Department of Health and Social Care

written question – answered on 20 February 2026.

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  • 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...