Written questions
545 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Ringfenced Funding
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to ringfence funding associated with the (a) establishment and (b) operation of new Best Start Family Hubs.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to embed parental outreach in designs for new Best Start Family Hubs.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that new Best Start Family Hubs embed a strong local parental voice in their governance.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Fathers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on levels of father’s parenting skills.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that new Best Start Family Hubs will effectively (a) target and (b) reach out to the most disadvantaged families.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Children: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on child safeguarding.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of funding for new Best Start Family Hubs is classified as capital spending.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role local authorities will have in the (a) delivery and (b) day-to-day operation of Best Start Family Hubs.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) areas of rural poverty and (b) areas with concentrated pockets of deprivation can access new Best Start Family Hubs.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Speech and Language Therapy: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on the number of children with speech and language problems requiring specialist intervention.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Children: Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on the proportion of children who are subsequently re-registered on the child protection register.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children from deprived communities will be able to access a new Best Start Family Hub by the end of the Parliament.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Childcare
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on local availability of high-quality childcare.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Children's Play
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking within the Best Start Family Hub programme to ensure that the new centres enhance local opportunities to access good quality play.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what learnings she has made from existing best practice in the design of the new programme of Best Start Family Hubs.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Sure Start Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what lessons her Department has learned from the preceding roll out of (a) Sure Start Sure Start Local Programmes and (b) Sure Start Children’s Centres.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which services are set to be delivered by the Government’s new Best Start Family Hubs.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has she made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on (a) children’s development and (b) educational outcomes.
29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Best Start Family Hubs on the early identification of SEN amongst children.
22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Independent Commission into Adult Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when next year he expects Baroness Casey of Blackstock DBE CB to report on the first phase of her independent commission into adult social care.
22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the impact of care costs for self funding care home residents.
22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Homes: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of care home fees on self-funding residents.
22 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Education: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the minimum beneficial amount of enrichment activity for children.
22 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Education: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of enrichment activities on children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
22 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Education: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of including a national enrichment guarantee in the enrichment framework.
9 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Gender Dysphoria: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into the health needs of trans young people.
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Children's Centres and Family Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) family hubs and (b) former Sure Start children centres are in operation in each council area.
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what criteria she plans to allocate funding for the new Best Start Family Hubs; and whether this differs from the criteria for the Hubs and Start for Life Programme 2022.
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Hubs and Start for Life Programme 2022, what criteria was used to allocate funding to establish new Family Hubs.
9 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Family Hubs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many existing Family Hubs received funding through the 2022 Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme scheme by council area.
Source: official written-questions record.