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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has held with his Canadian counterpart on a reciprocal social security agreement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support UK pensioners in Commonwealth countries.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what human resources information their Department shares with trade unions on a regular basis.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) officials and (b) advisers accompanied the Prime Minister on flights from London to to (a) Leeds on 9 January 2023, (b) Inverness on 12 January 2023 and (c) Blackpool on 19 January 2023.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the official business travel cost to the public purse was of the flights taken by the Prime Minister and officials from London to to (a) Leeds on 9 January 2023, (b) Inverness on 12 January 2023 and (c) Bla...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the level of funding spent by each local authority in England on private children care placements in financial year 2021-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent steps his Department has taken in reissuing a parking code of practice.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of children moved between care placements in each local authority in 2021-22; and how many children were moved more than once per authority.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure that her Department consults young people who have spent time in Supported Lodgings on all policy developments related to supported lodgings provision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of equalising access to adoption (a) leave and (b) pay by introducing an adoption allowance for self-employed adoptive parents.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of (a) new children’s social workers entering the profession and (b) children’s social workers leaving the profession in 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish the implementation strategy for recommendations from the independent review of children’s social care; and what steps she will take to involve care experienced people in her announceme...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school-age unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children were able to get a school place within 20 days in each of the last two academic years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of recruitment for foster carers; and if she will take steps to increase the rate of recruitment for foster carers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of measures to safeguard clinically extremely vulnerable kidney patients from covid-19; whether he plans to take steps to (a) evaluate (i) new protecti...

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the percentage share that Amazon Web Service holds of the market in which it operates; and if she will make an assessment of the impl...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what human resources information their Department shares with trade unions on a regular basis.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many UK nationals began a degree apprenticeship by sex in 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the findings of the research article, Heightened COVID-19 Mortality in People With Severe Mental Illness Persists After Vaccina...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the attendance mentoring pilot commenced; how much her Department has spent on that pilot since it commenced; how many children in the pilot area have been supported through that scheme; and whether she pl...