Written questions

512 written questions tabled, most recent first.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood Cancer: Health Professions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the National Cancer Plan on increasing the number of blood cancer (i) nurses and (ii) doctors over the next 10 years.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Blood Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the National Cancer Plan with include consultation with blood cancer (a) consultant haematologists, (b) clinical nurse specialists and (c) other staff.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that radiotherapy treatment meets NHS cancer waiting times.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate further funding for new radiotherapy LINAC machines.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many LINAC machines are (a) currently within the recommended lifespan and (b) beyond the recommended lifespan.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of radiotherapy on cancer outcomes in (a) Wokingham constituency and (b) England.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to address regional inequalities in access to radiotherapy.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of implementing a rolling replacement programme for out-of-date radiotherapy machines.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to funding announced in the Autumn Budget 2024, how many hospital trusts were given funding for (a) new radiotherapy machines and (b) replacing out-of-date radiotherapy machines.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the number of NHS Trusts that are using LINAC machines that are beyond their recommended lifespan.

28 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Radiotherapy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to include provisions for radiotherapy cancer treatment in the upcoming National Cancer Plan.

22 Apr 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Import Duties: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions he has had with (a) Cabinet colleagues, (b) the Food Standards Agency and (c) other stakeholders on the potential impact of reducing UK tariffs on US meat and seafood

22 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 41043 on Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment, what the cost was of each machine.

22 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 41043 on Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment, what devices have been purchased; and from which companies they have been purchased.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Cancers: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the national cancer strategy will include commitments to improve outcomes for (a) acute myeloid leukaemia and (b) other rare and less common cancers.

17 Apr 2025 · Treasury

Palliative Care: Public Expenditure

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the use of the Transformation Fund to reform palliative and end of life care services.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Public Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the Transformation Fund announced in the Spring Statement 2025; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on providing long term, sustainable funding for palliative and end of life care services.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of changes in the number of people with palliative care needs over the next 10 years.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Palliative Care: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what measures to improve the quality of palliative and end of life care will be included in the 10 Year Health Plan.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bowel Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the colonoscopy capacity that would be required for the wider roll out of NHS England pilot to reduce the faecal immunochemical test threshold for the Bowel Cancer Scre

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bowel Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of colonoscopy capacity for providing the bowel cancer screening programme.

17 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bowel Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the NHS England pilot of reducing the faecal immunochemical test threshold for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme from 120µg/g to 80µg/g on

7 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Community Diagnostic Centres: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of proposed Integrated Care Board cuts on Community Diagnostic Centres.

7 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of Integrated Care Board cuts on the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West ICB.

2 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Prime Minister in response to the Leader of the Opposition on 2 April 2025, how 1,000 new GPs were recruited.

1 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to Question 35076 tabled by the hon. Member for Wokingham on 3 March 2025.

31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the requirement for opportunity cost neutrality in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence severity modifier.

31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the requirement for opportunity cost neutrality in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence severity modifier on funding for tr

31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to assess the potential impact of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s severity modifier on people with secondary breast cancer.

Source: official written-questions record.