Stuart Andrew MP: written questions 2025
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Nurses: EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85142More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of (a) EU-derived clinical hour requirements for nurse education and (b) the regulatory framework for nurse education (i) in general and
Answer: To be able to legally work as a nurse in the United Kingdom, individuals must be fully registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The NMC sets the standards that must be met by domestic and international nurses and midwives wishing to be add...
Answered 19 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85141More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking with the Department for Education to support the delivery of the NHS workforce plan.
Answer: The Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan which will ensure the National Health Service has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to care for patients, when they need it.We have engaged with a range of partne...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85140More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what engagement his Department has had with (a) universities and (b) higher education providers in developing the new NHS workforce plan.
Answer: The Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan which will ensure the National Health Service has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to care for patients, when they need it.We have engaged with a range of partne...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth: EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on the NHS workforce of financial pressures faced by higher education institutions providing healthcare education.
Answer: No assessment has been made.We work closely with the Department for Education on a wide range of matters, including healthcare education and training funding. Matters relating to the income of universities are the responsibility of the Department for Educ...
Answered 28 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordLearning Disability: NursesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Learning Disability Nursing is adequately supported within the new NHS workforce plan.
Answer: The Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan which will ensure the National Health Service has the right people in the right places, with the right skills to care for patients, when they need it. We are working through how the plan w...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the planned training intakes are for (a) medical school places, (b) GP trainee places, (c) nurses, (d) nursing associates, (e) midwives, (f) pharmacists and (g) dentists in (i) 2025, (ii) 2026
Answer: In England, the Office for Students (OfS) sets the maximum fundable limit for medical school and dental school places. For the 2025/26 academic year, the OfS has published its intake target at 8,126 for medical school places and 809 for dental school plac...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Professions: Education and TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan fact sheet, published on 30 June 2023, whether it is his policy to provide £2.4 billion funding for additional education and training places for h
Answer: The Government has been clear that the 2023 Long Term Workforce Plan was undeliverable and based on outdated models of care. We have committed to publishing the 10 Year Workforce Plan in spring 2026, which will represent a departure from previous plans an...
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: DisabilityTreasuryTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84181More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to maintain levels of VAT relief available on vehicles purchased by disabled people through the Motability scheme.
Answer: The Government keeps all taxes under review, and the Chancellor makes decisions on tax policy at fiscal events in the context of the overall public finances.
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84178More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 76564 on Surgery: Waiting Lists, whether NHS England holds information on which ICBs use minimum waiting times for elective care.
Answer: Following consultation, NHS England publishes the NHS Standard Contract annually for use by commissioners in contracting for National Health Service-funded healthcare services. The Department is involved in the consultation process on the Standard Contrac...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 84177More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2025 to Question 76564 on Surgery: Waiting Lists, what discussions he had with NHS England on (a) the introduction of NHS standard contract technical guidance f
Answer: Following consultation, NHS England publishes the NHS Standard Contract annually for use by commissioners in contracting for National Health Service-funded healthcare services. The Department is involved in the consultation process on the Standard Contrac...
Answered 3 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordDivers: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83766More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on (a) diver safety and (b) emergency access for people in the West Midlands of the proposed closure of the Midland Dive Chamber in R
Answer: NHS England has no immediate plans to decommission the hyperbaric oxygen therapy services in the Midlands. The responsibility for the delivery, implementation, and funding decisions for services ultimately rests with the appropriate National Health Servic...
Answered 12 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgery: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82954More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many removals from elective waiting lists there have been as a result of data validation exercises in 2025-26; and what the cost to his Department has been of those exercises.
Answer: Validation is a well-established component for the effective management of waiting lists, ensuring that the patients who are on the list should still be there. While we have significantly reduced the size of the total elective waiting list by over 206,000...
Answered 15 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordNHS: ProductivityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78132More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Patients treated more quickly as NHS productivity rises over year, published on 22 September 2025, what estimate he has made of the monetar
Answer: National Health Service productivity is measured by comparing the amount of healthcare activity delivered, otherwise known as outputs, against the resources used, otherwise known as inputs, over time. To estimate the growth in costs, data is drawn from fi...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: ProductivityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78131More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Patients treated more quickly as NHS productivity rises over year, published on 22 September 2025, whether NHS pay awards were included in
Answer: National Health Service productivity is measured by comparing the amount of healthcare activity delivered, otherwise known as outputs, against the resources used, otherwise known as inputs, over time. To estimate the growth in costs, data is drawn from fi...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: ProductivityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Patients treated more quickly as NHS productivity rises over year, published on 22 September 2025, how the growth in costs used to measure
Answer: National Health Service productivity is measured by comparing the amount of healthcare activity delivered, otherwise known as outputs, against the resources used, otherwise known as inputs, over time. To estimate the growth in costs, data is drawn from fi...
Answered 21 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: ValuationTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78129More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential impact of district valuer assessments on the opening of new GP surgeries.
Answer: The Chancellor has regular conversations with the Health Secretary on range of issues. The Spending Review 2025 announced the largest ever health capital budget, with a £2.3 billion real terms increase in capital spending over the SR period. The £102 mill...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: ValuationTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78128More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting times were for district valuer assessments of GP premises proposals in the most recent 12-month period for which data are available.
Answer: For context, the Valuation Office Agency’s (VOA) District Valuer Services (DVS) provide property advice to NHS bodies in England, including Current Market Rent (CMR) assessments for GP practice premises, under the NHS (General Medical Services - Premises ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: ValuationTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78127More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of new general practice premises projects have appealed the valuation by the district valuer service; and how many of those appeals were upheld.
Answer: For context, the Valuation Office Agency’s (VOA) District Valuer Services (DVS) provide property advice to NHS bodies in England, including Current Market Rent (CMR) assessments for GP practice premises, under the NHS (General Medical Services - Premises ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: ValuationTreasuryTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78126More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many new general practice premises projects are awaiting a valuation by the district valuer; and what the average time taken is to complete such valuations.
Answer: For context, the Valuation Office Agency’s (VOA) District Valuer Services (DVS) provide property advice to NHS bodies in England, including Current Market Rent (CMR) assessments for GP practice premises, under the NHS (General Medical Services - Premises ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTofersenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78125More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish data on the number of patients receiving Tofersen through NHS services.
Answer: I am aware that the marketing authorisation holder has established an early access programme (EAP) through which some NHS patients are currently accessing tofersen. This is a company-led EAP and therefore the Department nor NHS England centrally hold pros...
Answered 6 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordTofersenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78124More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has had with the Motor Neurone Disease Association on patient access to Tofersen.
Answer: Department officials recently met with the Motor Neurone Disease Association to discuss a range of issues, including patient access to tofersen.
Answered 6 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordTofersenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78123More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of regional variations in patient access to Tofersen.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new medicines represent a clinically and cost-effectiv...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTofersenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78122More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS trusts are providing Tofersen through the Early Access to Medicines Scheme.
Answer: The Early Access to Medicines Scheme (EAMS) is a programme led by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) which aims to give patients with life threatening or seriously debilitating conditions early access to medicines that show ear...
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordTofersenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78121More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure equitable access to Tofersen for motor neurone disease patients.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based recommendations for the National Health Service on whether new medicines represent a clinically and cost-effectiv...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPoultry: BiodiversityDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 78120More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of reductions in poultry biodiversity on the food chain.
Answer: The UK has a highly resilient poultry meat supply chain which has coped well in responding to the unprecedented challenges it has faced in the recent years. Conservation of animal genetic resources including poultry breeds contributes to biodiversity. The...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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