Written questions
335 written questions tabled, most recent first.
17 Mar 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Africa: HIV/AIDS
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking with international organizations to help improve access to HIV prevention tools in Africa.
17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government collects data on how many young people with cancer were diagnosed in A&E.
17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department collects data on how many young people with cancer were diagnosed at stage (a) one and (b) two.
17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the national cancer plan will help to tackle inequalities for young people with cancer.
17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of young people with cancer were entered into clinical trials in March 2025.
17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet young people with cancer to discuss their experiences.
17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Cancer: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase awareness of the symptoms of cancer amongst young people.
13 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Offenders: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral answer of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice on 11 March 2025 to Question 903119 on Female Offenders, whether specialised training includes suicide prevention traini
13 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice
Prisons and Probation: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the cost of providing suicide prevention training to (a) prison and (b) probation staff.
10 Mar 2025 · Home Office
Carbon Monoxide: Poisoning
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will extend the Fire Kills campaign to raise awareness of fatal carbon monoxide poisoning.
10 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Carbon Monoxide: Alarms
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent the online sale of carbon monoxide alarms that do not comply with UK trading standards.
5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sexually Transmitted Infections
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the uplift in the Public Health Grant is allocated effectively by local authorities to tackle the rising rates of sexually transmitted infections
5 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Sexually Transmitted Infections
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections in England; and whether he plans to allocate public health funding to this.
28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Smoking: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department plans to provide for smoking cessation programmes in the 2025-26 financial year.
28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Lung Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to provide funding for the additional (a) diagnostics and (b) treatment arising from the detection of early-stage lung cancer through the national lung cancer screening programme.
28 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Lung Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding he plans to provide for the national lung cancer screening programme in each the next three years; and on what evidential basis his Department has determined that level of funding.
21 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Homelessness and Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce (a) homelessness and (b) the number of children in temporary accommodation.
21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Parkinson's Disease: Medical Treatments
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure (a) timely adjustments of medications and (b) access to treatments for people with Parkinson's.
21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Parkinson's Disease: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that patients with Parkinson receive regular consultations.
29 Jan 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Food Supply
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent progress his Department has made on developing a food strategy.
27 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Diagnosis and Surgery: Yorkshire and the Humber
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 4.5 of the Autumn Budget 2024, how many new (a) surgical hubs and (b) diagnostic scanners will be located in Yorkshire.
20 Jan 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport
BBC: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions she has had with the BBC on the financial pressures it faces.
20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) introducing a proxy staging measure for non-stageable blood cancers and (b) applying a national target to (i) measu
20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made on the potential impact of late diagnosis on outcomes for people with blood cancer.
20 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Blood Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help mitigate the impact of (a) delayed diagnosis and (b) emergency presentation rates on people with blood cancer.
16 Jan 2025 · Cabinet Office
Suicide
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to help ensure that frontline public sector workers are sufficiently resourced to support the (a) implementation of suicide prevention training and (b) effective provision of support to p
16 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Suicide: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a yearly evaluation of the suicide prevention training programme; and what steps he is taking to ensure (a) transparency and (b) accountability in the programme.
16 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Employment: Mental Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he is having with employers on ensuring that frontline workers receive adequate (a) debriefing, (b) peer support spaces, (c) training for team leaders and (d) other appropriate workpla
16 Jan 2025 · Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has to tackle barriers to implementing suicide prevention training in the workplace.
16 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care
Suicide: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that mandatory suicide prevention training for all frontline workers is (a) fully funded and (b) effectively implemented in (i) healthcare, (ii) education, (iii) p
Source: official written-questions record.