Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions

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4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026. One record per UIN and tabled date; the named department is not a measure of answer quality.

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4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026. One record per UIN and tabled date; the named department is not a measure of answer quality. Published records do not measure effort or effectiveness. Methodology.

Department or topic	Published records
Attorney General	12
Cabinet Office	109
Department for Business and Trade	60
Department for Culture, Media and Sport	28
Department for Education	58
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	45
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	53
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	137
Department for Transport	93
Department for Work and Pensions	13
Department of Health and Social Care	87
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	124
Home Office	313
Ministry of Defence	2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	61
Ministry of Justice	178
Northern Ireland Office	2
Treasury	56

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Written questions

Health Services: Vulnerable AdultsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12546More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the new national adult safeguarding board to conduct the review of the legal framework for safeguarding.
Answer: The new national adult safeguarding board, chaired by the Chief Social Worker, met for the first time on 16 June 2026. The board will meet quarterly. This represents an important step towards strengthening national oversight of local safeguarding adults b...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
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Health Services: Vulnerable AdultsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12544More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for strengthening national oversight of local Safeguarding Adults Boards.
Answer: The new national adult safeguarding board, chaired by the Chief Social Worker, met for the first time on 16 June 2026. The board will meet quarterly. This represents an important step towards strengthening national oversight of local safeguarding adults b...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
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Health Services: Vulnerable AdultsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 12540More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's document entitled Care and support statutory guidance, updated on 22 July 2025, when he plans to update the section on adult safeguarding.
Answer: The new national adult safeguarding board, chaired by the Chief Social Worker, met for the first time on 16 June 2026. The board will meet quarterly. This represents an important step towards strengthening national oversight of local safeguarding adults b...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
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Health Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11985More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many unreported removals from NHS waiting lists were there in 2025/26.
Answer: The number of unreported removals from the National Health Service waiting list is published by NHS England at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/rtt-waiting-times/rtt-data-2026-27/
Answered 2 Jul 2026
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Lucy HunteDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 11888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether disciplinary action was taken against Lucy Hunte, national programme manager for apprenticeships at NHS England, over social media posts about the Leader of the Opposition.
Answer: Ministers cannot comment on matters relating to individual employees. Whether or not to take disciplinary action is a private employment decision and is the responsibility of the employer concerned. Any such decision would not be widely shared because dis...
Answered 13 Jul 2026
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Air Ambulance Services: FuelsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2026 to Question 4882 on Air Ambulance Services: Fuels, has he held discussions with (a) Magpas and (b) East Anglia Air Ambulance.
Answer: We have primarily engaged with air ambulance charities on fuel resilience through Air Ambulances UK. Air Ambulance UK are the national umbrella charity which supports the 21 air ambulance charities in the United Kingdom including Magpas and East Anglia Ai...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
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Hinchingbrooke HospitalDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10466More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2026 to Question 6174, what his planned timetable is to write to the Hon. Member for Huntingdon with an update.
Answer: I can confirm that I have written to the hon. Member with an update. I have asked my officials to work with colleagues at Northwest Anglia Foundation Trust to develop a staged and costed plan for the replacement of their Electronic Patient Record and esse...
Answered 6 Jul 2026
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the composition of the control group on the In-Service Evaluation in relation to spinal muscular atrophy screening.
Answer: The Department invests in research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR is funding a £4.1 million study on in-service evaluation of newborn screening (NBS) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), led by Professor Laurent...
Answered 19 Jun 2026
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Multiple Sclerosis: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to address variation in the proportion of people with multiple sclerosis starting a high-efficacy disease modifying therapy.
Answer: The Government recognises that there is geographical variation in England in the proportion of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) who are started on high-efficacy disease-modifying therapies (DMDs) and is committed to improving equitable access to the mo...
Answered 17 Jun 2026
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Neurological Diseases: HospitalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9133More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce emergency hospital admissions for people with neurological conditions for a) urinary tract infections, b) respiratory infections or c) other complications.
Answer: The Government recognises that people living with neurological conditions can be at increased risk of complications, such as urinary tract infections, respiratory infections, and other causes of avoidable emergency admission, and that reducing these admis...
Answered 17 Jun 2026
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the UK National Screening Committee on its decision not to recommend screening for spinal muscular atrophy.
Answer: The Government recognises the challenges faced by those living with rare diseases and their families and is committed to improving outcomes. For very rare conditions, it is difficult to generate robust evidence to demonstrate the value of screening, becau...
Answered 16 Jun 2026
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Prostate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8716More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects stage 2 of the Transform trial to commence, including the expansion of the trial to all black men aged 45-74 who haven’t had a PSA test in the past five years.
Answer: Government responsibility for delivering cancer research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and Department for Science, Innovation and Technolo...
Answered 19 Jun 2026
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Prostate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 8715More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by when he expects to receive the initial results of stage one of the Transform trial.
Answer: Government responsibility for delivering cancer research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and Department for Science, Innovation and Technolo...
Answered 19 Jun 2026
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Health Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6177More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients has the total number on NHS Waiting Lists reduced by since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Published Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times Data shows the estimated number of unique patients waiting for treatment in each month. It should be noted that a patient may be on multiple pathways, so the total number of patient pathways is ...
Answered 25 Jun 2026
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Health Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6176More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the criteria for removing patients from an NHS waiting list.
Answer: Patients can be removed from the referral to treatment waiting list for a variety of reasons, including where a patient receives their first definitive treatment, begins a period of active monitoring, declines treatment, or where a decision is made that n...
Answered 22 Jun 2026
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NHS: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6175More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients are able to exercise the National Data Opt-Out from inclusion in the Federated Data Platform.
Answer: The National Data Opt-Out does not currently apply to the NHS Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP). This is not because of a direction but because there are currently no products within the NHS FDP which are required to apply the National Data Opt-Out. If th...
Answered 9 Jun 2026
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Hinchingbrooke HospitalDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6174More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral contribution in response to the intervention by the Hon. Member for Huntingdon during the Health Bill debate on 1st June 2026, if he will write to the Member with an upda
Answer: I am happy to write to the Hon. Member with an update.
Answered 8 Jun 2026
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Air Ambulance Services: FuelsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 22 May 2026, to question 1530 on Air Ambulance Services: Fuels, which air ambulance charities has he engaged with regarding fuel resilience.
Answer: To date, we have primarily engaged with air ambulance charities on fuel resilience through Air Ambulances UK, which supports the work of air ambulance charities. We have also facilitated additional engagement with individual air ambulance charities where ...
Answered 16 Jun 2026
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Health Data Research ServiceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 May 2026AnsweredUIN 3934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the answer of 22 April 2026 to question 125667 on Health Data Research Service, what consent will be sought from patients in order to use their data for research purposes.
Answer: The Health Data Research Service (HDRS) will build on existing health research services, including the national and regional secure data environments, OpenSAFELY and NHS DigiTrials, which already support the safe, secure, and beneficial use of health data...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
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Regeneration: Barrow in FurnesssDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2210More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the Barrow Transformation Fund will be provided by his Department.
Answer: The Government has committed £200 million over 10 years to support regeneration in Barrow-in-Furness, via the Barrow Transformation Fund. 25% of this funding is provided by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the remaining 75% is pro...
Answered 4 Jun 2026
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Hospitals: Air Ambulance ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2208More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of hospital helipads cannot be used at night.
Answer: Neither NHS England nor the Department hold data centrally on the operational hours of hospital helipads. Hours of operation are typically determined locally and may be subject to planning restrictions, including those relating to noise.
Answered 1 Jun 2026
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Hospitals: Air Ambulance ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2026AnsweredUIN 1740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether funding for air ambulance helipads is provided from the NHS budget.
Answer: Funding for air ambulance helipads is provided through a range of sources, including hospital budgets, National Health Service capital budgets, local authorities, charities and donors. Decisions on the provision and upgrading of helipads are taken at a lo...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
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Air Ambulance Services: FuelsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 May 2026AnsweredUIN 1530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of a shortage of aviation fuel on the operations of air ambulance charities.
Answer: We engage routinely with air ambulance charities on contingency planning. As part of this, we have engaged with air ambulance charities on fuel resilience.The United Kingdom remains well stocked for all fuel types and the Government is working with fuel s...
Answered 22 May 2026
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Animal ExperimentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology's policy paper entitled Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alterna
Answer: In line with the Government’s strategy to replace animals in science, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) supports the use of non-animal approaches where they are fit for purpose and accepts that, where a biological product is n...
Answered 28 Apr 2026
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Animal ExperimentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the policy paper entitled Replacing animals in science: A strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods, published on 11 November 2025, what pr
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 28 April 2026 to Question 128366.
Answered 28 Apr 2026
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