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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Hazara people are classified as a vulnerable ethnic group under the terms of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many new (a) gas boilers and (b) heat pumps have been installed by each energy company under the Government’s Energy Company Obligation programme in the last financial year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to provide food voucher support for vulnerable children for the duration of (a) the upcoming autumn 2021 half-term and (b) upcoming winter break 2021-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of a potential rise in energy prices; and what assessment he has made of the impact of any such rise on household disposable income (a) of people who are...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many consumers are affected by the exit of Green energy company from the energy market; and how long their existing (a) tariffs and (b) renewables mix will be maintained.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department will open the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme; and what her timescale is for commencing processing of referrals from people currently (a) in Afghanistan (b) in other countries...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to the (a) Palestinian Authority and (b) Israeli Authorities on the urgent need for elections to renew the democratic mandate of the Preside...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of extending means-tested free school meals to all universal credit or equivalent benefits claimants.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to introduce a minimum guarantee of access to early years services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of Action for Children in their report, Barriers to accessing early years services for children, published 21 September 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to reports that medical negligence may have contributed to the death of 35 year old Bahraini prisoner, Hasan Abdulnabi Mansoor, on 25 July 2021, and representa...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to take steps to secure future capital funding for All Saints Roman Catholic School in York to enable a new build school.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the capital budget of faith-based schools when they are ringfenced within holding budgets.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he plans to take to review the school buildings capital fund to ensure that schools with sustained structural and building challenges can be prioritised.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what definition her Department uses to classify social security claimants as vulnerable; what method is used to identify those claimants; and how that information is recorded.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by the Disabled Children’s Partnership, Then There Was Silence, published on 10 September 2021, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the finding in th...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the accessibility of early years services in the West Midlands.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the (a) proposal to introduce a minimum guarantee of early years services and (b) recommendations of the Action for Children’s report entitled...

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to her Department's report Human Rights and Democracy: 2020 report published on 8 July 2021 whether the Government provided assistance for the development of t...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimates she has made of the number of people who have found employment through Plan for Jobs skills and employment programmes.