Written questions

3,693 written questions tabled, most recent first.

3 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Junior Doctors: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether hospitals will incur financial penalties if they breach performance standards as a result of the suspended industrial action on 1 December 2015.

3 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Junior Doctors: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral contribution of 30 November 2015, Official Report, column 33, on NHS England collating feedback from all trusts on the effect of proposed industrial action, if he will place a copy of that fee

3 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Medical Examiners: Death Certificates

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2015 to Question 12819, if he will provide an update on plans to introduce independent medical examiners to the death certification process.

3 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Health Services: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2015 to Question 12818, on health services: weather, what data will be (a) collected and (b) published by NHS England.

3 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Junior Doctors: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral statement of 30 November 2015, Official Report, column 33, what estimate he has made of the number of operations that were cancelled prior to the proposed industrial action on 1 December 2015

1 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what extra funding will be made available to deliver seven day services in the NHS; and when such funding will be made available.

1 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that emergency care is prioritised following the implementation of seven day services in the NHS.

1 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in achieving seven day services in the NHS which provides the same consultant assessment, diagnostic tests and consultant led interventions for patients seven days a week for

1 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Consultants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many consultants have opted out of routine weekend working through the schedule 3 paragraph 6 of the NHS consultant contract in the last year.

1 Dec 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Working Hours

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that weekday services to the NHS are not compromised as a result of a seven day service.

25 Nov 2015 · HM Treasury

Infrastructure: Expenditure

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the cost-effectiveness of the Government's spending on infrastructure since 2010.

24 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

NHS

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral contribution of 21 October 2014, Official Report, column 754, whether he has received a copy of the OECD study of the four NHS systems in the UK.

17 Nov 2015 · Department for Transport

Railways: Cheshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to ensure a more reliable train service is provided to Neston.

17 Nov 2015 · Department for Transport

Railways: Cheshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many train services through Neston have been cancelled since August 2015; and what the reason was for the cancellation in each such case.

16 Nov 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Navigation

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to section 32(1) of the Pilotage Act 1987, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to maintain pilotage standards in areas where harbour authorities now have the power to impose

9 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Department of Health: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much his Department spent on (a) temporary agency staff, (b) consultants, (c) non-payroll staff, (d) administration and (e) marketing and advertising (i) in 2014-15 prices and (ii) as a proportion of his Depar

9 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Department of Health: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his Department's expenditure against Departmental Expenditure Limits is in 2015-16; and what his Department's Annually Forecast Managed Expenditure in 2015-16 was (a) at the time of the March Budget, (b) at t

2 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of the NHS workforce he expects to receive a real-terms pay increase over the next four years; and if he will make a statement.

2 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will itemise savings made by the NHS that have been attributable to the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

2 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects (a) Monitor and (b) the Trust Development Authority to publish their 2015-16 second quarter performance reports.

2 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Midwives

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the number of additional midwives that would be required to enable all women to receive one-to-one care from a midwife during labour.

2 Nov 2015 · Department of Health

Hospitals: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people are currently on an NHS referral to treatment waiting list.

23 Oct 2015 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: British Nationals Abroad

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the prevalence of the delays in state pension payments to British citizens living abroad.

23 Oct 2015 · Department of Health

Department of Health: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to maintain ringfencing for total NHS funding in the Autumn Statement.

23 Oct 2015 · Department of Health

NHS Trusts: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what new performance target for Trusts and Foundation Trusts has been introduced since May 2010; and which new performance targets he plans to introduce for those bodies over the next five years.

22 Oct 2015 · Department of Health

Department of Health: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many members of staff his Department plans will be employed by each of his Department's three success regimes; and what the job titles and salary level will be of each member of such staff.

22 Oct 2015 · Department of Health

Health Professions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many post-graduate training places were (a) commissioned and (b) filled for each of Health Education England's medical and dental foundation programme in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.

21 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Londonderry

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of pilotage standards at Londonderry Port.

21 Oct 2015 · Department for Transport

Shipping: Londonderry

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether on any occasion under-qualified pilots have been provided in the compulsory pilotage area at Londonderry Port.

21 Oct 2015 · Department of Health

NHS: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made with delivering £22 billion of efficiency savings in the NHS identified in its five-year forward plan.

Source: official written-questions record.