Written questions

122 written questions tabled, most recent first.

10 Jul 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what consultation her Department undertook on the potential impact of changes to the skilled worker route on the supply of (a) dental hygienists and (b) dental nurses.

17 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Doctors: Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the General Medical Council on ensuring that doctors who are unwell seek professional help for their condition, in the context of the General Medical Council's deci

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Anaesthetics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to protect anaesthetist as a professional title.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Care Quality Commission on the introduction of specific metrics to tackle sexual misconduct.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service on the revision of sanctions banding for sexual misconduct cases.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with professional regulators to ensure consistent management of sexual misconduct cases.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Professions: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to encourage medical schools to sign the NHS England sexual safety in healthcare organisational charter.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health Services: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to mandate (a) NHS trust organisations, (b) health boards and (c) professional regulators to collect and publish annual data on sexual misconduct cases.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure trauma-informed education and training for all staff involved in fitness-to-practice cases within the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Trusts: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish a roadmap outlining how NHS trust organisations will implement the national sexual misconduct policy framework.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to establish a national anonymous reporting mechanism for sexual misconduct in the NHS.

28 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Health Services and Higher Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will establish a cross-Departmental ministerial taskforce with the Department for Health and Social Care to support workforce planning between the higher education sector and health service.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicine: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help increase the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of clinical academics.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicine: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of abolishing NHS England on the number of research partnerships with universities in (a) public health, (b) clinical trials, (c) innovation and

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to establish a cross-departmental ministerial taskforce with the Department for Education to support workforce planning between the higher education sector and the health service.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medicine: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to incentivise the recruitment and retention of clinical academics.

7 Apr 2025 · Department for Education

Children: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to allocate further funding to the Support for Families with Disabled Children programme.

2 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Environment Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s plans are for the Greener NHS Programme.

2 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Carbon Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress NHS England has made on becoming the first health service in the world to achieve carbon net zero; and whether this work will continue in the new health service structure.

25 Mar 2025 · Department for Education

Teachers: Neurodiversity

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government plans to introduce mandatory neurodiversity training for all teaching and support staff in schools, colleges and universities.

25 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the potential cost to the public purse was of spending on FeNo machines in the NHS in the last 12 months.

25 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make a comparative estimate of the number of people hospitalised due to asthma compared to other European nations in 2024.

25 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Asthma: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients suffering from asthma received a review in the last 12 months.

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Hornets: Non-native Species

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department plans to establish a fully (a) funded, (b) staffed and (c) equipped national Asian Hornet Task Force to tackle the threat posed by the Asian Hornet Wasp.

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Products: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how the Department plans to ensure online marketplaces have a duty to notify consumers who have been sold (a) unsafe and (b) illegal products.

13 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Products: Safety

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that online marketplaces are accountable for the sale of unsafe products on their platforms.

12 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Chronic Illnesses: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the management of long-term conditions.

12 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Chronic Illnesses: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will (a) publish a strategy to improve the management of long-term conditions and (b) request integrated care systems to develop localised action plans for their communities.

12 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Chronic Illnesses: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help integrated care systems improve data collection of the (a) prevalence and (b) impact of long-term conditions.

12 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to review NHS targets to incentivise improvements in patient experience and outcomes.

Source: official written-questions record.