Caroline Johnson MP: written questions
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Department for Education: Written QuestionsDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 128075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, does she intend to answer question UIN113162 given that it is now more than 7 weeks overdue.
Answer: The response to Written Parliamentary Question 113162 was published on 20 April 2026.
Answered 22 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordSodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants: CompensationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to respond to the Hughes report before prorogation.
Answer: The Government is carefully considering the work done by the Patient Safety Commissioner and her report, which set out recommendations for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh.The Government has deep sympathy for all those affected and re...
Answered 28 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 1 April 2026 to Question 122780 and 25 March 2026 to Question 120988 on General Practitioners: Contracts and with reference to the oral statement of 16 April 2026 on the
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve treatment for lobular breast cancer.
Answer: The Department is committed to ensuring that the National Health Service diagnoses cancer earlier and treats it faster so that more patients, including those with lobular breast cancer, survive.The National Cancer Plan strives to ensure that we are a worl...
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordOut-patientsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127153More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of referrals to (a) hospital outpatient care and (b) secondary care are (i) accepted to be seen and (ii) rejected and provided with advice and guidance instead for which the latest
Answer: The Department does not hold data in the format requested.
Answered 27 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordCancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127152More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients referred urgently with suspected cancer are (a) diagnosed and (b) reassured within (i) 28, (ii) 29, (iii) 30, (iv) 31, (v) 32 and (vi) 33 days of referral for which the latest dat
Answer: The table attached shows, in the period from October to December 2025, the number of patients referred urgently with suspected cancer who were either diagnosed with cancer or had cancer ruled out within the specified period between referral and the commun...
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordOut-patientsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127151More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential risks of rejecting secondary care referrals that are currently accepted.
Answer: It is not Government policy for referrals to secondary care to be rejected. General practitioners (GPs) are encouraged to seek specialist advice ahead of making a referral where it is clinically appropriate to do so. Patients benefit from earlier speciali...
Answered 28 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordOut-patientsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127150More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he intends outpatient referrals to (a) hospitals and (b) secondary care providers to be managed by people other than consultants.
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Private EducationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 23 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122885More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) number and (b) proportion of staff in her Department are eligible to receive Continuity of Education Allowance.
Answer: Under the long-standing arrangements for continuity of education, 237 officers received Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) in academic year 2024-25. This figure represents approximately 11 per cent of officers posted overseas. Eligibility for CEA is ...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Private EducationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 23 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) number and (b) proportion of staff in her Department that are posted overseas receive Continuity of Education Allowance.
Answer: Under the long-standing arrangements for continuity of education, 237 officers received Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) in academic year 2024-25. This figure represents approximately 11 per cent of officers posted overseas. Eligibility for CEA is ...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordMedical Records: Data ProtectionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122883More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information he holds on the number of data breaches of patient information in the NHS in the last year.
Answer: This information is not collected centrally. There is no requirement for National Health Service organisations to report patient data breaches to the Department.Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, if a personal data breach occurs, the respons...
Answered 30 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122882More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish the renewed Women's Health Strategy.
Answer: Work is ongoing to renew the Women’s Health Strategy, which we aim to publish this Spring. In the meantime, we are committed to prioritising women’s health as we reform the National Health Service, and strong progress has already been made in turning the ...
Answered 30 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Private EducationForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 23 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122881More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many staff in her Department are in receipt of Continuity of Education Allowance.
Answer: Under the long-standing arrangements for continuity of education, 237 officers received Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) in academic year 2024-25. This figure represents approximately 11 per cent of officers posted overseas. Eligibility for CEA is ...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordMeningitis: Electronic CigarettesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122537More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential of (a) vaping and (b) passive vaping on the risk of invasive meningococcal disease.
Answer: There is established evidence that exposure to tobacco smoke increases the risk of meningococcal disease. Tobacco smoking increases the risk of meningococcal carriage and meningococcal disease by damaging the nasopharyngeal mucosa and suppressing immune r...
Answered 14 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordMeningitis: SmokingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) smoking and (b) passive smoking on the risk of invasive meningococcal disease.
Answer: There is established evidence that exposure to tobacco smoke increases the risk of meningococcal disease. Tobacco smoking increases the risk of meningococcal carriage and meningococcal disease by damaging the nasopharyngeal mucosa and suppressing immune r...
Answered 14 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117828More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many overseas prescriptions are dispensed in a) the UK and b) England i) in total, ii) by medicines dispensed and iii) by origin country.
Answer: The United Kingdom only recognises overseas prescriptions from European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland. Most medicines, with the exception of schedule 1 to 3 controlled drugs and specials, prescribed in these countries can be dispensed by U...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordReview of the NHS Adult Gender Dysphoria Clinics in EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117827More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the current Chair of the adult clinical reference group for adult gender dysphoria services refused to comply with requests for data for the date linkage study which was recommended by the
Answer: It is well documented that a number of adult gender clinics were unwilling to collaborate with data sharing requests made of them previously, in respect of the data linkage study, and that this meant that the data linkage study was unable to proceed at th...
Answered 13 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAbortion: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117021More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many deaths there have been of (a) women, (b) babies and (c) stillbirths where the termination of pregnancy through pills-by-post has been considered a contributory factor.
Answer: The information requested is not routinely collected centrally.The Department collects information on abortions in England and Wales via the HSA4 abortion notification form. The HSA4 form includes a section for recording the death of a woman within 14 day...
Answered 23 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAbortion: ProsecutionsAttorney GeneralTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117020More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, how many prosecutions there have been for offences relating to the termination of pregnancy through the the pills-by-post scheme.
Answer: The At-Home Early Medical Abortion or EMA (known as the “pills by post” scheme), was implemented to allow eligible individuals to receive medication to terminate a pregnancy of less than 10 weeks via post after a telephone or video consultation. Introduce...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAbortion: DrugsHome OfficeTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117019More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many charges there have been for offences relating to the termination of pregnancy through the the pills-by-post scheme.
Answer: The Home Office does collect and publish official statistics on the number of charges for the offences of ‘Procuring illegal abortion’ offences and ‘intentional destruction of a viable unborn child’ recorded by the police in England and Wales.However, it ...
Answered 10 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordAbortion: ConvictionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117018More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many convictions there have been for offences relating to the termination of pregnancy through the the pills-by-post scheme.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of convictions across England and Wales for a wide range of offences in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justic...
Answered 9 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Gender RecognitionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117017More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the written statement on 26 February 2026 titled Data Linkage Study, what the small but important improvements in study design are to which he refers in his statement.
Answer: Small but important proposed improvements include refining the data sharing requirement of adult gender clinics, so that data is only requested that directly relates to the study cohort. Careful consideration has also been given to how best to run the stu...
Answered 18 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Gender RecognitionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117016More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the written statement on 26 February 2026 titled Data Linkage Study, whether he plans to complete the data linkage study before the Pathways puberty blockers trial commences.
Answer: The data linkage study is an important commitment within a wider national gender research programme, which is being jointly delivered by NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Research.The data linkage study is observational in nature,...
Answered 13 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Gender RecognitionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117015More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the written statement on 26 February 2026 titled Data Linkage Study, whether he expects the data linkage study to be completed before the abolition of NHS England.
Answer: The Department currently expects the data linkage study analysis to have been completed, or be close to completion, by April 2027, dependent on the timing of research approvals being secured. However, should any remaining actions be required to complete, ...
Answered 13 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Gender RecognitionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 117014More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the written statement on 26 February 2026 titled Data Linkage Study, what is his expected timeframe for research and ethics approval.
Answer: Important final steps are currently being taken to enable the data linkage study to begin, including the laying of an updated statutory instrument, or Order, to provide appropriate legal protections for those individuals and organisations who will be shar...
Answered 13 Mar 2026
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