Written questions

1,057 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Skin Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will set a target for the number of trusts to adopt the NHS England guidance on Referral optimisation for people with skin conditions.

12 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Skin Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to monitor the effectiveness of NHS England’s guidance on Referral optimisation for people with skin conditions.

11 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dermatitis: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will have discussions with NICE on developing (a) national guidelines and (b) quality standards for the management of severe eczema in adults.

11 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Skin Diseases: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to increase access to NICE-approved treatments for patients with inflammatory skin conditions.

11 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Skin Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of implementing NHS England’s Referral optimisation for people with skin conditions on (i) the cost of treatment and (ii) number of referrals

11 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Skin Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken for patients with inflammatory skin conditions to be referred for specialist care on the cost of treatment for such conditio

11 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Skin Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the time taken for patients with inflammatory skin conditions to access (a) specialist care and support and (b) treatment.

29 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing quarterly updates on data that helps illustrate the levels of utilisation of her Department's access initiatives including the (

29 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publishing quarterly reports on progress made against the commitments set out in her Department's England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2023, l

29 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Covenant

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to extend the duty of due regard under the Armed Forces Covenant to cover (a) social care, (b) employment, (c) pensions, (d) compensation and (e) immigration before the next General

29 Nov 2023 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces Covenant

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will make it his policy to extend the duty of due regard under the Armed Forces Covenant to (a) UK Government and (b) devolved administrations before the next General Election.

29 Nov 2023 · Cabinet Office

Office for Veterans' Affairs

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the long term priorities for the Office for Veterans' Affairs are.

13 Nov 2023 · Treasury

Defibrillators: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how his Department estimates the potential cost to the public purse of removing VAT on (a) defibrillators and (b) other products.

13 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport

Parking: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish a response to his Department's consultation Pavement parking: options for change, updated on 29 June 2023.

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Defibrillators

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information her Department holds on neurological outcomes for patients admitted for a cardiac arrest suffered out of hospital (a) with and (b) without defibrillator treatment at the scene.

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to increase the specialist cardiology workforce in (a) primary and (b) secondary care.

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 17 April 2023 to Question 177873 on Heart Diseases, what steps the NHS is taking to increase access to testing to support the diagnosis of heart failure in primary c

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cardiovascular Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to publish the findings of the Government Champion for Personalised Prevention's taskforce on cardiovascular disease.

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Healthy Start Scheme: Migrants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to launch the consultation on the permanent extension of the Healthy Start scheme to families who are subject to No Recourse to Public Funds.

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contraceptives: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national minimum fee for fitting long-acting reversible contraception.

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to (a) measure and (b) assess the adequacy of the progress of integrated care systems in (i) establishing women’s health hubs and (ii) ensuring that hubs offer t

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Contraceptives

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of levels of regional variation in the (a) provision of and (b) funding for long-acting reversible contraception.

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the guidance by NHS England entitled Delivery plan for recovering access to primary care, published on 9 May 2023, what steps his Department is taking to provide (a) guidance and

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primary Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has plans to expand the common conditions service beyond the initial seven conditions outlined in the Government’s Delivery Plan for Recovering Access to Primary Care.

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure that pharmacies delivering the common conditions service are (a) delivering services to appropriate numbers of patients and (b) meeting high standa

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department plans to take to support (a) distance-selling pharmacies and (b) other pharmacies to safely deliver the common conditions service.

13 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Pharmacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the £645 million announced as part of the Government's delivery plan for the recovery of primary care, what progress her Department has made on its negotiations with Community Pha

13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cystic Fibrosis: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of (a) paediatric and (b) adult cystic fibrosis centres did not provide at least 85 per cent of their patients with psychological support at their annual review in (i) 2021 and (ii)

13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Influenza: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage the uptake of flu vaccination across (a) support staff and (b) other professions working in the NHS.

13 Oct 2023 · Department for Business and Trade

Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to help (a) small businesses and (b) individuals access (i) Community Development Finance Institutions and (ii) other alternative lending sources.

Source: official written-questions record.