Lord Beecham

To ask Her Majesty's Government why the mandatory requirements from the telephone gateway for debt, discrimination and special educational needs cases will not be removed until spring 2020.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the current availability of (1) legal advice and (2) legal representation through the legal aid system for different categories of case and geographical location.

To ask Her Majesty's Government to what extent the number of exceptional cases in which legal aid has been granted has risen in recent years.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what form the review into thresholds for legal aid and entitlement will take, as refererred to in Legal Support: The Way Ahead (CP 40); and what is the expected timescale for the completion and publication of the review and...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of people's access to housing lawyers.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much legal aid they have provided to housing lawyers in (1) 2012, (2) 2013, (3) 2014, (4) 2015, (5) 2016, (6) 2017, and (7) 2018.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the practice of NHS trusts of using non-disclosure agreements in cases of bullying and harassment affecting staff members.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will require the price of houses purchased under the Help to Buy Scheme to be no higher than that charged for comparable properties built by the same developer.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding they have provided to local authorities to prevent homelessness (1) since the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 was enacted, and (2) in each of the last 10 years prior to the enactment of that Act.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether there is overcrowding in government-supported accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many contracts they hold with G4S to provide government-supported accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many asylum seekers live in government-supported accommodation which has been deemed substandard.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many private companies run government-supported accommodation for asylum seekers.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on children's services of the overall reduction by 29 per cent of Government funding for local authority children's departments since 2010.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much funding they provide for permanent housing for refugees after the 28 day move-on period from Government-supported accommodation has ended.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many homeless people and rough sleepers were (1) refugees, and (2) asylum seekers in (a) 2013, (b) 2014, (c) 2015, (d) 2016, (e) 2017, and (f) 2018.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) refugees, and (2) asylum seekers were included in their most recent rough sleeping statistics.

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the adequacy of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 and its operation in regard to (1) asylum accommodation, and (2) refugees who are homeless.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many local authorities have received funding from the Controlling Migration Fund to help refugees find permanent housing.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much of the £1.75 million allocated to the Controlling Migration Fund has been distributed to local authorities to help refugees find permanent housing.