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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish further details of the steps and budgets he is introducing to reduce waiting lists for treatment in the NHS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to reply to the letters from the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare of 12 August and 14 September 2021 on behalf of Avon LMC about the Health and Social Care Bill.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the education of medical students on rare and less common cancers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he will take under the Elective Recovery Plan to ensure that new funding for tackling the backlog will reduce waiting times for hip and knee replacement operations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have had shoulder repair surgery by NHS appointments in the last three years.
What steps her Department is taking to help ensure that girls throughout the world receive a high-quality education.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support he is providing to hospitals that have backlogs of patients awaiting emergency operations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of the annual value of the intellectual property and exports generated for independent producers by working with Channel 4.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 9 December 2020 to Question 120078, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of making funds available to equalise Survivor Pension Benefits f...
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will make it his policy to maintain Channel 4’s 50 per cent commissioning spend outside of London in the event that Channel 4 is privatised.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the British Heart Foundation’s modelling which predicts that the number of people waiting for heart care and diagnosis could peak...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps his Department has taken to (a) promote the availability and (b) provide investment for non-animal alternatives to tests including organoids, organ-on-a-chip tec...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions the Prime Minister’s special envoy has had with members of the Taliban government in Afghanistan on the safe evacuation of Afghan nationals to the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the level of service delivery SmartDCC met of the UK network; and what plans his Department has for the introduction of smart meters in the Maryburg...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to promote inclusive recruitment practices in the private sector.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Government’s decision to end SouthEastern Railway’s franchise, what assessment his Department has made of the future viability of the (a) Thameslink, (b) Southern and (c) Great Northern fr...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether representatives of the Government attend UN Conferences of the Parties on subjects of domestic policy to which the media have been denied access.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has had discussions with the Office for Product Safety and Standards on safeguarding children from the sale of unsafe toys on online marketplaces.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will undertake an assessment of the potential merits of imposing a contractual duty of care on online marketplaces to ensure that the products they allow to be l...
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to regulate the (a) listing and (b) sale of unsafe toys on online marketplaces.