Munira Wilson MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
School Rebuilding Programme: ConcreteDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37313More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) 16-18 colleges identified as containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete and listed on the Schools Rebuilding Programme (i) were
Answer: The department is committed to improving the condition of the school and college estate through the department’s annual funding for the School Rebuilding Programme (SRP) and by fixing the problem of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC). The gover...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSchool Rebuilding ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37312More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) 16-18 colleges listed on the Schools Rebuilding Programme (i) were scheduled to be and (ii) were (A) complete and (B) in progress by 1
Answer: The government has committed £1.4 billion to continue the current School Rebuilding Programme (SRP) in 2025/26, reconfirming our commitment to rebuild or refurbish 518 schools and sixth form colleges across England, prioritising delivery based on need. We...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEducational Institutions: ClosuresDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37311More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary state-funded schools, (b) secondary state-funded schools, (c) sixth-form colleges, (d) 16-18 state-funded vocational colleges and (e) state-funded nursery schools closed in the last 12 mont
Answer: Information on closures of state-funded schools, sixth form colleges, vocational colleges and nursery schools is available on the Get Information about Schools (GIAS) website, which can be found here: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Se...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcareDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37310More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) three and (b) four year olds were recorded as eligible for the additional 15 hours of free childcare in the academic year 2024-25; and how many were unable to take up those hours due to shortage of
Answer: Information on 15 hours free childcare entitlements is published in the education provision: children under 5 years of age statistical publication. The publication is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/educ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChildcareDepartment for EducationTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37309More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many two year olds were recorded as eligible for 15 hours of free childcare in the academic year 2024-25; and how many were unable to take up those hours due to shortage of nursery places.
Answer: Information on 15 hours free childcare entitlements is published in the education provision: children under 5 years of age statistical publication. The publication is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/educ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNow TeachDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36787More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of renewing her Department's contract with Now Teach, in the context of meeting teacher recruitment targets.
Answer: Career changers make a valuable contribution to the teaching profession and the department remains committed to recruiting and supporting them into initial teacher training, including as part of our efforts to recruit an additional 6,500 new expert teache...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNow TeachDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36786More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on what evidential basis she does not plan to renew her Department's contract with Now Teach, in the context of meeting teacher recruitment targets.
Answer: Career changers make a valuable contribution to the teaching profession and the department remains committed to recruiting and supporting them into initial teacher training, including as part of our efforts to recruit an additional 6,500 new expert teache...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: RecruitmentDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36785More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of career changers on meeting her target of recruiting 6,500 new teachers.
Answer: The factor in schools and colleges that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outcomes is high-quality teaching. Ensuring a high-quality teaching workforce is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: RecruitmentDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36784More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department is measuring its progress on recruiting 6,500 new teachers; and whether this measurement will account for teachers that leave the profession over the remainder of the Parliament.
Answer: The factor in schools and colleges that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outcomes is high-quality teaching. Ensuring a high-quality teaching workforce is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: RecruitmentDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress she has made on recruiting 6,500 new teachers.
Answer: The factor in schools and colleges that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outcomes is high-quality teaching. Ensuring a high-quality teaching workforce is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordJuries: Mental Health ServicesMinistry of JusticeTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the pilot scheme to provide support for jurors on the most traumatic cases will be (a) continued and (b) widened to include more courts.
Answer: The pilot to test the need for enhanced support will conclude at the end of March and the results will be evaluated to help assess long term support needs for jurors. Those suffering distress as a result of their service are provided with guidance advisin...
Answered 14 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: DisadvantagedDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34926More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, when she will lay regulations on ‘relevant accommodation’ provisions for children deprived of their liberty.
Answer: Children who need to be deprived of their liberty for their own safety are some of the most vulnerable in our society and we must do all that we can to keep them safe and help them to achieve and thrive. Better models of care are needed to ensure that the...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCarbon Emissions: Aviation and ShippingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34925More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will amend the Climate Change Act 2008 to include International Aviation and Shipping in UK carbon budgets.
Answer: The sixth carbon budget will include the UK’s share of international aviation and shipping (IAS) emissions for the first time, in line with the previous administration’s announcement in April 2021. The sixth carbon budget has already been set at 965 MtCO2...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLandlords: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 24 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33081More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes in mortgage interest tax relief on private landlords since the inception of those measures in April 2017.
Answer: The previous government phased in a set of reforms to restrict finance cost relief to the equivalent of the basic rate of income tax. Before these reforms, it was available at a landlord’s marginal rate. As a result, all individual landlords now receive t...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEpilepsyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support research into the causes of epilepsy.
Answer: The Department funds research into epilepsy via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR committed £31.5 million of funding to 28 epilepsy research projects in the five years from April 2019 to March 2024. Additionally, over th...
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: Greater LondonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30732More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices stopped accepting NHS patients in (a) Twickenham and (b) London in each year since 2019.
Answer: We do not hold data on the number of practices that have stopped accepting National Health Service patients. NHS dentists are required to keep their NHS.UK website profiles up to date so that patients can find a dentist more easily. This includes informat...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: StaffDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30265More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the total number of special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) in all schools.
Answer: There were 20,346 special educational needs co-ordinators employed by state-funded schools in England in November 2023, which is the latest data available.Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical pu...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBasic SkillsDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations of the AQA report entitled Towards new assessments for Numeracy, Literacy and Digital Fluency, published in O
Answer: The government has established an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, covering ages 5 to 18, chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE.The review will be driven by evidence as it seeks to deliver an excellent foundation in the core subjects of read...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordParking: Private SectorMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30170More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2025 to Question 27485 on Parking: Private Sector, if she will restrict access to DVLA records by private parking companies that consistently
Answer: The law permits the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to release the contact details of the registered keeper of a vehicle where the requester can demonstrate “reasonable cause” for requesting that information, and where a parking operator is a m...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordParking: Private SectorMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30169More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February to Question 27485, tabled on 29 January 2025 on Parking: Private Sector, if she will issue revised guidance on the operation and management o
Answer: The Government is aware of the concerns about the poor practice and behaviour of some parking operators and is determined to drive up standards.The Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019 places a duty on the Government to prepare a code of practice containin...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordParking: Private SectorMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30168More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a regulatory and competition authority for private carpark operators.
Answer: The Government is aware of the concerns about the poor practice and behaviour of some parking operators and is determined to drive up standards. We are exploring ways to give motorists the best protection and support and continue to engage with both consu...
Answered 19 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29918More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to each integrated care board in England to provide for child and adolescent mental services for the next financial year.
Answer: It is for individual local commissioners to allocate funding to children and young people’s mental health services to meet the needs of their local populations and this information is not collected centrally. Integrated care boards are expected to continu...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordParental PayTreasuryTabled 7 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29915More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were in receipt of (a) Statutory Maternity Pay, (b) Statutory Paternity Pay, (c) Statutory Adoption Pay and (d) Statutory Shared Parental Pay in the (i) 2019-20 (ii) 2020-21 (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 20
Answer: Data for the number of people in receipt of Statutory Maternity pay, Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay, and Statutory Shared Parental Pay is provided in the table below. 2019-202020-212021-222022-23Statutory Maternity Pay647,800627,200636,00...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: VacanciesDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teacher vacancies were recorded by secondary schools in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022, (e) 2023 and (f) 2024.
Answer: Recruiting and retaining more teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and boost the life chances for every child, as the in-school factor that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outc...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: VacanciesDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29524More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teacher vacancies were recorded by primary schools in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022, (e) 2023 and (f) 2024.
Answer: Recruiting and retaining more teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and boost the life chances for every child, as the in-school factor that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outc...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
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