Jim Shannon MP: written questions
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Asthma: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of (a) trends in the level of variation in access to NICE-recommended biologic medicines for severe asthma.
Answer: No assessment has been made. NHS England is working with the health innovation networks and has formed the Respiratory Transformation Partnership. Focusing on improving the outcomes of people living with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (C...
Answered 29 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of changes to PET-CT procurement in England on diagnostic access for patients from Northern Ireland who rely on specialist capacity e
Answer: NHS England is in the process of reprocuring some positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT) services to replace current contracts that are due to expire at the end of March 2027. The geographies covered by the existing contracts will conti...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of levels of access to PSMA PET-CT imaging on regional and ethnic inequalities in prostate cancer diagnosis and outcomes.
Answer: The Department recognises that access to PSMA PET-CT imaging varies across England and that this may exacerbate existing disparities.NHS England has introduced a commissioning policy for PSMA PET-CT imaging for patients with high-risk or recurrent prostat...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100314More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has been made of the adequacy of national production capacity for PSMA radiotracers in the context of projected clinical demand for prostate cancer diagnosis.
Answer: Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) radiotracers are commissioned for use as part of PET-CT prostate cancer imaging, as set out in the published clinical commissioning policy. Access to PET-CT, as with any healthcare service, is closely monitored.
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99739More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help avoid creating a single point of failure in PET-CT diagnostic services.
Answer: NHS England’s specialised commissioning function commissions positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT) diagnostic services and is responsible for ensuring that there is sufficient capacity across England to meet planned demand. To avoid cr...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99738More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the UK National Screening Committee’s draft recommendation on prostate cancer screening on future demand for PSMA PET-CT imaging,
Answer: The independent UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which is made up of leading medical and screening experts, advises ministers in all four nations of the United Kingdom on the evidence on screening. They have carried out an evidence review to look...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordCarer's Allowance Overpayments Independent Review Northern IrelandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99737More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Executive on the independent review of Carer's Allowance overpayments.
Answer: The Independent Review into overpayments of Carer’s Allowance linked to earnings covered England and Wales. In view of the principle of parity with DWP in matters of social security, I informed the Minister for Communities of the Review’s findings and the...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCarer's Allowance: Northern IrelandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the number of unpaid carers in Northern Ireland affected by Carer's Allowance overpayments in relation to a) earnings and b) fluctuating earnings from 2015 to 2025.
Answer: The Independent Review into overpayments of Carer’s Allowance linked to earnings covered England and Wales. In view of the principle of parity with DWP in matters of social security, I informed the Minister for Communities of the Review’s findings and the...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCarer's Allowance: Northern IrelandDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has had made an assessment of the potential impact of the findings and recommendations of the Independent Review of Carer's Allowance payments on carers in Northern Ireland.
Answer: The Independent Review into overpayments of Carer’s Allowance linked to earnings covered England and Wales. In view of the principle of parity with DWP in matters of social security, I informed the Minister for Communities of the Review’s findings and the...
Answered 23 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals have been made for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as part of the Targeted Lung Health Checks programme; and what regional variation there has been in chronic obstructive p
Answer: The data requested is not available centrally. To enable faster diagnosis and earlier access to treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, access to spirometry tests in community diagnostic centres (CDCs) is growing and will continue to do so as...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordChronic Obstructive Pulmonary DiseaseDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99733More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have changed since the start of the winter season; and what geographical variation there has been in those admissions.
Answer: The information requested is not collected centrally. NHS England publishes annual data on the number of admissions with a primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In 2024/25, there were 121,506 admissions. This data is available at the...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMultiple Sclerosis: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99732More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to address multiple sclerosis in the updated Women’s Health Strategy; and whether there will be discussions on how this can inform development of the Northern Ireland
Answer: We know that women can be impacted by a range of different health conditions at the same time, including those that only affect women, those that affect women differently or more severely to men, or those that affect everyone equally. This is why the rene...
Answered 22 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMultiple Sclerosis: Northern IrelandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 99731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Department of Health on the application of learning from the NHS England Neurology Transformation Programme to improve access to specialised ne
Answer: The Department is committed to sharing learning and best practice across the United Kingdom health systems.The Neurology Transformation Programme in England aims to improve access, coordination, and outcomes for people with neurological conditions, includ...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordHealthy Start Scheme: MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the extension to the Healthy Start scheme to families with no recourse to public funds.
Answer: The Department ran a consultation, Eligibility for Healthy Start for groups that have no recourse to public funds or are subject to immigration controls, which provided examples of the potential impacts of extending Healthy Start to families with no recou...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School MealsDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98770More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to introduce an auto-enrolment system for all children eligible for free school meals.
Answer: Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.This government is committed to breaking down barriers to opportunity and tackling child poverty. Introducing a new eligibility threshold for free school meals (FSM...
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: ChildrenHome OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98769More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Education on the forthcoming guidance to local authorities on statutory duties under Section 17 of the Children Act 1989; and wha
Answer: This Government remains firmly committed to safeguarding children from a range of harms. This includes ensuring that statutory safeguarding partners, including the police, have the right resources, tools and training to identify and respond and work toget...
Answered 17 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he plans to publish a further equalities impact assessment of the Child Poverty Strategy, which will include the potential impact of the strategy on groups at highest risk of poverty.
Answer: A full summary Equalities Analysis was published alongside the Strategy and is available at: Child Poverty Strategy: Summary Equalities Analysis - GOV.UK. The impacts of policies contributing to the Child Poverty Strategy will be kept under review and mon...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPoverty: ChildrenDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of including targets and milestones for reducing child poverty in legislation.
Answer: The Monitoring and Evaluation framework published alongside the Strategy set out that a baseline report will be published in Summer 2026 with annual reporting on progress thereafter and Government already has a statutory duty to publish poverty statistics...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAsthma: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98766More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of access to fractional exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) testing.
Answer: The Department is committed to improving access to fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) testing.FeNO testing is a recommended core test for any standard community diagnostic centre (CDC). Currently 112 CDC sites in England offer FeNO testing.In November...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAsthma: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98765More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access to asthma diagnostics, including fractional exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) testing.
Answer: The Department is committed to improving access to fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) testing.FeNO testing is a recommended core test for any standard community diagnostic centre (CDC). Currently 112 CDC sites in England offer FeNO testing.In November...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordAsthma: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98764More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to expand fractional exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) testing for asthma diagnosis.
Answer: The Department is committed to improving access to fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) testing.FeNO testing is a recommended core test for any standard community diagnostic centre (CDC). Currently 112 CDC sites in England offer FeNO testing.In November...
Answered 14 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordMedical Equipment: Community Diagnostic CentresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people received spirometry testing in community diagnostic centres in 2025.
Answer: As of December 2025, community diagnostic centres (CDCs) are now delivering additional tests and checks on 170 sites across the country.Spirometry with bronchodilator response is a minimum test requirement of all standard and large CDCs. It is therefore e...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical Equipment: Community Diagnostic CentresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98762More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many community diagnostic centres have spirometry equipment.
Answer: As of December 2025, community diagnostic centres (CDCs) are now delivering additional tests and checks on 170 sites across the country.Spirometry with bronchodilator response is a minimum test requirement of all standard and large CDCs. It is therefore e...
Answered 18 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordAlgeria: Politics and GovernmentForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 10 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98761More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what information her Department holds on whether the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia plans to declare independence from Algeria on 14 December 2025.
Answer: We were aware of the intention of the Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia to make a declaration of independence on 14 December, which they have since done. I refer the Hon. Member to the responses I provided in February regarding the situation ...
Answered 19 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Young PeopleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 98436More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support more young people into work.
Answer: This Government is investing in young people’s futures. At the Budget, we announced more than £1.5 billion of investment over the next three years, funding £820 million for the Youth Guarantee to support young people to earn or learn, and an additional £7...
Answered 16 Dec 2025
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