John Redwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to promote more rail freight during a period of shortage of HGV drivers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide details of how the NHS plans to reduce waiting lists.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many HGV driver tests can be carried out each week; and what comparative assessment he has made of that number and the weekly number of those tests undertaken before the covid-19 outbreak.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has conducted a value for money study of the NHS Test and Trace system; and what assessment he has made of the (a) efficiency and (b) quality of that system.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, by what date his Department expects the backlog of HGV licence applications to be cleared.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional nurses and doctors he plans to recruit for his Department's waiting list initiatives.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the £36 billion announced by the Government to tackle waiting lists as a result of the covid19 outbreak will be spent on the salaries of additional medical staff.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the property costs are of the new NHS community diagnostic centres announced by the Government on 1 October 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much NHS England plans to spend on (a) private hospital capacity and (b) work by private hospitals in 2021-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many chief executives there are of bodies that are part of the NHS in England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the projected spend on Test and Trace is for 2021-22; and how that figure compares with 2020-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total cost has been of setting up and closing down the Nightingale hospitals introduced in response to the covid-19 outbreak.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the estimated recruitment costs are for the new directors and chief executives of the Integrated Care Boards and Partnerships.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his plans are for the current management bodies for health and social care as the new Integrated Care Boards are created.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his priorities are for spending the planned additional revenue from the increase in National Insurance.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the budget is for Test and Trace in 2021-22; and how that compares to Test and Trace spending levels in 2020-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital beds are available in NHS England; and what the level of occupancy is at 13 September 2021.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the level of NHS elective surgery (a) as at 13 September 2021 and (b) prior to the covid-19 outbreak.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the current level of seat occupancy is on the railway.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made a comparative assessment of the average number of people commuting into London in the morning peak in (a) 2021 and (b) 2019.