Caroline Johnson MP: written questions
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy: BabiesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84629More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects to receive a formal recommendation from the UK national screening committee on newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy.
Answer: A recommendation by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) on newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is expected following the conclusion of an in-service evaluation (ISE), which is needed to answer several outstanding questions related...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children with education, health and care plans were born abroad.
Answer: The requested information is not held by the department.
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 23 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children receiving education in state funded special schools were born abroad.
Answer: The requested information is not held by the department.
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical Hubs: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of current capital funding budget will be allocated towards the expansion of the surgical hub programme.
Answer: The Government is increasing the Department’s capital budgets to over £14.6 billion by the end of the Spending Review period for 2029/30, to invest into the National Health Service and wider health infrastructure, including elective care. This will delive...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve data collection on diagnostic pathways for (a) teenagers and (b) children with cancer.
Answer: The Department is committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster so that more patients survive, including children and teenagers. The Department, NHS England and other NHS partner organisations are taking...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) speed of diagnosis and (b) time from diagnosis to treatment in (i) children and (ii) teenagers with cancer.
Answer: The Department is committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster so that more patients survive, including children and teenagers. The Department, NHS England and other NHS partner organisations are taking...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve early recognition of cancer symptoms of teenagers in primary care.
Answer: The Department is committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster so that more patients survive, including children and teenagers. The Department, NHS England and other NHS partner organisations are taking...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84381More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve public awareness of the symptoms of cancer in teenagers.
Answer: The Department is committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster so that more patients survive, including children and teenagers. The Department, NHS England and other NHS partner organisations are taking...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical HubsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84380More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional surgical hubs are due to (a) open and (b) be built in the next 12 months.
Answer: Dedicated and protected surgical hubs transform the way the National Health Service provides elective care by focusing on providing high volume, low complexity surgery, as recommended by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.There are currently 123 ele...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: MenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84379More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to reduce premature deaths in men.
Answer: We are developing a Men's Health Strategy which will seek to improve the health and wellbeing of all men in England. This includes finding the right ways to promote healthier behaviours, improving outcomes for health conditions that hit men harder, and im...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSuicide: MenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84378More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to help reduce suicides in men.
Answer: On 19 November, we published the Men’s Health Strategy. The strategy includes tangible actions to improve access to healthcare, provide the right support to enable men to make healthier choices, develop healthy living and working conditions, foster strong...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84377More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to publish the new health strategy in this calendar year.
Answer: We are developing a Men's Health Strategy which will seek to improve the health and wellbeing of all men in England. This includes finding the right ways to promote healthier behaviours, improving outcomes for health conditions that hit men harder, and im...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Medical Treatments AbroadDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84376More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of British citizens have have required remedial surgery in the NHS as a result of poor elective overseas surgery.
Answer: The data requested is not held centrally by the Department.
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Medical Treatments AbroadDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many British citizens have died as a result of elective overseas surgery in each of the last five years.
Answer: The data requested is not held centrally by the Department.
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: ParentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84374More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate capital to bring parents accommodation for neonatal units up to national standard.
Answer: We recognise that delivering high quality National Health Services requires safe, sustainable, and effective infrastructure.As a first step towards improving our maternity and neonatal estate, we are investing £131 million through the 2025/26 Estates Safe...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: ParentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84373More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data he holds on the number of bedrooms available for parents with a baby on the neonatal unit by (a) Trust and (b) neonatal units.
Answer: The results from NHS England’s Maternity and Neonatal Infrastructure Review, commissioned in 2023, showed that there are 747 parental accommodation rooms within neonatal units nationally. NHS England does not hold data on the standard of these rooms. Howe...
Answered 5 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordSurgery: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve the retention of surgical staff.
Answer: As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, the Government is committed to making the National Health Service the best place to work, by supporting and retaining our hardworking and dedicated healthcare professionals.To support this ambition, the Government pl...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgery: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84256More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 2023 2023 UK surgical workforce census report compiled by the Royal College of Surgeons, what steps he is taking to expand surgical training capacity in the context of bottlen
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan, published on 3 July, set out that over the next three years we will create 1,000 new specialty training posts with a focus on specialties where there is the greatest need.The plan also sets out that we will work across Government ...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordIndependent National Maternity and Neonatal InvestigationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84255More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to add additional Trusts to the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation following the removal of (a) Shropshire and (b) Leeds.
Answer: Baroness Amos does not intend to select other trusts for local review to replace either Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust or Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust in her National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation.Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust...
Answered 12 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordIndependent National Maternity and Neonatal InvestigationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84254More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has had to ensure the neonatal services are fully incorporated into the scope of the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation.
Answer: Both maternity and neonatal services are fully encompassed within the remit of the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation. The terms of reference state that the investigation will examine the quality and safety of the care provided across the entir...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government's response to recommendation 6 included in the Government response to the House of Lords inquiry into preterm birth: reducing risks and improving lives, published o
Answer: The findings from the Maternity and Neonatal Infrastructure Review were published on 11 September 2025. The full report is available to read at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/maternity-and-neonatal-infrastructure-review-findings...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: ParentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to (a) identify and (b) allocate capital funding to bring neonatal accommodation for parents in line with the standards outlined in the Health Building Note 09-03: Neo
Answer: Repairing and rebuilding our healthcare estate is a vital part of the Government's ambition to create a National Health Service that is fit for the future. The Government is backing the NHS with over £4 billion in operational capital in 2025/26, enabling ...
Answered 11 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: ParentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81353More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Health Building Note 09-03: Neonatal Units, published 20 March 2013, how many and what proportion of neonatal units (a) do and (b) do not meet the standard for parent accommod
Answer: Not all maternity hospitals are currently able to offer adequate accommodation for families who have experienced a bereavement. This is due to the historic undercapitalisation across the National Health Service, as highlighted by the Darzi Report. As a fi...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: ParentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81352More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many bedrooms are available for parents and carers in neonatal units, broken down by (a) region, (b) Integrated Care Board, (c) Trust and (d) in England.
Answer: Not all maternity hospitals are currently able to offer adequate accommodation for families who have experienced a bereavement. This is due to the historic undercapitalisation across the National Health Service, as highlighted by the Darzi Report. As a fi...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: ParentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81351More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS maternity and neonatal infrastructure review findings, published on 11 September 2025, whether his Department plans to publish an assessment of the adequacy of neonatal pa
Answer: Not all maternity hospitals are currently able to offer adequate accommodation for families who have experienced a bereavement. This is due to the historic undercapitalisation across the National Health Service, as highlighted by the Darzi Report. As a fi...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
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