Sir George Howarth

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the cost of living crisis on the number of children claiming free school meals.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the analysis of Child Poverty Action Group, published on 9 June 2022, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings relating to the number of children living...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will review the eligibility criteria for free school meals before the beginning of the 2022-23 school year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the findings of Child Poverty Action Group, published on 9 June 2022, on the number of children living in poverty who are not eligible for free school meals, whether he is taking steps to ensu...

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the compatibility of her Department's policy not to uprate annually pensions in 48 commonwealth countries with the Government’s Global Britain vision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the viability of Canada’s recent request to discuss a reciprocal social security agreement with the UK.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the impact of the recent incident on UK pensions living in Canada where their state pensions were suspended.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what definition of self-care his Department uses when assessing and developing health and social care policy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a minor ailment and common conditions service, modelled on Scotland's Pharmacy First scheme, that allows pharmacists t...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of resources available to pharmacists to enable them to offer self-care advice in conjunction with their dispensing duties.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of (a) paediatric and (b) adult cystic fibrosis centres in England that did not provide at least 85 per cent of their patients with a management plan d...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of (a) smoking and (b) health disparities in each area of the North West.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of regional inequality on public health; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect of living in an area of high deprivation on a person's likelihood of smoking; and if he will make a statement.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the white paper on health disparities will include policy proposals to help tackle regional disparities in (a) obesity, (b) smoking and (c) alcohol consumption.

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on reducing smoking rates in areas of high usage.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to tackle health disparities in (a) the North West and (b) Merseyside in the Health Disparities White Paper.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits for people who smoke of allowing major supermarkets to advertise to smokers (a) e-cigarettes and (b) heat-not-burn products.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has put plans in place (a) nationally and (b) locally to help tackle waiting lists for breast reconstruction surgery.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by which date he expects the dementia diagnosis rate to return to the target rate of 66.7 percent.