Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the answer of 14 November 2025 to UIN 87821, which 11 companies have olanzapine products which do not list lactose as an ingredient.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
The search that was carried out in November 2025 for UIN 87821 listed 11 companies. Accord UK Limited has since cancelled, as of 31 December 2025, its lactose free olanzapine licences, leaving 10 companies from the original list: Generics (UK) Limited; Nordic Pharma Limited; Dr Reddy’s Laboratories (UK) Limited; Milpharm Limited; Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Europe BV; Torrent Pharma (UK) Limited: Eramol (UK) Limited; Krka, Tovarna Zdravil, D.D., Novo Mesto; Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Europe Limited; and Neon Healthcare Limited.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to tackle regional disparities in access to specialist mental health support for parents following baby loss.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
We are committed to ensuring that all parents experiencing the devastating loss of a baby receive timely, equitable, and compassionate support, regardless of where they live.
Every National Health Service trust in England has signed up to the National Bereavement Care Pathway (NBCP), supporting the delivery of consistent, individualised, and sensitive bereavement care. NHS England is working with Sands to support faster and more consistent implementation, and the NBCP has been included in its Medium Term Planning Framework for 2026/27 to 2028/29.
To reduce regional variation, NHS England has funded all integrated care boards to establish seven-day bereavement services across maternity settings. Currently, 38 of 42 integrated care boards and 115 of 120 trusts offer this service.
Maternal mental health services are now available in all areas of England, providing specialist psychological support for women experiencing moderate-to-severe or complex mental health difficulties arising from baby loss. More parents than ever, including fathers and partners, accessed maternal mental health or specialist community perinatal mental health services in the year to April 2025.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to improve emergency maternity care in Slough.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
The Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is the provider of maternity services to the residents of Slough, through community midwifery, Frimley Park Hospital services, and Wexham Park Hospital services.
Since March 2026, a Day Assessment Unit has been in place to provide surveillance for high-risk pregnancies within a midwifery-led setting. This operates as a seven-day service and supports the availability of maternity triage services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for those presenting with acute concerns.
Service users at Wexham Park Hospital are able to access all areas of the maternity service via a dedicated telephone triage system, the MAMAS Line, introduced in 2022. Women are triaged using the nationally recognised Birmingham Symptom-Specific Obstetric Triage System (BSOTS). The trust continues to strengthen its application, including undertaking a BSOTS health check in May 2026 to ensure women are assessed according to clinical urgency and seen by the most appropriate clinician.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of legislation in ensuring workplaces are maintained at a reasonable temperature during periods of extreme heat.
Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government) (Equalities)
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 place an obligation on employers to provide a ‘reasonable’ temperature in indoor workplaces.
There is a legal obligation under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 for all employers to make a suitable assessment of the risks to the health and safety of their workers and take action where necessary to minimise those risks as far as reasonably practicable. This would include the risks from extreme weather events, such as heatwaves.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is progressing a wider review of the Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) for the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 to ensure it is fit for purpose for a modern workplace.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment has been made of the adequacy of (a) resources and (b) support available to women diagnosed with autism as adults.
Answered by Preet Kaur Gill
The Government is committed to supporting women with neurodevelopmental conditions, including autistic women. All autistic people, including women diagnosis should have the right support in place, tailored to their individual needs, to live well in their communities.
In December 2025, the Government launched the Independent Review into the Prevalence and Support for Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism. A central concern of the review is that access to recognition, diagnosis, and support is uneven.
This independent review will inform a new approach that reduces waiting times, improves the quality of care, and promotes prevention and early intervention. These goals and the review’s interim report support the Government’s special educational needs and disabilities reforms, which similarly aim to focus on identifying needs early, and providing early support to prevent needs escalating where possible.
The interim report, published in March 2026, found that access to diagnosis and support remains uneven, with some groups and individuals still under-identified, while others are entering diagnostic pathways in increasing numbers.
The next phase will examine inequalities in prevalence, diagnosis, support, and outcomes in more detail, including variation by age, sex, ethnicity, deprivation, and other characteristics.
The final report, due in the summer, will make recommendations on how the Government, the health system, and wider public services can respond to increasing demand for support more fairly and effectively so that people receive the right support, at the right time, in the right place.
The Renewed Women’s Health Strategy, published in April 2026, sets out how the Government will make women’s voices and choices central in healthcare, transform NHS performance in services that matter most to women, support all women to live healthy, prosperous lives and create an approach to research and development that works for and empowers women.We will establish the women’s voices partnership, a new space for organisations representing women to inform national decision making. The partnership will focus on women most excluded from traditional services. We will help reduce variation in how GPs listen to and respond to women, using GP Patient Survey data in a quality improvement programme. We will also be appointing a new national director of patient experience, who will be overseeing collection of enhanced patient and carer feedback and ensuring greater transparency in the views and experience of women and girls.
A range of work is underway to improve access to and support within health and care services. We are rolling out mandatory training to ensure that health and care staff have the right knowledge and skills to provide safe and informed care, as per the requirement introduced in the Health and Care Act 2022. NHS England is also rolling out a Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag so that information about the adjustments a person needs is recorded and care can be tailored appropriately.
Separately, we will develop and publish a revised cross-Government autism strategy. The current strategy will remain in effect until a revised strategy is published. This will be informed by all relevant evidence, reviews, and reports, including the recommendations from the House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Inquiry Committee report and the independent review into the prevalence and support for mental health conditions, ADHD, and autism.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of support available to members of the Armed Forces who are medically discharged to transition into civilian life.
Answered by Calvin Bailey - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 1 July 2026 to Question 12263 to the hon. Member for Mid Buckinghamshire (Greg Smith).
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-06-23/12263
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he is taking steps to standardise medical discharge pathways for veterans across the Armed Forces.
Answered by Calvin Bailey - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans and People)
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 1 July 2026 to Question 12263 to the hon. Member for Mid Buckinghamshire (Greg Smith).
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-06-23/12263
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether further guidance will be published on the PE and School Sport Partnerships Network for schools.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)
The department is currently procuring a National Delivery Partner to establish and manage the new PE and School Sport Partnership network.
Once this procurement process has concluded, we will be sharing further detail on how this new model will work. The National Delivery Partner, working closely with the government, will be responsible for on-going communication with schools and the wider sector.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the percentage uptake of lung cancer screenings for those invited in Slough constituency.
Answered by Sharon Hodgson
Uptake data is not collected or reported at constituency level.
Slough is covered by the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance. Since the start of the Targeted Lung Health Check programme in the Alliance area, 97,462 invitations have been issued and 45,492 people have attended a Lung Health Check appointment, representing an uptake rate of approximately 47%.
In the most recent 12-month period, uptake across the Thames Valley Cancer Alliance has improved to 53%.