Written questions
1,571 written questions tabled, most recent first.
22 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43516: Maternity Services, if he will update the three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal care to include specific numerical targets.
3 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Hospitals: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has issued guidance to hospital trusts on reducing waiting lists for elective care through demand management.
2 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Maternity Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress each NHS Trust providing maternity services has made on implementing each of the immediate and essential actions set out in the Final report of the Ockenden review, published o
1 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the use of temporary care environments in patient care.
1 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing year-round data on the number of patients treated in temporary care environments.
31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Smoking: Hospitality Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that outdoor hospitality areas remain outside the scope of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Smoking: Hospitality Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the Tobacco and Vapes Bill does not lead to (a) restrictions and (b) bans on smoking in outside areas of hospitality businesses.
26 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Teenage Pregnancy
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Office of National Statistics will publish the quarterly England and Wales and Local Authority under-18 conception data for 2024.
26 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Teenage Pregnancy
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Office for National Statistics will make the (a) 2022 and (b) 2023 under-18 conception data ward level data available for local authorities.
26 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Teenage Pregnancy
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Office for National Statistics will publish the quarterly and annual under-18 conception data for (a) 2022: England and Wales, Local Authority and District level and (b) 2023: England and Wales, Local A
25 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 12 January 2022 to Question 102658, how much money NHS England clawed back from primary care NHS dental practices in England that had not met their contractual targe
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Payment Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference his Department's consultation entitled 2025/26 NHS Payment Scheme, published on 30 January 2025, what (a) meetings he has held with and (b) representations he has received from (i) h
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Payment Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has held on the 2025/26 NHS Payment Scheme with the (a) voluntary and (b) community sector.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral statement of 13 March 2025 on NHS England Update, Official Report, column 1284, what steps his Department plans to take to implement the mandate to NHS England, published
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral statement of 13 March 2025 on NHS England Update, Official Report, column 1284, what plans his Department has to support hospital trusts under the NHS Oversight Framework
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Directors
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of taking legislative steps to ensure there is an allied health professional on the boards of NHS (a) integrated care boards and (b) hospital t
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Agency Nurses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to use on-framework staffing agencies to reduce the number of unfilled nursing shifts.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Agency Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of banning the use of off-framework staffing agencies by the NHS.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Agency Nurses: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost to the public purse is of one band 5 nursing hour supplied by (a) On-framework staffing agencies and (b) Off-framework staffing agencies to the NHS in each year since 2019.
19 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust: Agency Nurses
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of one band 5 nursing hour supplied by (a) On-framework staffing agencies and (b) Off-framework staffing agencies at the Shrewsbu
18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Payment Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he took to raise awareness of the consultation on the proposed 2025/26 NHS Payment Scheme.
18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS Payment Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many members of the public were consulted as part of the stakeholder engagement on changes to the NHS payment scheme.
17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps action he is taking to help reduce waiting times for mental health treatment in (a) Shropshire and (b) England.
17 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport
Railway Stations: Access
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2025 to Question 37331 on Whitchurch (Shropshire) Station: Access, what her Department's timetable is for its review of the option selection reports on step-free access at sta
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Integrated Care Boards and NHS England: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of savings from changes to (a) NHS England and (b) Integrated care boards running costs will go the consolidated fund.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Integrated Care Boards and NHS England: Cost Effectiveness
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of savings from cuts to NHS England and ICB running costs will be directed to (a) primary care, (b) secondary care and (c) social care.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Integrated Care Boards: Operating Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to ask ICBs to reduce running costs by half.
13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Dental Services: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the amount of money clawed back by NHS England from primary care NHS dental practices in England that had not met their contractual targets in each year sin
13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Patient Choice Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed changes to (a) elective and (b) activity-based payments on (i) access to (A) (1) ADHD and (2) other medication and (B) other treatmen
13 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Patient Choice Schemes
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that elective service changes to the NHS Payment Scheme comply with legislation on the NHS Right to Choose.
Source: official written-questions record.