Tuesday, 21 October 2025
The Secretary of State was asked—
What assessment he has made of the adequacy of the vaccine damage payment scheme.
What steps he is taking to help improve the performance of the most underperforming NHS trusts.
What steps his Department is taking to improve maternity and neonatal care.
Whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing ringfenced NHS funding for children’s hospices to £30 million by 2030.
What progress his Department has made on the implementation of the new hospital programme.
What recent progress he has made on reorganising the NHS.
What assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of NHS online on waiting times.
What steps his Department is taking to reduce the time taken for cancer diagnoses.
What assessment he has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer’s national insurance contributions on general practices.
What steps his Department is taking to support people with acute myeloid leukaemia.
What recent steps he has taken to increase access to GP appointments.
What steps he is taking to ensure that frontline NHS services are supported following the potential introduction of new public-private partnership contracts.
What steps his Department is taking to tackle wasteful spending in the health service.
What steps he is taking to ensure that women have access to menopause treatments on the NHS.
What steps he has taken to support the virtual ward programme.
What steps he is taking to transfer care from hospitals into the community.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I am concerned that the Health team may have inadvertently misled the House. In July, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation noted that respiratory...
(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on the recent criticism of the statutory inquiry into the rape gang scandal.
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. May I invite you to examine column 652 from yesterday’s Hansard, during the exchange about Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters travelling to Aston Villa. In reply...
Motion for leave to bring in a Bill ( Standing Order No. 23)
Bill to be considered in Committee [Relevant document: Correspondence from the Joint Committee on Human Rights to the Lord Chancellor, on the Sentencing Bill, reported to the House on 15...
I beg to move amendment 46, in clause 1, page 1, line 14, leave out “not more” and insert “less”. The presumption for a suspended sentence would apply to sentences of less...
36A Scope of this Part (1) A case to which this Part applies may be referred to the Court of Appeal under section 2 below. (2) Subject to Rules of Court, the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal...
26A(1) In this Code “gambling treatment requirement”, in relation to a relevant order, means a requirement that during a period specified in the order the offender must seek gambling...
Amendments made: 6, page 14, line 31, leave out “or officer”. This amendment and amendment 9 would correct drafting errors in new section 56A of the Sentencing Code and new section...
Amendment made: 12, page 22, line 41, at end insert— “(12) Part 1 of Schedule (Sentence with fixed licence period in Scotland or Northern Ireland: consequential provision) makes...
Amendment made: 13, page 25, line 22, at end insert— “(6) Part 2 of Schedule (Sentence with fixed licence period in Scotland or Northern Ireland: consequential provision) makes...
Amendments made: 14, page 26, line 26, leave out “as follows” and insert “in accordance with subsections (2) to (7)”. This amendment is consequential on amendment 15....
Amendments made: 16, page 31, line 31, leave out “as follows” and insert “in accordance with subsections (2) to (12)”. This amendment is consequential on amendment 17....
Amendment proposed: 24, page 37, line 14, at end insert— “(ab) but sections 244ZA(8)(a) and (aa) do not apply to any person convicted of— (a) rape; (b) assault by penetration;...
Amendment made: 19, page 75, line 17, leave out paragraph (d).—(Jake Richards.) This amendment has the effect that an amendment or repeal made by the new clause inserted by NC1 will have...
Amendment made: 20, page 76, line 9, leave out “Schedule 1” and insert “Schedules 1 and (Sentence with fixed licence period in Scotland or Northern Ireland: consequential...
“(1) In section 38(1) of the UK Borders Act 2007 (meaning of “period of imprisonment” for purposes of condition 1 in definition of “foreign criminal”), omit...
“(1) This section applies where a person is convicted of an offence under sections 1, 2B, 3ZB, 3ZC or 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988. (2) Where this section applies, notwithstanding the...
“(1) Within 24 hours of the conclusion of the passing of a sentence, the relevant court must provide HM Courts and Tribunals Service (‘HMCTS’) with information regarding—...
‘(1) The Lord Chancellor must make arrangements for, and relating to, the re-sentencing of all prisoners serving IPP sentences within 18 months beginning on the day on which this Act is...
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 1 In section 5(1)(da) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 as it forms part of the law of Scotland (disclosure periods for particular sentences), for...
Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 5 (1) The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (S.I 2008/1216 (N.I.1)) is amended as follows. (2) In Article 3(1) (interpretation of Part...
Amendment made: 21, in title, page 1, line 3, leave out from “criminals” to “; and” on line 4.—(Jake Richards.) This amendment amends the long title to remove...
Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Compensation for Miscarriages of Justice (Alteration of Overall Compensation Limits) Order 2025, which was laid before this House on 15 July, be approved.—(Gregor Poynton.)...
With the leave of the House, we shall take motions 4 to 6 together. Ordered,
That Ellie Chowns be discharged from the Environmental Audit Committee and Carla Denyer be added.
That Peter Fortune and James Murray be discharged from the Committee of Public Accounts and Rupert Lowe and Dan Tomlinson be added.
That Danny Kruger be discharged from the Work and Pensions Committee and Joy Morrissey be added.—(Gen Kitchen, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.)
Many years ago, the community in Cockermouth saved Wordsworth House from demolition when plans were proposed to build a bus station, and the birthplace of William Wordsworth now stands as a...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Gregor Poynton.)
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