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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to provide additional financial support to universities to supplement any shortfall in funding as a result of declining student numbers in the 2020/21 academic year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department has taken to help prevent universities from becoming insolvent as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department made of the value of online learning for university students.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions has he had with representatives of universities on the planned (a) delivery and (b) format of higher education courses in the 2020-21 academic year.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the covid-19 lockdown on BAME families with children accessing their education from home.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish weekly regional R rate figures for covid-19.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending stop and search powers to schools-based police officers.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department provides on schools-based police officers (a) wearing uniform, (b) carrying tasers and (c) carrying batons.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has assessed the effect of deployment of schools-based police officers on each of the characteristics protected under the Equality Act 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of schools-based police officers in reducing crime.
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans the Government has to provide (a) financial and (b) other support to students who have lost income and are struggling to pay rent in the private sector during the covi...
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) qualifications and (b) training are required for a police officer to become a school-based police officer.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training is provided to schools-based police officers for that specific role.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy to remove the £30,000 minimum salary threshold for immigrants wishing to work in the UK after the UK leaves the EU.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what processes are in place to investigate complaints against schools-based police officers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools-based police officers assigned to state-funded primary and secondary schools in England are (a) white, (b) Black or minority ethnic, (c) female and (d) male.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupil referral units have an assigned schools-based police officer.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what role senior school staff play in the line management of schools-based police officers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary state-funded schools have requested the presence of a schools-based police officer in each year since 2002.
To ask the Secretary of State Education, whether his Department has assessed the effect of schools-based police officers on Black and minority ethnic pupils.