Written questions

512 written questions tabled, most recent first.

6 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, for what reason his Department has not published the full details of the funding allocation for replacin

5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

ADHD

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the oral contribution by the Leader of The House of the 27 February 2025, Official Report, column 954, when he expects the NHS England ADHD taskforce to be ready to report with re

4 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Radiotherapy: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of AI radiotherapy auto-contouring on (a) patient outcomes, (b) productivity and (c) workforce retention.

4 Mar 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Secondhand Goods

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in the residual value of second-hand electric vehicles.

3 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Social Tariffs

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on data sharing to identify households eligible for energy social tariffs.

3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Minister for Public Health and Prevention plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Wokingham of 21 January 2025 on blood cancer.

3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce resource disparities among NHS Trusts for cancer (a) care and (b) treatment.

3 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Members: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to respond to the hon. Member for Wokingham in relation to the correspondence of 5 February 2025 from the Leader of the House on the number of newly-qualified GPs employed

28 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Warm Homes Plan

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing (a) VAT reductions or grants and (b) other financial incentives to encourage the adoption of heat battery technology i

28 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Batteries: Warm Homes Plan

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps his Department is taking to improve public awareness and consumer advice on the benefits of heat battery technology as part of the Government’s Warm Homes Plan.

28 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of heat batteries on (a) peak electricity demand and (b) grid flexibility in the UK energy system.

28 Feb 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Heat Batteries: Warm Homes Plan

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment his Department has made of the potential contribution of heat battery technology to the Warm Homes Plan; and what steps he is taking to support the (a) development and (b) dep

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Cancers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that GPs have access to clinical decision support tools for identifying rare or less common cancers.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of existing cancer stages.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Cancers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 11 of Cancer52 and GRAIL's report on improving diagnosis for rare and less common cancers, published in February 2025, what assessment he has made of the potential implicatio

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increase public awareness of the (i) signs and (ii) symptoms of cancer and (b) encourage people to act on them.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Health: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve research into innovative screening methods; and if he will commit to rapidly (a) funding, (b) piloting and (c) implementing screening programmes recommended by th

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer: Children and Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of including a dedicated chapter within the National Cancer Plan on children and young people.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Cancers

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include policies on rare cancer prognosis in the national cancer plan.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the survival rates of people with (a) intrahepatic and (b) extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to grant funding for cholangiocarcinoma research.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of potential impact of levels of deprivation on the mortality rate among cholangiocarcinoma patients.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the level of deprivation on the incidence rate of cholangiocarcinoma.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to include cholangiocarcinoma in the target group of 75% of cancers diagnosed at stage one or two by 2028.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer: Thames Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking with NHS England to help improve (a) early diagnosis rates of and (b) access to treatments for cholangiocarcinoma in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and West Berkshire Inte

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include proposals to (a) improve earlier diagnosis and (b) increase access to treatments of cholangiocarcinoma in the National Cancer Plan.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with NICE on the introduction of comprehensive guidance on the management of cholangiocarcinoma.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the prognosis rate for cholangiocarcinoma.

27 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Bile Duct Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help raise awareness of cholangiocarcinoma.

26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

UK National Screening Committee

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for replacing Professor Sir Mike Richards as chair of the UK National Screening Committee.

Source: official written-questions record.