Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has had discussions with NHS England on the potential merits of (a) lowering the thresholds for initiation of treatment for chronic hepatitis B and (b) expanding opt-out testing for blood borne viruses in areas estimated to have high prevalence of chronic hepatitis B relative to the rest of the country.
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to tackle pavement parking where alternatives are available; whether he has had discussions with city councils on the potential merits of prohibiting pavement parking where it is feasible; what assessment he has made of the minimum width of footway needed to be accessible for all disabled people; and whether he...
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent community pharmacy closures.
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many dogs have been destroyed by police since 2019.
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to increase the number of community policing teams in the West Midlands.
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department are taking steps to (a) support community-based organisations that work directly with at-risk populations to provide targeted HIV prevention and support services, (b) encourage research and development on HIV prevention, (c) encourage (i) social media platforms, (ii) influencers and (iii) celebrities to promote...
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent children being (a) exploited, (b) recruited into criminal organisations and (c) involved in knife crime in the West Midlands.
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of night work on (a) the level of risk of diagnosis with diabetes, (b) the level of risk of diagnosis with cardiovascular disease and (c) other health outcomes.
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on (a) consulting on the new name for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services, b) rebranding these services (i) digitally and (ii) physically on (A) signs and (B) official documents and (c) informing patients of this name change.
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with dementia are routinely offered the option of taking part in research.
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the second interim report of the Infected Blood Inquiry, published on 5 April 2023, what steps he is taking to respond to recommendation (k).
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains the Government's policy to reduce the prevalence of adult smoking to 5% or less by 2030.
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 17 April 2023, HCWS710, on Achieving Smokefree 2030: cutting smoking and stopping kids vaping, whether his Department has conducted modelling on the potential impact of the measures outlined in that statement on progress towards the target of reducing smoking rates to 5% or less by 2030.
Taiwo Owatemi: I thank the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr Walker) for securing this important debate, and I welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Selby and Ainsty (Keir Mather) to his place. I commend him for his outstanding maiden speech—he has made his constituents very proud tonight. Throughout this cost of living crisis, countless nurseries in my constituency of Coventry North West have struggled to...
Taiwo Owatemi: Will the Minister give way?
Taiwo Owatemi: There is a question: will the Minister return to my earlier question about whether he can come to the APPG to meet key pharmacy stakeholders?
Taiwo Owatemi: It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Mark. I thank the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) for securing this important debate and highlighting the challenges faced by the pharmacy sector. He spoke with great knowledge about many of the challenges around funding, and the opportunities for the pharmacy sector to address some of the primary care challenges faced by the NHS....
Taiwo Owatemi: I would like to start by thanking the Backbench Business Committee for granting this debate and the hon. Member for Edinburgh West (Christine Jardine) for sharing her own experiences, as well as for being a voice for so many children who feel forgotten during a difficult time. I rise to speak because this topic is very close to my heart. When I was at primary school, I lost my father. As for...
Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which constituencies the provision of temporary accommodation in hotels for asylum seekers is being reduced; and in which constituencies capacity in already used hotels is being increased.
Taiwo Owatemi: I have been contacted many times each month by parents left seriously out of pocket by their ex-spouses’ failure to pay child maintenance owed. What steps are the Government taking to ensure parents are able to receive their child maintenance on time so that many families are not left subjected to coercive control by their ex-spouses or left out of pocket?
