Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 747open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 September 2026
That this House welcomes the National Cancer Plan's commitment to restore the three cancer waiting time standards by March 2029 and end the postcode lottery in cancer treatment; notes with regret that the Plan sets no radiotherapy trajectory, milestone or accountable body to deliver that ambition; further notes that NHS data shows performance against the 62-day referral-to-treatment standard is lowest for radiotherapy of the three main modalities, and that improving it requires clinical expertise from across the country; also notes that commissioning now rests with Integrated Care Boards, that Freedom of Information requests in 2023 found around 70 per cent had no named radiotherapy lead, and that most contain only one or two centres, leaving a highly specialised, capital-intensive service without the scale, data or expertise it requires; observes that this fragmentation delays innovation, as shown by artificial intelligence auto-contouring funding not taken forward and by prostate stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, commissioned only in 2026 despite 2023 evidence, and that adaptive, molecular and other advanced radiotherapy risk the same fate; recalls that the original National Radiotherapy Advisory Group oversaw the national rollout of intensity-modulated radiotherapy and contributed to an estimated 2,500 lives saved a year, equivalent to 3,000 today; and calls on the Government to establish an independent, clinician-led National Radiotherapy Advisory Group and implementation group, including patient representation, empowered to set a national framework against which each Board publishes a radiotherapy action plan, and to place accountability for radiotherapy standards on a statutory footing through the NHS Modernisation Bill.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule)Bill 3100open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 January 2022
A Bill to establish a duty on Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and private prison operators to minimise violence in prisons; and for connected purposes.
Question· Topical oral questionUIN 900066asked
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2019
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)Bill 1491open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 September 2014
A Bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to apply its provisions to private healthcare companies and other bodies seeking health service contracts; and for connected purposes.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule)Bill 1295open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 October 2013
A Bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to apply to private healthcare companies; and for connected purposes.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 875open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2012
That this House is concerned by the UK National Screening Committee's (NSC) decision not to introduce routine screening of pregnant women for group B streptococcus; notes that every year hundreds of newborn babies suffer death and disability due to group B streptococcus infection and the numbers of reported cases in the UK has continued to rise by 23 per cent between 2003 and 2011; further notes the decline in group B streptococcus infection in babies where countries routinely screen; acknowledges the widespread support for screening during the NSC consultation with over 95 per cent of respondents in favour; recognises that at the Royal College of Midwives conference 75 per cent of midwives agreed that a routine offer of screening should be introduced; and calls on the UK National Screening Committee to reconsider this decision and follow the example of countries such as the US, Argentina, France, Kenya and Slovenia who support screening of group B streptococcus.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 855open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 December 2012
That this House is concerned that bus passengers are being levied with grossly excessive and unchecked fare increases; notes recent figures from the Department for Transport showing the average UK bus fare increase was over 32 per cent in the last five years, when the inflationary rise was 18 per cent; is further concerned that in the last year alone hard pressed bus passengers have been hit by a 6.5 per cent fare increase, over twice the rate of inflation; further notes that over 1,300 bus services have been reduced or cut since May 2010, mainly as a result of cuts to public subsidy and local authority funding to the bus industry; further notes research by the RMT union that operating profits at bus companies increased on average by over seven per cent in each of the last five years, including a 7.6 per cent increase in 2011; is dismayed that despite buses accounting for two thirds of public transport journeys, including lifeline services for school children, pensioners and jobseekers, Government policy has ensured that bus operators can still make significant profits through fare rises and service cuts; and calls for an urgent review of bus policy, including whether the interests of passengers and communities could be better served by promoting the regulation and public ownership of bus services.