Steve Barclay MP: written questions 2025
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Written questions
HorticultureDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 100345More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans the Government has to introduce a replacement for the UK Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme to ensure continued investment in UK horticulture and maintain competitiveness with E
Answer: Future support for the horticulture sector is being considered alongside Defra’s work to simplify and rationalise agricultural grant funding, ensuring that grants deliver the most benefit for food security and taxpayer value. Our new Farming and Food Part...
Answered 7 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordTransport: FinanceDepartment for TransportTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97122More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will provide a list of all transport schemes given approval to progress following the Spending Review which had a lower benefit cost ratio score than the Ely Area Rail Capacity Enhancement.
Answer: The Ely Area Capacity Enhancement (EACE) scheme was paused by the previous government in 2021, and no further funding was allocated to develop, update, or progress the EACE business case. As a result, there has been no ongoing work from which to produce a...
Answered 11 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordLung Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have received checks under the NHS Targeted Lung Health Check and NHS Lung Cancer Screening Programme per month in each of the last three years.
Answer: The National Health Service is currently rolling out the National Lung Cancer Screening Programme to people with a history of smoking. The following table shows the number of participants who attended an appointment through the NHS Lung Cancer Screening P...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is being done to improve the regulatory approval process for personalised medicines to treat cancer.
Answer: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has completed a public consultation on its draft guideline on individualised mRNA cancer immunotherapies, a new type of personalised cancer treatment. These technologies use cutting-edge scien...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic CentresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many community diagnostic centres were open at the end of (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24, (c) 2024-25, and are expected to be at the end of (d) 2025-26.
Answer: The following table sets out the number of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) which had started delivering activity, namely having gone live, and which were fully operational, delivering all modalities proposed in their approved business cases, from perm...
Answered 8 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordMedical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what has his department identified as the drivers of the recent trend in specialised commissioning high cost devices as noted in the NHS England Financial performance update of 22 September 2025.
Answer: The most significant driver of the growth in the expenditure noted in the financial update is an increased volume in clinical activity and the use of implantable devices to treat patients. This has been driven by the overall growth in elective activity as...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the annual NHS total workforce growth (a) was annually from 2022/23 onwards and (b) is projected to be over the next three years.
Answer: NHS England publishes monthly Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff employed by hospital trusts and integrated care boards but excludes staff working for other providers such as in primary care...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Conditions of EmploymentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90689More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the costs of the Employment Rights Bill to the NHS.
Answer: No estimate of costs has been made of the Employment Rights Bill to the National Health Service. NHS terms and conditions of service currently provide employees with entitlements above the statutory minimum requirements, reflecting the sector’s commitment...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care SystemsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90688More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the projected slippage is against efficiency plans across integrated care systems in the current financial year.
Answer: For 2025/26, there is an efficiency and savings target of approximately £11,076 million across all integrated care systems. At month six, the projected delivery for the year remains all but on track against the total efficiency and savings target, with a ...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90687More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his NHS Pay Review Body remit letter: 2026 to 2027, what the expected annual financial impact is of changes to the implementation of the NHS Job Evaluation Scheme.
Answer: This specific assessment has not been made. No recent changes have been made to the Job Evaluation Scheme (JES) itself. Some job profiles have been updated to be assessed against locally.Following a national review by the Job Evaluation Group, the updated...
Answered 1 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Public ExpenditureDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 90686More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what current unbudgeted pressures his Department is aware of within its spending plans.
Answer: The 2025 Spending Review was published on 11 June by HM Treasury and sets out departmental budgets for day‑to‑day spending until 2028/29, and until 2029/30 for capital investment. The 2025 Spending Review is available at the following link: https://www.go...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNational Institute for Health and Care Excellence: CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82314More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of increasing the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence cost-effectiveness threshold by 25%.
Answer: The pharmaceutical sector and the innovative medicines it produces are critical to our national interest, helping people access life changing treatments, reducing pressure on the health service over the longer-term, and ensuring we have a National Health ...
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordAccident and Emergency Departments: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82313More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have waited longer than 24 hours for treatment in A&E in the last 12 months.
Answer: NHS England publishes monthly data on accident and emergency (A&E) performance. This includes information on those A&E attendances that are 12 hours or longer for type 1 and 2 A&E providers. The data is available at the following link:https://...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82312More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been removed from the waiting lists for treatment for any other reason than the treatment had been completed, by month since July 2024.
Answer: The information requested is shown in the following table:Number of cases per month, from July 2024 to September 2025, where patients were removed from the Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting list for reasons other than treatment:YearMonthNumber of cases2...
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS England: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82311More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) headcount and (b) FTE staff were employed by NHS England on (a) 4 July 2024 and (b) 14 October 2025.
Answer: As of June 2024, the headcount for NHS England was 15,803, and the full-time equivalent staff employed was 14,327.6. These figures are published and available at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dhsc-workforce-management-inform...
Answered 24 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81843More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 16483 on Department of Health and Social Care: Staff, what the (a) headcount and (b) FTE number of officials working in his Department was in
Answer: This data is published monthly at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dhsc-workforce-management-information#2025
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSustainable Farming IncentiveDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81842More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to re-open the Sustainable Farming Incentive.
Answer: We are working closely with farmers and industry stakeholders to design a future Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer that fairly and responsibly directs funding. Further details about the reformed SFI offer will be announced in due course.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCereals: ProfitsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81841More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of reduction in yields of main cereal crops in 2025 on farm profitability.
Answer: Cereals are internationally traded commodities, and their supply chains are dynamic and responsive to global market developments. The Government has closely monitored the 2025 harvest and continues to engage regularly with industry stakeholders to assess...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: ReviewsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when her Department plans to publish the Farming Profitability Review.
Answer: Baroness Batters will present her report to the Defra Secretary of State at the end of October for consideration.
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 14 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 81839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish a list of all the instances between 4 July 2024 and 14 October 2025 when 100 or more migrants have crossed the Channel in a single small boat, including (a) the date of the crossin
Answer: There have been 5 occasions over this period where over 100 migrants have crossed the Channel in a single small boat. These are listed below.DateNumber of persons onboard13/08/202510619/09/202510219/09/202510627/09/202512508/10/2025101 Information about t...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning Permission: EnforcementMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70436More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of enforcement powers available to local authorities in respect of developers who fail to comply with planning conditions
Answer: Guidance on local planning authorities’ enforcement powers can be found in the relevant planning practice guidance on gov.uk here. Enforcement is at the discretion of local planning authorities and it is for them to decide how and when they use their powe...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordRoads: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 70435More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will issue guidance on the steps steps a local authority can take to compel a developer to comply with the conditions of their original planning consent relatin
Answer: Guidance on local planning authorities’ enforcement powers can be found in the relevant planning practice guidance on gov.uk here. Enforcement is at the discretion of local planning authorities and it is for them to decide how and when they use their powe...
Answered 15 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFarms: Nature ConservationDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Spring Statement 2025, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the funding of the Farming and Countryside Programme on the net number of
Answer: We are increasing the budget for sustainable farming and are investing more than £2.7 billion a year in farming and nature recovery. Funding for the Environmental Land Management Schemes paid to farmers will increase by 150% from £800 million in 2023/24 t...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what annual percentage increases in healthcare demand is the 10 Year Heath Plan based.
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan is not based on a specific percentage growth rate in demand for health care. Instead, backed by an additional £29 billion, the plan sets out how the health system will seize the opportunities provided by new technology, medicines, ...
Answered 12 Aug 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: FinanceHome OfficeTabled 16 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 68393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2025 to Question 33002 on Asylum: Finance, how many top-up payments have been made to Asylum Support Enablement Cards since 4 July 2024, broken down by week.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the Answer he received on 3 March 2025 to UIN 33002.
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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