Liz Twist

12 Apr 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that patients who were first made aware of their severe asthma via shielding letters received in 2020 have been seen in a specialist asthma clinic.

10 Mar 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the (a) amount of overtime worked by NHS staff during the covid-19 outbreak to date and (b) expenditure on overtime worked by NHS staff during that timescal

25 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will prioritise the installation of tactile paving at all mainline rail stations.

25 Feb 2021 · Department for Transport

Railway Stations: Pedestrian Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what funding will be made available for the acceleration of the installation of tactile paving at mainline rail stations.

25 Feb 2021 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings officials in his Department have had on alcohol duty with representatives of the (a) alcohol industry and (b) public health organisations in each of the last six months.

25 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report on Alcohol-specific deaths in the UK: registered in 2019, published by the ONS on 2 February 2021, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequ

25 Feb 2021 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings Ministers in his Department have had on alcohol duty with representatives of the (a) alcohol industry and (b) public health organisations in each of the last six months.

25 Feb 2021 · Treasury

Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings he has had with representatives (a) of the alcohol industry and (b) from public health organisations to discuss alcohol duty in the last six months.

25 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has made of the implications for prioritisation in the next phase of the covid-19 vaccination programme of the 2020 findings of K

25 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether people with asthma not included in groups 4 and 6 are planned to be prioritised in the next phase of the covid-19 vaccination programme.

22 Feb 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Assistance Animals: Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to ensure that people in Great Britain who use assistance dogs do not face hardship as a result of new administrative requirements when they travel to North

19 Feb 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support (a) end of life care for people dying at home and (b) their family members during the national covid-19 lockdown announced in January 2021.

10 Feb 2021 · Women and Equalities

Disadvantaged: Coronavirus

What steps she is taking to tackle inequality during the covid-19 outbreak.

4 Feb 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Civil Society: Coronavirus

What plans he has to provide additional financial support to the civil and voluntary sector during the national covid-19 lockdown announced in January 2021.

26 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to recommendation 65 of the document, Achieving World-Class Cancer Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer 2015-2020, what progress his Department has made on providing information on potent

26 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NICE Clinical Guideline (NG101) Early and Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: Diagnosis and Management (2018), what steps he is taking to ensure that all people who have had treatment

25 Jan 2021 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Physiotherapy: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance the Government has issued to local authorities on whether physiotherapy clinics that share premises with businesses that are not permitted to operate during the covi

19 Jan 2021 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fishing Vessels

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans he has for the management of (a) supertrawlers and (b) supertrawler fleets under the the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement; and if he will make a statement.

13 Jan 2021 · Women and Equalities

Equality

What recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on reducing economic inequality and poverty.

11 Jan 2021 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Housing: Disability and Older People

What steps he is taking to help ensure the provision of accessible homes for older and disabled people.

8 Jan 2021 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Protective Clothing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) comparative effectiveness against covid-19 of generic face coverings versus face masks with FFP3 protection and (b) potential merits of supplying FFP3 face ma

8 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Environment Protection: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that local communities are consulted on the environmental impact of the proposed developments for (a) growth and (b) renewal zones outlined in t

8 Dec 2020 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Nature Conservation: Planning

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what additional protections for nature will result from the reforms to the planning system set out in the Planning for the Future White Paper.

30 Oct 2020 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Self-harm: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of his Department working with the Department for Health and Social Care to improve voluntary sector provision for young people who se

30 Oct 2020 · Department for Education

Education: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to accelerate the roll out of community mental health teams to schools and colleges, and to extend it to universities, as recommended by the Samaritans in their October 2020 report entitled Pu

30 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Self-harm

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to work with NHS England to ensure that psychosocial assessments are undertaken for everyone who discloses self-harm (a) to their GP and (b) in any other clinical sett

30 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Self-harm

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of commissioning research to improve understanding of how to support people who self-harm without intending to take their own lives.

30 Oct 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether Public Health England consulted with schools on the guidance on aerosol generating procedures (AGP); and if his Department will work with Public Health England to provide guidance to schools who cannot

30 Oct 2020 · Department for Education

Schools: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools do not have the facilities to allow children with complex needs that require aerosol generating procedures to return to school; and what steps he is taking to support those schools to ensure th

30 Oct 2020 · Department for Education

Pupils: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children with complex needs that require aerosol generating procedures (AGP) have not been able to return to school as a result of the covid-19 outbreak; and if his Department will work with Public Hea