Written questions
21 written questions tabled, most recent first.
14 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Obesity: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS weight management services support long-term weight maintenance.
14 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Obesity: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish data on the performance of local obesity services, including service coverage, waiting times, and patient outcomes split by age, gender, ethnicity and socio-
14 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to establish a national deployment pathway for ambient voice technology, to move beyond repeated local pilots towards system-wide adoption across the NHS.
14 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that ambient voice technology used in the NHS captures structured, coded clinical data at the point of care rather than unstructured free-text notes; w
30 Jun 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Newspaper Press: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the current regulatory framework for news publishers in (a) raising press standards and (b) addressing (i) discrimination and (ii) other abuse
13 Apr 2026 · Department for Transport
Parking Offences
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of (a) reduce the vehicles that are blocking pavements and (b) unroadworthy vehicles parked for long periods of time in public areas.
4 Nov 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Polio: Disease Control
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department is taking with (a) the World Health Organization, (b) Gavi and (c) the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to help eradicate polio.
29 Aug 2025 · Home Office
Passports: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including the names of a child's parents or legal guardians within the body of their passport.
15 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence
Armed Forces Covenant
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department plans to introduce a (a) formal and (b) accessible complaints system for veterans when public bodies fail to meet their obligations under the Armed Forces Covenant.
7 Jul 2025 · Home Office
Immigration: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the time taken to reach a decision on the immigration status application of children born in the UK whose biometric enrolment has been completed; and what measures a
9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Patients: Travel
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards his Department has put in place to protect patients being transported to hospital by private patient transport companies on behalf of local NHS integrated care boards.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the the approval process of (a) high tariff drugs (b) the use of Obinutuzumab in patients with lupus who have experienced severe infusion reactions with rituximab.
30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the timely approval of high-tariff drugs for use in (a) specialised commissioning and (b) repurposed treatments.
25 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Health Services: Transport
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the Integrated National Transport Strategy.
24 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport
Transport: Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including improving health as a key theme in the Integrated National Transport Strategy.
13 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help improve transitions between closed and open prisons; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) resources allocated to the open estate, (b) the (
22 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Fractures: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of delivering universal fracture liaison services by 2030 on (a) patients and (b) the NHS; and what the annual cost to the public purse wil
19 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Community Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to shift care from hospitals into the community.
18 Dec 2024 · Home Office
Gender Based Violence
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce violence against women and girls; what funding is available to (a) local authorities and (b) policing agencies to reduce that violence; and what steps she is ta
9 Dec 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Housing: Fire Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to improve fire safety in residential buildings; and what support she has made available for (a) leaseholders and (b) building owners that do
4 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care
Medical Equipment: Innovation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the £10 million allocated to the MHRA in March 2023, what progress has been made on accelerating routes for bringing innovative medical products developed onto the market.
Source: official written-questions record.