Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Strokes: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to institute mobile screening for stroke, to allow treatment to be provided in ambulances as occurs in Germany.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Strokes: Coronavirus
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the additional costs incurred as a result of long term disability caused by stroke during the covid-19 pandemic.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Strokes: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact on patient care of approximately half of all hospitals having vacancies for consultants in stroke.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mechanical Thrombectomy: Robotics
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has conducted on robotics in the delivery of mechanical thrombectomy; and whether his Department has plans to fund such research.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Strokes: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to help ensure that medical interventions for stroke are not de-prioritised in favour of elective surgery interventions in NHS priorities.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Strokes: Mechanical Thrombectomy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of ambulance waiting times on access to thrombectomy or thrombolysis treatments by people who have had a stroke.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mechanical Thrombectomy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the number of centres which perform thrombectomy treatment.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Strokes: Mechanical Thrombectomy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan for stroke care, what steps he plans to take to achieve 10 per cent of stroke patients receiving thrombectomy treatment by 2022.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Strokes: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of (a) physiotherapists, (b) occupational therapists, (c) speech and language therapists and (d) psychologists working in stroke services i
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mechanical Thrombectomy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his workforce plan is for rolling out thrombectomy procedures; and whether that plan includes radiologists in other fields, other than neuro-radiologists and cardiologists.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Strokes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there is not a stroke policy lead in his Department.
24 Nov 2021 · Department for Transport
Railways
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Intergrated Rail Plan considers its interconnectivity with other modes of public transport.
24 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ambulance Services: Yorkshire and the Humber
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of ambulance waiting times in (a) Yorkshire, (b) North Yorkshire and (c) York in each of the last 12 months.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the scientific basis is for phasing out symptom free covid-19 testing; and what assessment he has made of the impact of the phasing out of that testing on covid-19 infections.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus and Influenza: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase the predictability of the timetable of deliveries of (a) covid-19 and (b) flu vaccines to local vaccination centres.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Vaccination
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the reasons for lower take-up of the covid-19 booster vaccination across all age groups compared to the take-up of the first two doses of that vaccine.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of covid-19 infections among the over 60s population.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of covid-19 infections among primary school age children as of 23 November 2021; and what steps he is taking to tackle that matter.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Public Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that local directors of public health are able to determine the local management of covid-19 in 2022.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to scale down capacity for testing for covid-19.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Public Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans for the UK Health Security Agency to take forward the public health approach to covid-19 management.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has (a) plans and (b) a timeframe for ceasing the allocation of funding for asymptomatic testing.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department's contracts with national (a) contact tracing and (b) testing programmes for covid-19 are due to end.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Coronavirus: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of local authorities continuing with (a) administering (i) lateral flow and (ii) PCR covid-19 tests and (b) contact tracing.
23 Nov 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care
Public Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has for the future delivery of health protection measures.
23 Nov 2021 · Department for Education
Arts: Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a specific arts premium in the education system.
23 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Resettlement: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence Secretary on repurposing his Department's housing to accommodate people under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy sc
23 Nov 2021 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Refugees: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the adequacy of local authority housing provision for accommodating Afghan refugees.
23 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Refugees: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan refugees have been resettled in housing from bridging hotels between 1 August 2021 and 22 November 2021.
23 Nov 2021 · Home Office
Refugees: Afghanistan
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Afghan refugees were residing in bridging hotels as at 22 November 2021.
Source: official written-questions record.