Written questions
512 written questions tabled, most recent first.
31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made on the potential impact of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s severity modifier on the approval of treatments for severe conditions.
31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the National Cancer Plan will be funded; and whether the funding will include ring-fenced resources specifically for children's and young people's cancers.
31 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Integrated Care Boards: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on funding for integrated care boards.
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Lung Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 10 of the report by Cancer Research UK entitled Cancer in the UK 2025: Socioeconomic Deprivation, published in February 2025, what steps he is taking to increase the 5-year n
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Children and Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Cancer52's report entitled, Improving diagnosis: Patient and clinician perspectives on increasing early diagnosis in rare and less common cancers, published in February 2025, if h
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people living in the most deprived areas receive earlier cancer diagnoses.
27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Cancer Research UK entitled Cancer in the UK 2025: socioeconomic deprivation, published on 21 February
25 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the absorption of NHS England into his Department on his Department's timetable for the publication of the updated NHS Long Term Workforce Pla
24 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Long Covid: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to implement the recommendations made by NICE in the House of Commons Coronavirus: Long Covid Research Briefing, published on 31 October 2024 for future research
17 Mar 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 5 March 2025 to Question 32470 on Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment, if he will publish the funding allocation for the investment for replacing older radiotherapy machines.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce accountability mechanisms through the national cancer plan.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps through the national cancer plan to help prepare for innovations in (a) diagnostics and (b) treatments.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on the timing of the publication of the NHS 10-year plan.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what NHS England's functions are; and which (a) existing and (b) new Government bodies will take those functions on.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on the coordination of screening programmes.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS England
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what independent bodies are part of NHS England.
14 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Integrated Care Boards: Reform
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming integrated care boards.
14 Mar 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions
Pension Credit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12286 on Pension Credit: Uptake, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the complexity of the Pension Cr
13 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what (a) oversight and (b) governance procedures will prospective US-UK trade negotiations be subject to from (i) Parliament and (ii) external stakeholders.
13 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what are the criteria by which it would be determined whether any prospective trade treaty between the UK and the US that does not deal with substantially all trade would be subject to scrutiny under t
13 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to publish a Strategic Approach document for prospective US trade negotiations.
13 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Life Sciences: Wokingham
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number of life science businesses in Wokingham constituency in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022, (e) 2023 and (f) 2024; and which constituency in (
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Foreign Investment in UK
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Harrington Review of Foreign Direct Investment, published on 22 November 2023, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing (a) the recommendation on a concierge s
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Trade Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions he has had with his Indian counterpart on free trade negotiations with that country.
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Import Duties: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what representations he has made to the (a) US Department of Commerce and (b) Office of the US Trade Representative on (i) digital services tax, (ii) value added tax and (iii) other regulatory issues r
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Import Duties: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the implementation of the US reciprocal tariffs proposal on UK steel and aluminium exports from 12 March 2025 on (a) eco
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Import Duties: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the end of the US tariff rate quota on UK steel and aluminium exports from 12 March 2025 on (a) economic growth and (b) levels of exports in qua
10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Life Sciences: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle potential barriers to investment for the life science industry; and whether his Department is taking steps to improve partnerships between the NHS
10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Diagnostic Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department plans to provide for Community Diagnostic Centres in the 2025-26 financial year; and if he will take steps to improve access to these centres in each region.
7 Mar 2025 · Cabinet Office
Public Houses
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number of pubs in Wokingham constituency in January (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022, (e) 2023, (f) 2024 and (g) 2025; and which constituency in (a
Source: official written-questions record.