Written questions
1,673 written questions tabled, most recent first.
27 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Lancashire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dental appointments have been a) delivered and b) cancelled in i) Preston and ii) Lancashire in the last 3 years.
19 Jan 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Genomics: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has allocated to genomic testing in Lancashire for the (a) 2026-27 (b) 2027-28 and (c) 2028-29 financial years.
14 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport
Cycling: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to (a) encourage cyclists to comply with the legal requirement to use appropriate lights and (b) promote the use of (i) reflective and (ii) high-visibility clothing.
17 Dec 2025 · Department for Transport
Car Sharing
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of car sharing clubs on her (a) decongestion and (b) decarbonisation targets.
16 Dec 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Germany: Treaties
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, when her Department plans to lay the Kensington Treaty before Parliament for ratification.
16 Dec 2025 · Home Office
Police: Sexual Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy that people with convictions for any sexual offences should be prevented from serving in the police forces.
16 Dec 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Artificial Intelligence: Self-harm
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions her Department has had with AI companies on ensuring that AI chatbots do not promote or encourage self-harming behaviour.
16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
North West Ambulance Service: Abuse and Crimes of Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the safety of North West Ambulance Service personnel in the context of a trends in the number of violent and abusive incidents directed at frontline NHS staff.
2 Dec 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Sports: Gender
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what data her Department holds on gender disparities in access to youth sports training facilities; and what steps she is taking to decrease those disparities.
27 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ophthalmic Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that access to information about the contribution of good eye care is readily available.
27 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Ophthalmic Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what provisions he is making in the National Health Service to ensure that patients with long term eye conditions receive adequate practical and emotional support.
27 Nov 2025 · Department for Transport
Transport: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her department is taking to make transports systems more easily accessible for people with sight loss, to allow them to travel independently and spontaneously.
24 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Treatments: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many BSL-interpreters were provided at the outset for patients seeking healthcare treatment in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire and (c) England over the last 12 months.
24 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the RNID report entitled Still Ignored: the fight for accessible healthcare; what steps his Department plans to take to ensure
24 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Records: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans are in place to ensure that the medical records of deaf and hearing-impaired patients are appropriately marked prior to the introduction of the Single Patient Record in 2028.
24 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce mandatory visual display screens in (a) GP practices and (b) medical waiting rooms to ensure (i) deaf and (ii) hearing impaired patients are made aware of
24 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medical appointments were missed by (a) deaf and (b) hearing impaired people due to a lack of information support (i) at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, (ii) in the North West and (c) in En
24 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Software
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a timeline for when the NHS app will be made British Sign Language accessible.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Miscarriage
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to routinely monitor and report miscarriage rate trends; and what steps he has taken to reduce the rate of miscarriages.
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services: Interpreters
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to improve access to interpreters for pregnant women and their families who are receiving maternity and neonatal care; and whether he plans to introduce national guid
10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Infant Mortality
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of average (a) stillbirth and (b) neonatal mortality rates among (i) Black and Asian babies and (ii) babies born to mother
10 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Internet: Proof of Identity
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to introduce a mandatory ID submission for people creating online accounts on anonymous websites.
10 Oct 2025 · Home Office
Police: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that all police forces have mandatory training to support victims of online harassment and stalking.
9 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the number of patients who have been referred by their GP for a possible Parkinson's diagnosis and are not se
9 Sep 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Social Security Benefits: Parkinson's Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that there are Parkinson's trained assessors for benefit assessments involving applicants with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
9 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Parkinson's Disease: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the provision of adequate levels of funding for seeking a cure for Parkinson's disease.
9 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Parkinson's Disease: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to provide people with Parkinson's disease with a personal plan to allow (a) access to, (b) advice from and (c) treatment by a multidisciplinary team of (i) Parkinson’
9 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Parkinson's Disease: Leaflets
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider the potential merits of providing a leaflet to people diagnosed with Parkinson's disease with (a) information about the disease, (b) the relevant contact numbers for their (i) h
8 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Lancashire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2025 to Question 60418 on medical testing, how much of the £600 million capital spending this year on diagnostics including funding all pathology networks will be
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Ask for Angela Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what metrics are used to assess the (a) uptake and (b) effectiveness of the Ask for Angela scheme; and what information her Department holds on its usage in licensed venues.
Source: official written-questions record.