Ayoub Khan MP: written questions
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Funeral PaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 62414 on Funeral Payments, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of assessing the (a) ability and (b) willingness of oth
Answer: The long standing state position is that individuals should look to make financial provision for their own funeral, and that where this has not happened family or friends who can take part or all of the responsibility for the cost of funeral arrangements ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFuneral PaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72450More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 62414 on Funeral Payments, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of (a) amending the family-related questions for the ap
Answer: The long standing state position is that individuals should look to make financial provision for their own funeral, and that where this has not happened family or friends who can take part or all of the responsibility for the cost of funeral arrangements ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSoft Drinks: TaxationTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72253More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential cumulative impact of (a) proposed changes to the Soft Drinks Industry Levy thresholds, (b) the extended producer responsibility scheme and (c) the Deposit Return Scheme
Answer: Implementing the Collection and Packaging Reforms is a critical step in the transition to a circular economy that delivers sustainable growth and produces less waste, rubbish and litter.The Government believes it is right that the costs of dealing with ho...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 July to Question 68960 on Asthma: Medical Equipment, how many NHS-prescribed (a) dry powder inhalers and (b) pressurised metered dose inhalers were purchased from each
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) produces official statistics on Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) which show the total volume and cost for drugs, dressings, appliances, and medical devices that have been dispensed in the community in England....
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many emergency inhalers with dosage counters were prescribed by the NHS in the latest period for which data is available; and what proportion of the total number of emergency inhalers prescribe
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) produces official statistics on Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) which show the total volume and cost for drugs, dressings, appliances, and medical devices that have been dispensed in the community in England....
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: IsraelForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 70256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his oral statement of 21 July 2025 on Middle East, Official Report, column 595, whether UK made arms components were used in the incident at the Project HOP
Answer: As the Foreign Secretary has said, we utterly condemn the killing of civilians seeking to meet their basic needs. Our assessment of this strike, drawing on the available evidence, including eyewitness reports in the media, is that it was a drone strike. T...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWaste Management: Birmingham City CouncilMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69721More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government has funded any (a) local authorities and (b) arm’s length bodies for the purposes of waste management in the jurisdiction of Birmingham City Council from 1
Answer: Councils in England, including Birmingham City Council, are funded for waste services via the Local Government Finance Settlement. In the Settlement for 2025-26, Birmingham City Council received an overall 9.8% increase in Core Spending Power from £1,337....
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Appointments: Birmingham City CouncilMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69720More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) reducing the remit of the Commissioners appointed to oversee Birmingham City Council and (b) recalling them with imm
Answer: Commissioners appointed to Birmingham City Council play a key role in supporting the Council’s recovery and ensuring it returns to a sustainable footing. They provide oversight, advice and challenge across the Council’s operations and exercise all functio...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Appointments: Birmingham City CouncilMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69719More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Commissioners appointed to oversee Birmingham City Council in reaching a negotiated settlement of the Birmingham bin strikes.
Answer: Commissioners appointed to Birmingham City Council play a key role in supporting the Council’s recovery and ensuring it returns to a sustainable footing. They provide oversight, advice and challenge across the Council’s operations and exercise all functio...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2025 to Question 65186 on Asthma: Medical Equipment, which pharmaceutical companies are registered as marketing authorisation holders for (a) dry powder inhalers c
Answer: The following table shows the four market authorisation holders (MAH) for dry power inhalers (DPIs) containing salbutamol and terbutaline, along with the three MAHs for pressurised metered dose inhalers (pMDIs):Pharmaceutical companyInhaler typeMedicineGl...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHussam Abu SafiyaForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68333More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to his Israeli counterpart to ascertain information on the (a) status and (b) wellbeing of Dr Abu Safiya.
Answer: I remain deeply disturbed by the ongoing detention of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya and other medical staff from Gaza. We continue to call on Israel to clarify the reasons for the detention of Dr Abu Safiya and other medical personnel, and to allow the Internation...
Answered 6 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: PalestiniansForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67277More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has had any engagement with (a) the Tony Blair Institute and (b) the Boston Consulting Group on the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian te
Answer: Officials have met with the Tony Blair Institute to discuss Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 7 October 2023. We have no record of meetings with the Boston Consulting Group. We continue to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, for the release ...
Answered 6 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to pursue (a) multilateral action and (b) a peacekeeping mandate at the United Nations Security Council to protect the provision of UN-delivered
Answer: On 4 June, the UK voted in favour of a UN Security Council Resolution calling for urgent improvements to the humanitarian situation in Gaza. We co-called a meeting of the UN Security Council on 16 July where we reiterated calls for a ceasefire and for Isr...
Answered 6 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordPalestinians: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67275More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has cooperated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation; whether his Department plans to cooperate with this organisation; and whether it is his policy th
Answer: The UK has not cooperated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and we will not cooperate with any aid delivery mechanism that does not fully respect humanitarian principles.Since its inception, we have highlighted repeatedly our concerns that Israel's n...
Answered 7 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordRefugees: PalestiniansHome OfficeTabled 8 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66086More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has considered the merits of a Palestinian refugee visa scheme.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer I gave on 13 March to Question 35970.
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65415More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to incorporate targets to provide asthma sufferers with a Personalised Asthma Action Plan into future iterations of the 10 Year Health Plan for England.
Answer: The provision of Personalised Asthma Action Plans is already incentivised by the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) indicator AST007. This indicator measures the percentage of patients on the asthma register who have had a review in the past 12 months. This...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: SchoolsDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2025 to Question 62446 on Schools: Asthma, what steps his Department is taking to increase the (a) purchase of and (b) storage for emergency inhalers in schools.
Answer: The department does not hold data on emergency inhalers in schools.Under section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014, maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units must make arrangements for supporting pupils with medical conditions. School...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: SchoolsDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65194More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of schools (a) had and (b) did not have emergency inhalers installed on their grounds in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer: The department does not hold data on emergency inhalers in schools.Under section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014, maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units must make arrangements for supporting pupils with medical conditions. School...
Answered 17 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: SchoolsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65193More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many asthma attacks that resulted in hospital admissions occurred in schools that (a) had emergency inhalers and (b) did not have emergency inhalers installed on their grounds.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally.
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: Birmingham Perry BarrDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65192More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the affordability of prescriptions for people with asthma in Birmingham Perry Barr constituency.
Answer: No assessment has been made of the potential impact of prescription charges on the health outcomes of people with asthma. However, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the British Thoracic Society, and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidel...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: Birmingham Perry BarrDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65191More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) all people with and (b) children with asthma have a personalised asthma action plan in Birmingham Perry Barr constituency.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the British Thoracic Society (BTS), and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) published the guideline Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management in November 20...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65190More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide people with asthma with Personalised Asthma Action Plans.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the British Thoracic Society (BTS), and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) published the guideline Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management in November 20...
Answered 11 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65189More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 62448 on Asthma: Medical Equipment, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of prescription charges on the health out
Answer: No assessment has been made of the potential impact of prescription charges on the health outcomes of people with asthma. However, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the British Thoracic Society, and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidel...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthmaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many asthma patients receiving their inhaler prescriptions (a) free of charge and (b) at the current prescription charge have been admitted to hospitals with life-threatening asthma attacks in
Answer: The Government and its arm’s-length bodies, including the NHS Business Services Authority, do not collect this information.
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 65187More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2025 to Question 62448 on Asthma: Medical Equipment, how many patients with asthma receive their inhaler prescriptions (a) free of charge and (b) at the current pre
Answer: Whilst the NHS Business Services Authority collects data for the number of specific prescription items dispensed in England, it is not possible to determine the indication for which a medicine was prescribed. Given inhalers can be used to treat medical co...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
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