Written questions

1,432 written questions tabled, most recent first.

30 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prevent an increase in harmful drinking during the covid-19 outbreak.

30 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will introduce a new cross-government alcohol strategy which takes account of the effects of the covid-19 outbreak.

19 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Test and Trace

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the Memorandum of Understanding between his Department and the National Police Chiefs' Council on their data sharing arrangement for NHS Test and Trace.

19 Oct 2020 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance

What recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing carer’s allowance.

14 Oct 2020 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Bounce Back Loan Scheme

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to allow recipients of funding from the Bounce Back Loan scheme to reapply for the scheme in the event that they did not use the full amount on offer

7 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Test and Trace: Labour Turnover

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff (a) are employed by and (b) have left the employment of NHS Test and Trace by region in England for each month for which data is available.

7 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Test and Trace

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on NHS Test and Trace by region in England.

7 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and which regional NHS Genetics Laboratories are being used to increase covid-19 testing capacity.

7 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using regional NHS Genetics Laboratories to increase covid-19 testing capacity.

7 Oct 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of ambulance service callouts by NHS trust that were alcohol-related in each of the last four years.

30 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with local Clinical Commissioning Groups and Health and Wellbeing Boards on their plans to improve access to community rehabilitation services.

30 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure patient access to high quality community rehabilitation.

30 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to make a single person accountable for the provision of rehabilitation support in England.

30 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Rehabilitation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve rehabilitation services for patients through the (a) NHS Constitution and (b) NHS Long Term Plan.

24 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government has taken to develop post-covid-19 plans for tackling waiting lists for the next five years for (a) hospital appointments, (b) treatment times, (c) elective surgery and (d

23 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the 90-minute covid-19 tests used by NHS Trust (a) staff and (b) patients in England have yielded a (i) false negative or (ii) false positive result.

23 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many results of the 90-minute covid-19 test used in England NHS Trust (a) staff and (b) patients have come back (i) positive, (ii) negative and (iii) void/invalid.

23 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by which month all NHS trusts in England will have a supply of 90-minute covid-19 tests.

23 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timescale is for rolling out the 90-minute covid-19 tests across all NHS hospital trusts.

23 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of the 90-minute covid-19 tests used in NHS hospital trusts in England have provided a result within 90 minutes since those tests were introduced.

23 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) staff and (b) patients have had a 90-minute covid-19 test at an NHS hospital trust in England since their introduction.

23 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and which NHS hospital trusts in England have access to 90-minute tests for covid-19.

22 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Paterson Inquiry

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to respond to the Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Issues raised by Paterson, HC 31, published in February 2020.

17 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide mental health support to people with long covid.

17 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet people with long covid to discuss their experiences.

10 Sep 2020 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hydrogen: Air Pollution

What assessment the Government has made of the potential role of hydrogen technology in improving air quality.

8 Sep 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguarding measures his Department has put in place to ensure that the NHS Better Health app is not used by people with eating disorders.

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what effect the covid-19 outbreak will have on his plans to implement the NHS Long Term Plan with respect to (a) Rapid Diagnostic Centres for cancer and (b) the 28 day cancer diagnosis standard.

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ovarian Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage people who have symptoms of ovarian cancer to contact their GP during the covid-19 outbreak.

28 Aug 2020 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ovarian Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle delays to (a) diagnostic referrals and (b) courses of treatment for ovarian cancer as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.

Source: official written-questions record.