Luke Evans MP: written questions 2025
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PrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the General Pharmaceutical Council on reducing overprescribing.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not had any discussions with these organisations related to reducing overprescribing.The National Health Service and partner organisations are responding to the challenge of overpres...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with Health Education England on reducing overprescribing.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not had any discussions with these organisations related to reducing overprescribing.The National Health Service and partner organisations are responding to the challenge of overpres...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69977More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the National Institute for Health Research on reducing overprescribing.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not had any discussions with these organisations related to reducing overprescribing.The National Health Service and partner organisations are responding to the challenge of overpres...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69976More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry on reducing overprescribing.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not had any discussions with these organisations related to reducing overprescribing.The National Health Service and partner organisations are responding to the challenge of overpres...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69975More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with NHS Digital on reducing overprescribing.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not had any discussions with these organisations related to reducing overprescribing.The National Health Service and partner organisations are responding to the challenge of overpres...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69974More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Royal College of General Practice on reducing overprescribing.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not had any discussions with these organisations related to reducing overprescribing.The National Health Service and partner organisations are responding to the challenge of overpres...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69401More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Boost to mental health services from thousands of extra staff, published on 27 June 2025, what roles those 6,700 mental health workers have
Answer: NHS England publishes monthly data on the National Health Service Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) workforce in England. This includes data on the NHS mental health workforce employed by NHS provider trusts and integrated care boards. The pres...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCarersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60209 on Carers, whether the cross-Government meeting has a statutory remit.
Answer: Unpaid carers play a vital role and can access support from adult and children’s social care and the National Health Service, as well as through benefits, employers, schools, colleges, and universities. However, we know that too often systems are disjoint...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCarersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60209 on Carers, what the outcomes were of the cross-Government meeting.
Answer: Unpaid carers play a vital role and can access support from adult and children’s social care and the National Health Service, as well as through benefits, employers, schools, colleges, and universities. However, we know that too often systems are disjoint...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCarersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60209 on Carers, on how many occasions there has been a cross-Government meeting since July 2024.
Answer: Unpaid carers play a vital role and can access support from adult and children’s social care and the National Health Service, as well as through benefits, employers, schools, colleges, and universities. However, we know that too often systems are disjoint...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCarersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2025 to Question 60209 on Carers, who attends the cross-Government meetings.
Answer: Unpaid carers play a vital role and can access support from adult and children’s social care and the National Health Service, as well as through benefits, employers, schools, colleges, and universities. However, we know that too often systems are disjoint...
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFractures: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on implementing fracture liaison services in all parts of the country by 2030.
Answer: Fracture Liaison Services are commissioned by integrated care boards, which are well-placed to make decisions according to local need.Our 10-Year Health Plan committed to rolling out Fracture Liaison Services across every part of the country by 2030.
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of NHS roles for newly-trained GPs.
Answer: The Government has invested £82 million in the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS), which has enabled the recruitment of more than 1,900 recently qualified general practitioners (GPs) in England since October. This will increase the number of ava...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the numbers of GP training places in the last five years
Answer: The number of general practice (GP) training places for the past four years has been 4,001. From September 2025, we are increasing GP training places to 4,500 as part of a broader plan to expand training further by 2031. This increase is part of a larger ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69333More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of Designated Prescribing Practitioners for all foundation pharmacists starting their training in 2025.
Answer: Every foundation trainee pharmacist that has graduated against the 2021 standards for the initial education and training of pharmacists will require a Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP), a healthcare professional with independent prescribing rights...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: Disclosure of InformationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68971More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the information sharing duties in the (a) Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill and (b) Crime and Policing Bill on GPs.
Answer: The Government is committed to improving information sharing across services to help safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The Department of Health and Social Care is working closely with the Department for Education and the Home Office on their ...
Answered 5 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68967More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to p.98 of the document entitled Fit for the future: 10 Year Health Plan for England, published on 3 July 2025, if he will list the training requirements identified as (a) irritating
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan set out an action to review the amount of statutory and mandatory training that healthcare professionals are required to undertake. This follows a large national engagement exercise with members of the public and health and care st...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68965More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reducing the share of expenditure on hosp
Answer: The Elective Reform Plan (ERP) sets out the reform and productivity efforts needed to achieve the target that 92% of patients wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment by 2029. The ERP includes several efforts which will see care delivered d...
Answered 24 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNeighbourhood Health CentresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68964More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published 3 July 2025, how the planned multi-neighbourhood providers covering large geographical areas will improve local cont
Answer: The 10 Year Health Plan sets out our vision for a Neighbourhood Health Service that moves care closer to home. The Neighbourhood Health Service will embody our new preventative principle that care should happen as locally as it can, digitally by default, ...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68963More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, what steps he plans to take to ensure that people who need one will be able to get a same-day GP
Answer: Through our 10-Year Health Plan, it will be easier and faster to see a general practitioner (GP). The 8:00am scramble will end, we will train more doctors, and we will guarantee digital consultations within 24 hours. We have delivered the biggest boost to...
Answered 8 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: ReorganisationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future, published on 3 July 2025, if he will publish a list of regulatory bodies he plans to merge or abolish.
Answer: The 10 Year Health Plan refers to bodies that are being abolished or merged. None of these are regulatory bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission, instead they perform other functions.As part of the 10 Year Health Plan, we are cutting the number of or...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: PensionsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the investigation of the pensions regulator into NHSBSA.
Answer: The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is an independent body responsible for the regulation of work-based pension schemes in the UK. TPR conducts its supervisory and investigatory functions independently of the Government. As such, it would not be appropriate for ...
Answered 22 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Business Services Authority: Workplace PensionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the outstanding (a) remedial pension savings statements and (b) remedial service statements to be delivered.
Answer: We have commissioned the independent Chair of the NHS Pension Scheme Pension Board to lead an urgent and targeted review of the NHS Business Service Authority’s (NHS BSA) revised plans for the delivery of the McCloud remedy for NHS Pension Scheme members....
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Business Services Authority: Workplace PensionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the delays in issuing (a) remedial pension savings statements and (b) remedial service statements on patient care.
Answer: The delays related to remediable service statements should have no direct impact on patient care. The members facing immediate financial consequences from their remedy benefit choice are retired members of the NHS Pension Scheme.We understand from regular...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Business Services Authority: Workplace PensionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2025 to Question 28133 NHS Business Services Authority: Workplace Pensions, whether the Pensions regulator has required the NHS Business Services Authority to
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is in regular contact with The Pensions Regulator to report on the delivery of the McCloud remedy. They are following all advice, guidance, and recommendations put forward by the regulator.The NHSBSA has taken ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
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