Ben Coleman MP: written questions
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Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the merits of highly specialised services being commissioned directly by individual hospital trusts.
Answer: In preparation for the merger of the Department and NHS England and the integration of their functions under one organisation, and alongside the 10 Year Plan's ambitions to establish integrated care boards as strategic commissioners of local health servic...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure national-level (a) strategic planning and 9b) quality assurance for highly specialised services following the abolition of NHS England.
Answer: Work is progressing at pace to develop the design and operating model for the new integrated organisation, and to plan for the smooth transfer of people, functions, and responsibilities, including specialised commissioning.It is only right that with such ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDNA Nucleotide Excision Repair Disorders Service: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68715More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help protect the (a) National Centre for Pancreas Transplantation and (b) the national service for inherited DNA repair disorders from local budgetary pressures.
Answer: Pancreas transplantation in England is nationally commissioned by NHS England as a highly specialised service from six National Health Service trusts. It is a retained service and continues to be commissioned directly by NHS England rather than delegated ...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68714More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that highly specialised national services for patients with (a) rare diseases and (b) complex surgical needs will continue to be (i) commissioned and (
Answer: Working under the ‘UK Rare Diseases Framework’, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases.Ministers and senior DHSC officials are working with the new executive team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mac...
Answered 25 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68713More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of which highly specialised services will no longer be commissioned nationally after the abolition of NHS England and will instead be commissioned (a) regionally and (b) l
Answer: Work is progressing at pace to develop the design and operating model for the new integrated organisation, and to plan for the smooth transfer of people, functions, and responsibilities, including specialised commissioning.It is only right that with such ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how highly specialised services will be commissioned nationally following the abolition of NHS England.
Answer: Work is progressing at pace to develop the design and operating model for the new integrated organisation, and to plan for the smooth transfer of people, functions, and responsibilities, including specialised commissioning.It is only right that with such ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68711More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list which highly specialised services will continue to be commissioned nationally after the abolition of NHS England.
Answer: Work is progressing at pace to develop the design and operating model for the new integrated organisation, and to plan for the smooth transfer of people, functions, and responsibilities, including specialised commissioning.It is only right that with such ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list all the highly specialised services that are currently commissioned (a) regionally and (b) locally by NHS England.
Answer: Highly specialised services are commissioned by NHS England as part of its responsibilities for prescribed specialised services. This function is undertaken by NHS England’s national highly specialised services team which is supported by regional commissi...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68709More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list all the highly specialised services that are currently commissioned nationally by NHS England.
Answer: All highly specialised services are commissioned nationally by NHS England. The list of specialised services currently commissioned by NHS England is available on the NHS England website, in the worksheet entitled Service Code, with column F indicating wh...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68708More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of those specialised services that are classified as highly specialised.
Answer: All highly specialised services are commissioned nationally by NHS England. The list of specialised services currently commissioned by NHS England is available on the NHS England website, in the worksheet entitled Service Code, with column F indicating wh...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a full list of specialised services currently commissioned by NHS England.
Answer: The list of specialised services currently commissioned by NHS England is available on the NHS England website, in the worksheet entitled Service Code, with column M indicating whether the service is commissioned by NHS England or an integrated care board...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSyria: DruzeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to (a) protect and (b) support the Druze minority in Syria.
Answer: We are deeply concerned by the recent violence in Suwayda and welcome the announcement of a ceasefire. In diplomatic engagement with the Syrian Government and other partners, and as I said in my statement on X on 17 July, we have been clear that we want t...
Answered 6 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordIsrael: Arms TradeForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 15 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the whether approved export licenses to Israel are being used for military purposes;
Answer: We are clear there are no export licences currently being used for military operations in Gaza or the West Bank. This is subject to the specific measures taken to protect the global F-35 programme. All licences are kept under careful and continual review ...
Answered 6 Aug 2025
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