Every parliamentary written question tabled by Helen Maguire this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.
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What steps his Department is planning to take to ensure that patient safety is maintained during the transition period from Healthwatch England to his Department.
The Government is prioritising patient safety and a learning culture in the National Health Service. In our 10-Year Health Plan we committed to abolish Healthwatch England and to bring patient voice ‘in-house’ to give it a greater profile within a reforme...
What assessment his Department has made on the cost benefit to the NHS of making the Accessible Information Standard mandatory.
Mandatory information standards will be introduced in a staged process. The process will include considering the costs and benefits of making any standard mandatory. There is no decision or timeline yet for issuing a mandatory NHS Accessible Information S...
Who will hold data controllership for the Single Patient Record; and who will be liable should the patient data be misused.
The Single Patient Record (SPR) will improve outcomes for patients by giving professionals access to all the key information they need to deliver care, in one place, affording safer decision-making with fewer information gaps.No decision has been made on ...
Whether guidance has been issued to police forces on reducing risk during meetings between police officers and organisers of public protests.
The police are expected to engage with organisers of protests in advance to discuss potential routes, timings and to identify any public safety risks. This engagement informs police decision-making on any conditions they might impose on planned protests t...
What assessment his Department have made of the potential merits of the creation of an operationally independent regulatory function for NHS providers and commissioners.
As an arm’s length body, the Care Quality Commission delivers an operationally independent function of regulatory oversight for the quality and safety of health and adult social care.In addition, operational oversight of providers and commissioners is cur...
What steps her Department is taking to ensure that compensation awarded to armed forces (a) veterans and (b) their families is not classified as income.
Payments intended to compensate individuals for personal injury would generally fall within established tax principles that treat compensation for personal injury as non-taxable. If payments are made which specifically represent loss of earnings, they wil...
What steps his Department is taking to support ICBs to engage with communities that may not trust the NHS.
On behalf of my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Department will set the direction, issuing clear guidance to integrated care boards and local authorities on obtaining and actioning the views of local people on health...
What steps his Department is taking to improve nursing leadership at (a) national, (b) regional and (c) local levels.
The Aspiring Deputy Directors of Nursing programme is a well-established, nationally commissioned leadership development offer that sustains a strong and diverse pipeline of future deputy directors of nursing across providers and integrated care boards (I...
What steps his Department is taking to ensure that patient experience findings are published.
The findings from a range of patient experience surveys undertaken or commissioned by NHS England and the Care Quality Commission are published nationally, including the GP Patient Survey, the Adult Inpatient Survey, the National Cancer Patient Experience...
Whether he will introduce safeguards to ensure that patient safety is maintained during the transition period from Healthwatch England to his Department.
The Government is prioritising patient safety and a learning culture in the National Health Service. In our 10-Year Health Plan we committed to abolish Healthwatch England and to bring patient voice ‘in-house’ to give it a greater profile within a reforme...
What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of nationally setting and maintaining service specification and national tariff for GOS.
General Ophthalmic Services are already a nationally mandated services defined in legislation, with nationally defined contractor fees set out in Directions.
How the new safer streets guidance for women and girls will help ensure that women feel safer when cycling as well as walking.
On 25th March, Active Travel England set out its intention to publish guidance during 2026 as part of a programme of work to support authorities to design safer streets for women and girls. The programme is under development this year with the intention t...
Whether her Department is taking steps to help people use cheaper forms of transport such as (a) cycling and (b) walking during continued fuel cost pressures.
This Government recognises that investment in active travel gives people affordable transport choice to cut the cost of living. In December 2025, the Government announced £626 million funding for local authorities from 2026/27 to 2029/30 to deliver walkin...
Communities and Local Government, what information his Department holds on the criteria used to determine the eligibility for discretionary business rate relief.
Under section 47 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 local authorities are able to provide discretionary business rates relief to ratepayers within their area, having regard to the interests of their local council tax payers. https://www.legislation....
How the Government’s Better Connected transport strategy will ensure that walking and cycling are fully integrated into the wider transport system.
Better Connected: A Strategy for Integrated Transport recognises the crucial role that walking, wheeling and cycling play in connecting people and places, either as the whole trip or as part of accessing the wider transport network. It commits Active Trav...
Communities and Local Government, when his Department last reviewed the list of statutory consultees; and when the Department next plans to review it.
On 18 November 2025, the government launched a consultation on reforms to the statutory consultee system, which sought views on the scope of what statutory consultees advise on, and removing statutory consultee status from certain bodies. The consultation...
What steps his Department is taking to support the learning disability workforce.
The Government is committed to publishing a 10 Year Workforce Plan to set out action to create a workforce ready to deliver the transformed service set out in the 10-Year Health Plan. The 10 Year Workforce Plan will ensure the National Health Service has ...
What steps her Department is taking to help reduce the number of illegal high-powered electric bikes.
E-bikes can only be legally used on the roads where they comply in full with the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycle Regulations 1983. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency have market surveillance powers to tackle the supply of e-bikes, including modifie...
What assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing the key recommendations of the UK MOD Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Baseline Study 2024/25 report.
The Department is currently reviewing the recommendations of the UK MOD Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Baseline Study 2024-25. This includes considering the merits of developing both a framework and central register of incidents.
Whether Capita met their previously announced end of February target to restore service levels for the most urgent backlog cases in the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
The Cabinet Office awarded the contract to administer the Civil Service Pension Scheme to Capita in November 2023 under the previous government.The issues and delays facing a number of civil servants and pension scheme members in receiving their pension q...