Written answers

Thursday, 6 April 2023

  • Department for Education

    • Childcare: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of early years settings that will reduce (a) staffing ratios and (b) charges to parents...

    • Childcare: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the hourly rate paid by the Government to childcare providers in respect of the free hours entitlements for parents for (a) one, (b) two, (c)...

      Childcare: Fees and Charges

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the average hourly rate per child for a two-year old provided to childcare providers; and what...

      Childcare: Staff

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Spring Budget 2023, if she will publish the labour market modelling which underpinned the decision to (a) pilot incentive...

      Childcare

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of how many additional (a) childcare places and (b) early years staff will be required to deliver the entitlements on...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Leasehold

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to end the distinction between qualifying and unqualifying leaseholders...

  • Home Office

    • Afghanistan: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the oral statement by the Minister for Veterans' Affairs to the House on 28 March on Afghan Resettlement Update, how much...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Community Orders

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the number of offenders who have completed a community sentence, by region in England and Wales, in each year since 2010.

    • Community Orders

      To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of offenders have had an early termination of a community order for having failed to comply with requirements of their...

  • Ministry of Justice

    • Youth Rehabilitation Orders

      To ask His Majesty's Government when the pilot trial changes to Youth Rehabilitation Orders with Intensive Supervision and Surveillance will commence; and when they will report on their findings.

    • Prisoners: Pastoral Care

      To ask His Majesty's Government what emotional support and spiritual provision is available to prisoners under Imprisonment for Public Protection.

      Prisoners' Release: Temporary Accommodation

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide accommodation for prisoners for the first week and weekend after release in instances where the prisoner has lost their home...

      Secure Accommodation

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bellamy on 8 March (HL5707), what plans they have to improve the recording and publishing of data in relation to...

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Jagtar Singh Johal

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the current situation of British citizen Jagtar Singh Johal, detained in India since 2017 on charges of terrorism; and when they last raised his case with...

    • EU Law: Northern Ireland

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon on 21 March (HL6299), what are the (1) names, and (2) titles, of the EU rules for internal UK trade...

      Religious Freedom

      To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they have made towards fulfilling recommendation six of the Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review into the support for persecuted Christians to...

      BBC Arabic Service

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they had any metrics in place to quantify the soft power advantage of the BBC Arabic radio service during its 85 years of broadcasting; what assessment...

      India: Human Rights

      To ask His Majesty's Government when they last raised human rights issues with the government of India; and, further to the US State Department’s annual country report on human rights...

      Syria: Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham

      To ask His Majesty's Government, what discussions they have had with international partners about the possibility of opening a channel of communication to the insurgent group Hei’at Tahrir...

      Israel: Palestinians

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have made any representations to the government of Israel following the remarks on 19 March by the Finance Minister of Israel, Bezalel...

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Obesity: Statistics

      To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have plans to collect data on the causes of obesity; and if so, when this will start.

    • Cancer: Health Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government why they have discarded the NHS England 10 Year Cancer Strategy for a combined 5 Year Major Conditions Strategy.

      Beef: Origin Marking

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Food Standards Agency's investigation into the mislabelling of the country of origin on pre-packaged sliced beef.

      Coronavirus: Screening

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 8 February (HL5061), when data for April 2022 and beyond will be validated for release; and on what grounds...

      Gonorrhoea

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to limit the spread of extensively antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea (1) in the general population, (2) in vulnerable populations, and (3)...

      General Practitioners: Complaints

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many patients used the complaints procedure of their local GP surgery in England in each of the last five years; and what was the average length of time GP...

      Nurses: Migrant Workers

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many of the international nurses who arrived in the UK in the past 12 months have had an Objective Structured Clinical Examination; and how many have passed...

      Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the implications the sale of the Vaccines Manufacturing And Innovation Centre (VMIC) near Oxford for the UK’s long-term...

      Nurses: Migrant Workers

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many international nurses NHS Trusts have recruited in the past 12 months; and of those, how many have been permitted to work.

      Meat: Imports

      To ask His Majesty's Government at which point checks are carried out on meat imported into the UK; how many checks are purely on the basis of documentary evidence; and what proportion are...

  • Department for Transport

    • Carbon Emissions

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the report Mission Zero: Independent Review of Net Zero by the Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP, published on 26 September 2022, what plans they have to...

  • Department for Education

    • Schools: Fire Prevention

      To ask His Majesty's Government when they will publish a response to their consultation Building Bulletin 100: Fire Safety Design for Schools, which closed on 18 August 2021.

    • Higher Education: Care Leavers

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many care leavers made applications to higher education institutions in each of the last three years for which data are available, broken down by...

      Training

      To ask His Majesty's Government what programmes they have in place to support the retraining of workers to enable them to access work in new sectors.

      Turing Scheme

      To ask His Majesty's Government what are the causes of delays to payments to students on the Turing scheme; and what plans they have (1) to reduce the level of bureaucracy involved in...

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