Written answers

Friday, 20 February 2026

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Department of Health and Social Care: X Corp

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much their Department has spent on X and xAI since July 2024.

    • Prosthetics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking to help ensure the long term availability of training courses for people to qualify as clinicians and...

      Department of Health and Social Care: Credit Unions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether they will require their department and agencies to offer payroll deductions to all employees to enable them to join a credit union.

      Doctors: Training

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of publicly funded fellowship programmes for training overseas doctors.

      Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to announce the next phase of modern service frameworks.

      Mechanical Thrombectomy: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to provide a 24/7 thrombectomy service.

      NHS: Standards

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of Activity Management Plans issued by NHS Integrated Care Boards and their impact on the NHS’...

      Parkinson's Disease: Health Professions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to help support the training and operation of Parkinson's specialist health workforce.

      Endometriosis

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce diagnostic waiting times for endometriosis in (a) England and (b) Twickenham constituency.

      Health Services: East Midlands

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of NHS patients in a) Leicester b) Leicestershire and c) the East Midlands were referred to private health providers for...

      Health Services: Leicestershire

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to provide additional funding to a) Leicester and b) Leicestershire to reduce NHS waiting lists.

      Health Services: Statistics

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions with the Office for National Statistics on revising its back baseline to reflect pre-2020 trends.

      Respiratory Diseases: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's timetable is for finalising the second set of Modern Service Frameworks; and what assessment he has made of the...

      Pregnancy: Cannabis

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2026 to Question 108297, whether his Department holds any evidence on rates of neonatal and...

      Cleaning Services: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the resilience of NHS services to disruptions within the commercial laundry sector.

      Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total monetary value was of NHS costs submitted under the European Health Insurance Card scheme that were not recovered in each...

      Hospitals: Parking

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of hospital parking charges on patients with long-term health conditions; and whether...

      Medical Records: Digital Technology

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to digitise patients’ medical records.

      Blood: Donors

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of blood donations.

      Hereditary Diseases

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his department plans to issue guidance on the potential risks of genetic defects in children born from consanguineous relationships.

      Cancer: Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to HCWS1271 on Improving Cancer Care and Early Diagnosis, which early cancer detection technologies NICE is currently...

      Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is working with NHS England and other relevant bodies in the development...

      Cancer: Drugs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to align NICE appraisal timelines, MHRA regulatory pathways and NHS commissioning decisions to support the...

      Medical Records: Information Sharing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the risks to patient safety arising from hospital records not being fully shared between...

  • Cabinet Office

    • Public Appointments: Standards

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, further to his oral statement of 9 February 2026, on Updates on Standards in Public Life, and with reference to the Non-corporate communication...

    • Government

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister, as the King's principal adviser, (a) was consulted on and (b) approved the decision to change the HM Government identity to...

      Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of engagements for the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement Protocol Specialised Committee in 2025 and 2026.

      Private Companies: Accountability

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department has issued guidance to departments on how private corporations wholly-owned by HM Government should exercise their...

      Cabinet Office: Policy

      To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether there is a list of extant desk notes held by his Department.

  • Treasury

    • 10 Downing Street: Repairs and Maintenance

      To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 2 December 2025, to Question 93748, on 10 Downing Street: Repairs and Maintenance, how much has been spent from public funds by...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Stoma Appliances: Facilities

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of public toilet facilities on the health and wellbeing of...

    • African Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth Disease: Disease Control

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 November 2025 to Question 80333, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of...

  • Home Office

    • Airports: Immigration Controls

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2026 to Question 104868, what the service standard wait times at passport control are, and what...

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    • Universal Credit: Migrants

      To ask His Majesty's Government, with regard to Universal Credit – Immigration Status and Nationality Statistics to October 2025, published 11 November 2025, what plans they have to...

    • Social Security Benefits: Migrants

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Sherlock on 3 February (HL Deb col 1428), what assessments they have carried out to determine whether access to the...

      Child Benefit

      To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of (1) families, and (2) children, who will be affected by the removal of the two child benefit cap in the next two...

  • Department for Business and Trade

    • Mutual Societies: Health Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review policy and legislation to ensure that healthcare mutuals have access to the same opportunities for growth, investment and regulatory...

    • Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the environmental impact of allowing steel importers to use global average emissions when selling steel to the UK; and what...

      Department for Business and Trade: Migrant Workers

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many civil servants are employed through skilled worker visas in the Department for Business and Trade.

  • Department for Transport

    • Roads: Accidents

      To ask His Majesty's Government how they intend to track the number of road traffic collisions where dazzling headlights are found to be a contributory factor; and (1) whether they hold any such...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Military Aircraft: Manufacturing Industries

      To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with unions representing workers in the combat aircraft sector regarding the future of air platform manufacturing in the UK.

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Health Services: Digital Technology

      To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of proposals to shift from analogue to digital announced in the 10-year Health Plan for England, what provisions will be established to ensure...

  • Treasury

    • Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the average wait time for each of HMRC's telephone helpline services; and whether these times have reduced over the last two years.

    • Child Benefit: Migrants

      To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of how many individuals are currently claiming child benefits due to an exemption to no recourse to public funds status.

      Financial Services and Investment

      To ask His Majesty's Government what their definitions are of (1) retail investor, and (2) professional investor.

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