Written questions

181 written questions tabled, most recent first.

14 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2025 to Question 22633 on NHS: Weather, on what date in early December he first chaired a winter preparedness weekly meeting.

8 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Minister for Secondary Care of 18 December 2024, Official Report, column 345, when he chaired the first of the weekly winter preparedness meetings.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the Environment Agency's budget for flood prevention and mitigation was in Leicestershire in the 2023-24 financial year.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of trends in the number of developments on flood risks in Leicestershire.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Flood Control: Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what additional (a) funding and (b) support his Department has provided to (i) communities and (ii) local authorities in Leicestershire to help tackle the impact of recent flooding.

7 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which NHS Trusts have declared a critical incident since 1 December 2024.

7 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospices: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the total cost to the hospice sector of the increase in employers National Insurance contributions.

17 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he has met NHS England's (a) National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care and (b) Deputy Chief Operating Officer on NHS winter preparedness.

12 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Influenza: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding was allocated to promote the update of the influenza vaccine in (a) 2022, (b) 2023 and (c) 2024.

11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS (a) 111 and (b) 999 call handlers there were on (i) 1 September, (ii) 1 October, (iii) 1 November and (iv) 1 December 2024.

11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of patients waited longer than four hours in A&E in (a) September, (b) October and (c) November 2024.

11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ambulances were in use in the NHS in (a) September, (b) October and (c) November 2024.

11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Discharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of patients who (a) were medically fit to be discharged and (b) were not discharged from hospital on 1 December 2024.

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Bluetongue Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the (a) economic impact of the bluetongue restrictions on affected farmers and (b) animal health impact of the bluetongue restriction.

29 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Acute Beds: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional inpatient beds in acute settings he has funded NHS England to commission for (a) November 2024, (b) December 2024, (c) January 2025 and (d) February 2025 above the total number

29 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of (a) ordinary and (b) named day written questions were responded to by his Department within required timescales between 5 July and 22 November 2024.

29 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of (a) ordinary and (b) named day written questions received a holding response from his Department in the first instance between 5 July 2024 and 22 November 2024.

22 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, on what date the last of the prisoners who were released in error in September 2024 under the SDS40 early release scheme returned to prison.

9 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her oral contribution on 10 September 2024, Official Report, column 690, whether probation directors have contracted hotel accommodation for prisoners released under the SDS40 scheme since 10 Se

9 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what percentage of her Department's (a) ordinary and (b) named day written parliamentary questions were answered within the required timeframes between 12 July and 12 September 2024.

9 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of the total numbers of prisoners released early under the SDS40 release scheme have not had accommodation to go to on day of release since 10 September 2024.

9 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of the prisoners released at the 40 percent of sentence point under her SDS40 early release scheme, have subsequently been accused of committing a further offence since 20 September 2

9 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of prisoners released at 40% of sentence point under her Department's early release scheme have been recalled to prison since 10 September 2024.

9 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released with 40% of sentence served under her Department's early release scheme since 10 September 2024.

9 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prisoners' Release

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners have been released in error under her Department's early release scheme since 10 September 2024.

9 Sep 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many vacant state secondary school places there were in (a) Leicestershire County Council LA area, (b) Melton Borough and (c) Melton and Syston constituency on 6 September 2024.

9 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Justice

Prison Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the number of prison places made available in the adult male estate as a result of the prisoner early release scheme.

9 Sep 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Community Ownership Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to reopen the next round of the Community Ownership Fund for applications.

9 Sep 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Horse Racing

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the value to the UK economy of the horse racing industry.

9 Sep 2024 · Department for Education

Schools: Leicestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which state secondary schools in Leicestershire county council area have no school places available.

Source: official written-questions record.