Clive Jones MP: written questions 2025
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Cancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42940More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the National Cancer Plan will be funded; and whether the funding will include ring-fenced resources specifically for children's and young people's cancers.
Answer: The National Cancer Plan will focus on how we make things better for patients through reforming the cancer sector and improving efficiency, building on the steps announced in the Elective Reform Plan. This will support a more scrupulous and effective use ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on funding for integrated care boards.
Answer: Ministers and senior Department officials will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, as we undertake the integration of NHS England and the Department, to ensure that the expected savings will be reinveste...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLung CancerDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42164More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page 10 of the report by Cancer Research UK entitled Cancer in the UK 2025: Socioeconomic Deprivation, published in February 2025, what steps he is taking to increase the 5-year n
Answer: We welcome Cancer Research UK’s report on socioeconomic deprivation and will consider its findings as we develop a new National Cancer Plan. As part of this, my Department is working closely with individuals, professionals and organisations, including Can...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42162More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Cancer52's report entitled, Improving diagnosis: Patient and clinician perspectives on increasing early diagnosis in rare and less common cancers, published in February 2025, if h
Answer: We are committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster, so that more patients survive, including children, teenagers, and young adults.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has set out deta...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42118More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people living in the most deprived areas receive earlier cancer diagnoses.
Answer: We recognise that there are challenges for several different populations, particularly for people living in the most deprived areas of the country, and that this impacts early diagnosis rates. The National Health Service’s wider Core20Plus5 approach to re...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42117More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the report by Cancer Research UK entitled Cancer in the UK 2025: socioeconomic deprivation, published on 21 February
Answer: We welcome Cancer Research UK’s report on socioeconomic deprivation and will consider its findings as we develop a new National Cancer Plan. As part of this, my Department is working closely with individuals, professionals and organisations, including Can...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the absorption of NHS England into his Department on his Department's timetable for the publication of the updated NHS Long Term Workforce Pla
Answer: Sir Jim Mackey will lead the transition team bringing the work of NHS England and the Department together over the next two years. This work will have no impact on the forthcoming publication of the 10-Year Health Plan and the subsequent reconsideration o...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLong Covid: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to implement the recommendations made by NICE in the House of Commons Coronavirus: Long Covid Research Briefing, published on 31 October 2024 for future research
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) research recommendations for managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 were made in 2020 and 2021. Since this time, the Government has invested £58 million in research through two specific fu...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 5 March 2025 to Question 32470 on Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment, if he will publish the funding allocation for the investment for replacing older radiotherapy machines.
Answer: NHS England has written to those trusts which have been allocated funding for replacement radiotherapy machines. There remain no plans to publish full details of the funding allocation.
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to introduce accountability mechanisms through the national cancer plan.
Answer: Mechanisms for accountability will be considered as part of the development of the National Cancer Plan.
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38501More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps through the national cancer plan to help prepare for innovations in (a) diagnostics and (b) treatments.
Answer: The National Cancer Plan will look at how we can maximise our impact through the most up-to-date technology and innovations. The plan will ensure that we continue to maximise the access to and the impact of clinical trials in diagnostics and treatments, b...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38500More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on the timing of the publication of the NHS 10-year plan.
Answer: We do not envisage that the changes set out by the Prime Minister on 13 March 2025 will affect the publication of the 10-Year Health Plan. We still intend to publish the Plan later in spring 2025.The changes will set the National Health Service up to deli...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38499More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what NHS England's functions are; and which (a) existing and (b) new Government bodies will take those functions on.
Answer: NHS England is being abolished as an arm’s length body and being brought back into the department. Ministers will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir James Mackey, to lead this transformation and return many of NHS ...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38498More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the abolition of NHS England on the coordination of screening programmes.
Answer: Ministers will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by James Mackey, to lead this transformation. As we work to return many of NHS England’s current functions to the Department, we will ensure that we continue to evaluate i...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38497More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what independent bodies are part of NHS England.
Answer: NHS England is currently an executive non-departmental public body which is sponsored by the Department. In the last 10 years, NHS England has taken on the functions of what were once separate arm’s length bodies, including NHS Improvement, NHS Digital an...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: ReformDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming integrated care boards.
Answer: The Department has not taken any recent assessment to reform integrated care boards (ICBs). As part of the necessary changes to support the National Health Service to recover, NHS England has indicated that ICBs should reduce in size. The Government is su...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12286 on Pension Credit: Uptake, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the complexity of the Pension Cr
Answer: As the Department continues to modernise the Pension Credit service, we review the user experience, balancing simplification of application with capturing the right information to ensure accuracy of award. A key objective of DWP’s Service Modernisation Pr...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: USADepartment for Business and TradeTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what (a) oversight and (b) governance procedures will prospective US-UK trade negotiations be subject to from (i) Parliament and (ii) external stakeholders.
Answer: Any treaty signed between the UK and the US that requires ratification will be subject to the scrutiny procedure under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010. The CRaG process requires that a treaty, along with an Explanatory Memorandum, be lai...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: USADepartment for Business and TradeTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what are the criteria by which it would be determined whether any prospective trade treaty between the UK and the US that does not deal with substantially all trade would be subject to scrutiny under t
Answer: Part 2 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 is the statutory framework for the parliamentary scrutiny of all legally binding international agreements, regardless of the extent to which the relevant international agreement deals with trade,...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade Agreements: USADepartment for Business and TradeTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38272More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to publish a Strategic Approach document for prospective US trade negotiations.
Answer: As the Prime Minister said on 27 February, we’ve decided to work with the United States on a new economic deal with advanced technology at its core. We will set out more details as discussions evolve.
Answered 20 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLife Sciences: WokinghamCabinet OfficeTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38259More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate the UK Statistics Authority has made of the number of life science businesses in Wokingham constituency in (a) 2019, (b) 2020, (c) 2021, (d) 2022, (e) 2023 and (f) 2024; and which constituency in (
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman or lady Parliamentary Question of 12th March is attached.
Answered 21 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign Investment in UKDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Harrington Review of Foreign Direct Investment, published on 22 November 2023, what recent progress his Department has made on implementing (a) the recommendation on a concierge s
Answer: The Government is continuing to deliver on the recommendations set out in the Harrington Review. That includes launching our new, modern Industrial Strategy, that will set out our vision for growth. In parallel, we are expanding the Office for Investment ...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTrade AgreementsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent discussions he has had with his Indian counterpart on free trade negotiations with that country.
Answer: The Business and Trade Secretary travelled to New Delhi in February where he engaged closely with his counterpart, Minister Goyal, to relaunch and progress negotiations towards a deal that delivers on our mutual interests of economic growth.Following from...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImport Duties: USADepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what representations he has made to the (a) US Department of Commerce and (b) Office of the US Trade Representative on (i) digital services tax, (ii) value added tax and (iii) other regulatory issues r
Answer: The Secretary of State has been having regular, constructive conversations with the US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, to make the case for stronger UK-US trade that benefits both our countries.We will contin...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordImport Duties: USADepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the implementation of the US reciprocal tariffs proposal on UK steel and aluminium exports from 12 March 2025 on (a) eco
Answer: My Department continues to engage closely with the industries affected by the implementation of the US’ reciprocal tariffs proposal. We are resolute in our support for the UK steel and aluminium industry, which is vital to the UK economy. We have committe...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
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