Written questions

292 written questions tabled, most recent first.

11 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Missing Persons: Care Leavers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) reduce missing incidents and (b) provide additional support to people at risk of going missing who are care experienced.

11 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Missing Persons: Ethnic Groups

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to (a) reduce missing incidents and (b) provide additional support to people at risk of going missing from BAME communities.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide: Missing Persons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure his Department's work on reducing suicide rates includes measures to help those that have been reported missing.

11 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Suicide: Missing Persons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the correlation between trends in the number of people (a) going missing and (b) committing suicide.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Missing People: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of repeat missing incidents amongst children.

11 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Missing People: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has plans to update the statutory guidance on children that (a) run away and (b) go missing from home or care.

22 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Pupils: Attendance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on establishing Attendance Hubs; what datasets her Department is collecting to measure the success of that programme; and if she will publish the data collected in relation

21 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Horizon IT System: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to compensate employees of (a) the Post Office, (b) sub-postmasters and (c) shops that fulfilled Post Office functions who were (i) prosecuted, (ii) arrested and (ii

17 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what account her strategy to tackle homelessness takes of the findings of the report published by Centrepoint entitled Human costs and lost potential: the real cost of youth home

17 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to prioritise ending youth homelessness.

17 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the government strategy to end homelessness will include a section on youth homelessness.

17 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how she plans to prioritise young people in the new cross-departmental strategy to end homelessness.

17 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps he has taken to push for greater humanitarian access to Gaza.

17 Dec 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen partnerships with (a) humanitarian organisations, (b) women-led organisations and (c) local civil society in the UK’s develo

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Business: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department has taken to improve the (a) visibility and (b) accessibility of the Export Academy for micro businesses looking to export.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Export Credit Guarantees

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many businesses engaged with UK Export Finance in financial years (a) 2021-22, (b) 2022-23 and (c) 2023-24.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Small Businesses: Exports

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to provide export support for small businesses.

17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dementia: Care Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the Alzheimer’s Society’s report entitled Because we’re human too: Why dementia training for care workers matters, and

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

National Parks: Pollution Control

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to prevent companies from polluting (a) Lake Windermere and (b) other national parks.

27 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Railways: North of England

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to deliver Northern Powerhouse Rail; and what her planned timetable is to announce further information.

27 Nov 2024 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Civil Society

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to support the third sector to deliver public services.

27 Nov 2024 · Treasury

Self-assessment: Fines

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many penalties were issued for non-submission of self-assessment tax returns in each of the last five years.

25 Nov 2024 · Home Office

Visas: Married People

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average processing time is for a spousal visa application.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Teachers: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the retention of female teachers in male-dominated subjects in schools.

25 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Housing: Tenants

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 national standard for local authorities on the disposal of the belongings of deceased council tenants.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pensions: Warrington South

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people formerly resident in Warrington South constituency are claiming pensions whilst living abroad.

25 Nov 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Private Rented Housing: Repairs and Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data her Department holds per local authority of the number of times local authorities have had to conduct repairs of private rented sector properties when private sector la

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Universities: Economic Growth

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the contribution of universities to economic growth through graduate outcomes.

25 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Graduates: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of graduate skills on the North West economy.

18 Nov 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Nuclear Power: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had discussions with representatives from the energy sector on extending the skills passport to people (a) working in the nuclear sector and (b) entering the nuclear sector fro

Source: official written-questions record.