To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to support companies developing new technologies to help make food and drink packaging more accessible to people with sight loss.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure food and drink packaging is more accessible for people with sight loss.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will hold discussions with representatives of the manufacturing sector on encouraging wider use of technologies, such as NaviLens, to make packaging more accessible t...
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to hold discussions with representatives of manufacturers to encourage wider use of technologies like NaviLens to help make packaging more accessible to p...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the provision of psychological support for people living with MS and other neurological conditions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the level of covid-19 hospitalisations on NHS transplant services as of 26 January 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many and what proportion of the staff in the Department for International Development who left their posts following the merger with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office i...
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, when he plans to publish (a) detailed guidance and (b) the application forms for the next round of levelling up funds.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase access to new medicines among people living with progressive forms of MS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to (a) attract and (b) retain more neurology specialists.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the accessibility of the Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines on consumption of alcohol by children and young people.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that parents and children are aware of the Chief Medical Officer’s guidance on underage drinking.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a policy of pre-exposure protection using new and emerging monoclonal antibody and antiviral treatments for immunosuppressed peo...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on alcohol consumption by children and young people.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help ensure that parents safeguard their children from the risks associated with drinking alcohol and violence against women and girls.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2021 to Question 86579 on Chickenpox: Vaccination, what steps (a) he has taken and (b) plans to take to increase the routine immunisation modelling capacity of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 December 2021 to Question 86579 on Chickenpox: Vaccination, what data his Department holds on the number of modellers available to the Joint Committee on Vaccination an...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment the UK Government has made of the concept of brain health in encouraging people to reduce their dementia risk.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the Government has spent on research into (a) dementia prevention and (b) brain health in each of the last three years; and what plans he has to increase funding for research in those area...
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps the Government is taking to sustain progress towards global polio eradication, including through the global health contribution of polio surveillance network.