Jim Shannon MP: written questions 2025
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Fractures: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve fracture screening.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NICE) has published a clinical knowledge summary on osteoporosis and the prevention of fragility fractures, which is available at the following link:https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/osteoporosis-preventio...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the childhood cancer survival rate in each of the last five years.
Answer: The following table shows age and gender standardised overall one-year and five-year survival rates for children between the ages of zero and 14 years old in England, with the latest data being from 2020:One-year overall survival dataYear20162017201820192...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFraud: Cross Border CooperationHome OfficeTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74634More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking with international partners to disrupt cross-jurisdictional fraud networks.
Answer: The Home Office is committed to leading international efforts to tackle fraud, which is why we are supporting the next Global Fraud Summit in March 2026, hosted by UNODC and INTERPOL. This will be a key event to strengthen the global fight against fraud a...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversities: Freedom of ExpressionDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to uphold free speech in universities.
Answer: This government is absolutely committed to freedom of speech and academic freedom in universities. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, confirmed to Parliament on 15 January the government’s plans for the future of the Higher Educat...
Answered 17 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: Child Sexual Abuse MaterialAttorney GeneralTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74631More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the prosecution of people who use AI to create deepfake photos of girls.
Answer: The Government takes the use of artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) extremely seriously. Offences involving AI-generated CSAM – including so-called ‘deepfakes’ – are an increasing concern for the Crown Prosecution Servic...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordObesity and Respiratory Diseases: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department funds research on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obesity.
Answer: The Department, through the National Institute for Health and Care Research, has awarded £133 million into obesity research grants over the last five years. It has awarded £78 million into research grants exploring chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLanguages: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase the number of pupils learning languages in school.
Answer: Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.The study of languages is compulsory under the national curriculum at key stages 2 and 3 for all maintained schools, and will become compulsory in academies, subjec...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordTinnitusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of people who have been diagnosed with Tinnitus in the last 12 months.
Answer: The information requested is not held centrally.
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Sexual OffencesMinistry of JusticeTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to help tackle sexual abuse in prisons.
Answer: His Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS) takes sexual harm in prisons very seriously. This year we have created specialist roles to address sexual harm across HMPPS, and we are developing a system-wide approach to prevent all forms of sexual h...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordObesity: CancerDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of obesity on cancer.
Answer: There is evidence that adults living with obesity have a higher risk of developing several types of cancer, according to research from Cancer Research UK, which is available at the following link:https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-can...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPatients: DatabasesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74102More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that patient data is seamlessly shared between the NHS in (a) England and (b) the devolved Administrations.
Answer: The UK Government is committed to ensuring that people across the United Kingdom live more independent, healthier lives for longer, and will continue to work closely with the Devolved Administrations as needed to achieve this. That is why we will be engag...
Answered 23 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordICT: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74101More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential (a) merits of virtual teachers in allowing pupils to (i) rewatch and (ii) relisten to lessons and (b) impact of those teachers on pupils with lower achievement rate
Answer: Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.Oak National Academy, an arm’s length body of the department, aims to support teachers to improve curriculum delivery, reduce workload and support improved pupil ou...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCybercrimeMinistry of DefenceTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74100More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many cyber attacks there have been on the UK in the last 12 months.
Answer: As the hon. Member's question asks about cyber attacks across the UK the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is the appropriate authority with the remit for Cyber defence of the wider nation, and a response best coordinated through the Cabinet Office. T...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: MisuseHome OfficeTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help tackle cannabis use on streets.
Answer: Tackling anti-social behaviour including cannabis use is a top Government priority, and a key part of our Safer Streets Mission. The Government has committed to adding 13,000 neighbourhood police and community support officers into local communities and e...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Alcoholic DrinksDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of excessive alcohol consumption on levels of prevalence of cancer.
Answer: The Department is aware of the impact of excessive alcohol consumption on the prevalence of cancer and the preventable pressure it places on the National Health Service. In 2024, there were 103,000 hospital admissions due to alcohol-related cancers.Alcoho...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDrug Seizures: Organised CrimeHome OfficeTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74096More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Class A drugs have been seized from organised crime in the last 12 months.
Answer: The most recent figures on Class A drug seizures are available in the Seizures of Drugs in England and Wales, financial year ending 2024 statistical release. This publication reports the total number of Class A drug seizures made by police forces and Bord...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74095More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve levels of early diagnoses of dementia.
Answer: We are committed to recovering the dementia diagnosis rate (DDR) to the national ambition of 66.7%. The estimated DDR for patients aged 65 years old and over at the end of July 2025 was 66.1%. The rate is an increase of 0.3% compared to the 65.8% in June ...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOffenders: DeportationHome OfficeTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74094More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to deport convicted violent foreign criminals.
Answer: We are committed to delivering justice for victims and safer streets for our communities. Foreign nationals who commit serious crimes will face the full force of the law and be deported at the earliest opportunity.This government has already removed almos...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSepsis: DeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74093More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many deaths there have been due to sepsis in the last 24 months.
Answer: The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes annual data on the number of death registrations where sepsis was mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, and on the number of death registrations where sepsis was specified as the underlying cause o...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: EmploymentHome OfficeTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74092More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people working in the UK illegally after their visa has expired.
Answer: The Home Office does not currently hold a reliable estimate of the number of individuals working in the UK following the expiry of their visas.The government takes illegal working very seriously, and we are determined to clamp down on the employment of in...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBowel Cancer: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women aged between (a) 50-60 and (b) 60-70 years olds have been diagnosed with bowel cancer in the last 12 months.
Answer: Using the Rapid Cancer Registration Data between June 2024 and May 2025, the most recent 12-month period available:a total of 2,221 female patients aged 50 to 59 years old were diagnosed with bowel cancer in England; anda total of 3,380 female patients ag...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women under the age of 18 have been diagnosed with ADHD in the last 12 months.
Answer: There is no single established dataset that can be used to monitor the numbers of people diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or to monitor waiting times for the assessment and diagnosis for ADHD by gender in England.For the firs...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDemonstrations: ProsecutionsMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for unpeaceful protest in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for a wide range of offences including violent disorder in England and Wales within the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: C...
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordWater: PollutionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74088More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of recent trends in levels of water pollution in England.
Answer: Defra publishes an annual suite of indicators that assess progress on protecting and improving the water environment. These reports are publicly available at GOV.UK. The latest report has several trend assessments, each one is useful for understanding dif...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordParkinson's Disease: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 74087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using Functional Electrical Stimulation devices to support people with Parkinson's disease.
Answer: The Department delivers research into Parkinson’s disease via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). While no specific assessment has been made, the NIHR is funding the STEPS II trial, which aims to determine whether Functional Electr...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
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