Esther McVey MP: written questions 2026
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Written questions
Coronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 29943More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of the suspected adverse reaction reports of unknown age for the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna monovalent were followed up by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to try and
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordYellow Card SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 29942More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make date of birth a mandatory field when reporting a suspected adverse reaction to the Yellow Card scheme run by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordSurrogacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 29931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the report from the Anti-Slavery Commissioner entitled Anticipating Exploitation: Forced Surrogacy; and what assess
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordEmergency Services: Crimes of ViolenceMinistry of JusticeTabled 15 Sept 2026Awaiting answerUIN 29919More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the Answer of 20 July 2026 to Question 16871, how many further such cases involving assaults against emergency workers have been heard and dealt with since 29 June 2026; what the outcome was in
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28305More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, whether the ONS will make daily counts by (a) date of death and (b) date of registration available as a downloadable dataset.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28304More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics will publish historical daily numbers of deaths in England and Wales by (a) date of occurrence and (b) date of registration for periods sufficiently historic that regis
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28303More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what statistical criteria the Office for National Statistics uses to determine that weekly, rather than daily, publication represents the appropriate level of granularity for mortality statistics; and whether th
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28302More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what quantitative analysis supports the Office for National Statistics' conclusion that publication of daily death figures could
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28301More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment the Office for National Statistics has made of whether the risk of misinterpretation of daily mortality figures could be mitigated through (a) provisional-data labelling, (b) publication of compl
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28300More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Office for National Statistics has assessed the feasibility of publishing deaths by individual date of occurrence subject to a fixed publication lag of (a) 14, (b) 21 and (c) 28 days.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28299More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, whether any statistical criteria prevent publication of death-registration figures by individual date.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28298More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what proportion of deaths occurring on a given date would ordinarily have been registered 12 days after that date.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28297More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what estimate the Office for National Statistics has made of the average and maximum revisions to provisional daily numbers of d
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 9 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 28296More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 4 September 2026 to Question 19336 on Death: Statistics, what proportion of deaths occurring on a given date in England and Wales are, on average, registered within (a) 1 day, (b) 3 day
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Rt. Hon lady Parliamentary Question of 9th September is attached.
Answered 17 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordUnpaid TaxesTreasuryTabled 8 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 27916More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 14818, how much of HMRC's 2025 tax debt balance of £42.8 billion has been paid back.
Answer: HMRC publishes information on the total amount of tax debt owed. Information on what proportion of a tax debt balance at a particular date is subsequently paid could only be provided at disproportionate cost. In 25-26, HMRC collected around £83 billion in...
Answered 22 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordSmall BusinessesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 7 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 27441More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria her Department has for determining whether businesses make a positive contribution to local communities.
Answer: The Government has announced it will review business rates reliefs for businesses not making a positive contribution to local communities, such as vape shops. Further details will be set out in due course.
Answered 16 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWest Coast Main Line: TimetablesDepartment for TransportTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will reverse her approval from July for a reduction in the timetable of trains between Manchester and London.
Answer: Please see below Manchester services per timetable over this period. Jun-24Dec-24May-25Dec-25May-26Dec-26May-27Dec-27 SX / SO / SU by timetable periodLondon - Manchester46 / 42 / 3346 / 42 / 3346 / 42 / 3347 / 42 / 3347 / 42 / 3347 / 42 / 3347 / 42 / 334...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordWest Coast Main Line: TimetablesDepartment for TransportTabled 2 Sept 2026AnsweredUIN 26515More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what number of trains per week from a) London to Manchester and b) Manchester to London were on the timetable in i) 2024, ii) 2025 iii) January to June 2026 iv) July to December 2026 and v) are planned for 2027
Answer: Please see below Manchester services per timetable over this period. Jun-24Dec-24May-25Dec-25May-26Dec-26May-27Dec-27 SX / SO / SU by timetable periodLondon - Manchester46 / 42 / 3346 / 42 / 3346 / 42 / 3347 / 42 / 3347 / 42 / 3347 / 42 / 3347 / 42 / 334...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 28 Aug 2026AnsweredUIN 19982More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of a) men and b) women were released from prison after serving less than i) 50% ii) 33% and iii) 25% of their prison sentence in jail in each of the last 3 years.
Answer: This Government inherited prisons days from collapse. We had no choice but to take decisive action to stop our prisons overflowing and keep the public safe. Without the changes this Government made, courts would have had to halt trials and the police canc...
Answered 8 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordBritish Liver TrustDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Aug 2026Awaiting answerUIN 19981More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings her department has had since July 2024 with the British Liver Trust, and what the dates of those meetings were.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordDeath: StatisticsCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 19336More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ask the Office for National Statistics to publish a daily dashboard of deaths by date.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Parliamentary Question of 16th July is attached.
Answered 4 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordFolic Acid: FlourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 19335More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Food Safety Act 1990, what is the legal basis for the adding of folic acid to non-wholewheat flour as a public health measure.
Answer: The Bread and Flour (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024 made provisions for the mandatory fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour with folic acid, following a final decision to proceed with this long-standing proposal taken by the previous governmen...
Answered 3 Sept 2026
Original Parliament recordFolic AcidDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18586More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15320 on Folic Acid, with reference to the Food Standard Agency's information page entitled Guidance: Folic Acid, updated on 10 July 2026, where t
Answer: The Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) website moved over to the GOV.UK platform on 25 June 2026. The FSA’s information page on the fortification of flour with folic acid is available at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/folic-acid/...
Answered 20 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordInnovation and Technology: ObesityDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 14 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 13 July 2026 to Question 15321 on Innovation and Technology: Obesity, whether the evaluation activity will be independent of Eli Lilly and Company; whether it
Answer: The Obesity Pathway Innovation Programme evaluation has been commissioned independently through the National Institute for Health and Care Research and is entirely independent of Eli Lilly and Company. The evaluation team is currently working with funded ...
Answered 20 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 18584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to publish monthly data showing the number of Referral to Treatment pathways removed from waiting lists by reason for removal.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon Member to the answer provided in the House of Lords on 30 June in response to Question HL381.
Answered 19 Aug 2026
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