Written answers

Friday, 23 December 2022

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

    • Housing: Feltham and Heston

      To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many homes in Feltham and Heston constituency with cavity walls have been insulated as of 31 October 2022.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Medical Records: Data Protection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on the sharing of personal health data with organisations outside the NHS (a) with and (b) without a...

    • Department of Health and Social Care: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s publication of electronic purchasing card spending over £500, for what purpose his...

      Medical Records: Data Protection

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of provisions in the Data Protection and Digital...

      Mental Illness: Prisoners

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prisoners have been diagnosed with a mental illness in the last 12 months.

      Medicine: Research

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve data management to help the carrying out of longitudinal studies on the impact of medical and surgical...

      Mental Health Services: Females

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Women's Health Strategy, whether he has had meetings with stakeholders in mental health on improving healthcare...

      Department of Health and Social Care: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason his Department's spending by electronic purchasing card solution over £500 for August 2022, published on 11 November...

      Mental Health: Females

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken in helping to improve women’s mental health in ensuring that the different experiences of women...

      Department of Health and Social Care: Incentives

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2022 to Question 97502 on Department of Health and Social Care: Incentives, whose commercial...

      Mental Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in reference to page 92 of the Women’s Health Strategy, following the analysis of the call for written evidence submissions, what...

      Surgery: City of Durham

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of cancelled operations in the City of Durham in the last 12 months.

      Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the uptake of HPV vaccination was for every year since 2015.

      Maternity Services: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the budget for NHS maternity services is for 2022/23; and how much was spent on the provision of maternity services in each of the...

      Mental Health Services: Prisoners' Release

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what mental health support is available to former prisoners after their release; and if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of...

      NHS: Strikes

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential risk to patient care from industrial action in the NHS.

      Department of Health and Social Care: Trade

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many staff in his Department have been allocated to deal with issues related to international trade in (a) each of the past five...

      Department of Health and Social Care: Carbon Emissions

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when they expect their Department to be carbon neutral in its day-to-day operations.

      NHS: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to establish clear and transparent processes for the selection of criteria for the procurement of NHS...

      NHS: Waiting Lists

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the backlog in maintenance issues within the NHS on the...

      Department of Health and Social Care: Vacancies

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if they will list the five teams in their Department with the highest number of staffing vacancies as a percentage of staff as of 8...

      NHS: Ict

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of current IT systems and services within the NHS.

      Department of Health and Social Care: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department spent in 2021 on purchasing goods and services with a value of less than £500 on a government procurement card.

      Wexham Park Hospital

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to make additional resources available to Wexham Park Hospital.

      Department of Health and Social Care: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s publication of government procurement card spending over £500 for May 2021, for what...

      NHS: Accountancy

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's policy is on the accounting treatment of assets acquired by the NHS after the end of the term of a Private Finance...

      Department of Health and Social Care: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s publication of government procurement card spending over £500 for May 2021, for what...

      Ambulance Services: Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is her Department's policy that army personnel operating civilian ambulances in an emergency will be exempted from (a)...

      Department of Health and Social Care: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s publication of government procurement card spending over £500 for May 2021, for what...

      NHS: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on consultants for the personal protective equipment programme, including costs associated with the...

      NHS: Ict

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing minimum IT standards across the NHS.

      NHS: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2022 to Question 78673 on NHS: Protective Clothing, what proportion of the 7.4 billion items of...

      NHS: Procurement

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking taking to establish clear mechanisms to handle disputes in the procurement of NHS services.

      NHS: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many civil servants does his Department employ to manage the disposal of Personal Protective Equipment.

      Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill on (a) the transparent use of...

      Teplizumab

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with his counterpart in the United States on Teplizumab; and (b) what stage Teplizumab is at in the...

      Health Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans that the new NHS Provider Selection Regime will be implemented and associated guidance published.

      NHS: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department has spent on external legal advice to support the personal protective equipment programme since 6 June 2022.

      NHS England

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the performance of the non-executive board members of NHS England and Improvement.

      NHS: Protective Clothing

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant the Answer 15 November 2022 to Question 83599 on NHS: Protective Clothing, when he plans to publish details of legal fees for...

      NHS: Ict

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what computer operating systems are currently in use in the NHS.

      Hospices: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that funding for children’s hospices working across multiple Integrated Care...

      Dental Services: Autism and Learning Disability

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the new clinical standards to improve access to dental care for children and young people with a (a) learning disability and (b)...

      General Practitioners: Barking and Dagenham

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding the NHS allocated to the following General Practice Surgeries, (a) Abbey Medical Centre, (b) Aurora Medcare, (c) Barking...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter of 3 November 2022 from the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton and others on an Independent Review of...

      Dental Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to integrated care boards to help them provide access to NHS dentistry in their area for (a)...

      Mental Health Services: Expenditure

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Family Hubs and the Start for Life programme, what proportion of the £100 million allocated for bespoke...

      Dental Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether integrated care boards are allowed to deliver NHS dentistry through NHS Trusts.

      Dental Services

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new dental practices offering NHS appointments have opened in each year since 2015.

      Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to place on a statutory footing the Essex Mental Health Independent Inquiry into the deaths of mental health...

      Dentistry

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the percentage of newly qualified dentists entering private practice; and whether his Department has...

      Contraceptives

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for contraception services; and whether his Department has plans to review funding...

      Vitamin D

      To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of the consumption of daily Vitamin D supplements.

  • Department for Education

    • Special Educational Needs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to Ofsted Annual Report 2021/22: education, children’s services and skills, published 13 December 2022, what assessment she has...

    • Special Educational Needs

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help improve health and social care services' (a) engagement with and (b) support for children and families as...

      Foster Care: Higher Education

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support children in foster care to attain a university education.

      Children: Food Poverty

      To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to help provide access to food over the Christmas holidays for school children who live in food poverty.

  • Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

    • Huang Qi

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussion he has had with his Chinese counterparts on the arrest and continued detention of independent...

    • Jana Majdi Issam Assaf

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he plans to raise the killing of 15-year-old Jana Majdi Issam Assaf in Jenin with his Israeli counterparts.

      Development Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what mechanisms his Department has in place to assess the conflict-sensitivity of humanitarian and development...

      Ghana: Personal Income

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of whether the Ghanaian Government has achieved its Millennium Development...

      Afghanistan: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many staff in his Department are working on the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (a) as of 12 December and...

      Afghanistan: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is aware of any instances of people who have died since expressing an interest in Pathway 3...

      Afghanistan: Refugees

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many of the expressions of interest received for pathway 3 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme have...

      British Indian Ocean Territory: Sovereignty

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of potential changes in the sovereignty of the...

      Israel: Palestinians

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussion he has had with his counterpart in Israel on the rights of people in Palestinian.

      Salah Hamouri

      To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to the Government of Israel on the threatened revocation of Salah Hammouri’s...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • Military Aid

      To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many regular (a) Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Air Force personnel conducted at least one day’s duty assigned to Military Aid to Civil...

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    • Environment Agency: Finance

      To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what funding his Department has made available to the Environment Agency to (a) monitor and (b) classify bathing water in...

  • Home Office

    • Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 , if she will take steps to transfer unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to the UK.

    • Migrants: Detainees

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when they expect the Kings Arms Project to publish the Alternatives To Detention report.

      Slavery: British Nationality

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the specific needs of British national victims of modern slavery and the pathways and...

      Members: Correspondence

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to respond to the email of 25 October 2022 from the hon. Member for Liverpool Walton relating to Saber Ali Hamad.

      Asylum: Children

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what funding the Government provides to local authorities which are required to look after unaccompanied minors who are claiming asylum; and...

      Asylum: Local Government

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department undertook on the ability of local authorities to support numerous asylum seekers located within the local...

      Asylum: Temporary Accommodation

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her medium term plan is for accommodation for asylum seekers.

      Visas: Ukraine

      To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the waiting time is for visas for family members of Ukrainian nationals who have been granted leave to remain in the UK; and whether...

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

    • Weather: Damage

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to local authorities of dealing with damage caused by the increased...

    • Elections: Proof of Identity

      To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what assessment has he made on feasibility of bringing in Voter ID for local elections in May 2023.

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

    • FIFA: Equality

      To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government has made representations to the FIFA President on his remarks on equality and inclusion on 20 November 2022.

  • Home Office

    • Immigration

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many Home Office immigration decisions were made in (1) 2017/18, (2) 2018/19, (3) 2019/20, (4) 2020/21, and (5) 2021/22; and how many such decisions were...

    • Mike Veale

      To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the Independent Office for Police Conduct about the timing for the publication of the report on Mr Mike Veale, which was...

      Trespass

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many protected sites had been designated under section 128 of the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 as of 1 June.

      British National (Overseas): Visas

      To ask His Majesty's Government how many British National (Overseas) visas have been issued since the visa scheme was launched; and how many of those have settled in the UK.

  • Department for Education

    • Special Educational Needs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what is the average waiting time between requesting an assessment and an Education, Health and Care Plan being issued; which local authorities have the longest...

  • Ministry of Defence

    • F-35 Aircraft: Early Warning Systems

      To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Goldie on 12 December (HL3834), what is the definition of Full Operational Capability of Carrier Strike.

    • Military Bases: Omagh

      To ask His Majesty's Government what expenditure was incurred between 2007 and 2021 on (1) security, and (2) maintenance, at St Lucia Barracks in Omagh, County Tyrone.

  • Department of Health and Social Care

    • Hypothyroidism: Prescriptions

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to direct NHS England to ensure that when patients are (1) currently prescribed, and (2) previously prescribed, Armour Thyroid medicine for...

    • Cancer: Radiotherapy

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to improve access to radiotherapy treatments for cancer patients.

      Prescription Drugs: Shortages

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to resolve current supply issues limiting the availability of many prescription medicines, including antibiotics for the treatment of...

      Cancer: Health Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to increase cancer treatment capacity in line with current demand.

      Health: Disadvantaged

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to track and reduce health inequalities in highly specialised NHS services.

      Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to maintain the UK’s international leadership on tackling antimicrobial resistance by building on the momentum generated...

      Brain Cancer: Health Services

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve after care for patients who have received surgery for the treatment of brain tumours.

      NHS: Drugs

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the standards set by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Professional Standards for Homecare Services in England, published...

      Malnutrition: Screening

      To ask His Majesty's Government why screening of malnutrition is not standard practice in all health settings across England.

      Hypothyroidism: Prescriptions

      To ask His Majesty's Government what alternative medicine will be made available to patients for the treatment of hypothyroidism in the event that (1) Liothyronine (T3), and (2) Levothyroxine...

      NHS: Finance

      To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to identify the range of costs among NHS acute hospital providers for (1) routine (a) hip, (b) knee, and (c) cataract, operations, (2)...

      Aircraft: Air Conditioning

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of exposure to engine oil and hydraulic fluid among airline crews; and what plans they have to fund research into the issue of...

      Aviation: Pregnancy

      To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of whether exposure to synthetic jet engine oil and hydraulic fluids or their decomposition products poses any risk to unborn children.

      NHS: Private Sector

      To ask His Majesty's Government what, if any, central contracts have been let by NHS England with independent care providers to increase NHS (1) diagnostic, and (2) elective surgery, capacity;...

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