Steve Barclay MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Prescriptions: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 Jul 2026AnsweredUIN 14821More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer to Question 10108 on 24 June 2026, where data on NHS prescriptions issued to not ordinarily resident overseas visitors is held.
Answer: This data is not routinely collected.
Answered 8 Jul 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10109More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many not ordinarily resident overseas visitors attended at NHS (a) walk in centres and (b) A&E departments in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-2026.
Answer: The data is not available publicly in the format requested.
Answered 23 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPrescriptions: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10108More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS prescriptions were issued to not ordinarily resident overseas visitors in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-2026.
Answer: This data is not held centrally.
Answered 24 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10107More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many not ordinarily resident overseas visitors received NHS primary health care services in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-2026.
Answer: The information requested is not held by the Department. General Practice Appointment Data records the number of appointments delivered to registered patients. It does not capture information on the migration status of those who received care.
Answered 30 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10106More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what (a) number and (b) proportion of chargeable cases of NHS secondary health care services supplied to not ordinarily resident overseas visitors saw full recovery of all charges due in (i) 2024-2
Answer: The Department neither holds nor routinely collects data on the number of overseas visitors receiving National Health Service secondary care, or on the volume or proportion of charges recovered.The Department publishes data on the income identified from c...
Answered 23 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Foreign NationalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10105More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many not ordinarily resident overseas visitors received NHS secondary health care services, regardless of whether a charging expedition applied, in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2025-2026.
Answer: The Department neither holds nor routinely collects data on the number of overseas visitors receiving National Health Service secondary care, or on the volume or proportion of charges recovered.The Department publishes data on the income identified from c...
Answered 23 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordTomographyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 10104More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) CT scanners and (b) MRI scanners were in use in the NHS at (i) 4 July 2024 and (ii) 14 May 2026.
Answer: There is no published data showing the number of computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners in use on 4 July 2024 and 14 May 2026.Data on the number of CT and MRI scanners in use can be found in the Diagnostics Imaging dataset a...
Answered 23 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: ClosuresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Jun 2026AnsweredUIN 6747More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost of extending equivalent business rates support provided to retail and hospitality to community pharmacies; and what assessment he has made of the potential imp
Answer: In the Autumn Budget 2025, the Government made hard choices so that we could protect the National Health Service in England and continue to prioritise reducing waiting times. Budget 2025 confirmed that annual NHS day-to-day spending will increase by £15 b...
Answered 17 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 May 2026AnsweredUIN 82More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 29 April 2026 to Question 82312 on Hospitals: Waiting Lists, what were the monthly figures for October 2025 to April 2026.
Answer: Over 85% of removals from the Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting list are recorded as completed pathways. This includes patients starting their first definitive treatment, starting a period of active monitoring, a clinical decision not to treat, or a pat...
Answered 15 Jun 2026
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Written QuestionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 127082More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to answer question 82312, tabled on 15 October 2025.
Answer: I refer the Rt Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 29 April 2026 to Question 82312.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS England: RedundancyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 124577More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS England staff have accepted voluntary redundancy since 13 March 2025; and what the total financial cost of those voluntary redundancies was to the public purse.
Answer: It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Answered 29 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: VacanciesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 124576More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS jobs in which Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is the primary function have been advertised in the most recent 12-month period for which data are available.
Answer: This data is not centrally held.
Answered 28 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 124575More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the expected overall value of additional payments to be made to GPs from seeking advice and guidance from hospital consultants for at least 25 per cent of certain referrals in each of the n
Answer: The Neighbourhood Health Framework sets out an ambition to improve how patients are directed to the most appropriate care, including through better use of Advice and Guidance (A&G) between general practices (GPs) and specialist services. There is no t...
Answered 16 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS England: VacanciesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 124574More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many jobs at NHS England have been advertised since 13 March 2025.
Answer: A total of 1,214 vacancies advertised - 637 were medical vacancies and 577 non-medical vacancies advertised.
Answered 27 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordCommunity Diagnostic CentresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 124573More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS sites offering diagnostics have seen at least one modality removed in the last 12 months.
Answer: The Department does not hold official data on how many National Health Service sites offering diagnostics have seen at least one modality removed in the 12 months.
Answered 24 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health Services: CambridgeshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122091More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the Government’s ten year plan ‘Fit for the Future’ in which he states the Government ‘s intention to move health services from hospitals to the community, if he will putlish a list of t
Answer: The current community patient services offered at both the North Cambridgeshire site in Wisbech and the Doddington hospital site in Fenland, and the organisations delivering those services, are listed in the attached tables.
Answered 16 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordCommunity Health Services: WisbechDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 122090More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to the Government’s ten year plan ‘Fit for the Future’ in which he states the Government’s intention to move health services from hospitals to the community, if he will publish a list of th
Answer: The current community patient services offered at both the North Cambridgeshire site in Wisbech and the Doddington hospital site in Fenland, and the organisations delivering those services, are listed in the attached tables.
Answered 16 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordOesophageal Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 114828More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking to help raise public and clinical awareness of the BEST4 Screening trial and to support eligible patients to participate in capsule sponge testing for early dete
Answer: The Department funds research and research infrastructure through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR is funding the BEST4 trial with over £3 million funding contributed through the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Progra...
Answered 5 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordJean Bishop Integrated Care CentreDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 110768More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the establishment of the Jean Bishop Centre in Hull in 2018, whether his Department has conducted a cost–benefit analysis of a more integrated model of service for elderly patient
Answer: Our 10-Year Health Plan sets out our vision for a Neighbourhood Health Service, delivering truly integrated, proactive, and personalised care closer to where people live and work. There are substantial benefits to this more integrated approach to health a...
Answered 25 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordHospicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 107368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has been made of the potential implications for his polices of the change in the number of available hospice beds in England over the last 12 months.
Answer: No formal assessment has been made of the potential implications for the Department’s policies of the change in the number of available hospice beds in England over the last 12 months.However, we do recognise the difficult and challenging financial situat...
Answered 3 Feb 2026
Original Parliament recordPreventive Medicine: ExpenditureDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 106982More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of non-government spending by (a) individuals, (b) companies and (c) charities on preventative health services in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Answer: Non-Government spending on preventative health care is estimated in the UK Health Accounts published by the Office for National Statistics, on a United Kingdom basis. The following table shows the preventive healthcare spending by method of financing for ...
Answered 2 Mar 2026
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
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