Written questions

9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.

5 Nov 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Developing Countries: Food Insecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations' report on Hunger Hotspots June to October 2024, published in June 2024

4 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a 10-year national cancer plan.

4 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will help ensure that smoking cessation is offered as an opt-out, co-located service for lung screening appointments.

4 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to (a) maintain and (b) increase funding for local authority smoking cessation services; and if he will take steps to raise public awareness of those services.

22 Oct 2024 · Department for Business and Trade

Trade Agreements: China

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the release of Jimmy Lai is a prerequisite to any trade agreement with China.

21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Men

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to inquiry by the Health and Social Care Select Committee into Men's Health in the last Parliament, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) services and (b) the use of digita

21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Patients: Wearable Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the use of digital wearables in the NHS is accompanied by professional interventions.

21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) psychotherapists and (b) counsellors are subject to (i) professional supervision and (ii) continuous professional development.

21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that clinicians who have been found to have posed a risk to patients cannot set up as independent (a) psychotherapists and (b) counsellors.

21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the risks of (a) counsellors and (b) psychotherapists working without (i) statutory regulation and (ii) protection of title.

21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Counselling and Psychiatry: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to prevent (a) counsellors and (b) psychotherapists from working if they are not on a voluntary register.

21 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Counselling and Psychiatry: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to regulate the (a) psychotherapy and (b) counselling professions.

17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the training provided to NHS medical staff.

17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) make an assessment of the adequacy of access to (i) counselling and (ii) psychological support for patients who receive a diagnosis of terminal illness and (b) take steps to ensure t

17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of providing a universal palliative care service.

17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the workforce requirements for (a) palliative and (b) end of life care; and if he will develop a workforce plan for such care.

17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle inequalities in access to end of life care services.

17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timescale is for reforming the NHS dental contract.

17 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps is she taking to reduce the number of people in (a) relative poverty, (b) absolute poverty and (c) destitution.

17 Oct 2024 · Treasury

Economic Situation: Equality

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to reduce economic inequality.

17 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Sick Leave: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to help reduce the level of work absence as a result of mental ill health.

17 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish an evaluation of the effectiveness of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust community health service pilot at assisting users with employment matters.

11 Oct 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Food Poverty

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help tackle food insecurity; and if she will make an assessment with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of the potential impact of these steps on (a) physical

10 Oct 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Life Sciences: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to fund the scale up of research in the life sciences sector.

9 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Retail Trade: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what non-custodial steps she is taking to help divert people away from retail crime.

9 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Police: Urban Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to monitor the adequacy of policing in city centres.

9 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Retail Trade: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that there are simplified reporting systems for retail crime from business owners.

9 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Retail Trade: Organised Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has she made of the potential links of retail crime to County Lines.

9 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Retail Trade: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of retail crime have been reported in (a) York and (b) England in each of the last five years.

9 Oct 2024 · Home Office

Retail Trade: Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her planned timetable is for bringing forward legislative proposals to tackle retail crime.

Source: official written-questions record.