Written questions

2,576 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the (a) total and (b) annual cost of increasing dental undergraduate training places in England by 40% by 2031-32.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental undergraduate training places will be available to students in England in each academic year between 2024-25 and 2031-32.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people (a) have undergone and (b) are eligible to receive an NHS Health Check in each of the last five years.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that patients diagnosed with early stage chronic kidney disease are monitored for disease progression.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Kidney Diseases: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to raise awareness of chronic kidney disease among high-risk groups.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent alcohol policy specialists her Department employs.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities has an alcohol policy team.

28 Feb 2024 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

India: Religious Freedom

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent discussions he has had with his Indian counterpart on the protection of freedom of religion or belief in that country.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Prescription Drugs: Shortages

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish a strategy to (a) tackle critical medicines shortages and (b) help improve the resilience of the community pharmacy sector.

28 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mechanism she plans to use to ringfence NHS dentistry budgets in financial year 2024-25.

27 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent staff worked in the MHRA on the licensing of new medicines, biosimilars and generics in each of the last 5 years.

27 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to return to 12 months average timescales for the licensing of generic and biosimilar medicines.

27 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had recent discussions with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on its targets to reduce its licensing backlog of generic and biosimilar medicine applications.

21 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dentistry: NHS

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dentists waited (a) less than three weeks, (b) more than three weeks and (c) more than six weeks to receive a response to an application to the Dental Performers List in each of the last 1

21 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much (a) NHS and (b) private work was completed by GDC registered dentists who qualified (i) in the UK, (ii) overseas and (iii) in total in each of the last 10 years.

21 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the number of patients who have not seen a dentist in the last two years; and how many additional appointments does she expect her dentistry recovery plan to provide

21 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Health: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the budget is for the Smile for Life programme, and if she will publish a breakdown of costs.

19 Feb 2024 · Department for Transport

Parking: Enforcement

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department issues guidance for local authorities on hours of operation for parking enforcement work.

19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of units of dental activity delivered by newly qualified dentists in each of the last 10 years.

19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish a breakdown of the costings of each element of the dentistry recovery plan; and whether funding will be delivered from existing underspends by ICBs.

19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of how many people will be eligible under the premium for patients who have not seen a dentist in over two years; and if she will publish the modelling to determine the l

19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will set out a timeline for the individual elements of the dentistry recovery plan to take effect.

19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate has she made of the number of urgent and emergency dental appointments that will be delivered as a result of the dentistry recovery plan.

19 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Dental Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will publish an impact assessment of the dentistry recovery plan.

16 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care

Compulsorily Detained Psychiatric Patients

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that integrated care boards provide aftercare to eligible patients as set out in section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983.

16 Feb 2024 · Home Office

Police: Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information his Department holds on the number of total hours police have spent accompanying patients in hospitals in the last 12 months.

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when her Department plans to respond to the correspondence of 26 October 2023, transferred to her Department on 7 November 2023 from the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston.

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Permitted Development Rights

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the Answer of 15 January 2024 to Question 8091, whether broadband operators are required to consider the impact on (a) communities and (b) the environment in the deplo

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2024 to Question 11162 on Telecommunications: Infrastructure, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing local authoriti

16 Feb 2024 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Telecommunications: Infrastructure

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2024 to Question 11162 on Telecommunications: Infrastructure, whether Ofcom has notified her Department of any instances where operators in (a) Birm

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