NHS
The National Health Service and UK public health policy broadly - not just NHS-branded services specifically. Covers patient care, NHS funding and waiting times, hospitals and GPs, disease programmes and screening (HIV, cancer, respiratory disease, multiple sclerosis, etc), medical and drug treatment access, medical research funding, and public health measures (obesity, nutrition, antimicrobial resistance, disease prevention).
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 904PMQs 2026-09-09
Hertfordshire has one of the lowest numbers of mental health in-patient beds per head in England. When patients, including some young people, are in crisis, they can be sent hundreds of miles away, wh...
PMQs 2026-09-09
I thank the Prime Minister for his commitment to mental health and to building a country that acts sooner when people need help. Five years ago, I lost one of my best friends, Sophie, to suicide after...
PMQs 2026-09-09
I associate myself with the Prime Minister's opening remarks, not least about the 25th anniversary of the horrific terror attacks of 9/11. I welcome the Government finally banning imports from illegal...
PMQs 2026-09-09
It is unbelievable that the Prime Minister would say that. He is clearly unwilling. We need to fund our defence, not spend all our money on welfare. I cannot believe that he would actually say that. H...
PMQs 2026-09-02
I congratulate the Prime Minister on his first Prime Minister's questions; this is my first Prime Minister's question too. I want to declare an interest: I chair the all-party parliamentary group on s...
PMQs 2026-09-02
The Labour Government have already delivered real investment for Bedford, including our community diagnostic centre, urgent care centre and funding for the Putnoe walk-in centre. I was pleased to open...
PMQs 2026-09-02
I hope at that summit the Prime Minister will negotiate a good deal for our country, our economy and our defence, and that means rejoining the single market. North Devon's maternity unit has been clos...
PMQs 2026-07-15
Two weeks ago, the news leaked that Powys teaching health board is considering taking the beds out of all but two community hospitals in Powys. Some 2,500 people have already signed my petition agains...
PMQs 2026-07-15
That is a lovely statement that the Prime Minister has just made to Pooja; I am sure that the whole House will agree. I think that the whole House will also agree that he gave a very diplomatic answer...
PMQs 2026-07-08
The meeting with Basingstoke's Gurkha veterans highlighted the need to resolve the longstanding pension issues they face due to their service and sacrifice for Britain. Does the Deputy Prime Minister ...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 4110Topical Questions 2026-09-10
It has been nearly two years since the contaminated blood inquiry report was published. People think that the matter is finished, but it is not: some 18,000 infected and affected individuals still hav...
Topical Questions 2026-09-10
The questioner asks if the government will consider index-linking compensation to inflation to prevent delays from reducing the value of compensation awards. The scheme has faced delays and the consti...
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme 2026-09-10
What steps is the Minister taking to ensure that the scheme is administered properly and mistakes are cut out, and would she consider meeting me to explore the issues raised by my constituent's case?...
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme 2026-09-10
Could the Minister give the House a hint about whether she thinks there is room for improvement in the compensation schemes, based on the Public Accounts Committee's report and the Government's previo...
Infected Blood Compensation Scheme 2026-09-10
How many people potentially eligible for compensation have applied to the infected blood compensation scheme, given the uncertainty about the number of eligible people and the complexity of the scanda...
Topical Questions 2026-09-09
Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, it is important that we recognise the heightened risk of suicide among autistic women and girls, who are too often overlooked and diagnosed too late. Autistic pe...
Topical Questions 2026-09-09
People from ethnic minority backgrounds, disabled people and old people are more at risk of being coerced into an assisted death, feeling a burden, or feeling pressured to end their life. These are th...
Topical Questions 2026-09-09
Following last night's vote on puberty blockers, will the right hon. Lady set out exactly what her red lines are when it comes to experimenting on children, and at what age she thinks children are abl...
Tackling Violence against Women and Girls 2026-09-09
Does the Minister agree that organisations such as Project Salama are important for joined-up support for victims of DA? How will the Government ensure that domestic abuse services, mental health serv...
Topical Questions 2026-09-08
What conversations has the Chancellor had with the Department of Health and Social Care on providing compensation to those harmed by valporate and vaginal mesh, as per the Hughes report, which was pub...