Mike Amesbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions he has had with P&O ferries on the 800 members of staff who have been sacked from their jobs; what steps his Department is taking to (a) support those staff and (b) minimise passenger disruptio...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of staff that have (a) left and (b) been recruited into (i) adult social care and (ii) children's social care in the last 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Local Government Association's report entitled Agreeing to disagree? Research into arrangements for avoiding disagreements and resolving disputes in the SEND system in England, what assess...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the reforms to SEND implemented in 2014 on helping to prevent legal disputes and tribunal hearings in respect of support provided.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the local authority that has the most potholes as of 14 March 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to use the SEND review to (a) clarify the level of need that requires SEND support, (b) make mainstream education settings more accountable for SEND inclusion and (c) enable decisi...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to introduce a national framework for the use of attendance legal intervention, including a new regulatory framework for issuing fixed penalty notices for absence.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to introduce statutory guidance on the expectations of local authority attendance services; and what steps his Department is taking to provide support to councils that are undertak...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to require schools to have an attendance policy; and what steps he is taking to ensure that schools adhere to statutory guidance on schools, academy trusts and governing bodies of ...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the increased excise duty rates for ciders above 4.6 per cent alcohol by volume (ABV) on breweries that produce cider above 4.6 per cent ABV in relation to (a...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the classification of flavoured cider being classified as wine; what comparative assessment his Department has made of the impact on cider breweries...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to bring the rules for granting leaves of absence in academies in line with other state-funded schools.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment his Department has made of the number of Local Government Pension Schemes holding Russia-linked assets; and if he will take steps to help local authorities divest Rus...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will advise local authorities that they should adjust the high needs budget settlement in response to fee increases for specialist college places.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will advise local authorities to ringfence a proportionate amount of the high needs budget to further education providers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to require local authorities to include colleges when distributing Government funding to help those educational settings tackle staffing needs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to require local authorities to establish a joint local authority provider for further education planning forums with which they publish strategic plans for provision for 16-25 yea...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to include further education recruitment in his Department's planned advertising and campaigning.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to expand the draft duty rate of beer to include containers from 20 litres.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, If he will make it his policy that a minimum 85 per cent juice threshold is required for a product to be taxed and sold as cider.