Sir Robert Neill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will hold discussions with the Association of Optometrists on the adequacy of funding for the special schools' eye care service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the special schools eye care service has adequate funding to enable the long-term commissioning of those services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will hold discussions with the Association of Optometrists on the adequacy of funding for the special schools eye care service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had recent discussions with Royal Mail on the steps it is taking to tackle delays in delivery to the BR7 postcode area.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has invited (a) barristers and (b) solicitors to (i) access test cases and (ii) test other aspects of the Common Platform system.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the Common Platform for enabling barristers to transfer cases without a transfer being undertaken by a defence solicitor.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has had recent discussions with criminal barristers on the adequacy of the Common Platform.

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to ensure a smooth rollout of the Common Platform in Crown Courts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken with Cabinet colleagues to ensure that the NHS Workforce Plan contains a detailed analysis of the long-term funding allocations required to develop a healthcare workforce ca...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the terms of reference are for the joint NHS and Health Education England diagnostic workforce board; whether there is an imaging subgroup of the board; what role the diagnostic workforce boar...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the actions required to ensure that the NHS long-term workforce plan can be implemented efficiently with regards to establishing (a) governance structures and (b) acc...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the merger of Health Education England and NHS England will not impact the implementation of the NHS long-term workforce plan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the merger of NHS England and Health Education England on the implementation of the NHS long-term workforce plan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter of 9 December 2022 from 33 health and care organisations on the rehabilitation workforce and the NHS long-term workforce plan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve access to stroke rehabilitation after discharge from hospital when discharge funding for step down care ends on 31st March 2023.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS plan entitled Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services published on 30 January 2023, if he will hold discussions with the Community Rehabilitation A...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many eye care professionals are delivering the NHS Special School Eye Care Service under Primary Ophthalmic Service contracts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent discussions his Department has had with NHS England on its plans for the NHS Special Schools Eye Care Service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of average ambulance response times in 2022 on (a) stroke survival rates, (b) rates of permanent disability following a stroke and (c) timely access to mec...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure hospitals offer 24/7 access to interventional radiology services.