Mrs Sharon Hodgson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the SEND and alternative provision improvement plan, published on 2 March 2023, to require training on special educational needs and disabilitie...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to communicate with local authorities and parents in areas where National Standards for SEND provision are being trialled to make it clear that existing legislation including the (a...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, published on 2 March 2023, whether her Department plans to confirm the status of pre-existing legislation in areas where National Standards...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to ensure that people identified as having a special educational need in the education system can access the appropriate support when looking for employment in adult life.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the accessibility of gov.uk services for users of assistive technologies; and if he will take steps to require (a) jobcentre staff and (b) all employers to access trai...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what incentives her Department plans to introduce to encourage businesses to offer flexible working arrangements that help enable jobseekers with SEND to access employment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government's commitment to ensure the ITT Core Content and Early Career Frameworks are up to date and fit for purpose includes an amendment to add specific reference to dyslexia to those frameworks.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what SEND-specific training the Government plans to provide to (a) Job Centre Work Coaches and (b) Work and Health Programme staff as part of its proposals on ensuring those services provide people with...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the impact of the health adjustment passport on barriers to employment for jobseekers with special educational needs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how employers will be directed to the new online Support with Employee Health and Disability service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that school caterers receive the full amount allocated for school meals.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of food inflation on the ability of school meal caterers to deliver (a) hot, (b) freshly-prepared and (c) nutritionally-balanced meals.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to provide additional funding (a) for increased (i) food and (ii) labour costs for school meal caterers and (b) to increase (A) universal infant free school meal and (B) free school meal fundi...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of his Department's fulfilment of its responsibility to support the Competition and Markets Authority to deliver the Government's objectives for competition and consu...

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when his Department plans to respond to the report by the Competition and Markets Authority entitled Secondary ticketing websites, published on 16 August 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the white paper entitled Levelling Up the United Kingdom, published on 2 February 2022, and the policy paper entitled Government food strategy, published on 13 June 2022, whether her Departmen...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve waiting times for patients who require to be tested for allergies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce referral waiting times for patients with allergies who need to be tested by an allergy specialist.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) reduce the NHS backlog and (b) ensure that patients who need to be tested for allergies have timely access to allergy clinics.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for patients who require allergy tests.