Chris Bloore MP: written questions
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Hospitals: DeathsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of deaths in hospital.
Answer: Early identification of someone who has palliative and end of life care needs is vital. There are tools to aid clinicians in identifying those approaching the end of life, for example the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool and the EARLY toolki...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordTerminal IllnessesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92733More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce emergency hospital admissions involving people who are in the last 12 months of life.
Answer: Early identification of someone who has palliative and end of life care needs is vital. There are tools to aid clinicians in identifying those approaching the end of life, for example the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool and the EARLY toolki...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92732More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the early identification of palliative care needs.
Answer: Early identification of someone who has palliative and end of life care needs is vital. There are tools to aid clinicians in identifying those approaching the end of life, for example the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool and the EARLY toolki...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce variation in the approaches of commissioners in meeting the local population's needs for palliative and end of life care services.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning palliative care services to meet the reasonable needs of their population. To support ICBs in this duty, NHS England has published statutory guidance and service specifications.This further c...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 92729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce levels of local variation in access to and quality of palliative and end of life care.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for commissioning palliative care services to meet the reasonable needs of their population. To support ICBs in this duty, NHS England has published statutory guidance and service specifications.This further c...
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordPeople Smuggling: ProsecutionsAttorney GeneralTabled 5 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 906313More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to help ensure the effective prosecution of people smugglers.
Answer: People smuggling is a deplorable transnational crime, and anyone involved in this dangerous trade will face the full force of the law. The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill is nearing Royal Assent and will give law enforcement agencies the toug...
Answered 13 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordFood BanksDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 28 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 86023More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many registered food banks were created between 2010 and 2024.
Answer: The Department does not hold official statistics on the number of registered food banks created between 2010 and 2024. Food banks are independent organisations, often run by charities, faith groups, or community organisations, and are not regulated or reg...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice Stations: ClosuresHome OfficeTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85436More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police front counters were closed between 2010 and 2024.
Answer: The Home Office does not collect data on the number of police front counters in use across all police forces, nor on closures.Decisions regarding the management of the police estate, including public access counters at police stations, is a matter for Chi...
Answered 5 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordDeveloping Countries: DebtsTreasuryTabled 27 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 85435More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value is of outstanding (a) loans and (b) debts liable to the UK from lower-income countries.
Answer: The value of outstanding debt from Low Income Countries to the UK is approximately £2.1bn as of August 2024.This data is publicly available in the ‘Report on outstanding debt owed by other countries to His Majesty’s Government in 2024’, published on gov.u...
Answered 4 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordProtective Clothing: ProcurementDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to publish the (a) recoveries, (b) write-offs and (c) associated costs for each supplier of PPE as part of his investigation into PPE procurement.
Answer: The Department has already committed to the Public Accounts Committee that it will report to Parliament on the COVID-19 personal protective equipment contract dissolution outcomes once work is completed.Outcomes and details of individual cases are expecte...
Answered 30 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPersonal Records: Data ProtectionDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 21 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the personal data of UK citizens held by UK companies but stored on US-based servers is protected from access under (a) the Uniting and Stren
Answer: Under UK data protection laws, UK organisations must ensure personal data is appropriately protected when transferred internationally. The UK has an adequacy decision for certain transfers to the US, which assessed US government access laws and practices....
Answered 29 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: Hotels and HousingHome OfficeTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) asylum hotel and (b) community accommodation in each year between 2010 and 2024.
Answer: Costs are subject to change depending on numbers being accommodated within the asylum system. Accommodation costs are considered to be commercially confidential therefore, the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on as...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBicycles: TheftDepartment for TransportTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83706More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with British Transport Police on its decision to not investigate bike thefts outside stations in cases where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.
Answer: Ensuring the railway remains safe for passengers and staff, and creating a hostile environment for criminals on the network is a priority for both the Department for Transport and the British Transport Police (BTP). Decisions on the use of resource and de...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordHeating: Renewable FuelsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 20 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 83691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will take steps to provide support for rural households to switch renewable liquid heating fuels in the Warm Homes Plan.
Answer: For most off-grid properties, decarbonising heat will involve installing a heat pump. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme grants offer £7,500 for heat pumps, and £5,000 for biomass boilers in specific rural cases. The government recognises that renewable liquid fue...
Answered 28 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 77274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to support GPs (a) with professional training and (b) to update their clinical knowledge on the less survivable cancers.
Answer: All registered doctors in the United Kingdom are expected to meet the professional standards set by the General Medical Council (GMC). In 2012, the GMC introduced revalidation, which supports doctors in regularly reflecting on how they can develop or impr...
Answered 13 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: VettingDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 905687More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the powers of employment tribunals to seize and destroy lists of blacklisted workers.
Answer: As part of the Plan to Make Work Pay, the Department for Business and Trade intends to publish a consultation on blacklisting protections in due course. The consultation will cover, amongst other things, the powers of employment tribunals in regard to lis...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Agency: CybercrimeMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71867More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what support is being provided by (a) the Legal Aid Agency and (b) her Department to people whose data was compromised in the April 2025 cyber-attack; and whether those affected have been offered access to (i) cr
Answer: To ensure we reached as many potentially impacted individuals as possible, the Ministry of Justice published a notice as swiftly as possible at 08:15 on 19 May on GOV.UK.The statement provides information about the cyber-attack and directs concerned membe...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Agency: CybercrimeMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71866More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Legal Aid Agency informed the Information Commissioner’s Office of the April 2025 data breach within the required statutory timescale; what investigations have been launched by her Department or the I
Answer: To ensure we reached as many potentially impacted individuals as possible, the Ministry of Justice published a notice as swiftly as possible at 08:15 on 19 May on GOV.UK.The statement provides information about the cyber-attack and directs concerned membe...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Agency: CybercrimeMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71865More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people were impacted by the cyber-attack on the Legal Aid Agency’s IT systems on 23 April 2025; what categories of (a) personal and (b) sensitive data were (i) accessed and (ii) taken; and what security
Answer: To ensure we reached as many potentially impacted individuals as possible, the Ministry of Justice published a notice as swiftly as possible at 08:15 on 19 May on GOV.UK.The statement provides information about the cyber-attack and directs concerned membe...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordLegal Aid Agency: CybercrimeMinistry of JusticeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71864More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department and the Legal Aid Agency have taken to notify individuals whose personal data was compromised in the April 2025 cyber-attack; whether the Legal Aid Agency has notified affected people di
Answer: To ensure we reached as many potentially impacted individuals as possible, the Ministry of Justice published a notice as swiftly as possible at 08:15 on 19 May on GOV.UK.The statement provides information about the cyber-attack and directs concerned membe...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordVeterinary ServicesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department holds information on the number of independent UK veterinary practices that offer out-of-hours emergency care.
Answer: Defra does not hold data on the number of independent UK veterinary practices that offer out-of-hours emergency care.
Answered 19 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: Care HomesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71758More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people with a diagnosis of dementia have needed to sell their home to pay for care costs in each of the last five years.
Answer: The information requested is not held by the Department.
Answered 10 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: Agency WorkersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total expenditure of NHS England on agency staff was in each of the last three years; and what plans his Department has to reduce the use of agency employees.
Answer: Agency spend of National Health Service trusts in England in each of the last three years is shown in the table below and is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/financial-performance-reportsYear Expenditure (£bn)2022/233...
Answered 11 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: Humanitarian AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate he has made of the proportion of aid from the UK destined for Gaza that has reached its intended recipients.
Answer: Israel has clear obligations under international humanitarian law to facilitate humanitarian aid. The unimpeded entry of assistance at scale to meet the enormous needs in Gaza must be restored immediately. Israel must allow partners to operate in line wit...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGaza: UNRWAForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56650More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help ensure that UNWRA's work in Gaza can resume.
Answer: Our support for United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been unwavering. We have been clear that the United Nations and humanitarian partners must be allowed to operate in line with humanitarian principles...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
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