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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will publish the evidence and cost modelling behind the planned increase of the Immigration Health Surcharge to £634 per adult and £470 per child; and if she will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many health and care organisations in (a) Manchester Gorton constituency and (b) England have paid the Immigration Health Surcharge on behalf of overseas (i) nurses and (ii) doctors in each year s...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many nurses working in non-NHS commissioned services have paid the Immigration Health Surcharge in each year since 2016.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many NHS nurses have paid the Immigration Health Surcharge for each year since 2016.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the reason for the number excess deaths reported by the Office of National Statistics.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of support for people applying for asylum during the covid-19 outbreak; and what steps she has taken to investigate the recent death of a Syrian ma...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 4 May 2020 to Question 40514, what steps she is taking to bring forward legislative proposals to categorise being stranded abroad during the covid-19 pandemic as a serious or...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the number of excess deaths reported by the Office for National Statistics; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will report on all deaths with covid-19 mentioned on the death certificate that occur (a) in hospitals, (b) in care homes, (c) at home and (d) elsewhere.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to answer the letter to her dated 7 April 2020 from the hon Member for Manchester, Gorton regarding Ms D McDowell.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans his Department has put in place to ensure social distancing is enforced on school buses to ensure safe travel when schools return during the covid-19 outbreak.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the decision was made to reopen schools on 1 June 2002 to (a) nursery, (b) reception, (c) Year 1 and (d) Year 6 pupils ahead of other age groups during the covid-19 outbreak.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department plans to take to support the mental health of pupils when they return to school during the covid-19 outbreak.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations his Department has received from members of the public on the HS2 project since he took office; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will expand existing family reunion rules to allow parents to sponsor children over the age of 18 to join them in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to allow unaccompanied child refugees in the UK to sponsor the safe passage of (a) parents, (b) siblings, (c) grandparents and (d) other close family members to the UK und...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of enabling unaccompanied child refugees in the UK to sponsor close family members to join them in the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he has taken to support small and medium-sized businesses operating in the wedding industry sector during the covid-19 outbreak.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to grant permission to work for (a) medical workers and (b) all other potential workers who have been awaiting a decision on their asylum application for over six months; and if she...

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what support his Department is providing to people who were made homeless after the lockdown due to the covid-19 outbreak was announced and are ineligible for support under the E...