Written questions
300 written questions tabled, most recent first.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the annual cost to the public purse is of housing a prisoner in (a) E Wing of HMP Downview and (b) the general women's estate within HMP Downview.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2025 to Question 62457 on HMP/YOI Downview, whether funding of E Wing at HMP Downview comes out of the (a) women's and (b) men's estate budget.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview: Men
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63903 on HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence, how many of the prisoner on prisoner assaults recorded in 2023 at HMP Downview were committed by
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview: Men
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 8 July 2025 to Question 63903 on HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence, how many of the prisoner on prisoner assaults recorded in 2024 at HMP Downview were committed by
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview: Men
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males were held in HMP Downview as of 1 August 2025.
29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview: Men
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males have been placed in E Wing of HMP Downview since 4 July 2024.
17 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Suicide: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of allowing inquests into cases of child death by suicide to sit in private.
17 Jul 2025 · Department for Transport
Driving Tests: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to recruit additional driving examiners through gov.uk.
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
IVF: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of £985 per cycle payments to egg donors on the level of incentive to women from the poorest backgrounds to donate eggs because of fi
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
IVF: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of allowing young women to be solicited for egg donations by for-profit fertility clinics utilising adverts which do not list k
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
IVF: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of running long term studies in to the impact on women's bodies of egg retrieval.
15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
IVF: Donors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the reason that over 4,100 women from the poorest backgrounds in the UK have donated their eggs since 2011.
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former Border Force seasonal workers have gone on to be employed by Border Force since the termination of the seasonal workforce programme.
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many vacancies for full time Border Force roles were being advertised at the point at which the Border Force Seasonal Workforce programme was discontinued.
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost of the Border Force Seasonal Worker programme was for the last financial year of its operation.
15 Jul 2025 · Home Office
UK Border Force: Seasonal Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Border Force workers were employed on Seasonal Workforce Contracts in 2024.
7 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62457 on HMP/YOI Downview, how many of the seven males held on E Wing have access to the general women's estate for (a) work and (b) other services.
7 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Conditions of Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure newly qualified nurses are not prevented from accessing band 5 roles within the NHS due to (a) experience requirements and (b) such roles only being ad
2 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Offences against Children: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) guidance and (b) training is provided to (i) teachers and (ii) school staff to help ensure they are (A) confident and (B) equipped to (1) educate pupils about online grooming and (2) respond appropriat
2 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Offences against Children: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve online safety education in schools to help children (a) recognise and (b) respond to online grooming.
1 Jul 2025 · Department for Education
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of calculating student loan repayments on an annual basis to prevent overpayments.
1 Jul 2025 · Cabinet Office
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the requirement for applicants to demonstrate three years of continuous residence in the UK to be considered for civil service roles on t
30 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview: Transgender People
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males are held in HMP Downview.
30 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: HMP/YOI Downview
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the average cost of healthcare was for (a) male prisoners and (b) female prisoners in HMP Downview in the last 12 months.
30 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP High Down and HMP/YOI Downview: Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many assaults on staff by prisoners have taken place at (a) HMP Downview and (b) HMP High Down in Banstead in the last 12 months.
30 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview: Transgender People
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department has reviewed the validity of its insurance policies for HMP Downview, in the context of the imprisonment of biological males at that prison.
24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) facilities and (b) services the biological males held in HMP Downview share with women prisoners simultaneously.
24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many biological males were held in HMP Downview on 1 June 2025.
24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice
HMP/YOI Downview
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2025 to Question 56664 on Prisoners' Transfers: Transgender People, whether E Wing at HMP Downview is considered to be in the women's or men's prison estate.
24 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 June 2025 to Question 56664 on Prisoners' Transfers: Transgender People, what is the definition of general female estate.
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