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Written Question
NHS: Finance
Tuesday 25th March 2025

Asked by: Gagan Mohindra (Conservative - South West Hertfordshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how he plans to allocate the additional funding for the NHS announced in the Autumn Budget 2024.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Thanks to the choices the Chancellor made at the Budget, we are investing an additional £25.7 billion in health and care.

That includes funding that has already helped us to:

  • Agree the GP contract for the first time since the pandemic
  • Provide the biggest increase in hospice funding for a generation
  • Deliver the two million extra appointments we promised
  • And cut waiting lists for five months in a row - and counting

Written Question
Ambulance Services: Standards
Tuesday 6th December 2022

Asked by: Gagan Mohindra (Conservative - South West Hertfordshire)

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 reduce ambulance handover times.

Answered by Steve Barclay

Reducing handover delays and improving ambulance response times for patients is one of my top priorities. We are increasing hospital capacity by 7,000 beds and providing £500 million to increase patient discharges. NHS England is providing targeted support to hospitals facing the greatest delays to help get ambulances back on the road quickly.

Written Question
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Tuesday 23rd November 2021

Asked by: Gagan Mohindra (Conservative - South West Hertfordshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) multiple chemical sensitivity is a NHS recognised condition and (b) people affected by multiple chemical sensitivity are able to receive sufficient (i) support and (ii) treatment from the NHS.

Answered by Maggie Throup

Multiple chemical sensitivity is currently not a recognised condition. Anyone presenting to primary or secondary care services with symptoms associated with multiple chemical sensitivity such as nausea, headache, and dizziness will receive appropriate support, treatment and advice according to clinical need.