Rebecca Paul MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Health Services: HMP/YOI DownviewDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 63907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the average cost of healthcare was for (a) male prisoners and (b) female prisoners in HMP Downview in the last 12 months.
Answer: HMP Downview is a women’s prison. The average cost of healthcare per female prisoner at HMP Downview for 2024/25 was £11,765.
Answered 28 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordSexual and Reproductive Health: ReigateDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve the capacity of sexual health (a) drop in clinics and (b) services in Reigate constituency.
Answer: Local authorities in England, including East Sussex County Council which covers Reigate, are funded through a ring-fenced Public Health Grant to commission comprehensive, open access sexual health services. Therefore, it is the responsibility of local aut...
Answered 23 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGP SurgeriesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help support GP practices to acquire larger premises.
Answer: General practice (GP) contractors are responsible for securing the premises from which to deliver their contracted services. Should practice premises be deemed too small, GPs may make an application to integrated care boards for capital funding grants for...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28167More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's response to the consultation on hub and spoke dispensing, last updated on 13 May 2024, what his planned timetable is for introducing the legislative amendments ou
Answer: The policy proposals, consultation, and response were published under the previous administration. Following the General Election, the Government has reviewed the proposals. The Department is working towards introducing legislation to enable hub and spoke...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26255More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7682 on Cancer: Medical Treatments, when he plans to publish the updated NHS Commercial Framework for New Medicines.
Answer: NHS England published its updated Commercial Framework for New Medicines on 29 January 2025. The publication can be found here: NHS England » NHS commercial framework for new medicines
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDefibrillators: Railway StationsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to ensure that all defibrillators installed at train stations are (a) registered and (b) visible on The Circuit national defibrillator network website.
Answer: The Government is committed to improving access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public spaces and reducing inequalities in access to these life saving devices. Following the depletion of the existing AED fund, launched in in September 2023,...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDefibrillators: Railway StationsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23089More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to help ensure that emergency services are provided with up to date information on the (a) location and (b) status of defibrillators installed at train stations.
Answer: The Government is committed to improving access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public spaces and reducing inequalities in access to these life saving devices. Following the depletion of the existing AED fund, launched in in September 2023,...
Answered 15 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 21893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any funding previously allocated to the Dental Recovery Plan has been withdrawn.
Answer: We are currently reviewing the Dental Recovery Plan that was published on 7 February 2024 and the policies that can be taken forward effectively and within National Health Service budgets. It is clear the plan did not go far enough and so we are also work...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTrastuzumab DeruxtecanDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20508More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to encourage further negotiation between (a) NICE, (b) Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited and (c) AstraZeneca on the supply of Enhertu.
Answer: Decisions on whether new medicines should be routinely funded by the National Health Service in England are made on the basis of recommendations from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), following an evaluation of a treatment’s co...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16371More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will introduce regulations to ensure that a pharmacist is always present in an open pharmacy to facilitate the sale of pharmacy medicines,
Answer: Pharmacy regulations already require that a registered pharmacy business can only operate and be open to the public, to sell or supply prescription only medicines or pharmacy medicines, when a responsible pharmacist, the pharmacist legally responsible for...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHospicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what short-term steps his Department is taking to help support hospices to maintain levels of service; and whether his Department is taking long-term steps to reform funding for hospices.
Answer: Most hospices are charitable, independent organisations which receive some statutory funding from the National Health Service. The amount of funding each charitable hospice receives varies both within and between integrated care board (ICB) areas. This wi...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10622More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure all women across England with ovarian cancer get access to the best possible treatment.
Answer: NHS England runs the Help Us Help You campaigns to raise public awareness, increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, and address barriers to acting on them to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. Previous ph...
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to launch a campaign to raise public awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer.
Answer: NHS England runs the Help Us Help You campaigns to raise public awareness, increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, and address barriers to acting on them to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. Previous ph...
Answered 25 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: DeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9375More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department's Notification of Child Death Form asks about the gender with which the child identified at the time of their death in cases where the child was over 10; and whether
Answer: The Notification of Child Death Form, part of the National Child Mortality Database, continues to capture the sex of the child for anyone under the age of 18 years old, in line with sex being a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.Although...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7682More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that the new NHS Commercial Framework allows for increased use of indication-specific pricing agreements to support patient access to future cancer innovations.
Answer: As part of the 2024 Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing, Access and Growth, NHS England committed to undertake two consultations on amendments to the NHS Commercial Framework for New Medicines. The first of these launched on 31 July 2024 for ei...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordInflammatory Bowel Disease: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 7 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7679More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish a strategy for ensuring people living with (a) Crohn’s disease and (b) other forms of inflammatory bowel disease are able to access treatment in a timely manner.
Answer: NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time Programme on gastroenterology aims to reduce variations in care, increase early diagnosis and proactive management of Crohn’s disease and colitis, and increase access to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) specialist...
Answered 15 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Fees and ChargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7244More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to review the list of conditions for exemption from prescription charges; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including cystic fibrosis on that list.
Answer: There are no current plans to review the list of medical conditions that entitle someone to apply for a medical exemption certificate. Approximately 89% of prescription items are dispensed free of charge in the community in England, and there is a wide ra...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: ShortagesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5817More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Serious Shortage Protocols in place for?Creon?10,000 and 25,000 capsules limiting prescriptions to one months’ supply; and what steps he is t
Answer: The Department has been working with suppliers to address current supply issues with pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT), including Creon, to help ensure patients, including children with cystic fibrosis, have access to this medicine. The supply ...
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Greater LondonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to improve the Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust Estate; and whether he plans to build a new Specialist and Emergency Care hospital in Sutton.
Answer: We recognise the need for investment in National Health Service estates across the country, including at Epsom and St. Helier. We will provide the investment and reform needed to get patients the care they deserve.As my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of St...
Answered 5 Aug 2024
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