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1682848

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date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Motorcycles: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking the use case of large capacity L-Category vehicles into consideration when setting proposed phase-out dates for new non-zero emission (a) mopeds and (b) motorcycles.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	9983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The consultation on when to end the sale of new non-zero emission L-category vehicles was open to responses from 14 July to 21 September 2022 and supported by a thorough programme of stakeholder engagement, which is ongoing. The Department is now analysing the responses, including points raised on the use cases of these vehicles, and will bring forward the Government’s response in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 23/01/2024 13:18:16 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1682849

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Divorce: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which Ministers are responsible for reviewing the (a) law and (b) practice relating to the provision of support for children whose parents separate or divorce.
tabling member constituency	Worthing West
tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
uin	9984
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>Ministers work closely across government to support children, including those going through parental separation or divorce.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for private family law, which includes child arrangements upon separation, marriage and divorce. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the MoJ responsible for this is Lord Bellamy KC.</p><p>David Johnston MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing at the Department for Education, works closely with Lord Bellamy KC at the MoJ, including through jointly chairing the national Family Justice Board, which is focused on providing the best possible outcomes for the children and families that come into contact with the family justice system.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 25/01/2024 14:50:59 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

1682850

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Public Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he is taking steps to help increase access to public transport for people who (a) unemployed, (b) have a low household income and (c) cannot drive.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	10115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>The government has taken many steps to ensure that public transport is affordable for people across the country. These include the recent announcement of a further £1 billion, redirected from HS2 by reason of the Prime Minister’s Network North announcement, to deliver better bus services in the North and the Midlands. This funding will make services more frequent, more reliable, cheaper, and easier to use. This is part of over £4.5 billion announced by the government to support and improve bus services since 2020.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, in January 2023 the Department introduced the £2 cap on single bus fares in England outside of London, since extended until the end of 2024, taking total government funding to deliver the cap to nearly £600 million.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 25/01/2024 11:15:32 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1682852

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Farmers: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to help support the mental health of farmers during the transition from the Basic Payment Scheme to the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	10076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government is introducing ambitious new schemes for farmers and land managers in England, which will help their businesses become more productive and sustainable by rewarding them for farming in a way that will deliver environmental and animal welfare outcomes. We are also reforming the way we regulate, with greater emphasis on advice and improvement, so farmers and regulators work together to improve the countryside.</p><p> </p><p>We are providing support during the early years of the transition via the Future Farming Resilience Fund. One of the key required outcomes for the Resilience Fund is that farmers’ mental health and wellbeing are supported. Some delivery providers are offering this support from in-house experts and others are signposting support available from external expert services. We have worked with the Yellow Wellies charity, to provide advice and information on how to identify potential mental health issues and provide tools for addressing them.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 29/01/2024 11:57:05 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1682857

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Disadvantaged
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a statutory duty for combined authorities to form working groups on tackling disadvantage.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	10167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>Combined Authorities are already doing positive work to tackle all forms of disadvantage in their areas. The Government is committed to empowering local leadership of local issues and is not looking to enforce particular internal ways of working.</p> answering member constituency Redcar answering member printed Jacob Young question first answered 23/01/2024 11:32:38 answering member 4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1682858

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Women: Public Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State the Home Department, if his Department will (a) develop a definition of trauma-informed in relation to the delivery of public services to (i) women and (ii) girls and (b) publish a toolkit explaining the implications of that definition.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	10168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>Trauma informed practice is an innovative intervention to help frontline workers recognise and respond to trauma in the people they work with. It encourages a public health approach and effective multi-agency working, addresses barriers to accessing support, and reduces the potential for re-traumatisation.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care published their Women’s Health Strategy in July 2022, and committed to publishing a definition of trauma informed practice for use in the health and social care sector.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care published the working definition of trauma informed practice in November 2022, which provides the health and social care sector with a consistent foundation on which to build trauma-informed practice into their services and systems.</p><p> </p><p>To better understand the potential impact of taking a trauma informed approach, the Home Office is providing up to £4m towards the Youth Endowment Fund’s (YEF) trauma informed practice grant round.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 25/01/2024 17:55:28 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1682859

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that mental health services are accessible to women in all regions.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	10169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to investing £2.3 billion of extra funding a year in expanding and transforming mental health services by March 2024, enabling an extra two million people, including women, to be treated by mental health services within the National Health Service. In addition, we are investing £25 million to expand women’s health hubs.</p><p>We are expanding access to psychological and talking therapies within specialist perinatal mental health services. This expansion includes new Maternal Mental Health Services, which bring together psychological therapy, maternity services and reproductive health for women who have mental health needs following trauma or loss related to their maternity experience. These will be available across the whole of England by March 2024.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 23/01/2024 16:16:56 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1682860

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure women have accessible provision to (a) drug and alcohol and (b) mental health services.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	10170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s 10-year drug strategy, local authorities are receiving a record £532 million additional investment through to 2024/25 to improve drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services. This funding is in addition to the Public Health Grant and will improve the capacity and quality of drug and alcohol treatment, including improving women’s access to treatment, removing barriers they face and ensuring the care they receive is tailored to their needs.</p><p>As we move into the next phase of drug strategy delivery, the Department is increasingly focusing on supporting local areas, including better meeting the needs of women and vulnerable groups. Current work in relation to women and vulnerable groups includes providing targeted support to local areas; enhancing data tools to better inform local needs assessments; supporting workforce development; implementation of the commissioning quality standard and sharing good practice. Implementation support will adapt over the course of the 10-year strategy in response to need, to ensure we reach our goals.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to investing £2.3 billion extra funding a year in expanding and transforming mental health services by March 2024, enabling an extra two million men and women to be treated by NHS mental health services. In addition, we are investing £25 million to expand women’s health hubs. We are expanding access to psychological and talking therapies within specialist perinatal mental health services. This expansion includes new Maternal Mental Health Services, which bring together psychological therapy, maternity services and reproductive health for women who have mental health needs following trauma or loss related to their maternity experience. These will be available across the whole of England by March 2024.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/01/2024 17:58:24 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1682861

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to provide women and girls with trauma-informed preventative care through the criminal justice system.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	10171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2024 answer text <p>Our Female Offender Strategy and its Delivery Plan set out the steps we are taking to ensure we provide gender-specific and trauma responsive care to women at all stages of the system. The Delivery Plan is backed by almost £30m in investment to both improve community support for women in or at risk of contact with the criminal justice system, and improve outcomes for women in custody. Recognising that this requires cross-Government action, MoJ has worked closely with other Government departments and agencies to produce a National Concordat, including an agreed set of actions and desired outcomes to ensure a joined-up approach to addressing the challenges faced by women in the system.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the value of preventative care for those entering the criminal justice system at a young age. Turnaround is a youth early intervention programme led by the Ministry of Justice. The programme provides multi-year grant funding to Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) across England and Wales until March 2025, enabling them to intervene earlier and improve outcomes for children on the cusp of entering the youth justice system. From December 2022 to September 2023, YOTs report that we have had around 13,000 referrals, carried out 6,000 assessments, and started 5,200 interventions. Girls make up around one quarter of all referrals, which is higher than in YOT's usual statutory caseloads. Youth Justice practitioners have reported focusing on building positive, trusting relationships with girls through Turnaround, led by trauma-informed practice.</p><p> </p><p>We are also taking action to ensure that our response to violence against women and girls is robust, effective, and meeting the needs of victims. Critical to this is making sure that police and prosecutors have the right skills and knowledge to respond effectively to violence against women and girls. The CPS requires all prosecutors to complete training on domestic abuse, and has revised its guidance on Domestic Abuse, Stalking, and Controlling or Coercive Behaviour. The Government recognises the vital role that support services play in helping victims, including women and girls, during their engagement with the criminal justice system. This is why we are using additional ringfenced funding to increase the number of Independent Sexual Violence Advisors (ISVAs) and Independent Domestic Violence Advisors (IDVAs) by 300, to over 1000, by 2024/2025 – a 43% increase on the number of advisors over this spending review period.</p> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 25/01/2024 18:09:53 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1682862

registered interest
date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus : Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to ensure people diagnosed as medically vulnerable can access covid-19 vaccination regardless of the medication they are taking.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	10172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>The primary aim of the COVID-19 vaccination programme remains the prevention of severe disease, including hospitalisation and death, arising from COVID-19. The risk of developing severe COVID-19 continues to be strongly associated with increasing age and underlying health conditions.</p><p>In line with the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advice accepted by the Government, the offer of vaccination is therefore focused on those at greatest risk. In autumn 2023, this included all adults aged 65 years old and over and those aged six months to 64 years old in a clinical risk group, as defined in the UK Health Security Agency’s Green Book on immunisation.</p><p>This offer was open to all eligible individuals regardless of medication status. Clinicians can advise on individual circumstances, and anyone concerned should seek relevant advice.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 23/01/2024 16:27:33 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell