Written questions
512 written questions tabled, most recent first.
25 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vitamin D: Dietary Supplements
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has assessment the potential merits of workplace-based vitamin D supplementation programmes as a mechanism to reach populations at higher risk of deficiency.
25 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vitamin D: Dietary Supplements
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2026 to Question 110577 on Vitamin D: Dietary Supplements, whether he plans to introduce targeted oversampling of Black and Asian populations to allow accelera
25 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vitamin D: Deficiency Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2026 to Question 110574 on Vitamin D: Deficiency Diseases, whether the rapid review by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition will assess optimal vitam
25 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vitamin D: Deficiency Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2026 to Question 110574 on Vitamin D: Deficiency Diseases, what his planned timeline is for the rapid review by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition
25 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the joint accelerated approvals pathway operated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency will enable tumour-agnostic
25 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether specialist multidisciplinary teams and designated centres of excellence will be given clear guidance and authority to prescribe off-label treatments supported by genomic evidence and aligne
25 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help support access to genomically-matched targeted therapies for patients with rare cancers, where genomic testing identifies a suitable option but large-scale clinical
25 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Park Homes: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to a) abolish, or b) otherwise amend the 10% sales commission on residential park homes.
20 Feb 2026 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Energy Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he plans to bring forward legislative proposals on energy independence.
20 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
National Cancer Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Action 21 of the National Cancer Plan, what appointment process will be used to select the independent representative who will co chair the reformed National Cancer Board.
20 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
National Cancer Board
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Action 21 of the National Cancer Plan, when his Department expects the reformed National Cancer Board to be established.
20 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the £70 million allocated in the Autumn Budget 2024 for new linear accelerator (LINAC) machines has been spent to date; how many new LINAC machines have been procured with that funding;
10 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 75 of the policy paper entitled A National Cancer Plan for England: delivering world class cancer care, whether it is his policy that patients with rare cancers should be off
10 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to align NICE appraisal timelines, MHRA regulatory pathways and NHS commissioning decisions to support the delivery of personalised cancer medicines.
10 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Rare Cancers: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what provision the National Cancer Plan will make for orphan drug pathways for patients with rare cancers requiring personalised treatment plans; and how those pathways will differ from existing co
10 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the expansion of diagnostic genomic testing for cancer is accompanied by timely NHS access to targeted therapies identified by that testing, including where s
6 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Wheelchairs: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to ensure that NHS organisations and contracted wheelchair service providers are subject to more rigorous, mandatory regulation.
6 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Wheelchairs: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to make the recently developed service specification guidelines for wheelchair services mandatory across England.
6 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Wheelchairs: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what statistics he has on the demand for and use of wheelchairs; and how that data informs NHS England’s commissioning of appropriate services.
6 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Disability: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that funding for wheelchair users is adequate to meet essential needs, including equipment and specialist support.
5 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of people became unemployed while waiting for a decision on their application to the Access To Work Scheme in 2025.
5 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions
Access to Work Programme: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of applications for the Access To Work scheme had a wait time of more than two weeks from submitting an application to receiving a decision in 2025 in (a) Berkshire and (b)
3 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vitamin D: Dietary Supplements
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to extend access to free and subsidized vitamin D supplements to at-risk groups identified in NICE PH56.
3 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Food: Vitamin D
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will develop a vitamin D food fortification policy.
3 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vitamin D: Deficiency Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ask the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition to review whether current vitamin D supplementation recommendations (a) adequately serve all population groups and (b) take adequate ac
3 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Vitamin D: Deficiency Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) collect and (b) publish vitamin D deficiency statistics broken down by ethnicity.
27 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Flood Control: Cost Benefit Analysis
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the long-term costs of post-flood clean-up operations with the potential savings from investing in proactive flood prevention mea
27 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Hydroelectric Power
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment protocols are in place to evaluate the cumulative impact of new hydroelectric installations on water flow, flood risk, and ecological balance.
27 Jan 2026 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
River Thames: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will to outline the governance framework for managing River Thames navigation assets, including the criteria and decision-making process for modifying lock structures and updati
16 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport
Network Rail: Concessions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has had any meetings with colleagues at Transport for London to discuss the availability of Network Railcard discounts at railway stations managed by Transport for London.
Source: official written-questions record.