Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs there were in Widnes each year since 2020.
Answered by Stephen Kinnock - Secretary of State for Wales
The following table shows full time equivalent (FTE) doctors in general practice in Widnes and Halewood constituency in the period between March 2020 and March 2026:
Date | All doctors in general practice | Fully qualified general practitioners | General practitioners in training grades |
March 2020 | 37.2 | 31.9 | 5.3 |
March 2021 | 40.2 | 33.4 | 6.8 |
March 2022 | 41.8 | 34.4 | 7.4 |
March 2023 | 42.5 | 34.0 | 8.5 |
March 2024 | 34.7 | 28.5 | 6.2 |
March 2025 | 40.2 | 31.9 | 8.3 |
March 2026 | 42.5 | 34.4 | 8.1 |
Source: NHS England
Notes:
Data does not include estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records.
Data does not include general practitioners (GPs) employed directly by primary care networks (PCNs) as PCNs may operate across constituency boundaries.
FTE refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time. In GPs in Training Grade contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours and in this table these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours for consistency.
Figures shown do not include staff working in Prisons, Army Bases, Educational Establishments, Specialist Care Centres including Drug Rehabilitation Centres, Walk-In Centres and other alternative settings outside of traditional general practice such as urgent treatment centres and minor injury units.
Practices in Widnes and Halewood constituency were identified using the practice postcode and the National Statistics Postcode Lookup.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the levels of sewage inflow into the River Mersey.
Answered by Emma Hardy - Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Environment Agency’s 2025-2030 Water Industry National Environment Programme is assessing risks from storm overflows in the Mersey catchment. The programme requires United Utilities to investigate the impact of over 450 storm overflows and to complete three investigations aimed at developing a catchment scale approach to reducing sewage discharges.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what has been the average time delay for Avanti West Coast trains in each of the five years up to and including 2025.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department does not routinely hold this data. It is the responsibility of train operating companies to collect this information. Wider performance data is however publicly available through The Office of Rail and Road's data portal. This can be found at: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/.
Whilst the question refers to calendar years, railway performance information is presented in four-weekly rail periods as standard.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many documents an SME has to complete before being considered eligible to bid for contracts with his Department.
Answered by Luke Pollard - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
The specific accreditation requirements placed on a supplier will vary from contract to contract, but will typically include the need to provide cyber security certification, financial records and appropriate insurance.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Avanti West Coast trains have been delayed between Liverpool and London each of the five years up to and including 2025.
Answered by Keir Mather - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department does not routinely hold this data. It is the responsibility of train operating companies to collect this information. Although not on a line of route basis, wider performance data is publicly available through the Office of Rail and Road's data portal. This can be found at: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/performance/passenger-rail-performance/.
Whilst the question refers to calendar years, railway performance information is presented in four-weekly rail periods as standard.
Asked by: Derek Twigg (Labour - Widnes and Halewood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for patients to receive results from a CT scan at each acute hospital Trust in England as at 1 June 2026.
Answered by Sharon Hodgson
The average waiting time for patients to receive diagnostic results is tracked and published using the Diagnostic Imaging Dataset (DIDS).
The median number of days from request to test for diagnostic imaging, including computed tomography scans, for 2025/26 is available on table two at the following link:
This covers diagnostic imaging in all settings, including emergency referrals, which in most cases would have been delivered on the same day. Data from June 2026 is not yet available, but NHS England is implementing improvements to DIDS in 2026/27 and data for May will be published in due course.