Joe Robertson MP: written questions 2025
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Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing and Access: ReformDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82855More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with the pharmaceutical industry on reforming the NHS branded medicines pricing and access scheme.
Answer: The Government will always prioritise the needs of National Health Service patients and understands that delivering access to medicines is an important part of delivering frontline services. The pharmaceutical sector, and the innovative medicines it produ...
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Overseas VisitorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82539More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to introduce (a) league tables and (b) audits to show which NHS Trusts have the lowest collection rates for charges for overseas visitors.
Answer: The Department sets policy, guidance, and legislation through the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015 and works with NHS England to support the consistent application of these rules through oversight, guidance, and engagement with provider...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Overseas VisitorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82538More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to encourage NHS Trusts to increase (a) the number of bills issued and (b) collections made for treatment charges for overseas visitors.
Answer: The Department sets policy, guidance, and legislation through the NHS (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Regulations 2015 and works with NHS England to support the consistent application of these rules through oversight, guidance, and engagement with provider...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTennis: FacilitiesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82145More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to support the development of affordable and accessible padel courts in (a) Isle of Wight East and (b) in Britain.
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. That is why we have committed another £400 million to transform facilities across the whole of the UK following the Spending Review. We a...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTennis: Isle of Wight EastDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82144More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she plans to take steps to support the provision of indoor or covered tennis and facilities in Isle of Wight East.
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. That is why we have committed another £400 million to transform facilities across the whole of the UK following the Spending Review. We a...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTennis: FacilitiesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82143More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for tennis and padel facilities.
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. That is why we have committed another £400 million to transform facilities across the whole of the UK following the Spending Review. We a...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTennis: FacilitiesDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how much of the £400m UK Government funding for grassroots sports facilities will go to (a) tennis and (b) padel facilities.
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. That is why we have committed another £400 million to transform facilities across the whole of the UK following the Spending Review. We a...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTennis: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled From court to community, published on 17 September 2025, how much funding has been earmarked for (a) tennis, (b) padel and (c) other cour
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure that everyone has access to quality sport and physical activity opportunities. That is why we have committed another £400 million to transform facilities across the whole of the UK following the Spending Review. We a...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77374More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which charities received funding from the supplementary fund to support engagement with seldom heard groups as part of the 10 Year Health Plan consultation; and how much funding each organisation r
Answer: National Voices, Friends, Families and Travellers, Homeless Link, and the Race Equality Foundation, carried out these engagement sessions. The total sum of funding provided was £81,311.00. The following table shows the total funding and the amount of fund...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77373More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what selection criteria were used to identify charities eligible for funding to support community engagement with (a) sex workers, (b) travelling communities, (c) asylum seekers and (d) other seldo
Answer: All members of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance were approached to support the 10-Year Health Plan engagement process to help ensure we reached seldom-heard groups and communities. Charities were selected based on their ability to deliver engagement sess...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77372More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish details of what the deliverables were for the contract awarded to Thinks Insight, Kaleidoscope Health and Care and the Institute for Public Policy Research in relation to the eng
Answer: To develop the 10-Year Health Plan, we had the biggest ever conversation on the future of the National Health Service with over a quarter of a million contributions from the public, staff, and partners including charities and patient groups.Full informati...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to FOI-1626381, what methods of engagement were used by the Department to engage with individuals from (a) the travelling community and (b) the sex worker community as part of the de
Answer: To develop the 10-Year Health Plan, we had the biggest ever conversation on the future of the National Health Service with over a quarter of a million contributions from the public, staff, and partners including charities and patient groups.A detailed 10-...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department used to define which participants in the engagement process for the 10 Year Health Plan were sex workers.
Answer: To develop the 10-Year Health Plan, we had the biggest ever conversation on the future of the National Health Service with over a quarter of a million contributions from the public, staff, and partners including charities and patient groups.A detailed 10-...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) members of the travelling community, (b) sex workers, (c) asylum seekers, (d) victims of modern slavery, (e) people from ethnic minority backgrounds, (f) people experiencing homelessne
Answer: To develop the 10-Year Health Plan, we had the biggest ever conversation on the future of the National Health Service with over a quarter of a million contributions from the public, staff, and partners including charities and patient groups.A detailed 10-...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which organisations are represented in each Workshop in a Box for the development of the 10 Year Health Plan.
Answer: To develop the 10-Year Health Plan, we had the biggest ever conversation on the future of the National Health Service with over a quarter of a million contributions from the public, staff, and partners including charities and patient groups.A detailed 10-...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Hampshire and Isle of WightMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2025 to Question 72865 on Local Government: Hampshire and Isle of Wight, whether his Department plans to make an assessment of the potential
Answer: A Mayoral Strategic Authority over Hampshire and the Solent will play a key leading role on transport planning and delivery for the area, becoming the Local Transport Authority, with responsibility for producing a Local Transport Plan setting out their lo...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordLocal Government: Hampshire and Isle of WightMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77366More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2025 to Question 72865 on Local Government: Hampshire and Isle of Wight, if his Department will publish a breakdown of consultation response
Answer: The government published a response to the Hampshire and the Solent Devolution Consultation on 17 July which is available on gov.uk here. This includes detailed breakdowns by several categories of respondents.
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: ReorganisationMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77365More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether proposals for English devolution will require the re-organisation of (a) NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board and (b) other integrated care boards.
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), alongside NHS England, continue to work closely on any proposals to reorganise integrated care boards (ICBs). In areas where Strategic A...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76480More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) prescribers and (b) pharmacy contractors adhere to guidance on the prescribing of ADHD medication by generic name.
Answer: The Department has made no assessment of the potential impact of brand-specific prescribing on the availability of medication at pharmacies.Decisions about what medicines to prescribe are made by the doctor or healthcare professional responsible for that ...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76479More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of brand-specific prescribing on the availability of medication at pharmacies.
Answer: The Department has made no assessment of the potential impact of brand-specific prescribing on the availability of medication at pharmacies.Decisions about what medicines to prescribe are made by the doctor or healthcare professional responsible for that ...
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordADHD: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76478More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the availability of ADHD medications.
Answer: The Department has worked closely with industry stakeholders, and, following extensive collaborative efforts, previous issues have been resolved and all strengths of lisdexamfetamine, atomoxetine capsules, atomoxetine oral solution, guanfacine prolonged-r...
Answered 26 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Experiments: LicensingHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76477More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of project licences applied for under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were refused between 1 January and 1 September 2025.
Answer: Between 1 January 2021 to 1 January 2025, one application for a project licence under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 has been refused.The Home Office does not routinely collect information on refused project licences as, due to the structure...
Answered 1 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimals in Science Regulation Unit: InspectionsHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76476More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2025 to Question 67240 on Animals in Science Regulation Unit: Inspections, how many inspectors were in post in the Animals in Science Regulation Unit as of July 2025.
Answer: The Home Office is in the final stages of delivering a comprehensive programme of regulatory reform to strengthen the Animals in Science Regulation Unit and ensure robust compliance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASPA). The number of I...
Answered 1 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services: Pay and Working ConditionsDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76169More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions her Department has had with Transport for London on the (a) welfare and (b) remuneration of bus drivers in London.
Answer: Transport in London is devolved to the Mayor and TfL, and any impacts of strike action on London’s transport network are for TfL to manage. Nevertheless, the Government understands this is disappointing for passengers and businesses and we continue to enc...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBus Services and London Underground: PayDepartment for TransportTabled 9 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76168More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with the Mayor of London on the average annual salaries of (a) London Underground drivers and (b) London bus drivers.
Answer: Transport in London is devolved to the Mayor of London and Transport for London. They are solely responsible for operational decisions around salaries for London Underground drivers. Similarly, decisions around salaries for London bus drivers are for Tran...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
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