Written questions

Helen Whately

537 written questions tabled, most recent first.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Discharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings the Minister of State for Health (Secondary Care) has had with the National health and social care discharge taskforce.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Discharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of recent trends in the level the social care capacity available to support discharges from hospitals in the last 12 months.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Discharges

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings the Minister for Health (Secondary Care) has attended to review NHS performance on discharging patients from hospital.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings the Minister for Health (Secondary Care) has attended on (a) A&E performance and (b) flow through the emergency care system.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings he has attended to discuss winter preparedness.

13 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Domestic Visits

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital visits the Minister for Health (Secondary Care) has made in the last six months; and which hospitals she visited.

10 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Medical Certificates: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to publish a summary of findings from the call for evidence on fit note reform.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 6 January 2025 to Question 20687 on Employment, when she expects the Labour Market Advisory Board to finish their work.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Household Support Fund: Pensioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department is collecting data about use of the Household Support Fund to support pensioners who are no longer in receipt of the winter fuel payment.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many more people she expects to be in employment as a result of proposals in the Get Britain Working White Paper.

7 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when the next Pension Credit applications and awards dataset will be published.

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Planning Permission: Agriculture

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how the commitment to safeguard the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land will be applied to planning decisions called in by the Secretary of State .

19 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Agriculture: Land

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many hectares of the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land are (a) protected, (b) under consideration for development and (c) approved for consent in each (i) local autho

19 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Urgent Treatment Centres

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure Urgent Treatment Centres remain open.

19 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primary Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to support ICBs that are considering cuts to primary care services.

19 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Primary Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to safeguard primary care services.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timeframe is for the 80 per cent employment rate target.

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions: Fraud and Maladministration

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 16391 on Department for Work and Pensions: Fraud and Maladministration, what progress she has made on the (a) recruitment and (b) training of additi

17 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Employment Schemes

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measure her Department will use to determine whether devolved authorities have been successful in delivering employment support.

5 Dec 2024 · Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have made a (a) successful and (b) unsuccessful application for Pension Credit in each Parliamentary constituency since 1 April 2024; and how many people are awaiting a decision on their

4 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what case studies she has used to calculate the financial impact of proposed changes to Agricultural Property Relief.

4 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the changes to inheritance tax on the financial viability of small family farms in (a) Kent and (b) Faversham and Mid Kent cons

4 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the economic contribution of farming to (a) Kent and (b) Faversham and Mid Kent constituency.

4 Dec 2024 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an estimate of the number of farmers who will exit the sector as a result of the change to agricultural property relief in the Autumn Budget.

4 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Kent

4 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Kent

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to (a) agricultural and (b) business property relief in the Autumn Budget on family-owned farms in (a) Kent and (b) Faversham and Mid Kent constituency

4 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to help ensure the generational continuity of agricultural businesses.

4 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what guidance she plans to issue to small business farmers who wish to keep an inherited family farm.

4 Dec 2024 · Treasury

Agriculture: Inheritance Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to agricultural property relief in the Autumn Budget 2024 on the sustainability of domestic food production.

3 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Employment: Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s Get Britain Working White Paper published on 26 November 2024, whether the 140,000 places for Individual Placement and Support for severe mental illness are in ad

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