Written questions
1,408 written questions tabled, most recent first.
16 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Juries: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been unable to complete jury service because of a lack of British Sign Language provision in the last 12 months.
16 Sep 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to ensure that recovered life jackets are not re-entered into circulation for use in further crossings.
16 Sep 2025 · Home Office
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on the reuse of life jackets recovered from small boat crossings by criminal gangs.
16 Sep 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Offshore Industry: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to ensure that employees in the oil and gas industry in England have adequate skills to find new employment.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to consider patient feedback when developing the national cancer plan for blood cancers.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to assess the potential impact of centralised specialist services on patient outcomes for different blood cancers.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to issue guidance to NHS trusts on prioritising blood cancer patients for treatment when demand exceeds capacity.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Community Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps with patient organisations to understand barriers to blood cancer care in local communities.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Multiple Myeloma: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to expand the number of specialist centres for myeloma treatment.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of data sharing between hospitals and primary care in improving early diagnosis of blood cancers.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to monitor progress on access to new NHS-approved drugs for blood cancer patients.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure equitable access to specialist blood cancer treatment for patients in rural areas.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Clinical Trials
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS is taking to improve access to clinical trials for people with rare blood cancers.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Leukaemia: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve five-year survival rates for patients with acute myeloid leukaemia.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Osteoporosis: 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 international best practice in the provision of osteoporosis diagnosis services; and whether he is applying lessons lea
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Osteoporosis: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure equitable access to osteoporosis medication and early diagnosis services across all regions of England.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fractures: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with NHS England on incorporating fracture liaison services into the national 10-Year Health Plan.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fractures: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the absence of universal access to fracture liason services on the number of preventable deaths from hip fractures each year.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fractures: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for the national roll-out of Fracture Liaison Services.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fractures: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that people presenting with fragility fractures are systematically referred for a bone density scan.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fractures: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the cost savings to the NHS from the expansion of Fracture Liaison Services in England.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fractures: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on rolling out Fracture Liaison Services in all NHS Trusts in England.
15 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fractures: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that every NHS Trust in England commissions a Fracture Liaison Service.
12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is monitoring the number of administrative staff working in NHS back office functions; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reductions in those staff on
12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to make workforce data transparent at (a) trust and (b) ICB level.
12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the use of (a) agency and (b) locum staff on reducing waiting lists.
12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Professions: Migrant Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of fast-tracking accreditation for internationally-trained healthcare professionals to help increase local staffing levels.
12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the time taken to recruit into nursing roles on elective care backlogs.
12 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Trusts: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of regional variations in staff vacancy rates on waiting list lengths in NHS trusts.
12 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Juries: Hearing Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department plans to take steps to review court procedures to ensure deaf jurors are not excluded from panels on the grounds of the cost of the provision of British Sign Language interpretation.
Source: official written-questions record.