Andrew Gwynne

69775 • Department for Education: Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to respond to Question 61769 tabled by the hon. Member for Gorton and Denton on 23 June 2025.

69776 • Kinship Care: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment has she made of the economic impact on kinship carers arising from (a) reduced employment rights compared with biological parents, (b) variations in local kinship care offers and (c) reducing access to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund.

69777 • Sodium Valproate: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 July 2025 to Question 65734 on Sodium Valproate: Women, whether his Department holds information on the number of women between the ages of 18 and 52 who were prescribed sodium valproate in 2024.

69778 • Hysteroscopy: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with NHS Trusts on the adequacy of letters sent to patients before a hysteroscopy on (a) the procedure, (b) pain relief and (c) the principles of informed consent.

69779 • Hysteroscopy: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions with NHS Trusts on the adequacy of the processes used to obtain informed consent for hysteroscopy procedures.

69780 • Hysteroscopy: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of hysteroscopies that were stopped early because of intolerable patient pain in the NHS in England in 2024.

69781 • Hysteroscopy: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will implement mandatory clinician guidelines for hysteroscopies to (a) minimise pain and (b) promote informed decision making.

69782 • Israel: Armed Conflict

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Israeli counterparts on recent military strikes in (a) Syria and (b) Gaza.

69783 • Rents

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she has taken to (a) minimise rent increases and (b) increase affordable renting provisions.

69784 • Sports: Discrimination

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she has taken to reduce (a) racism, (b) sexism and (c) other forms of discrimination within sports.

69785 • Parental Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will implement equal parental leave rights between (a) biological, (b) adoption and (c) kinship parents.

69256 • Debts: Developing Countries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take legislative steps with Cabinet colleagues to prevent creditors of international debts from imposing unsustainable debt repayment orders on developing nations.

69257 • Debts: Developing Countries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make it her policy that (a) countries in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative and (b) other developing nations should only pay sustainable amounts to their (i) state (ii) non-state debtors.

69258 • Debts: Developing Countries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will amend the Debt Relief Act (Developing Countries) 2010 to include all (a) current and (b) future qualifying debts.

69259 • Debts: Developing Countries

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she has taken to help reduce the impact of unsustainable debt on developing nations.

69260 • South Sudan: Humanitarian Situation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the (a) financial and (b) humanitarian situation in South Sudan.

68379 • Heart Diseases: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) specialist bereavement support and (b) familial screening services for the family members of a person who died from a cardiac condition under the age of 35.

68380 • Heart Diseases: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will issue guidance on health screening for people who have had a family member die from sudden cardiac death under the age of 35.

68381 • Heart Diseases: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to implement a specialist pathway for people under the age of 35 with a cardiac abnormality detected on electrocardiogram.

68382 • Heart Diseases: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the level of awareness amongst medical professional of (a) youth sudden cardiac death, (b) the symptoms of cardiac conditions in the young and (c) the referral pathways for people who have lost a relative under the age of 35 to a cardiac condition.

25535 • Viral Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of means-testing the winter fuel payment on the number of (a) flu, (b) Covid, (c) norovirus and (d) RSV cases.

27646 • Fractures: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for providing national coverage for fracture liaison services.

27847 • Breast Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department collects data on the number of people who (a) have been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer after finishing hormone therapy and (b) are living with secondary breast cancer.

27831 • Food Standards Agency: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what purposes the Food Standards Agency has used artificial intelligence in the last 12 months.

27885 • Heart Valve Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department has taken to increase awareness of the symptoms of heart valve disease.

27886 • Heart Valve Disease: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of funding levels for research into the (a) detection and (b) treatment of heart valve disease.

27975 • Influenza: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many vaccine doses have been purchased for this year’s Flu campaign; and where they were sourced from.

27976 • Vaccination: Production

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the required domestic capacity for vaccine production in the event of a pandemic.

28101 • Department of Health and Social Care: Gender Based Violence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to contribute to the target of halving violence against women and girls in ten years.

28217 • Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Independent Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on implementing the recommendations of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review.

28360 • Hip Replacements: Compensation

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there are compensation schemes available for people made ill by defective hip replacements supplied by DePuy.

27858 • Lead: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2024 to Question 13215 on Lead: Contamination, when the review of lead in food (a) commenced and (b) plans to report.

23778 • Skin Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to promote awareness of skin cancer (a) prevention measures, (b) signs and (c) symptoms.

26939 • Neurological Diseases: North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to improve service provision for people with (a) Tourette's syndrome and (b) other tic disorders in the North East.

27109 • Bowel Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 5537 on Bowel Cancer: Screening, whether he expects bowel screening for 50 year-olds to be completed by (a) autumn or (b) winter 2025.

27104 • UK Health Security Agency: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what purposes the UK Health Security Agency has used artificial intelligence in the last 12 months.

27137 • Tobacco and Vapes Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative estimate of the costs of (a) implementing a one-time increase in the legal purchase age of tobacco and (b) introducing an age escalator, in the context of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.

27138 • Tobacco and Vapes Bill

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the impact assessment for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, published on 5 November 2024, whether the specified cost of retailer staff training (a) is a one-off cost and (b) reflects ongoing costs in relation to planned secondary legislation relating to that Bill.

27276 • Cerebral Palsy: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the care continuity for individuals with Cerebral Palsy with no cognative impairment moving from childrens care pathways to adult support networks.

27289 • Shingles: Vaccination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the eligibility criteria for people over 65 who did not receive the shingles vaccine to allow for retrospective vaccination.

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EDM 1310 • Arms exports to Israel

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EDM 1128 • Death of Pope Francis

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EDM 97 • Ban trophy hunting imports

That this House notes CITES data and investigations by the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting published in the national medi...