Lord Laming

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that non-custodial sentences command public and judicial confidence by ensuring that, when offenders undertake such interventions, they are demanding, well organised, purposeful, and wit...

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to provide support to local authorities in financial difficulty.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Carers UK report State of Caring 2023 — The impact of caring on: health, published in November; and what steps they intend to take in response.

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Children's Commissioner report Missing Children, Missing Grades, published on 2 November; and what steps they are taking in response.

To ask His Majesty's Government what action they intend to take in response to the findings of the His Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation's Annual Report 2022/2023.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the number of care leavers who have access to university education.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the 130,000 children of homeless families are receiving an education in school.

To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with (1) the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, (2) the Care Quality Commission, (3) the General Pharmaceutical Council, and (4) the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, relating to...

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the performance of the National Homecare Medicines Committee.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of children placed in local authority care.

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to ensure that every police force in England has specialist child protection teams.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the rate of adoption of children in care, when adoption is in the child’s best interests.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce persistent truanting in schools.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to tackle the absence rate of pupils in secondary schools in England of over 15 per cent.

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they intend to take in response to reports that some providers of residential care services are not following government guidelines, and continue to deny residents visits by family and friends even when the home ...

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the report by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation Annual Report 2022: Serious Further Offences, published on 29 September, what steps they will take to prevent people under probation supervision from committ...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of children in the care of English local authorities being placed in Scotland.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Prison Reform Trust Prison: the facts, published on 15 July; and what steps they will take in response.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many posts in the Department of Health and Social Care are filled by qualified (1) doctors, and (2) social workers.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the most senior post in the Department of Health and Social Care that is occupied by a qualified social worker with experience of working in local government.