Written questions

Laurence Turner

356 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Jan 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Injuries Compensation: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in Birmingham received awards under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and what the value of those awards was.

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 11 December 2014 to Question 217660 on Teachers, whether the programme of talks referred to is ongoing.

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Flexible Working Taskforce

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20334 on Flexible Working, on what dates the Flexible Working Taskforce met in 2023.

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Transport

Train Operating Companies: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the net cost to the public purse was of Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 compensation to operators for disruption on the rail network in 2023-24.

3 Jan 2025 · Department for Education

Academies and Further Education: Fraud and Maladministration

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 98 of the Education and Skills Funding Agency's publication entitled Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2024, published on 29 July 2024, if she will break down the tab

18 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Non-teaching Staff: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the (a) number and (b) proportion of school support staff in state-funded schools in England who are employed on (i) zero-hour and (ii) term time-only contracts.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Roads: Birmingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what payments her Department has made to Birmingham City Council in support of the Birmingham roads PFI contract in each financial year from 2020-21 to 2024-25; and what was the total value of payments to the p

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade: Statistics

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the Office for Statistics Regulation's publication entitled OSR’s statement on the Labour Force Survey-derived

16 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Statistics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the Office for Statistics Regulation's publication entitled OSR’s statement on the Labour Force Survey-der

16 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Treasury: Statistics

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the Office for Statistics Regulation's publication entitled OSR’s statement on the Labour Force Survey-derived estimates an

16 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Flexible Working

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which organisations are represented on his Department's Flexible Working Taskforce; and on what dates that taskforce has met.

13 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Schools: Civil Proceedings

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of legal cases against schools for claimed (a) disability discrimination and (b) a failure to make reasonable adjustments.

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Education

Classroom Assistants: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 10 December 2020 to Question 126005, on Classroom Assistants: Pay, if she will provide the same salary data for (a) 2020, (b) 2021, (c) 2022, and (d) 2023.

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Employment Rights Bill: Impact Assessment

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of producing impact assessments for the Employment Rights Bill.

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Kings Norton Station

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 02 December to Question 15995, on Kings Norton Station, whether that £123m to design the first phase of the Midlands Rail Hub programme included any capital funding for (a) the reinsta

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Birmingham Northfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Q44 of the oral evidence given by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the Transport Select Committee on 4 December 2024, HC 437, what the average waiting time for driving tests is in

9 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Public Transport: Longbridge

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 120 of Network Rail North West and Central's publication entitled West Midlands Strategic Advice, published in October 2022, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential

4 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to respond to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme Review 2020, published on 16 July 2020.

27 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Russia: Sanctions

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of (a) UK and (b) other sanctions on Russian economic performance.

27 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Roads: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 15053 on Roads: Suicide, if she will publish the operational data with a description of the data quality issues for each of the last ten years.

26 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Non-teaching Staff: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2024 to Question 15056 on Non-teaching Staff: Pay, if she will provide a version of that table further broken down by (a) local authority maintained, (b) academy and (c) fr

26 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

School Leaving

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by her Department entitled Academic year 2022/23: Key stage 4 destination measures, published on 24 October 2024, how many and what proportion of students who left key stage 4 study

26 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

School Leaving

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by her Department entitled Academic year 2022/23: Progression to higher education or training, published on 24 October 2024, how many and what proportion of students who left 16-to-

26 Nov 2024 · Department for Education

Youth Endowment Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 10 May 2024 to Question 24203 on Youth Endowment Fund, whether it remains her Department's policy to (a) fund and (b) promote the alternative provision specialist taskforce progr

26 Nov 2024 · Department for Transport

Network Rail

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 8 of the Network Rail publication entitled 2022 Delivery Plan Update: North West and Central, published in May 2022, what was the outturn proportion of investment milestones that were mis