Gill Furniss

3 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of delayed access to specialist heart valve treatment has on (a) avoidable unscheduled hospitalisations, (b) deaths on waiting lists and (c) othe

3 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Aortic Stenosis: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England has made an estimate of the number and proportion of women diagnosed with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis who receive timely treatment compared to men.

25 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Sign Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the switch from analogue to digital health services is inclusive of people whose first language is British Sign Language.

25 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: British Sign Language

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure greater provision of British Sign Language across the NHS.

25 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Hearing Impairment: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Disability Unit is taking to embed deaf awareness across Government services.

10 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Literacy: Curriculum

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) training and (b) support will be provided to (i) teachers and (ii) other education staff as part of the new curriculum to support the delivery of increased levels of literacy in schools.

10 Nov 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking as part of the new curriculum to develop a culture of reading for pleasure in schools.

10 Nov 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Primary Education: School Libraries

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what her planned timetable is for the primary school library rollout.

10 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Personal Budgets

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure councils implement the requirements of the Care Act 2014 on Individual Service Funds.

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of delayed access to specialist heart valve treatment on (a) avoidable unscheduled hospitalisations, (b) deaths on the waiting lists, and (c) oth

4 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Diagnosis and Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure earlier (a) detection and (b) treatment of heart valve disease is prioritised within NHS long-term planning.

2 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Council Tax: Non-payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she plans to remove the sanction of imprisonment for non-payment of Council Tax in England as part of wider proposed sentencing reforms.

22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps NHS England is taking to raise awareness of (a) heart valve disease and (b) its symptoms among the (i) population and (ii) healthcare professionals.

22 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Heart Diseases: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what measures in the NHS 10 Year Plan will support earlier diagnosis of heart valve disease in primary and community care settings.

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that regions where (a) cancer outcomes are poorer and (b) research infrastructure is historically underfunded receive a fair share of national cancer r

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of expanding prehabilitation and rehabilitation services in cancer care on (a) NHS costs and (b) patient outcomes.

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the National Cancer Plan will include measures to expand innovations in cancer screening initiatives to ensure more people from deprived areas are encouraged to participate.

15 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Smoking: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to implement automatic enrolment into stop smoking support at (a) A&E departments, (b) cancer screening appointments, (c) mental health services and (d) other NHS touc

12 Jun 2025 · Cabinet Office

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman: Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and Health Service Commissioner for England will be formally appointed.

7 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Sexual and Reproductive Health: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of support for women in making informed choices about (a) hormonal and (b) non-hormonal treatment options for (i) menstrual and (ii) reproduc

25 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicine: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) reduce the sex and gender gap in participants for (i) healthcare research and (ii) clinical trials and (b) ensure that sex and gender dimensions are accounted for in

22 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cervical Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help raise awareness of cervical cancer; and whether he is taking steps with the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs to help raise awaren

22 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Unitaid: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of UK funding for UNITAID on the cost of HPV testing in (a) low and (b) middle-income countries.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nature Conservation

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) protect natural habitats and (b) promote biodiversity net gain.

8 Jan 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Solar Power: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to help increase the uptake of home solar panel installations.

12 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Spinal Injuries: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that women with spinal cord injuries receive adequate (a) breast feeding assistance, (b) breast feeding assistance and (c) other postnatal support.

12 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Spinal Injuries: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to (a) preventative care, (b) diagnosis and (c) long term management strategies for women with spinal cord injury who are at increased risk of (i) uterine

12 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Spinal Injuries: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure access to (a) comprehensive healthcare guidance and (b) specialised gynaecological support for people with spinal cord injury including (i) management of menstruat

22 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Family Hubs: Sheffield

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support Start for Life services in Sheffield; and if he will make it his policy to extend funding beyond 1 April 2025.

18 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure greater accessibility to healthcare for deaf people.