Written questions

72 written questions tabled, most recent first.

12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Records: Babies

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of routinely (a) recording and (b) matching new fathers’ health records to those of their children.

12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Fathers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) create a pathway for (i) expectant and (ii) new fathers and (b) ensure that NHS staff are trained to (A) engage with and (B) provide (1) information and (

12 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Mental Health Services: Fathers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the (a) mental and (b) physical health of (i) fathers and (ii) their (A) partners and (B) families in the perinatal period.

1 May 2025 · Attorney General

Gender Based Violence: Prosecutions

To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help increase prosecution rates in cases of violence against women and girls.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle health inequalities linked to the (a) diagnosis and (b) management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the NHS Greater Manchester Integrat

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Respiratory Diseases: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients in (a) Greater Manchester ICB and (b) England are waiting for an appointment with a specialist respiratory clinician following a referral from their GP.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support Greater Manchester ICB to increase the speed of access to diagnostic tests for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are waiting to receive a spirometry test for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Greater Manchester integrated care board.

7 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet Colleagues and (b) his Israeli counterpart on ending hostilities in Gaza.

7 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza: Humanitarian Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that aid can reach people in Gaza.

7 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Gaza

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to secure an end to the violence in Gaza.

7 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of abolishing NHS England on the ongoing programme of work on accessible health and care information.

7 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Telemedicine: Voice over Internet Protocol

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that meeting patients' communications needs is included in the 10 year plan objective to shift from analogue to digital.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to review platform categorisation regulations under the Online Safety Act 2023.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will commission a report into real-world harms associated with smaller online forums that encourage (a) self-harm, (b) suicide and (c) misogyny.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that small but high-risk platforms promoting (a) suicide encouragement and (b) misogyny are subject to the fullest range of duties under the Online Saf

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to equalise the importance of (a) the nature of the content and (b) the size of the platform when determining platform categorisation under the Online Safety Act.

26 Mar 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Internet: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will review the criteria used to determine platform categorisation under the Online Safety Act to ensure that small but high-risk platforms hosting (a) suicide-related and (b) mis

25 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she plans to equalise the statutory limitation periods for prosecution in (a) section 66B(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, (b) clause 141 of the Data (Use and Access) Bill and (c) section 127(1) of the

25 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Intimate Image Abuse: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending time limits for prosecuting summary-only offences involving the taking of intimate images without consent to be brought into line with thos

25 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Intimate Image Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of harmonising the time within which an offence can be tried in court after it has been committed for (a) taking and (b) creating intimate images without conse

24 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Profits

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to prevent energy companies profiting from price increases.

24 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Small Businesses: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to provide support to small businesses to offset increases to employer National Insurance contributions.

7 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, when she plans to respond to (a) Question 34399 on Legal Costs: Low Incomes and (b) Question 34403 on Sentencing: Legal Costs, tabled on 27 February 2025.

27 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Sentencing: Legal Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the number of defendants pleading guilty because of unaffordable legal costs.

27 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Acquittals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the availability of costs recovery to defendants when the Crown Prosecution Service withdraws a case on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

27 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Criminal Proceedings: Acquittals

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of costs recovery available to people found not guilty after a criminal trial.

27 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Aid Scheme: Low Incomes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the level of the cap on legal aid rates on defendants on a low income.

27 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Legal Costs: Low Incomes

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the lower tier of the evidence provision fee in covering the legal costs of defendants on a low income.

4 Feb 2025 · Home Office

Domestic Abuse

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle domestic abuse.

Source: official written-questions record.