drainage syste

3 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to consult stakeholders on the potential impact of fixed recoverable costs on access to justice for vulnerable patients impacted by clinical negligence.

3 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to review the proposed fixed recoverable costs scheme for clinical negligence claims.

3 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Negligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of fixed recoverable costs on (a) birth injury cases, (b) mental health-related negligence claims and (c) claims involving elde

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Music

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether music education will be one of the metrics assessed in the Ofsted report card announced for schools in England.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Arts: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to increase the number of apprenticeships in the creative sector.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Universities: Music

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing targeted support to universities at risk of closing their music departments.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Music

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase recruitment of music teachers.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Arts

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to deliver a Music and Arts Pupil Premium to schools.

2 Apr 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, which of the recommendations from the 2019 Online Harms White Paper his Department has implemented.

1 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Cooperatives

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential role of (a) co-operatives and (b) co-operation in his Department's approach to international development.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the Child Maintenance Service does not allow economic abuse through missed payments by the paying parent.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of false complaints to social services by parents paying child maintenance on the well-being of receiving parents and their children.

1 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to improve enforcement against paying parents who repeatedly miss Child Maintenance Service payments.

Source: official written-questions record.