Written questions

Ben Goldsborough

314 written questions tabled, most recent first.

2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody: Neurodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many neurodiversity support staff have been employed on the open and secure estate in each of the last 10 calendar years.

2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prisons: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing inmates to apply for jobs in prison while on remand.

2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody: Psychology

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many psychologists have been employed on (a) the secure estate, (b) the open estate and (c) young offenders’ institutions in each of the last 10 financial years.

2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Women's Prisons: Sanitary Products

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if her Department will make an assessment of the proportion of inmates on the women’s estate who have immediate access to menstrual products in their cells.

16 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance: Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will initiate an external assurance review following Norfolk County Council's application for Exceptional Financial Support.

11 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of trends in the proportion of funding for commercial early years providers that comes from voluntary contributions.

10 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme: South Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of eligible families are receiving support through the Healthy Start scheme in South Norfolk constituency.

10 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Schools: Food

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the updated school food standards promote the procurement of food from local producers and growers.

9 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Cooperatives: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what discussions her Department has had with the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the potential merits of community ownership to businesses in rural areas.

9 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Cooperatives: Government Assistance

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to support community ownership of businesses.

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water Companies: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to regulate water companies operating in protected landscapes to help prevent environmental harm.

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to compare best practice in (a) the UK and (b) other countries in the development of its policies on early years provision.

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make a comparative assessment of the potential impact of early years education in (a) schools and (b) non-school sites on educational outcomes.

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Nurseries: Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of full-time early years places at school-based nurseries.

5 Jun 2025 · Treasury

Childcare: Tax Allowances

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of enabling parents to be paid their childcare funding using their government tax-free childcare account.

5 Jun 2025 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department calculated the funding rate for each (a) child and (b) age group for early years provision.

2 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions under the Single Justice Procedure have been reopened via the statutory declaration process in each of the last 10 years.

30 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will list the offences for which the Single Justice Procedure can be used.

20 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Investment Fund: South Norfolk

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much Youth Investment Fund money has been allocated to (a) organisations, (b) authorities and (c) other entities with premises within South Norfolk constituency in each year since application

20 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Youth Investment Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of funding allocated through the Youth Investment Fund has been allocated to (a) Town and (b) Parish Councils in each year applications were open.

19 May 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were prosecuted under the single justice procedure by offence in each month of 2024; and what the plea rates were for offences charged under the single justice procedure in the same period.