Written questions
1,571 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to personally meet with cross-party representatives to discuss social care reform.
22 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the potential savings to the public purse from reduced usage of on-framework staffing agencies.
22 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Nurses: Vacancies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the planned 30 per cent reduction in agency spend outlined in the NHS Planning Guidance 2025-26 on nurse fill rates.
21 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Foot and Mouth Disease: EU Countries
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has updated its contingency plans following foot and mouth disease outbreaks in mainland Europe in 2025.
20 May 2025 · Department for Transport
Level Crossings: Chirk Bank
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will ask Network Rail to install Overlay Miniature Stop Lights at Viaduct level crossing in Chirk Bank.
20 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to set out a timeline for negotiations with community pharmacies for the 2026-27 Contractual Framework.
20 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Pharmacy: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the full budget available to community pharmacies in 2025-26 is spent on the sector.
20 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services: Medical Records
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent the mishandling of patient information by social care providers.
20 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Workplace Pensions: Index Linking
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help support pensioners in North Shropshire constituency whose pre-1997 contributions are not subject to indexation.
20 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Postal Services: North Shropshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to improve access to postal services in North Shropshire constituency.
20 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Horizon Shortfall Scheme: North Shropshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress his Department has made in resolving Horizon Shortfall Scheme claims for sub-postmasters in North Shropshire constituency.
20 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Postal Services: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment with the Secretary of State for Transport on the adequacy of access to postal services in rural areas where (a) post office branches have recently closed and (b) postal ou
19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) address high turnover and (b) improve management practices in the care sector.
19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Care Workers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Prime Minister's oral contribution of 14 May 2025, Official Report, column 336, whether he plans to provide additional funding to local authorities for social care to enable c
19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Records: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department undertook a risk assessment before making full medical records available to social care providers through the Devon and Cornwall Care Record.
19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Independent Commission into Adult Social Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with Baroness Casey on engaging with political parties (a) individually or (b) collectively in relation to the Independent commission into adult social care.
19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Social Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral contribution of 19 May 2025, on what date his Department plans to hold the first meeting of cross-party talks on social care.
19 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Dairy Farming: North Shropshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support dairy farmers in North Shropshire constituency.
19 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Foot and Mouth Disease: Dairy Farming
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of a foot and mouth disease outbreak on the dairy sector.
19 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Foot and Mouth Disease: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has produced a risk assessment in relation to the potential spread of foot and mouth by hostile actors.
19 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Foot and Mouth Disease
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of foot and mouth disease outbreaks in Hungary, Slovakia and Germany in 2025.
19 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Post Offices: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the access criteria for Post Office services for rural areas.
19 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Banks and Post Offices: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of (a) high street bank and (b) Crown post office closures on the availability of monetary services in rural communities.
19 May 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Post Offices: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the closure of Crown post offices on rural communities.
13 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Diagnostic Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department informs all (a) GPs and (b) care providers when a new Community Diagnostic Centre opens for referrals in the nearby area.
13 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Diagnostic Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which Community Diagnostic Centres patients could attend after being referred for a scan as of 30 April 2025; and what the addresses are of these locations.
12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the revised Long-Term Workforce Plan will contain guidance on how the NHS will (a) train and (b) supervise new doctors.
12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the revised Long-Term Workforce Plan will be published.
12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on this years’ planned revision of the Long-Term Workforce Plan.
7 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Brain: Injuries
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the prevalence of infant brain injuries at childbirth.
Source: official written-questions record.