Written questions
277 written questions tabled, most recent first.
16 Feb 2024 · Treasury
Friendly Societies: Misconduct
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will take steps to ensure that the Financial Conduct Authority is able to penalise misconduct by officers of friendly societies.
16 Feb 2024 · Home Office
Naturalisation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the average time taken to process a naturalisation application in each of the last five years.
16 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the (a) extent of and (b) reasons for geographical disparities in the number and proportion of bowel cancers diagnosed at stages (i) 3 and (ii) 4 in
16 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the (a) extent of and (b) reasons for inequalities in bowel cancer outcomes.
16 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an estimate of the number of Cancer Alliances that are offering close family members of Lynch syndrome patients tests for that syndrome in accordance with NICE guida
16 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many tests for lynch syndrome were funded by NHS England in 2022.
8 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Radiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she plans to take to (a) help ensure equality of access to radiotherapy, (b) recruit more staff, (c) acquire more equipment and (d) otherwise increase radiotherapy capacity.
8 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure that people with Lynch Syndrome are (a) informed of their condition and (b) made aware of their increased risk of bowel cancer.
8 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Bowel Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she plans to take to help increase the (a) stock of colonoscopy equipment, (b) number of colonoscopy facilities and (c) number of trained staff; and what other steps she plans to take to
8 Feb 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she plans to take to help ensure adequacy of funding for cancer research over the next ten years.
30 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
MMR Vaccine: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure that schools are providing adequate information to (a) students and (b) parents on the (i) merits and (ii) associated risks of measles vaccinations.
30 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
MMR Vaccine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help encourage vaccine uptake for measles in Coventry; what plans she has to tackle gaps in measles vaccination coverage (a) generally and (b) among vulnerable populatio
15 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cervical Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help increase the (a) accessibility of smear tests for working women and (b) coverage of cervical cancer screening in Coventry North West constituency; how many smear te
11 Jan 2024 · Women and Equalities
Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking to close the ethnicity pay gap beyond issuing guidance on ethnicity pay gap reporting.
11 Jan 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Tomography
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) CT scanners, (b) MRI scanning machines and (c) linear accelerators for radiotherapy were owned by her Department in the financial year 2021-22; how many and what proportion of the (i)
13 Dec 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help improve the treatment of Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer.
28 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hepatitis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with NHS England on the potential merits of (a) lowering the thresholds for initiation of treatment for chronic hepatitis B and (b) expanding opt-out testing for blo
27 Nov 2023 · Department for Transport
Parking: Pedestrian Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to tackle pavement parking where alternatives are available; whether he has had discussions with city councils on the potential merits of prohibiting pavement parking where i
22 Nov 2023 · Home Office
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dogs have been destroyed by police since 2019.
22 Nov 2023 · Home Office
Neighbourhood Policing: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to increase the number of community policing teams in the West Midlands.
22 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent community pharmacy closures.
9 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
HIV/AIDS: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department are taking steps to (a) support community-based organisations that work directly with at-risk populations to provide targeted HIV prevention and support services, (b) encoura
7 Nov 2023 · Home Office
Organised Crime: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent children being (a) exploited, (b) recruited into criminal organisations and (c) involved in knife crime in the West Midlands.
7 Nov 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health: Working Hours
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of night work on (a) the level of risk of diagnosis with diabetes, (b) the level of risk of diagnosis with cardiovascular disease and
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Publicity
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on (a) consulting on the new name for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services, b) rebranding these services (i) digitally and (ii) physically on (A) signs
13 Oct 2023 · Cabinet Office
Infected Blood Inquiry
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the second interim report of the Infected Blood Inquiry, published on 5 April 2023, what steps he is taking to respond to recommendation (k).
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Smoking
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 17 April 2023, HCWS710, on Achieving Smokefree 2030: cutting smoking and stopping kids vaping, whether his Department has conducted modelling on the poten
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Smoking
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains the Government's policy to reduce the prevalence of adult smoking to 5% or less by 2030.
13 Oct 2023 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dementia: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with dementia are routinely offered the option of taking part in research.
1 Sep 2023 · Home Office
Asylum: Hotels
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which constituencies the provision of temporary accommodation in hotels for asylum seekers is being reduced; and in which constituencies capacity in already used hotels is being increased.
Source: official written-questions record.