Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration has been given to changing NHS policy so that the possibility of a second transplant is assessed individually for relapses within 12 months of an allogeneic stem cell transplant.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England does not routinely collect or hold data on the number of patients with blood cancer who do not meet the eligibility criteria set out in its clinical commissioning policies, the numbers who have not been funded to receive treatment under the current commissioning policy, or the number of patients whose disease relapsed under 12 months of a first allogeneic-hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
NHS England recognises the seriousness of relapse following a stem cell transplant and is actively reviewing the current policy, working with clinicians, patients, and charities to assess the latest available evidence. A revised draft policy is expected to undergo stakeholder testing in the new year, with final decisions currently anticipated in late spring 2027.
The ongoing review will consider the latest peer-reviewed clinical evidence, alongside clinical benefit, patient safety, affordability, and the opportunity cost of any new investment. Any changes to commissioning arrangements will be considered through NHS England's established policy development process, which includes an independent evidence review, expert clinical input, patient and public involvement, and stakeholder testing. Stakeholders will have the opportunity to comment on the draft policy through a formal stakeholder testing process before any final decisions are made.
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending the list of medical conditions which provide exemption from the prescription charges to include rheumatoid arthritis.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 18 August in response to Question 18253.
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is she taking to improve the palliative care for terminally ill hospital patients that cannot be transferred to a hospice or into the care of end-of-life charities, and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing fit-for-purpose mini hospices in NHS hospitals to aid the improvement of end-of-life palliative care services.
Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 20 July 2026 in response to Question 18732.
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans her department has to introduce the Omavelexolone treatment for Friedrich’s Ataxia in the NHS.
Answered by James Frith - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 29 June 2026 to Question 11724.
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether assessments are being carried out on wildfire risk and management for areas where open or agricultural land adjoins to residential communities; whether environmental land-management schemes adequately take account of extreme wildfire conditions; and what steps her Department is taking to help farmers and agricultural landowners manage wildfire risks.
Answered by Jenny Riddell-Carpenter - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Responsibility for assessing local risks, including wildfire risk, sits with local responders under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Local Resilience Forums bring together emergency services, local authorities, health bodies and other partners to assess local risks and develop, maintain and exercise multi-agency emergency plans.
Local Resilience Forums are expected to consider risks relevant to their local area, including where environmental and land-use factors may increase the potential impact of incidents on nearby communities. Risk assessments and preparedness arrangements are therefore tailored to local circumstances and informed by local evidence.
Environmental Land Management schemes already support a range of actions that can help reduce wildfire risk and improve resilience, for example Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier includes options for wildfire planning, fire and fuel breaks, and fire belts. Defra has also introduced temporary adjustments to Environmental Land Management revenue agreements in response to the exceptionally hot and dry conditions experienced this year, including measures to support the creation of fire breaks.
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what consideration she has given to lowering the screening age for breast cancer to women aged twenty and above.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 6 July in response to Question 13406.
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will consider introducing temperature regulations for the housing of animals in (a) testing and (b) vivisection breeding facilities, including the establishment of maximum and minimum temperature thresholds.
Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Government does not currently plan to introduce statutory maximum and minimum temperature ranges for each species housed in establishments licensed under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.
The statutory Code of Practice requires establishments to maintain conditions that protect the welfare of animals in their care. This allows environmental conditions to be appropriate to variable requirements within a species, for example according to factors such as age, health, housing, acclimatisation and the nature of the procedures being undertaken.
Further guidance is available to establishments in the Advisory Standards, which provide suggested (non-mandatory) temperature ranges for different species, and their named persons. The regulatory framework therefore combines relevant numerical guidance with outcome-based requirements. Establishments must monitor environmental conditions and animal welfare, assess the risks arising from temperature extremes, and take prompt corrective action where necessary.
Compliance is assessed against the Act, licence conditions and the Code of Practice, including whether an establishment’s monitoring, contingency arrangements and response protect animal welfare in practice.
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on (a) how many individuals are awaiting installation of an electronic monitoring device in each police force area, (b) the average waiting time, and (c) the number of outstanding installation visits.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
While the Ministry of Justice centrally holds and publishes data about individuals without electronic monitoring equipment and the reasons for this, the reasons do not distinguish between those who are awaiting installation from those who are not (due to being without equipment for other reasons such as recently returning to custody).
The Ministry of Justice works closely with the service provider to monitor a suite of performance indicators including timeliness of equipment installation attempts. A number of contractual levers exist where performance falls below contractual expectations.
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on how many individuals in each police force area are subject to electronic monitoring, broken down by licence, community order, suspended sentence order and bail requirement.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
Data on the total number of individuals assigned with electronic monitoring (EM) equipment by cohort as at 30 June 2026 can be found in the department’s latest published statistics on EM : Electronic Monitoring Statistics Publication, June 2026 - GOV.UK.
A further breakdown of this data by police force area has been provided in Table 1 below. This is derived from the same underlying data and constitutes a subset of the published statistics as at 30 June 2026 (linked above).
Table 1: Number of individuals assigned with EM equipment by region and cohort, 30 June 2026
Month | Police Force Area | Court Bail | Court Sentence | Immigration | Post Release | TOTAL |
30/06/2026 | Avon and Somerset | 120 | 130 | 70 | 280 | 600 |
30/06/2026 | Bedfordshire | 180 | 50 | 70 | 150 | 450 |
30/06/2026 | Cambridgeshire | 80 | 50 | 60 | 130 | 320 |
30/06/2026 | Cheshire | 80 | 90 | 20 | 220 | 410 |
30/06/2026 | Cleveland | 80 | 70 | 30 | 140 | 320 |
30/06/2026 | Cumbria | 30 | 60 | 10 | 100 | 200 |
30/06/2026 | Derbyshire | 90 | 60 | 40 | 220 | 410 |
30/06/2026 | Devon & Cornwall | 100 | 90 | 40 | 190 | 420 |
30/06/2026 | Dorset | 60 | 30 | 20 | 100 | 210 |
30/06/2026 | Durham | 80 | 30 | 10 | 150 | 270 |
30/06/2026 | Dyfed-Powys | 30 | 40 | 10 | 60 | 140 |
30/06/2026 | Essex | 370 | 140 | 100 | 380 | 990 |
30/06/2026 | Gloucestershire | 20 | 50 | 30 | 70 | 170 |
30/06/2026 | Greater Manchester | 660 | 180 | 240 | 650 | 1,730 |
30/06/2026 | Gwent | 50 | 50 | 10 | 140 | 250 |
30/06/2026 | Hampshire | 250 | 100 | 70 | 230 | 650 |
30/06/2026 | Hertfordshire | 120 | 50 | 50 | 140 | 360 |
30/06/2026 | Humberside | 80 | 60 | 40 | 180 | 360 |
30/06/2026 | Kent | 350 | 170 | 90 | 340 | 950 |
30/06/2026 | Lancashire | 300 | 150 | 80 | 440 | 970 |
30/06/2026 | Leicestershire | 100 | 30 | 80 | 150 | 360 |
30/06/2026 | Lincolnshire | 40 | 30 | 30 | 100 | 200 |
30/06/2026 | London, City of | - | - | - | - | - |
30/06/2026 | Merseyside | 160 | 130 | 70 | 540 | 900 |
30/06/2026 | Metropolitan Police | 2,470 | 570 | 1,070 | 1,300 | 5,410 |
30/06/2026 | Norfolk | 120 | 60 | 40 | 80 | 300 |
30/06/2026 | North Wales | 20 | 130 | 10 | 170 | 330 |
30/06/2026 | North Yorkshire | 30 | 40 | - | 70 | 140 |
30/06/2026 | Northamptonshire | 100 | 50 | 60 | 120 | 330 |
30/06/2026 | Northern Ireland | - | - | 50 | - | 50 |
30/06/2026 | Northumbria | 200 | 70 | 40 | 240 | 550 |
30/06/2026 | Nottinghamshire | 160 | 60 | 70 | 330 | 620 |
30/06/2026 | Scotland | - | - | 120 | - | 120 |
30/06/2026 | South Wales | 110 | 100 | 50 | 370 | 630 |
30/06/2026 | South Yorkshire | 150 | 50 | 100 | 210 | 510 |
30/06/2026 | Staffordshire | 170 | 60 | 40 | 220 | 490 |
30/06/2026 | Suffolk | 50 | 70 | 20 | 100 | 240 |
30/06/2026 | Surrey | 120 | 50 | 30 | 100 | 300 |
30/06/2026 | Sussex | 140 | 80 | 60 | 170 | 450 |
30/06/2026 | Thames Valley | 240 | 160 | 140 | 360 | 900 |
30/06/2026 | Warwickshire | 50 | 20 | 20 | 110 | 200 |
30/06/2026 | West Mercia | 140 | 70 | 30 | 150 | 390 |
30/06/2026 | West Midlands | 850 | 190 | 270 | 940 | 2,250 |
30/06/2026 | West Yorkshire | 370 | 180 | 170 | 470 | 1,190 |
30/06/2026 | Wiltshire | 40 | 30 | 20 | 60 | 150 |
30/06/2026 | Unknown | 60 | 40 | 370 | 190 | 660 |
Table notes:
All figures have been rounded to the nearest 10. Where a figure is 0, or is rounded to 0, this will be shown as "-". The total caseload is a total of the rounded cohort figures shown.
These figures are drawn from administrative data systems provided by contractors. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in individual-level administrative data.
The "Unknown" region reflects the small proportion of individuals in the caseload who do not have recorded location data.
Figures exclude special orders.
The "Total" column reflects total counts across the cohorts. Due to rounding, the total counts for each cohort across the regions may differ slightly from the total counts nationally for that cohort.
Further information on counting rules and methodology can be found in the linked statistical publication.
Asked by: Bradley Thomas (Conservative - Bromsgrove)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on (a) how many electronic monitoring breaches were recorded in each police force area during the latest 12-month period, and (b) of the breaches recorded, how many resulted in (i) enforcement action, (ii) recall to custody, (iii) arrest, (iv) prosecution and (v) no further action.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
The Ministry of Justice does not hold data on individual police forces. However, the Department works closely with the National Police Chiefs Council through a dedicated liaison embedded in HMPPS on a range of common challenges, including Electronic Monitoring of bail cases.
The Ministry of Justice does not hold data centrally on electronic monitoring breaches or outcomes of these breaches.