Paul Foster MP: written questions

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Written questions

Drugs: HospicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23188More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which hospices (a) have all medication supplied (i) for free and (ii) at a discounted rate and (b) do not have medication supplied by the NHS.
Answer: Palliative and end of life care is commissioned at a local level by integrated care boards (ICBs). Consequently, neither the Department nor NHS England hold data centrally on which hospices have all medication supplied for free or at a discounted rate by ...
Answered 23 Jan 2025
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Flood Control: South RibbleDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23037More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much has been spent on flood prevention works to protect the village of Croston in South Ribble constituency in the last five years; and what funds are allocated for future improve
Answer: Protecting communities around the country from flooding is one of the Secretary of State’s five core priorities. To ensure we protect the country from the devastating impacts of flooding, the Government will invest £2.4 billion in 2024/25 and 2025/26 to i...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
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Pension Credit: South RibbleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23036More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of pensioners receive Pension Credit in South Ribble constituency; and how many of these are new recipients since 31 July 2024.
Answer: The latest available data shows that in Winter 2023 to 2024, there were 14,717 pensioner households living in the South Ribble constituency. This is based on winter-fuel-payments-household-2023-to-2024.ods. At that point in time, 1,528 pensioner household...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
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Cannabis: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will undertake a review of NHS policy on the assessment of individual funding requests to support children for whom prescribing medical cannabis could help prevent repeated admissions to hosp
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published technology appraisals recommending Epidyolex, a licensed form of cannabidiol extracted from cannabis, for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsies, sp...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
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Cannabis: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with the Lancashire Teaching Hospital Trust on the potential merits of enabling clinicians to prescribe unlicensed cannabis products to children for clinical reasons.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published technology appraisals recommending Epidyolex, a licensed form of cannabidiol extracted from cannabis, for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsies, sp...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
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Epilepsy: CannabisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9249More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken recent research on the use of medical cannabis for the treatment of epilepsy.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published technology appraisals recommending Epidyolex, a licensed form of cannabidiol extracted from cannabis, for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsies, sp...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
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Epilepsy: CannabisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9248More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has undertaken recent research on the use of medical cannabis for the treatment of (a) Dravet and (b) Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published technology appraisals recommending Epidyolex, a licensed form of cannabidiol extracted from cannabis, for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare forms of epilepsies, sp...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
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Cannabis: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 8273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients under the age of 18 are in receipt of an NHS funded cannabis-based (a) prescription and (b) medication.
Answer: The NHS Business Services Authority does not hold the information in the form requested as it is only a legal requirement for prescriptions to state the age for children under 12 years.Between November 2018 and July 2024, 21,299 items of licensed cannabis...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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Pension Credit: South RibbleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4466More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people are in receipt of Pension Credit in South Ribble constituency; and if she will make an estimate of the number of people who are not claiming Pension Credit but are eligible in that const
Answer: Caseload statistics are routinely published and made publicly available via DWP Stat-xplore. At February 2024, there were 1,528 people claiming Pension Credit in South Ribble constituency. Information relating to Pension Credit eligibility is only availab...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
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Winter Fuel Payment: South RibbleDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4465More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in South Ribble constituency received a winter fuel payment in the 2023-24 financial year.
Answer: Annual statistics on the number of Winter Fuel Payment recipients and households by local authority and by Westminster parliamentary constituency are made publicly available via GOV.UK. The latest release contains data on individual and household level st...
Answered 12 Sept 2024
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