Written questions

1,124 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Pagers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the total number of pagers held by the NHS trusts in England.

3 Feb 2023 · Cabinet Office

Mortality Rates

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the ONS provisional Statistical bulletins on Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, published January 2023, if he will make an assessment of the reasons for which excess deaths have inc

2 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total spend on postage was by NHS trusts in England in each of the last five years.

1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the total spend on consultancy fees for the New Hospitals Programme since 2019.

1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in what month he expects changes to NHS pensions caps to be implemented.

1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on NHS pensions.

1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of NHS staff who have emigrated abroad in each of the last five years.

1 Feb 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Accident and Emergency Departments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2023 to Question 126740 and according to information held by NHS England, which NHS (a) trusts and (b) integrated care boards have declared either (i) critical

31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Treasury

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer since 25 October 2022.

31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Virtual Wards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many virtual wards there are in England; and what the overall bed occupancy rates for virtual wards is.

31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS England: Civil Servants

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Ministerial direction was issued to move NHS England civil servants into his Department's offices.

31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Care Homes: Respiratory Syncytial Virus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients with known respiratory infections were discharged from hospital to care homes in (a) November 2022, (b) December 2022 and (c) January 2023.

31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of his Department’s work to reduce smoking since the dissolution of Public Health England.

31 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking: Health education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department and its agencies spent on anti-smoking campaigns in the 12 months prior to November (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.

30 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Private Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dentist practices have gone private in each of the last five years.

30 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dentist practices there were in England in each of the last five years.

30 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dentists there were in England in each of the last five years.

27 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Industrial Disputes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS in England of industrial action taken by NHS employees since 15 December 2022.

27 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Physiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many physiotherapists were employed by NHS England in each of the last five years.

27 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Redundancy Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost was of severance packages paid to Ministers in his Department since June 2022; and to which Ministers payments were made.

27 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the total value lost to fraud by the NHS in England was in each of the last five years.

27 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total spend was on NHS dentistry in England in each of the last five years.

26 Jan 2023 · Department for Transport

Motorcycles: Redbridge

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data his Department holds on the number of motorcycle or moped drivers driving on public roads unaccompanied and without a full UK driving licence in (a) Ilford North and (b) the Borough of Redbridge for t

26 Jan 2023 · Home Office

Asylum: Greater London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum claims have been open for longer than one year in (a) Ilford North constituency and (b) the London Borough of Redbridge.

25 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Agency Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2022 to Question 80803 on NHS: Agency Workers, if he will publish in the House of Commons Library the total cost to the public purse of agency staff in 2021-22

25 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surgery: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS operations were cancelled due to staff shortages in each of the last five years.

25 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Death and Diseases: Cost of Living

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of cost of living pressures on levels of (a) illness and (b) mortality in winter 2022-23.

25 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ambulance Services: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of ambulance delays in December 2022 on mortality rates for (a) heart attack and (b) stroke patients.

25 Jan 2023 · Department for Work and Pensions

Health: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the single largest cause of sickness-related economic inactivity.

23 Jan 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many requests from NHS trusts for revenue cash support were approved by his Department in each of the last five years.

Source: official written-questions record.