Bambos Charalambous MP: written questions
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Written questions
Motor Neurone Disease: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 69898More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve access to innovative treatments for people with SOD1 motor neurone disease.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based recommendations for the Naitonal Health Service on whether new medicines represent a clinically and cost-effectiv...
Answered 1 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Independence Payment: CancerDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53136More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to her Department's report entitled Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper, published on 18 March 2025, what assessment her Department has mad
Answer: We have committed to introduce a new requirement that claimants must score a minimum of four points in at least one daily living activity to be eligible for the daily living component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP). Age will not be a factor in th...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: CancerDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53135More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to page 10 of Young Lives vs Cancer’s report entitled The cost of waiting, published in March 2025, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of average time from diagnosis
Answer: Entitlement to Disability Living Allowance for children (DLAc) under 16 and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for young people from age 16 are assessed based on the additional care/daily living and mobility needs arising from a long-term disability or h...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of (a) the distances travelled and (b) costs incurred by children and young people travelling to principle treatment centres in London; and what assessment h
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care knows that the cost of travel is an important issue for many young cancer patients and their families in England. NHS England and the integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning and ensuring the health...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 May 2025AnsweredUIN 53133More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Young Lives vs Cancer's report entitled A young cancer patient travel fund, published in February 2024, whether his Department has made an assessment of (a) trends in levels of tr
Answer: The Department of Health and Social Care knows that the cost of travel is an important issue for many young cancer patients and their families in England. NHS England and the integrated care boards are responsible for commissioning and ensuring the health...
Answered 28 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCrown Court: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 903779More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the crown court backlog.
Answer: We are funding a record allocation of Crown Court sitting days to deliver swifter justice for victims – 110,000 sitting days this year, 4,000 higher than the last Government. We have launched an independent review into the efficiency of the criminal court...
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordParkinson's Disease: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce variations in access to treatments approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for advanced and complex Parkinson’s Disease.
Answer: We have delivered an additional two million appointments in England, seven months ahead of schedule. This includes operations, consultations, diagnostic tests, and treatments. These additional appointments have taken place across a number of specialities,...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordParkinson's Disease: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that Parkinson’s Disease services across England are supported to provide the full range of NICE-approved treatment options to eligible patients in
Answer: We have delivered an additional two million appointments in England, seven months ahead of schedule. This includes operations, consultations, diagnostic tests, and treatments. These additional appointments have taken place across a number of specialities,...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordParkinson's Disease: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking within current NHS workforce planning to improve uptake of digital consultations for Parkinson’s patients as a mechanism to reduce neurology waiting times and re
Answer: We have delivered an additional two million appointments, seven months ahead of schedule. This includes operations, consultations, diagnostic tests, and treatments. These additional appointments have taken place across a number of specialities, including ...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordParkinson's Disease: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) help tackle shortages across the Parkinson’s disease specialist workforce and (b) assess how current workforce shortages are impacting the delivery of mul
Answer: We have delivered an additional two million appointments, seven months ahead of schedule. This includes operations, consultations, diagnostic tests, and treatments. These additional appointments have taken place across a number of specialities, including ...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42270More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle inequalities in (a) access to clinical trials and (b) specialist psychological support for young people with cancer.
Answer: The Department is committed to maximising the United Kingdom’s potential to lead the world in clinical research and to ensuring that clinical trials are more accessible.The Department funded National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funds res...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41489More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of young people with cancer who were diagnosed at Stage (a) one and (b) two.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 25 March 2025 to the Hon. Member for Colne Valley, to Question 38920.
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHumanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 21 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 32164More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to fill the humanitarian and development gap left by the USAID funding freezes.
Answer: We are currently working to assess the implications of the US funding pause across development sectors, geographic regions, and multilateral organisations. We are gathering information and working with other donor partners to share analysis of the pause b...
Answered 3 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22661More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure patients that rely on medicines for (a) epilepsy, (b) ADHD and (c) Parkinson's are not impacted by supply shortages.
Answer: The Department is working hard with industry to help resolve intermittent supply issues with some epilepsy medications. As a result of ongoing activity and intensive work, including directing suppliers to expedite deliveries, some issues, including with s...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAnimal Products: ImportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5351More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timescale is for introducing legislation to ban the import of hunting trophies.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn, on 23 July 2024, PQ 591.
Answered 7 Oct 2024
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