Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Road Safety Strategy, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of launching a public information campaign to raise awareness of recent changes to the Highway Code.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury

Following updates to the Highway Code in 2022, the department ran large-scale THINK! advertising campaigns to raise awareness of the changes.

Via the THINK! campaign, we are also running year-round radio filler adverts encouraging compliance with the guidance to improve safety for those walking, cycling and horse riding. We will also continue to promote the changes via THINK! and Department for Transport social media channels, as well as through partner organisations.

However, as set out in the Road Safety Strategy, more work is needed to continue embedding these changes and overall awareness of the Highway Code. We are considering options in this area, and further details will be shared in due course.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NHS England meets the 62-day referral to treatment target for patients diagnosed with rare eye cancers.

Answered by Sharon Hodgson - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

We know that people diagnosed with rare and less common cancers, including ocular melanoma, often face some of the poorest outcomes, and this is unacceptable. Specific diagnosis to treatment waiting time data is unavailable for ocular melanoma, however, we do collect data on the 28-day Faster Diagnosis Cancer Waiting Times Standard for the brain and central nervous system. The following table shows the percentage of suspected brain/central nervous system cancers that meet the 28-day Faster Diagnosis Cancer Waiting Times Standard, for January 2025 and January 2026, as well as the 12-month percentage change:

The recently published National Cancer Plan sets a clear ambition to meet all cancer waiting time standards, including the 62-day treatment standard, by the end of this Parliament, ensuring that patients get faster diagnosis and start treatment sooner. We will achieve this through a modernised, more productive cancer pathway, expanding diagnostic capacity and giving the most challenged trusts intensive support to deliver the improvements patients rightly expect.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the current average waiting time is for diagnosis to treatment for ocular melanoma.

Answered by Sharon Hodgson - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

We know that people diagnosed with rare and less common cancers, including ocular melanoma, often face some of the poorest outcomes, and this is unacceptable. Specific diagnosis to treatment waiting time data is unavailable for ocular melanoma, however, we do collect data on the 28-day Faster Diagnosis Cancer Waiting Times Standard for the brain and central nervous system. The following table shows the percentage of suspected brain/central nervous system cancers that meet the 28-day Faster Diagnosis Cancer Waiting Times Standard, for January 2025 and January 2026, as well as the 12-month percentage change:

The recently published National Cancer Plan sets a clear ambition to meet all cancer waiting time standards, including the 62-day treatment standard, by the end of this Parliament, ensuring that patients get faster diagnosis and start treatment sooner. We will achieve this through a modernised, more productive cancer pathway, expanding diagnostic capacity and giving the most challenged trusts intensive support to deliver the improvements patients rightly expect.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of amending the Social Security Administration (Representation) Regulations 1999 to allow appointees to manage child trust funds on behalf of mentally incapable young adults aged 18 and over.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The DWP appointee system gives access to social security benefits only. It does not give access to monies held in Child Trust Funds. Where the owner of the fund is incapable of accessing the funds themselves, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides for how a third party can do that on their behalf, namely, through the Court of Protection.

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what data his Department holds on the average time taken to complete a residential property purchase from offer acceptance to completion.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook - Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

My Department does not hold the information requested.

Protection and restoration of ancient woodland

Food Bill

Water sector reform

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Palantir and the NHS

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