Written questions

Abtisam Mohamed

301 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Apr 2025 · Home Office

Crime and Policing Bill: Delivery Services

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that home delivery drivers are protected from abuse within the Crime and Policing Bill.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 April 2025 to Question 42191 on University of Sussex: Disciplinary Proceedings and with reference to her oral statement of 15 January 2025 on Higher Education Regulatory Approach, Of

2 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many School Attendance Order (a) prosecutions and (b) fines there were under section 443 of the Education Act 1996 in each of the last 10 years.

1 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has instructed Official Development Assistance programme teams to pause new (a) business cases, (b) contracts, and (c) funding for programmes supporting women, pea

26 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what progress he has made on the Development Review; and how he plans to use that review to inform the planned reduction in UK aid spending.

11 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Royal College of Physicians

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the Royal College of Physicians on the administrative error in the 2023 Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK part two examinations.

10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Bricks

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that critical cavity nesting bird habitats are mandated in new housing developments.

4 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the School Attendance Order process in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill on local authority staff time.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many School Attendance Orders were issued by each local authority in England for each of the last five years.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's Children Not in School Registers: regulatory impact assessment for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, if she will publish the statistics on School Attendance Order fin

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's Children Not in School Registers: regulatory impact assessment for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, published on 30 January 2025, for what reason (a) higher and (b)

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the further impact assessments for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill will be added to the main bill page.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the New Burdens Assessment will be completed before the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill receives Royal Assent.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when draft guidance on the Children Not In School measures in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill will be published for consultation.

27 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether home educating parents will have to update the local authority within 15 days each time there is a change to the arrangements on record.

26 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Home Education: Local Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of local authority employees working with home educating families that are only employed during school term time; and whether she has made an assessment of th

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard applications are processed within 21 days.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Foreign Companies: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the same sustainability standards are applied (a) Temu, (b) Shein and (c) other Chinese low-cost suppliers as to suppliers in the UK.

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Parcels: Import Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of phasing out the exemption on customs duties that is allowed for parcels under £135.

10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

United Nations: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to support a UN Convention on the rights of Older Persons.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Basic Income: Pilot Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of rolling out Universal Basic Income pilots.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Social Rented Housing and Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to (a) increase the availability of emergency housing and (b) build more social rent homes.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rented Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of allocating more funding to build social rent homes as part of the Spending Review.