Rachael Maskell MP: written questions 2026
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Independent Commission into Adult Social CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made by the Casey Review into social care.
Answer: In March 2026, Baroness Casey highlighted several issues she had identified within the adult social care system and called for immediate action in three key areas, safeguarding, dementia, and motor neurone disease. The Government is now working at pace to...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services Safety Investigations BodyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration has he made of the potential merits of maintaining HSSIB.
Answer: The Health Bill includes clauses to strengthen patient safety by transferring the Health Services Safety Investigations Body’s investigation functions into the Care Quality Commission.This follows the review of patient safety across the health and care la...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHealthwatchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9631More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of maintaining Healthwatch alongside increased levels of lived experience inclusion in commissioning processes.
Answer: The Government recognises the valuable role Healthwatch has played in supporting patient and public involvement. However, Dr Penny Dash’s independent review of the patient safety landscape found the current system is too fragmented and does not always tur...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPupils: Minority Groups and TravellersDepartment for EducationTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to implement the recommendation of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 2024 to help tackle attainment gaps and improve education attainment of children belon
Answer: The ‘Every Child Achieving and Thriving’ white paper establishes our plan to improve outcomes for all children and tackle unacceptable disparities in attainment. Our ambition is that all children achieve higher standards and the disadvantage gap is halved...
Answered 23 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDental Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9629More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time was to access Community Dental Services for (a) children (b) adults under the Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust area in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: Data on waiting times for National Health Service dental treatment is not held centrally so it is not possible to provide information for the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board area.Community Dental Services provide care to patients who may ...
Answered 19 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDental Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital admissions there were for dental treatment for (a) children (b) adults at York Teaching Hospital in each of the last 5 years.
Answer: The following table shows the number of Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs) where the main operative procedure was a dental procedure, by patient age group in each year from 2021/22 to 2025/26 in the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation T...
Answered 29 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDental Services: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9627More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve children's access to dental care in York Central constituency.
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan for England confirms that child dental health is a priority. The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to i...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDental Services: Yorkshire and the HumberDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9626More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for a dental appointment was in the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB area in each of the last ten years.
Answer: Data on waiting times for National Health Service dental treatment is not held centrally so it is not possible to provide information for the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board area.Patients in England are not registered with a NHS dental pr...
Answered 18 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordObesity: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9625More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the workforce required to support the safe delivery of NHS weight loss medication services, including the management of nutritional complications.
Answer: NHS England undertook workforce modelling to support the implementation of tirzepatide, brand name Mounjaro, for obesity management as part of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s Funding Variation planning process.The modelling conside...
Answered 1 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordObesity: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9624More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS clinical pathways for patients prescribed weight loss medications require access to dietary and nutritional support, including referral to dietetic services.
Answer: Weight loss medicines were initially only available through National Health Service specialist weight management services. In specialist services, patients receive wraparound care from a multidisciplinary team providing nutritional, psychological, and med...
Answered 1 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 9623More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether current workforce planning assumptions for prevention and long term condition management services specify roles for (a) individual allied health professions and (b) dietitians; and whether
Answer: The forthcoming 10 Year Workforce Plan will set out how the Government will ensure the National Health Service workforce is equipped to deliver the ambitions set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, including the shift towards prevention and from hospitals to ...
Answered 19 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: HarassmentDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 7444More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if the Office for Students will consider requiring public data reporting from higher education institutions to support enforcement of E6.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS) operates independently of the government, and is responsible for regulating higher education (HE) providers in England, including compliance with the Harassment and Sexual Misconduct registration condition E6.The department d...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: HarassmentDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 7443More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Office for Students has taken enforcement action or opened up investigations into any higher education institutions relating to the E6 regulation since it came into force.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS) operates independently of the government, and is responsible for regulating higher education (HE) providers in England, including compliance with the Harassment and Sexual Misconduct registration condition E6.The department d...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: HarassmentDepartment for EducationTabled 8 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 7442More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many notifications has the Office for Students received relating to harassment and sexual misconduct since Condition E6 came into effect; what proportion of the total number of notifications this is; and wh
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS) operates independently of the government, and is responsible for regulating higher education (HE) providers in England, including compliance with the Harassment and Sexual Misconduct registration condition E6.The department d...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordOffice for Students: RegulationDepartment for EducationTabled 5 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 7199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the evidential basis used by the Office for Students when deciding when to use its regulatory powers.
Answer: The Office for Students (OfS) is an independent regulator with autonomy to decide how and when to use its regulatory powers, including the gathering and use of evidence. The department does not therefore hold information on the evidential basis used by th...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordOverseas Students: GazaHome OfficeTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will confirm whether the expediting of Visas and support for exiting Gaza for Chevening and full scholarship offer holders for Gazan students will be extended to the next academic year.
Answer: The Government is continuing to keep this policy, and its impacts, under review.
Answered 3 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordClimate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4486More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to support (a) wetland restoration, (b) tree planting and (c) other nature-based solutions to mitigate (i) flood and (ii) heat risks.
Answer: Nature-based solutions offer sustainable approaches to environmental challenges, delivering benefits for nature, communities, water security, water quality, and flood resilience, including measures such as tree planting and wetland restoration. The Enviro...
Answered 4 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordWater Supply: Climate ChangeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4252More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) water supply systems and (b) other critical infrastructure are resilient to projected climate impacts.
Answer: In the Water White Paper, the Government set out our commitment to developing statutory resilience standards, which will be brought forward through the Clean Water Bill announced in the King’s Speech. These standards will require companies to undertake lo...
Answered 4 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: WeatherDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the resilience of the NHS to (a) heatwaves, (b) flooding and (c) other climate-related risks.
Answer: Climate change poses a growing risk to population health and to the National Health Service’s ability to deliver services, including through heatwaves, flooding, and other adverse weather events. Following the publication of the 2025 Health and Climate Ad...
Answered 5 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHousing: EnergyDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 29 May 2026AnsweredUIN 4250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what support is being provided to local authorities to retrofit existing housing stock to improve climate resilience, in the context of the Climate Change Committee’s Well Adapted UK report.
Answer: For low income and social households, the Warm Homes: Local Grant and Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund provides funding to support the installation of technologies including heat pumps alongside solar PV, batteries and insulation. From 2027/2028 we plan to...
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPride in Place ProgrammeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2080More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria will be used to allocate future Pride in Place grants; and if he will use the lower tier indices of deprivation to provide support to communities.
Answer: Our £5.8 billion Pride in Place programme is supporting 284 communities across the UK with up to £20 million in funding to address the local issues that matter most to them. The neighbourhoods have been selected using a robust methodology which identified...
Answered 27 May 2026
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care BoardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to measure the productivity of integrated care boards.
Answer: Information on the approach taken to the assessment of integrated care boards is available at the following links:https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/annual-assessment-of-integrated-care-boards-2025-26-supporting-guidance/https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhs-o...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Private SectorDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the proportion of elective surgery undertaken in the independent sector; and how this compares in numerical terms and as a percentage with each of the last 5 years.
Answer: The following table shows information relating to elective episodes with procedures, which includes elective surgery alongside other procedures which may be performed elsewhere:Operational YearEpisodes with a procedure in independent sector providersEpiso...
Answered 1 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people on NHS waiting lists have been removed (a) in total, (b) because they were a duplicate appointment, (c) because the person had deceased or (d) for any other reason other than receiv
Answer: NHS England publishes monthly Referral to Treatment (RTT) data, including information on completed pathways and overall changes to the waiting list.In 2025/26, 21.8 million pathways were removed from the waiting list. Of these, 18.6 million were completed...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordIndependent Commission into Adult Social CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 May 2026AnsweredUIN 2076More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made on the Casey Review of Social Care, and when does he expect the publication of the stage 1 report on this.
Answer: The Independent Commission into Adult Social Care (“the Commission”) is making good progress. In March, Baroness Casey highlighted several issues she had identified within the adult social care system and called for immediate action in three key areas: sa...
Answered 26 May 2026
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