Written questions
9,475 written questions tabled, most recent first.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to enable all registered pharmacists to become independent prescribers.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Primary Health Care: Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of enabling pharmacists to undertake (a) blood tests and (b) ECGs as part of the Pharmacy First service.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish the NHS dentistry recovery plan before 31 March 2024.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dentistry: York
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will (a) make an assessment of the availability of NHS dentists in York and (b) take steps with the Integrated Care Board to analyse and act upon the findings of that assessment.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department takes to help ensure that clinical supervisers of (a) medical students and (b) newly qualified healthcare staff hold the relevant competencies to train those people.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of availability of clinicians to supervise (a) medical students and (b) newly qualified healthcare staff.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she has taken to engage with the medical and surgical colleges on the proposed regulation of anaesthesia associates and physician associates.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Anaesthesia Associates and Physician Associates
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will conduct a review of the competencies of (a) anaesthesia associates and (b) physician associates, in the context of the clarification of the different competencies of registered doctors.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of having a single regulator with different registers.
16 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how she plans to review the effectiveness of changes to statutory regulations of healthcare professionals.
15 Jan 2024 · Department for Education
Relationships and Sex Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the guidance entitled Introduction: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health education, published in Septembe
15 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Climate Change: International Cooperation
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterparts in countries most affected by climate change on the adequacy of measures agreed at COP28; and what steps he plans to ta
15 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to ensure that people who are unable to (a) attend appointments at their local Jobcentre and (b) meet the requirements for receiving benefits as a result of underlying health condi
15 Jan 2024 · Treasury
Money Lenders: Victims
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to help support victims of illegal money lenders.
15 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Autumn Statement 2023, whether he has held discussions with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential impact of withdrawing free prescriptions from claimants s
15 Jan 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions
Universal Credit: Disqualification
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 3.25 of the Autumn Statement 2023, whether he has had recent discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential impact of plans to strengthen the Universal Cre
15 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
European Convention on Human Rights
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has received recent representations on the UK’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.
15 Jan 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Palestinians: Health Services
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will hold discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of arranging for Palestinians in Gaza who are in need of urgent healthcare to (a) be brought to the UK
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make it her policy to develop a specific strategy on (a) research, (b) early diagnosis and (c) treatment for less survivable cancers.
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she is having with pharmaceutical organisations on releasing drugs for clinical trials for the treatment of less survivable cancers.
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing asylum seekers with access to NHS screening programmes.
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she plans to take to increase levels of take up for cancer screening, in the context of lessons learnt on reaching hard-to-reach groups in the lung cancer screening programme.
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of funding her Department provides to help tackle (a) less survivable cancers compared to (b) other cancers; and if she will make it her po
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will formally respond to Cancer Research UK's publication entitled Longer, better lives: A manifesto for cancer research and care, published in November 2023; and if she will make it her pol
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the bottom pay bands from Agenda for Change pay scales.
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of developing one job evaluation scheme across all NHS professions.
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her planned timeline is for the next Pay Review Body process in the NHS.
11 Jan 2024 · Home Office
Members: Correspondence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to ensure that information on constituency cases provided to the offices of hon. and Rt hon. members is useful.
11 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Services: Buildings
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will review the youth services estate; and if she will fund repairs for that estate.
11 Jan 2024 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Youth Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of (a) access to and (b) the location of youth services.
Source: official written-questions record.