Written questions
1,485 written questions tabled, most recent first.
5 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects negotiations on a new NHS dental contract to conclude.
2 Dec 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions
State Retirement Pensions: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he will formally respond to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s 2021 report into the impact of State Pension Age equalisation on women.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money NHS England will claw back from NHS dental practices in England which had not met their contractual targets in the 2021-22 financial year.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to improve the rates of diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to improve the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Respiratory Diseases: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to reduce inequalities in outcomes affecting patients with respiratory conditions.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help ensure that there are interoperable prescribing systems between NHS providers and homecare medicines services providers.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of vacancies there are for (a) nurses and (b) pharmacists in homecare medicines services as of 1 December 2022; and if he will make an assessment of the po
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the impact of inflation on community pharmacies.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided to community pharmacies through the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework in real terms accounting for inflation in each year since 2016.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the recruitment of clinical pharmacists into primary care networks on the community pharmacy workforce.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of community pharmacy closures on patients.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Parkinson's Disease: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with hospital trusts on taking steps to help ensure that people with Parkinson’s Disease get their medication on time in hospital settings in England.
1 Dec 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on a funding settlement to support the NHS workforce plan.
29 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Epilepsy: Females
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Digital and MHRA data publication Medicines and Pregnancy Registry: Antiepileptic use in females aged 0 to 54 in England, what recent steps he has taken to ensure all rele
28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in reference to the Medicines and Pregnancy Registry: Antiepileptic use in females aged 0 to 54 in England, whether his Department has reported the total number of people affected by Valproate in p
28 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sodium Valproate: Prescriptions
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) how many women aged 15-45 years were prescribed sodium valproate in May 2022 and (b) how many women aged 15-45 years who has been prescribed sodium valproate have had their prescription changed
24 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Birkbeck, University of London: Redundancy
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed redundancies of (a) academic and (b) administrative staff at Birkbeck College on the quality of (i) teaching, (ii) outcomes for students an
22 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department will ensure that the delegation of specialised commissioning functions does not distort access to innovative cancer treatments.
22 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that patients do not have to travel excessive distances to access innovative cancer treatments.
22 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the New Hospitals Programme will support the adoption of innovative treatment platforms that require infrastructure investment.
22 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Radiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department's 10-Year Cancer Plan will include measures to improve regional access to (a) radioligand therapy and (b) other targeted molecular radiotherapies.
17 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Special Educational Needs: Speech and Language Disorders
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to ensure children with speech and language challenges benefit from programmes to support literacy and numeracy.
17 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Basic Skills: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to his Departments policy paper entitled Opportunity for all: strong schools with great teachers for your child, published March 2022, what steps her Department is taking to help 90 per cent of c
17 Nov 2022 · Department for Education
Literacy: Teaching Methods
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that schools are delivering phonics programmes.
16 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Physiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the NHS (a) has sufficient physiotherapists and physiotherapy support staff to meet demand for and (b) is prepared for additional pressure on reha
16 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Physiotherapy: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of NHS physiotherapy workforce vacancies in England; and what steps he is taking to fill such vacancies.
16 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Physiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help expand the size of the physiotherapy workforce.
16 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
Antenatal Care: Physiotherapy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of pelvic physiotherapists required for perinatal pelvic health services.
16 Nov 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care
British Dental Association
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on contract negotiations with the British Dental Association; and if he will make a statement.
Source: official written-questions record.