Mrs Elsie Blundell

Employment and Recruitment: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how the new jobs and careers service will work with employers to help tackle ageism in (a) recruitment and (b) the workplace.

Childcares: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that it is financially viable for childcare settings to offer places to three and four year-old children.

Pre-school Education: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of early years funding models in supporting (a) parents and (b) guardians who work fewer than 16 hours per wee

Childcare: Lone Parents

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of single parent family access to high quality childcare settings.

Childcare: Lone Parents

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support single parents re-entering the workforce with funding to access high-quality childcare.

Devolution: North West

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to provide fiscal autonomy to the North West.

Infrastructure: North West

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the Infrastructure Strategy will support infrastructure enhancements in the North West.

Infrastructure: North West

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to support the Northern Arc infrastructure project.

Railways: Greater Manchester

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority to improve connections between the Greater Manchester City Region and (a) Yorkshire, (b)

Missing Persons: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to develop a cross-Government strategy for reducing the numbers of missing children.