Alison Bennett

5 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Urinary Tract Infections: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to include Chronic UTIs in the (a) 10-year Health Strategy and (b) next iteration of the Women’s Health Strategy.

5 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Veterans: Hearing Impairment

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to extend military hearing loss compensation to veterans who were discharged before 1987.

3 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Methamphetamine: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether her Department plans to commission an independent inquiry into the (a) scientific validity, (b) cost and (c) potential misuse of hair strand testing for methamphetamine in family court proceedings.

3 Jun 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's green paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working published on 18 March 2025, which measures will require primary legislation.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Streptococcus: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle disparities in the incidence of group B Streptococcal infections among different (a) ethnic and (b) socioeconomic groups.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Streptococcus: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on regional variations in access to group B Streptococcus testing; and what steps are being taken to reduce those variations.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Streptococcus: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether UK Health Security Agency microbiology laboratories have the capability to carry out group B Streptococcus-specific enriched culture medium testing in accordance with the Public Health Engl

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Stem Cells: Clinical Psychologists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS Workforce Plan will include measures to encourage the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of clinical psychologists with a specialism in stem cell transplant and cell therapies.

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Stem Cells: Mental Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to ensure that patients receiving (a) stem cell transplants and (b) other cell therapies have access to specialist psychological support (i) before, (ii)

30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Nutrition

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that future changes to the (a) soft drinks industry levy and (b) other measures relating to sugar are responsive to the needs of people with Type 1 Diabetes who re

21 May 2025 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is considering (a) restricting the number of children who can obtain Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and (b) replacing the EHCP system.

19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Ophthalmic Services: Glaucoma

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many qualified ophthalmic (a) consultants and (b) doctors there are who are able to treat glaucoma; how many people have glaucoma; and what estimate he has made of trends in these numbers over

19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Glaucoma

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people who will have glaucoma in England in each of the next 10 years.

19 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Glaucoma: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has considered introducing a national screening programme for glaucoma.

13 May 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Care Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the decision to end overseas recruitment of care workers.

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

Slaughterhouses: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to support small abbatoirs.

12 May 2025 · Home Office

Medical Records: Firearms

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to regulate the fees charged by GPs to applicants for a medical review for a firearms licensing application.

12 May 2025 · Home Office

Animal Experiments: Animal Breeding

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to start (a) recording and (b) reporting on the number of animals who are bred for, but not actually used in, scientific procedures within animal testing figures.

9 May 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carer's Allowance and Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unpaid carers concurrently on Personal Independence Payments and Carers Allowance are awarded less than four points in all daily living activities.

9 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Social Services: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the release of Adult Social Care Funding Data, following the Information Tribunal order to disclose it in October 2024.

25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the average time taken for patients with Parkinson’s disease who are experiencing new symptoms to see a neurologist.

25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the how regularly an average patient with Parkinson’s disease saw a neurologist in the latest period for which data was available.

25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that all relevant medical health professionals are aware of the different manifestations of Parkinson’s disease in (a) women and (b) men.

25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken for patients experiencing Parkinson's symptoms to receive a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis.

25 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Social Security Benefits: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposals outlined in the (a) Green Paper entitled Pathways to Work and (b) Spring Budget on (i) unpaid carers and (ii) people with caring resp

25 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carers: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of her Department’s estimate that the lost output due to working age carers caring for working age sick is £37 billion.

25 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households receive multiple PIP awards.

25 Apr 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Carers Allowance and Personal Independence Payment

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many unpaid carers concurrently on Personal Independence Payments and Carers Allowance are expected to lose (a) PIP and (b) PIP and Carers Allowance.

25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Hospitals: Waiting Lists

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish an implementation plan alongside the policy paper entitled Reforming elective care for patients, published on 6 January 2025.

25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Joint Replacements

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people who need joint replacement surgery are able to access treatment in all regions.