Helen Morgan MP: written questions
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Railway Stations: BaschurchDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49468More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reopening Baschurch railway station on the economy.
Answer: In light of the current spending review, it is vital that government spending is focused on the Prime Minister’s Plan for Change, and that every pound of taxpayers’ money represents value for money. Therefore, new projects must be carefully considered. I ...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: North ShropshireDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49467More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve access to train services in North Shropshire.
Answer: We have allocated over £8 million to Shropshire in 2025/26 to maintain and enhance local transport infrastructure, including the roads, public transport, and active travel connection to rail stations. This is delivered through the £6.78 million of Local T...
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the potential change in the number of staff employed in (a) corporate and (b) other functions in the NHS in 2025-26.
Answer: The Department has made no specific estimate of the change in contracted National Health Service staff, bank and agency staff, corporate functions staff, or those in other functions in NHS trusts in England over the 2025/26 financial year, beyond the posi...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: RedundancyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS trusts have informed his Department that they plan to reduce the number of staff employed for non-corporate functions.
Answer: The Department has made no specific estimate of the change in contracted National Health Service staff, bank and agency staff, corporate functions staff, or those in other functions in NHS trusts in England over the 2025/26 financial year, beyond the posi...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the potential change in the number of (a) contracted staff and (b) bank and agency staff in the NHS in 2025-26.
Answer: The Department has made no specific estimate of the change in contracted National Health Service staff, bank and agency staff, corporate functions staff, or those in other functions in NHS trusts in England over the 2025/26 financial year, beyond the posi...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Redundancy PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49071More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) integrated care boards and (b) NHS trusts have contacted his Department to discuss the potential cost of redundancies since 1 January 2025.
Answer: The Prime Minister has announced the integration of the Department and NHS England and the associated reduction in size, and NHS England has also set out separate ambitions of reducing integrated care board running costs as well as National Health Service...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Redundancy PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49070More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of redundancies in the NHS in 2025-26.
Answer: The Prime Minister has announced the integration of the Department and NHS England and the associated reduction in size, and NHS England has also set out separate ambitions of reducing integrated care board running costs as well as National Health Service...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason cross-party talks on social care have not yet taken place.
Answer: We are committed to building a national, cross-party consensus to create a fair and affordable adult social care system for all. This is why we have asked Baroness Casey of Blackstock to lead an independent commission into adult social care as part of our...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48581More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to hold the first round of cross party talks on social care.
Answer: We are committed to building a national, cross-party consensus to create a fair and affordable adult social care system for all. This is why we have asked Baroness Casey of Blackstock to lead an independent commission into adult social care as part of our...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48580More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the reduction in NHS waiting lists that took place between July and December 2024 was due to people (a) receiving the procedure they were on the waiting list for and (b) being re
Answer: Data is not held in the format requested.
Answered 6 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48579More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people came off an NHS waiting list without receiving treatment since September 2024; and what new (a) care pathways and (b) triaging policies his Department has introduced since July 2024
Answer: A breakdown of the reasons for coming off the waiting list is not available in the aggregate monthly official statistics.There are a number of reasons why a patient may come off an NHS waiting list without receiving treatment including: the patient or the...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordTaxis: VATTreasuryTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47854More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to increase VAT to 20% for private hire passenger fares outside of London.
Answer: Private hire vehicle services provided by VAT-registered businesses are, and always have been, subject to the standard rate of VAT (20%). The Government is carefully considering the wide range of views shared through last year's consultation on the VAT Tr...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to repurpose spending on hospital care and emergency admissions for people at the end of life into improving community care services.
Answer: We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life.The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families r...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47852More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent estimate of the number of people that will have palliative care needs in the next 10 years.
Answer: Currently, approximately 600,000 people die per year in the United Kingdom. It is estimated that up to 90% of deaths could benefit from palliative and end of life care.The Office for National Statistics has projected that, by 2040, approximately 800,000 p...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47851More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking through the 10 Year Health Plan to address (a) quality of care, (b) inadequate access and (c) rising demand in palliative and end of life care.
Answer: We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life. The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and families receiv...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: Operating CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 38394 on Integrated Care Boards: Operating Costs, what proportion of running costs integrated care boards are being asked to reduce; and what gui
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) have been asked to make 50% cuts to running costs. Further detail on the future of ICBs was provided in a letter issued to all ICBs and National Health Service trusts and foundation trusts on 1 April 2025. This letter is avai...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: Operating CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 38394 on Integrated Care Boards: Operating Costs, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment on the decision to reduce ICB running
Answer: NHS England has asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to act primarily as strategic commissioners of health and care services and to reduce the duplication of responsibilities within their structure to achieve a 50% cost reduction in their running cost ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43516: Maternity Services and with reference to the Final report of the Ockenden Review, published on 30 March 2022, what assessment he has made o
Answer: NHS England’s Three-Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services, from 2023 to 2026, pulled together the majority of existing commitments, including the Ockenden recommendations, into a single package. The technical guidance outlines how progres...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46908More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43516: Maternity Services, and with reference to the Final report of the Ockenden Review, published on 30 March 2022, which (a) Trusts and (b) sys
Answer: It is for integrated care boards to oversee local progress in implementing the immediate and essential actions from the Ockenden Review.
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43516: Maternity Services, whether he has set a deadline for (a) outcome and (b) progress measures in the three year delivery plan for maternity a
Answer: NHS England’s three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal care services was published on 31 March 2023 and implementation of the objectives is due to run for three years until March 2026. Progress is monitored through the plan’s technical guidance...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 April 2025 to Question 43516: Maternity Services, if he will update the three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal care to include specific numerical targets.
Answer: NHS England’s three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services, ending in March 2026, will not be updated to include specific numerical targets. The focus remains on delivering actions to drive the necessary improvements on the ground to ensur...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44112More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has issued guidance to hospital trusts on reducing waiting lists for elective care through demand management.
Answer: The Government has committed to returning to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment, a standard which has not been met consistently since September 2015. Our Electiv...
Answered 17 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMaternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress each NHS Trust providing maternity services has made on implementing each of the immediate and essential actions set out in the Final report of the Ockenden review, published o
Answer: All of the recommendations made by Donna Ockenden in her review into maternity services at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust in 2022 were accepted, including the requests made to the Government, the health system more widely, and the trust. Follow...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAccident and Emergency Departments: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43127More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the use of temporary care environments in patient care.
Answer: The Government recognises that long waits in accident and emergency are unacceptable and lead to worse patient outcomes. Patients should expect and receive the highest standards of service, and we are determined to tackle the issue of corridor care.NHS En...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordAccident and Emergency Departments: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43126More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing year-round data on the number of patients treated in temporary care environments.
Answer: We continue to keep the data available and published to support improvements to urgent and emergency care services under review.NHS England has been working with trusts since 2024 to put in place new reporting arrangements related to the use of temporary ...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
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