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.