Ian Lavery MP: written questions
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Health Professions: Hazardous SubstancesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109108More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what research his Department has commissioned on the long-term health effects, including reproductive health outcomes, of occupational exposure to hazardous medicinal products among nursing staff;
Answer: The Government has not commissioned any research on the reproductive health outcomes or long-term health effects of the occupational exposure of nursing staff to hazardous medicinal products. No assessment has been made of the cost to the National Health ...
Answered 3 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: Hazardous SubstancesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109107More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will require NHS employers to provide ongoing education, training and health surveillance for all staff who handle or may be exposed to hazardous medicinal products.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84444.
Answered 4 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: Hazardous SubstancesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109106More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to promote the use of engineering controls such as biological safety cabinets and closed-system drug-transfer devices during preparation and administration of hazardous medicinal
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84144.
Answered 4 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Hazardous SubstancesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make and assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 to ensure that hazardous medicinal products with reprotoxic effects are
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84440.
Answered 6 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: Hazardous SubstancesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to develop or adopt a UK list of hazardous medicinal products and to require safety data sheets for finished medicines; and if he will take steps to work with the Health and
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84436.
Answered 6 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: Hazardous SubstancesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 109103More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of nurses and other healthcare professionals currently exposed to hazardous medicinal products; and if he will publish an estimate of how many wo
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for North Devon on 28 November 2025 to Question 92661.
Answered 5 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99181More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a new national strategy for palliative and end-of-life care.
Answer: The Government is developing a Palliative Care and End of Life Care Modern Service Framework (MSF) for England.The MSF will drive improvements in the services that patients and their families receive at the end of life and will enable integrated care boar...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Private Finance InitiativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99180More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish his Department’s business case on new private finance in the NHS.
Answer: The Department has no plans to publish the Neighbourhood Health Centre (NHC) Public Private Partnership (PPP) Feasibility Programme Business Case. Publication is not standard practice for business cases outside of the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Private Finance InitiativeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99179More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of renegotiating current private finance debt to reduce future payouts.
Answer: Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts are not held by the Department. Contracts are held between the local National Health Service trust and their respective private finance company. The contracts were let for a prescribed period of time, with the te...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood Health Centres: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99178More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of funding neighbourhood health centres through alternative, non-private finance means.
Answer: At the Autumn Budget, we announced our commitment to deliver 250 Neighbourhood Health Centres (NHCs) through the NHS Neighbourhood Rebuild Programme. This will deliver NHCs through a mixture of refurbishments, to expand and improve sites over the next thr...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99169More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the impact of (a) changes in patient need, (b) drug prices, (c) inflation and (d) changes in the level of private finance debt on the budget for the NHS in each of the
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington on 1 December 2025 to Question 93637.
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordToys and Games: SalesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97784More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has issued guidance to (a) schools and (b) educational establishments to make them aware of potential concerns with Colours Play Sand.
Answer: UK regulators are in touch with counterparts in Australia regarding reports of chemical concerns related to rainbow-coloured sand products. There is no evidence these products are available on the UK market. Our product safety regulations require busines...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordToys and Games: SalesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97783More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to communicate concerns of potential harmful substances in Educational Colours Rainbow Sand.
Answer: UK regulators are in touch with counterparts in Australia regarding reports of chemical concerns related to rainbow-coloured sand products. There is no evidence these products are available on the UK market. Our product safety regulations require busines...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordToys and Games: SalesDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what data he holds on how many packs of educational colours rainbow sand was sold before it was no longer available.
Answer: UK regulators are in touch with counterparts in Australia regarding reports of chemical concerns related to rainbow-coloured sand products. There is no evidence these products are available on the UK market. Our product safety regulations require busines...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: North EastDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91349More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support is available to schools to tackle the challenges faced by pupils living in poverty, including access to (a) free school meals, (b) mental health services and (c) after-school programmes in the Nort
Answer: We are supporting schools to tackle the challenges faced by pupils in poverty. As part of this support, schools will receive pupil premium funding worth over £3 billion in the 2025/26 financial year to support the educational outcomes of disadvantaged p...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPrimary Education: North EastDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91348More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what measures are in place to ensure that children from low-income families in the North East have access to high-quality early years education; and what additional support is being provided to reduce dispariti
Answer: The government’s Plan for Change commits to giving children the best start in life. From age 2, children in low-income families, those with education, health and care plans, and looked-after children are eligible for 15 hours of funded early education.Dis...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: North EastDepartment for EducationTabled 17 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 91347More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether they plan to increase or redistribute funding to schools in the North East.
Answer: The schools national funding formula (NFF) is used to allocate core funding for mainstream schools in England. We have now published the NFF for 2026/27, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-funding-formula-for-schools-and-h...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: Hazardous SubstancesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90694More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has commissioned research into the potential impact of occupational exposure to hazardous medicinal products among nursing staff on (a) reproductive and (b) other long-term h
Answer: As per our response to questions PQ87515, PQ84145, and PQ84445 on 11 November 2025, the Government has not commissioned any research on the reproductive health outcomes or long-term health effects of the occupational exposure of nursing staff to hazardous...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHazardous Substances: Health ProfessionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90693More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to require NHS employers to provide ongoing (a) training and (b) health surveillance for all staff who (i) handle and (ii) otherwise may be exposed to hazardous medicinal products; and
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84444.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDrugs: SafetyDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90692More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps to promote the use of (a) biological safety cabinets, (b) closed-system drug-transfer devices and (c) engineering controls in healthcare settings; and whether she plans to pr
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84144.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHazardous Substances: RegulationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to review the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations to ensure that hazardous medicinal products with reprotoxic effects are controlled to the same standard as (a)
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 October 2025 to Question UIN 84440.
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: CybersecurityDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 16 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77944More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how the cyber risk to Government has changed in the last 5 years; how his Department's approach to cyber security has changed in that time; and what assessment he has made of how the Go
Answer: Our approach to tackling Government cyber risk is driven by the 2022 Government Cyber Security Strategy which sets a clear target for critical functions to be hardened to cyber attack by 2025.We have made important steps in understanding and mitigating ri...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: CybersecurityDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77075More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department plans to be able to meet its target for the Government to be cyber resilient by the end of 2025.
Answer: Our approach to tackling Government cyber risk is driven by the 2022 Government Cyber Security Strategy which sets a clear target for critical functions to be hardened to cyber attack by 2025.We have made important steps in understanding and mitigating ri...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSchools: DiscriminationDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77074More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle misogyny in schools.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for for Blyth and Ashington to the answer of 19 September 2025 to Question 76624.
Answered 14 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordRacial Hatred and Religious Hatred: Blyth and AshingtonHome OfficeTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77073More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) race and (b) religious hate crimes took place in Blyth and Ashington constituency between September (i) 2024 and (ii) 2025.
Answer: The Home Office publishes official statistics on hate crimes at the Police Force Area level. The latest published information for the year ending March 2024, including for Northumbria Police, can be found here: Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending M...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
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