Sir George Howarth

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department plans to increase the number of (a) rheumatologists and (b) rheumatology specialist nurses in England over the next (i) 12 months, (ii) five years and (iii) 15 years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the numbers of (a) nurses and (b) allied professionals specialising in rheumatology as a post registration option.

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people who died in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023 who (i) had cardiac arrest recorded as the main cause of death and (ii) did not have a defibrillator used.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to remove VAT on all automated external defibrillators.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will meet representatives of (a) the Heart Restart Tax campaign and (b) British Healthcare Trades Association to discuss the potential merits of removing VAT from automated external defibrillators.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has issued recent guidance on the use of subsidised meal schemes by (a) home and (b) other remote workers.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the Section 317 exemption of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 to include (a) local restaurants and (b) other businesses in close prox...

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many companies used the Section 317 exemption of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 in the latest period for which data is available.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data his Department holds on the number of care leavers aged between 17 and 21 who received Universal Credit in each of the last five years in (a) Knowsley and (b) England.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the report by Become entitled Gone Too Far, published in April 2023, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her Department's policies of the proportion of local authorities tha...

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 12 September 2023 to Question 196441 on Children: Social Services, how the £259 million capital funding for residential children’s homes will be allocated.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve data reporting on the (a) outcomes and (b) experiences of young people with cancer.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the Major Conditions Strategy will take into account the (a) care and (b) support needs of teenagers and young adults with cancer.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure the Major Conditions Strategy reflects the (a) views and (b) needs of people with lived experience of cancer as a young adult.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of giving the Care Quality Commission more freedom to scrutinise the level of patient involvement of (a) Integrated Care System...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his announcement in July 2023 of £595,000 funding per Integrated Care System to support the expansion of Women’s Health Hubs, what steps his Department is taking to support Integr...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the next round of guidance for Integrated Care Systems on women’s health hubs planned for autumn 2023, whether his Department plans to (a) provide guidance for the commissioning o...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the skills and qualifications of asylum seekers; and how many asylum seekers have been permitted to take up employment pending a decision on thei...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish data held by his Department on the number of trained long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) fitters (a) within the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System and (b) nat...

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were staying in (a) hotels or (b) other forms of accommodation on 1 September 2023.