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Written Question
Tumour Treating Fields Therapy
Friday 5th August 2022

Asked by: Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrat - St Albans)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representations he has received from (a) NICE, (b) patient groups or (c) other bodies about making additional funds available for tumour-treating fields such as Optune.

Answered by James Morris

A search of the Department’s centralised correspondence database for 'tumour-treating fields' returns 16,051 cases. However, to identify specific cases relating to additional funding could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

On 30 March 2022, the Department responded to an e-petition on funding for OPTUNE brain cancer treatment for National Health Service patients, which is available at the following link:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/610898


Written Question
E-petitions
Monday 22nd June 2020

Asked by: Patrick Grady (Scottish National Party - Glasgow North)

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward proposals to enable the Petitions Committee to schedule debates based on petitions created on websites other than the UK Parliament e-petition website.

Answered by Jacob Rees-Mogg

The Government acknowledges the important role that petitions and debates on petitions play in allowing people to scrutinise the government on their own terms. The e-petitions website is jointly owned by Parliament and Government but is overseen by the House of Commons Petitions Committee. It is for the Petitions Committee to bring forward petitions for debate under Standing Order No. 10 (1)(a) and Standing Order No. 145A.


Written Question
Coroners
Tuesday 11th December 2018

Asked by: Jo Stevens (Labour - Cardiff Central)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate his Department has made of the number of coroners’ inquests that delivered a verdict of suicide in the cases of the deaths of former service men and women in 2017.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The Ministry of Justice collates statistics on inquest conclusions, including suicide, which are published annually. However, these are not currently sub-categorised in any way, other than by gender.

The Government’s approach to veteran suicides is set out in its response to the current e-petition which is available at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/225899.


Written Question
Coroners: Armed Forces
Thursday 11th October 2018

Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals for a duty on coroners to record whether an individual was a (a) veteran and (b) serving member of the armed forces.

Answered by Edward Argar - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The Government’s approach is set out in its response to the current e-petition on the recording of veterans’ suicides. The response was published on 5 September 2018 and is available at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/225899.


Written Question
Fireworks
Monday 29th January 2018

Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of trends in public opinion on the use of fireworks; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Andrew Griffiths

There has always been a strong interest in the issue of fireworks use and safety. The Department has a number of ways to gauge public opinion including correspondence from members of the public, participation in e-petitions and engagement with stakeholders. We are keen to hear from members of the public on this issue and an e-petition debate on fireworks is being held in Westminster Hall today.


Written Question
e-petitions
Friday 8th September 2017

Asked by: Cat Smith (Labour - Lancaster and Fleetwood)

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the e-petitions system; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The new e-petitions system has been running for over two years now and the Government is pleased with the level of engagement that it has prompted among the public.

The Parliamentary e-petitions site is jointly owned by the Government and the House of Commons, therefore any assessment of potential changes to the system would have to be agreed between the Government and the House. Individual Departments are responsible for the content and timeliness of responses to e-petitions and the Leader's office has general Government oversight of e-petitions.


Written Question
E-petitions
Friday 8th September 2017

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, how many times the e-petitions website was visited between 3 May 2017 to 4 September 2017.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

In the period of 3 May 2017 to 4 September 2017 the e-petitions website was visited 1,000,647 times.


Written Question
E-petitions
Friday 8th September 2017

Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, for what reasons petitions on the e-petitions website were not carried over from the beginning of purdah on 3 May 2017.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

The new Petitions Committee will consider petitions which reached the 100,000 threshold for debate as soon as it is set up.

As the petitions system is part of the official work of Parliament, it stops when Parliament dissolves. This applies not just to petitions but also to other kinds of business, such as parliamentary questions and early day motions.


Written Question
e-Petitions
Monday 5th December 2016

Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, what steps his Department is taking to assess potential changes to the system for e-petitions to ensure petitions submitted have evidential basis.

Answered by David Lidington

The Parliamentary e-petitions site is jointly owned by the Government and the House of Commons, therefore any assessment of potential changes to the system would have to be agreed between the Government and the House.

I have not had any discussions to assess such changes to the e-petitions system, however the hon. Member may find it reassuring to know that all petitions submitted are moderated by the staff of the Petitions Committee before being published and opened for signing by the public. The Committee staff ensure that all petitions adhere to the agreed standards which are clearly displayed on petition.parliament.uk. The final decision on the admissibility of an e-petition rests with the Petitions Committee itself.


Written Question
e-Petitions
Monday 12th September 2016

Asked by: Tania Mathias (Conservative - Twickenham)

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of Government responses to e-petitions.

Answered by David Lidington

The new e-petitions system has been running for over a year now and the Government is pleased with the level of engagement that it has prompted among the public.

Individual Departments are responsible for the content and timeliness of responses to e-petitions, however the Leader's office has general Government oversight of e-petitions. My predecessor reminded Cabinet colleagues of the importance of quality and timely responses to e-petitions at the beginning of the second session. I will be writing to Cabinet colleagues this week with a similar reminder.