Kevin McKenna MP: written questions
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Written questions
Patients: TravelDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58469More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what safeguards his Department has put in place to protect patients being transported to hospital by private patient transport companies on behalf of local NHS integrated care boards.
Answer: Health and social care service providers that carry out a regulated activity in England must be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Providers of ambulance and other transport services usually need to register for the regulated activity ‘Tra...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55821More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the the approval process of (a) high tariff drugs (b) the use of Obinutuzumab in patients with lupus who have experienced severe infusion reactions with rituximab.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body that makes recommendations on whether new licensed medicines, including high cost medicines, should be routinely funded by the National Health Service in England, based o...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 55820More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the timely approval of high-tariff drugs for use in (a) specialised commissioning and (b) repurposed treatments.
Answer: To market a medicine in the United Kingdom, a company must secure a marketing authorisation or ‘licence’ from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. Newly-licensed medicines, including licence extensions for existing medicines, are appra...
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: TransportDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48294More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the Integrated National Transport Strategy.
Answer: Ministers and senior officials from the Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Transport have a range of discussions about policy issues of interest to both Departments. We expect to work closely together to ensure that health can be appr...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTransport: HealthDepartment for TransportTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including improving health as a key theme in the Integrated National Transport Strategy.
Answer: The Integrated National Transport Strategy will set the long-term vision for transport in England, focusing on how transport should be designed, built and operated to better serve the people who use it. The strategy’s scope is still being determined, but ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisonsMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31743More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to help improve transitions between closed and open prisons; and if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of (a) resources allocated to the open estate, (b) the (
Answer: There are 13 Category D (or “open”) prisons in the adult male prison estate, as well as two open units linked to closed establishments. There are two open prisons in the women’s estate. HM Prison & Probation Service has developed and implemented a ‘Na...
Answered 24 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFractures: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25923More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of delivering universal fracture liaison services by 2030 on (a) patients and (b) the NHS; and what the annual cost to the public purse wil
Answer: The Government and NHS England support the clinical case for services which help to prevent fragility fractures and support the patients who sustain them. According to the Fracture Liaison Service Database 2022, at least 60 Trusts in England had access to...
Answered 12 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 902077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to shift care from hospitals into the community.
Answer: It is vital to move services from hospital to community. The Chancellor made funding available for 380,000 more talking therapies for patients and put in place a £26 million capital investment scheme for mental health crisis centres. A lot of work has bee...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Based ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21110More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce violence against women and girls; what funding is available to (a) local authorities and (b) policing agencies to reduce that violence; and what steps she is ta
Answer: This Government has set out the unprecedented ambition to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) within a decade and will treat it as the national emergency that it is. Achieving this requires a transformative approach to the way we work together a...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHousing: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18825More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to improve fire safety in residential buildings; and what support she has made available for (a) leaseholders and (b) building owners that do
Answer: The new building safety regime puts in place more stringent oversight for the safety of high-rise residential buildings, with clearer accountability backed by stronger enforcement and sanctions to deter and rectify non-compliance.The new regulatory requir...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMedical Equipment: InnovationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the £10 million allocated to the MHRA in March 2023, what progress has been made on accelerating routes for bringing innovative medical products developed onto the market.
Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) greatly welcomed the £10 million of funding announced by HM Treasury in March 2023, which has enabled the MHRA to make progress on the Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway (ILAP).The ILAP h...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
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