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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Wednesday 9th July 2014

Asked by: Simon Kirby (Conservative - Brighton, Kemptown)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to increase the number of replies sent electronically to letters from hon. Members.

Answered by Dan Poulter

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my Rt. hon. Friend, the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Francis Maude), on 7 July 2014, Official Report, columns 5-6W.

Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 8th July 2014

Asked by: Simon Kirby (Conservative - Brighton, Kemptown)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the total number of ministerial replies from his Department to hon. Members in a parliamentary session; and what proportion of such replies are sent (a) by letter and (b) by email.

Answered by Dan Poulter

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my Rt. hon. Friend, the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Francis Maude), on 7 July 2014, Official Report, columns 5-6W.

A search of the Department's ministerial correspondence database has identified 17,068 ministerial replies sent to hon. Members in the 2013-14 parliamentary session. Of these, 16,687 were sent by letter and 201 were sent by email.

Written Question
Ministry of Defence: Equality
Thursday 8th May 2014

Asked by: Simon Kirby (Conservative - Brighton, Kemptown)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to relocate (a) staff and (b) offices of his Department to Brighton; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Dan Poulter

The Department has no plans to relocate Departmental offices or staff to Brighton.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Feb 2014
Children and Families Bill

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Feb 2014
Children and Families Bill

"Will the Minister assure me that if this amendment is passed, it will be only part of the solution and that we should continue to educate people of the dangers of passive smoking?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 14 Jan 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Last week, my son had to visit A and E in Brighton and spent the week in hospital. Will the Minister join me in thanking the hard-working doctors and nurses, including locums, in Brighton for their outstanding care and dedication, and for the excellent service they provide?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 20 Nov 2013
Gay-to-straight Conversion Therapy

"I want to place on the record the fact that I am proud to represent some 6,000 gay men in my constituency, and that conversion of any sort is unacceptable in this day and age...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Mar 2011
Oral Answers to Questions

"How can the Secretary of State ensure that HIV and sexual health services receive sufficient local political attention?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Dec 2010
Oral Answers to Questions

"5. On what date he expects to make an announcement on compensation for those infected by contaminated blood products supplied by the NHS...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 07 Dec 2010
Oral Answers to Questions

"I thank the Minister for his answer. Does he believe that, after all the years of inaction, that will draw a line under the matter?..."
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