Written questions by Maskell.

What steps his Department has taken to reduce the number of delayed discharges from hospital.

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What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the National Year of Reading having engaged 6,800 schools and early years settings, and 11,000 teachers and early years practitioners, so far.

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What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the National Year of Reading having engaged over 2.1 million children so far.

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What assessment he has made of the adequacy of the capacity of Community Dental Services in England to meet demand.

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What assessment he has made of the potential impact of Community Dental Service waiting times on attendance at hospital accident and emergency departments.

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What steps he is taking to help prevent diagnostic overshadowing in cases where anxiety, trauma, distress or school-related deterioration are dismissed as part of autism, ADHD or SEND.

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How many patients were waiting more than (a) 18, (b) 26 and (c) 52 weeks for treatment by the Community Dental Service in England at the latest available date.

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Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Bovine TB Control Strategy for England, published on 10 June 2026, what criteria her Department will use to determine whether wildlife control methods are humane; whether that standard will draw on the findings of the 2014 Independent Expert Panel on the humaneness of controlled shooting of badgers; and what independent body will monitor and publicly report on the humaneness of any future lethal control, including Test, Vaccinate and Remove.

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Communities and Local Government, whether the Value for Money Review of homelessness spending will include analysis of the cost-effectiveness of Housing First models.

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Food and Rural Affairs, To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Bovine TB Control Strategy for England, published on 10 June 2026, what weight her Department attaches to rates of cattle-to-cattle transmission compared to badger-to-cattle transmission of bovine TB when assessing the proportionality of lethal control of badgers; and what proportion of projected bovine TB control expenditure is allocated to (a) cattle-based and (b) wildlife-based measures over the next five years.

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What estimate her Department has made of the cost of backdated VAT refunds if HMRC’s appeal against the March 2026 tax tribunal ruling on public EV charging is unsuccessful.

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What steps he is taking to help improve understanding of the reasons for the rise in postpartum haemorrhage rates.

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What steps his Department is taking to (a) reduce the number of deaths resultant from falls from a ladder and (b) improve the safety of people working from heights.

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What the average waiting time for a dental appointment was in the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire ICB area in each of the last ten years.

Data on waiting times for National Health Service dental treatment is not held centrally so it is not possible to provide information for the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board area.Patients in England are not registered with a NHS dental pr...

For a list of the number of animal experimentations carried out on each species over each of the last 3 years.

The Home Office collects and publishes annual statistics on scientific procedures involving living animals in Great Britain which include the number of scientific procedures carried out and broken down by species for each year, available at: www.gov.uk/go...

What steps his Department is taking to help improve children's access to dental care in York Central constituency.

The 10-Year Health Plan for England confirms that child dental health is a priority. The responsibility for commissioning primary care services, including National Health Service dentistry, to meet the needs of the local population has been delegated to i...

How will he ensure ICBs work closely with MPs.

Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for managing their own local relationships, including engagement with Members of Parliament, in their areas. We expect ICBs to work constructively with MPs to ensure that local health services are responsive t...

What assessment he has made of the potential impact of combined authority mayors on ICBs.

Subject to its passage through Parliament, the Health Bill will provide for at least one integrated care board (ICB) member to be nominated by the mayor of each mayoral strategic authority in the ICB’s footprint.As set out in the 10-Year Health Plan, this...

How is he supporting housing cooperatives to have access to community energy schemes.

Housing cooperatives can access schemes where they meet the criteria for community energy groups, and the Department continues to engage with the sector to ensure our support reflects the needs of different community ownership models.

If he will (a) review the tariff for energy for domestic properties which are part of housing cooperatives and (b) bring it into line with domestic property energy tariffs.

The Government recognises that some households, including those in housing cooperatives, may be supplied through arrangements that differ from standard domestic energy contracts, where the consumer does not have a direct relationship with their supplier. ...