Helen Morgan MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Air Ambulance Services: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 64488More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 62692 on Air Ambulance Services: Contracts, if he will take steps to establish which air ambulance organisations hold contracts with NHS organisat
Answer: National Health Service contracts or agreements for the provision of services locally are made and held at a local level by the relevant NHS body. There are no current plans to change this approach.
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Written QuestionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63701More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to Questions (a) 61929 tabled on 23 June, (b) 61928 tabled on 23 June and (c) 61005 tabled on 18 June 2025.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave on 1 July 2025 to Questions 61005 and 61928, and to the answer I gave on 7 July 2025 to Question 61929.
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTomography: North ShropshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62726More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to Answer of 13 June 2025 to Question 60148 on Tomography: Waiting Lists, how much of the £6 billion in capital investment will be allocated to services in North Shropshire constituency.
Answer: The 2025 Spending Review confirmed over £6 billion of additional capital investment over five years across new diagnostic, elective, and urgent care capacity. Further details and allocations, including for the Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care...
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTomography: North ShropshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62725More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients referred for diagnostic scans have been seen within six weeks in North Shropshire constituency each month since January 2020.
Answer: The Monthly Diagnostic Waiting Times and Activity (DM01) dataset presents the current waiting times of patients on the waiting list for 15 key diagnostic tests or procedures at each month’s end. This can be found at the following link:https://www.england....
Answered 4 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62698More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to commission new services from community pharmacy in the context of changes to supervision.
Answer: The Government recognises that pharmacies are an integral part of the fabric of our communities, as an easily accessible ‘front door’ to the National Health Service, staffed by highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals.We are committed to expand...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62697More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on expanding the pharmacy workforce.
Answer: To support employers in developing their staff and delivering quality National Health Services, NHS England provides a number of fully funded national training opportunities for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. This includes independent prescriber tr...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62696More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to commission more adult vaccines from community pharmacy.
Answer: We are committed to increase vaccine uptake and improving access, including by exploring new and innovative delivery models to deliver vaccinations, as outlined in the 10-Year Health Plan for England.Community pharmacies already play a key role in deliver...
Answered 28 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: ProtectionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62695More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the capacity of the NHS to contribute to the provisions for Multi Agency Child Protection Teams in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Answer: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, introduced in Parliament on 17 December, will protect children at risk of abuse, by stopping vulnerable children from falling through the cracks in services. The bill will place a duty on local safeguarding partn...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Children's RightsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will conduct a child rights impact assessment of the proposed merger of NHS England and his Department.
Answer: The Government is completely focused on delivery during this period of change, including taking forward our Health Mission and putting in place measures to raise the healthiest generation of children ever. It is only right that with such significant refor...
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: ProtectionDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that NHS providers remain accountable for discharging their statutory safeguarding duties for children following the closure of NHS England.
Answer: The Department and NHS England’s safeguarding officials already work as one team to ensure that ministerial decisions are informed by policy and clinical expertise, considering the distinct yet integrated layers of child safeguarding functions. Through th...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAir Ambulance Services: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many air ambulance organisations hold contracts with NHS organisations.
Answer: The Department does not hold this information.
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: North ShropshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of NHS dentists in North Shropshire.
Answer: The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to areas that need them most. To rebuild dentist...
Answered 9 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: Migrant WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the Overseas Registration Exam for dentists.
Answer: The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator of dentistry in the United Kingdom. Only dentists and dental care professionals registered with the GDC can legally practise dentistry. As an independent regulator, it is for the GDC to determi...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: RegistrationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61962More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with the General Dental Council to improve the registration process for dentists who qualified outside the UK.
Answer: The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator of dentistry in the United Kingdom. Only dentists and dental care professionals registered with the GDC can legally practise dentistry. As an independent regulator, it is for the GDC to determi...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the potential impact of mutual recognition schemes on the average time taken to recruit dentists from overseas.
Answer: The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator of dentistry in the United Kingdom. Only dentists and dental care professionals registered with the GDC can legally practise dentistry. As an independent regulator, it is for the GDC to determi...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: QualificationsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61960More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to establish mutual recognition schemes for dental qualifications with other countries.
Answer: The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator of dentistry in the United Kingdom. Only dentists and dental care professionals registered with the GDC can legally practise dentistry.As an independent regulator, it is for the GDC to determin...
Answered 3 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDentistry: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61959More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dental positions have been advertised under the NHS Golden Hello Scheme; and how many of those have been accepted, by (a) region and (b) month since February 2024.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) have started to recruit posts through the Golden Hello scheme. This recruitment incentive will see up to 240 dentists receiving payments of £20,000 to work in those areas that need them most for three years.We do not hold mon...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: RedundancyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June to Question 56902 on Integrated Care Boards: Redundancy, (a) how the costs of restructuring will be met and (b) when when the national redundancy scheme will be la
Answer: Following the Prime Minister’s announcement of the abolition of NHS England, we have been clear on the need for a smaller centre, as well as scaling back integrated care board running costs and National Health Service provider corporate costs reductions, ...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: Operating CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61928More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 12 May to Question 50600 on Integrated Care Boards: Per Capita Costs and with reference to the NHS England publication entitled, Working together in 2025/26 to lay the fou
Answer: Plans are still in development. NHS England is continuing to work closely with integrated care boards to support them in finalising plans that are deliverable within the reduced running cost envelope.
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61927More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the funding provided for local authority adult social care services in the Spending Review 2025.
Answer: The Government assessed the impact of the cost pressures facing adult social care as part of the wider consideration of local government spending within the Spending Review process in 2025. This assessment took account of a range of factors that could aff...
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61925More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of funding provided for social care in the Spending Review 2025, in the context of estimated demographic trends in the next three years.
Answer: The Government assessed the impact of the cost pressures facing adult social care as part of the wider consideration of local government spending within the Spending Review process in 2025. This assessment took account of a range of factors, including dem...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordAccident and Emergency Departments and Ambulance ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hours each ambulance service has spent on hospital handovers in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: The following table shows the aggregate number of handover hours recorded by each ambulance service by year:TrustTotal handover time in hoursOctober to March 2023/24April to March 2024/25April to 25 May 2025/26East Midlands Ambulance Service153,860305,717...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAccident and Emergency Departments and Ambulance ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61591More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the NHS of patient transfers from ambulance to A&E taking longer than 15 minutes in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: No estimate is currently planned. The Government recognises the pressures on the National Health Service and the impact this is having on ambulance response times, including in Shropshire.We are determined to turn things around, and our 10-Year Health Pla...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAccident and Emergency Departments and Ambulance Services: ShropshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61587More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce ambulance handover delays at hospitals in Shropshire.
Answer: The Government recognises the pressures on the National Health Service and the impact this is having on ambulance response times, including in Shropshire.We are determined to turn things around, and our 10-Year Health Plan will be published in the summer,...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAmbulance Services: West MidlandsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61586More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of ambulance handover times on the number of paramedics employed by West Midlands Ambulance Service.
Answer: No specific assessment has been made for West Midlands Ambulance Service Trust. It is for local ambulance trusts and their commissioners to take decisions on staff resourcing to meet local patient demand.However, we recognise the impact that handover dela...
Answered 26 Jun 2025
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