Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Mental Health Services: South EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps has he taken to help reduce waiting times for mental health treatment in the South East.
Answer: Waiting times for those referred to mental health services are too high all across England, including in the South East.Too many people with mental health issues are not getting the support or care they need, which is why we will fix the broken system to ...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHospices: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 60593More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase funding for hospice care.
Answer: We are supporting the hospice sector with a £100 million capital funding boost for adult and children’s hospices in England to ensure they have the best physical environment for care. The funding will help hospices to provide the best end of life care to ...
Answered 24 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: PensionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the affordability of NHS dental treatment for pensioners not in receipt of Pension Credit.
Answer: There are a range of exemptions to National Health Service dental patient charges for those who need the most financial support. 48.6% of courses of dental treatment were delivered to adults and children who were exempt from charges in 2023/24. Eligibilit...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: PensionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59806More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of financial support available to pensioners for dental treatment.
Answer: There are a range of exemptions to National Health Service dental patient charges for those who need the most financial support. 48.6% of courses of dental treatment were delivered to adults and children who were exempt from charges in 2023/24. Eligibilit...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: BerkshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to improve access to dental appointments in (a) Slough constituency and (b) Berkshire.
Answer: The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to areas that need them most. To rebuild dentist...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordIVF: EligibilityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59758More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions he has had with ICBs on removing the need for self-funded artificial insemination before accessing NHS-funded IVF.
Answer: We expect integrated care boards to commission fertility services in line with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines. NICE is currently reviewing the fertility guidelines and will consider whether the current recommendations ...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: SloughDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53949More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of adult social care provision in Slough.
Answer: Local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the needs of their population, which is why, under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are tasked with the duty to shape their care market to meet the diverse needs of all local people. In perf...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordCarers: DementiaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52650More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of support available to carers of dementia patients in (a) Slough and (b) the South East.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that families of people with dementia have the support they need.Local authorities have duties to support people caring for their family and friends. The Care Act 2014 requires local authorities to deliver a wide ra...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: South EastDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52649More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of people living with dementia without a medical diagnosis in (a) the South East and (b) Slough.
Answer: No specific estimate has been made as the information is not held in the format requested. However, NHS England publishes monthly dementia diagnosis data in the primary care dementia data set official statistics. Data for March 2025 showed that the number...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52648More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of dementia research funding.
Answer: Government responsibility for delivering dementia research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Innovation and T...
Answered 21 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFertility: LGBT+ PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52647More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the equality of access to fertility services for LGBTQ+ people.
Answer: In the light of broader pressures on the National Health Service and on-going changes within NHS England, we have been looking again at achievable ambitions to improve access to fertility services and fairness for all affected couples.We expect these orga...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Crimes of ViolenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51915More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent violence and harassment towards NHS staff.
Answer: Everyone working in the National Health Service has a fundamental right to be safe at work. There is a zero-tolerance approach to any incidents of harassment or abuse against NHS staff.Individual employers are responsible for the health and safety of thei...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth: DisadvantagedDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 May 2025AnsweredUIN 51139More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce health inequalities (a) in general and (b) for children.
Answer: The United Kingdom faces significant health inequalities, with healthy life expectancy varying widely across and between communities. Through our Health Mission, we are focused on addressing the wider determinants of health to improve healthy life expecta...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the post-diagnosis support available to people with dementia.
Answer: The provision of dementia health care services is the responsibility of local integrated care boards (ICBs). We would expect ICBs to commission services based on local population needs, taking account of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence g...
Answered 15 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Hearing ImpairmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50899More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that NHS patients who are deaf are able to adequately communicate with NHS staff about their care.
Answer: It is for individual National Health Service organisations, including NHS trusts and integrated care boards, to comply with the Equality Act 2010. Under the Equality Act 2010, organisations have a legal duty to make changes in their approach or provision ...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Hearing ImpairmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing mandatory (a) Accessible Information Standard and (b) deaf awareness training for NHS staff.
Answer: Employers in the health system are responsible for ensuring that their staff are trained to the required standards to deliver safe and effective treatment for patients, and to deploy them in the best way to ensure the delivery of health services to their ...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: InformationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50897More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS compliance with the Accessible Information Standard.
Answer: Since 2016, all National Health Service organisations and publicly funded social care providers are expected to meet the Accessible Information Standard (AIS), which details the recommended approach to supporting the information and communication support ...
Answered 22 May 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Hearing ImpairmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50896More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to make NHS services more accessible for deaf patients.
Answer: It is for individual National Health Service organisations, including NHS trusts and integrated care boards, to comply with the Equality Act 2010. Under the Equality Act 2010, organisations have a legal duty to make changes in their approach or provision ...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of prostate cancer screening for high risk groups.
Answer: Currently, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not recommend a national prostate cancer screening programme due to the limitations of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen test, which may lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatmen...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: Blood TestsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to increase awareness of the availability of a PSA blood test.
Answer: Currently, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not recommend a national prostate cancer screening programme due to the limitations of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen test, which may lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatmen...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase awareness of the risk factors associated with prostate cancer.
Answer: Currently, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not recommend a national prostate cancer screening programme due to the limitations of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen test, which may lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatmen...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordProstate Cancer: ScreeningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 May 2025AnsweredUIN 50891More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase early stage detection rates for prostate cancer.
Answer: Currently, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not recommend a national prostate cancer screening programme due to the limitations of the current best test, the Prostate Specific Antigen test, which may lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatmen...
Answered 13 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Supply ChainsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to eradicate modern slavery from the NHS.
Answer: As part of the recommendations from the review into the risk of modern slavery in National Health Service supply chains from December 2023, it was recommended that regulations be laid with a view to eradicating modern slavery, supporting the amendment of ...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordStem Cells: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49931More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Transport on taking steps to improve the transportation of donor stem cells.
Answer: No such discussions have taken place. The UK Aligned Stem Cell Registry has robust contingency measures in place to address travel disruptions and costs incurred by voluntary and contracted couriers who transport donor stem cells to patient transplant cen...
Answered 9 May 2025
Original Parliament recordStem Cells: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with cancer charities on taking steps to improve the transportation of stem cells.
Answer: There have been no recent discussions with cancer charities that suggest the need to improve the transportation of donor stem cells in the United Kingdom or internationally. The UK Aligned Stem Cell Registry has robust contingency measures in place to add...
Answered 9 May 2025
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