Written questions
499 written questions tabled, most recent first.
23 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Babies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects to receive a formal recommendation from the UK national screening committee on newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy.
23 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children with education, health and care plans were born abroad.
23 Oct 2025 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children receiving education in state funded special schools were born abroad.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surgical Hubs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of current capital funding budget will be allocated towards the expansion of the surgical hub programme.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve data collection on diagnostic pathways for (a) teenagers and (b) children with cancer.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) speed of diagnosis and (b) time from diagnosis to treatment in (i) children and (ii) teenagers with cancer.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve early recognition of cancer symptoms of teenagers in primary care.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve public awareness of the symptoms of cancer in teenagers.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surgical Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional surgical hubs are due to (a) open and (b) be built in the next 12 months.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Death: Men
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to reduce premature deaths in men.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Suicide: Men
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to help reduce suicides in men.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish the new health strategy in this calendar year.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surgery: Medical Treatments Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of British citizens have have required remedial surgery in the NHS as a result of poor elective overseas surgery.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surgery: Medical Treatments Abroad
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many British citizens have died as a result of elective overseas surgery in each of the last five years.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate capital to bring parents accommodation for neonatal units up to national standard.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data he holds on the number of bedrooms available for parents with a baby on the neonatal unit by (a) Trust and (b) neonatal units.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surgery: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the retention of surgical staff.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Surgery: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 2023 2023 UK surgical workforce census report compiled by the Royal College of Surgeons, what steps he is taking to expand surgical training capacity in the context of bottlen
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Independent National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to add additional Trusts to the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation following the removal of (a) Shropshire and (b) Leeds.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Independent National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has had to ensure the neonatal services are fully incorporated into the scope of the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation.
22 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's response to recommendation 6 included in the Government response to the House of Lords inquiry into preterm birth: reducing risks and improving lives, published o
15 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to (a) identify and (b) allocate capital funding to bring neonatal accommodation for parents in line with the standards outlined in the Health Building Note 09-03: Neo
13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Health Building Note 09-03: Neonatal Units, published 20 March 2013, how many and what proportion of neonatal units (a) do and (b) do not meet the standard for parent accommod
13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many bedrooms are available for parents and carers in neonatal units, broken down by (a) region, (b) Integrated Care Board, (c) Trust and (d) in England.
13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Parents
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS maternity and neonatal infrastructure review findings, published on 11 September 2025, whether his Department plans to publish an assessment of the adequacy of neonatal pa
13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Reviews
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that neonatal services are fully incorporated into the scope of the National maternity and neonatal investigation.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Baby Care Units
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS neonatal units have parental accommodation available.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Air Ambulance Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which acute hospital trusts have a helipad which can be used 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hypertension: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve the identification of people with undiagnosed hypertension.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Tomography
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on the commitment to deliver a doubling of the number of NHS CT and MRI scanners.
Source: official written-questions record.