Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking through the Youth Investment Fund to ensure local community associations receive funding to refurbish and maintain neighbourhood facilities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funding her Department provides to support grassroots sports programmes aimed at diverting young people away from antisocial behaviour and gang involvement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to improve access to local sports facilities for young people during evening and weekend peak hours in areas experiencing elevated rates of youth violence.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to expand targeted community-led mentoring initiatives for young people identified as vulnerable to criminal exploitation or knife crime.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to incentivise local businesses and public bodies to offer targeted apprenticeships and skills training for young people at risk of dropping out of formal education.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the long-term funding security for local authorities to deliver holiday activity programmes in community hubs.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place to assess the value for money and cost-effectiveness of police force expenditure on third-party translation services used for official public-facing communications.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much central funding allocated to police forces in England and Wales was spent on non-English translation and interpretation services in the 2024-25 and 2025-26 financial years.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department issues to Chief Constables on the use of languages in official police communications on public social media channels.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of translation services commissioned by police forces in England and Wales are procured via external contractors.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that official public safety announcements and community notices issued by police forces are always published in English.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure young people in Leicester East have access to education and training opportunities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what directives have been given to Jobcentre Plus sites in (a) Leicester East and (b) Leicestershire to address in NEETs between Q2 2024 and Q1 2026; and how many dedicated Youth Employability Coaches a

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what comparative assessment he has made of the primary drivers behind the 91,030 increase in 16 to 24-year-olds classified as NEET between April to June 2024 and January to March 2026; and what cross-de

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the rise in young people not in education, employment or training on local economic growth in Leicester; and what funding

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of young people currently classed as NEET have been offered places on Government-funded Skills Bootcamps; and what steps are being taken to increase uptake of these courses in the East Midlands.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to ensure people in low-income areas can access artificial intelligence technologies and related public investment.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Student Loans Company (SLC) data showing that non-UK nationals received approximately £4 billion in student finance in the 2024-2025 academic year, what proportion of higher education lending

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of Student Loans Company figures on the number of Romanian nationals who received in student loans in 2024-2025.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department takes to verify the continuous UK residence requirements for late EU Settlement Scheme applicants before student finance eligibility is granted.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding allocations her Department is providing to Leicester City Council to support its August 2026 expansion of specialist SEND places in mainstream schools, and what assessment she has made of teacher t

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of non-UK nationals received student finance in the 2024–25 academic year were qualified for support on the basis of holding pre-settled or settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, broken down by

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many EU national student loan borrowers living abroad have made no loan repayments in the past 12 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of whether competency-based interview formats disadvantage disabled job seekers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make assessment of the adequacy of the notice periods provided by Motability Operations to disabled customers.