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1725695

	registered interest
	date	30/08/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Adult Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Adult Skills Fund to cover learning (a) primarily and (b) solely for leisure purposes.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	3053
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2024 answer text <p>The government has devolved and delegated approximately 60% of the adult skills fund (ASF) to the 9 Mayoral Combined Authorities of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, North East, South Yorkshire, Tees Valley, West Midlands, West of England, West Yorkshire and the Greater London Authority. The authorities are now responsible for the provision of adult education and allocation of the ASF in their local areas and it is for them to decide how they wish to prioritise funding.</p><p> </p><p>In the remainder of England, the department continues to be responsible for adult skills funding. Within the ASF, the department will not fund provision where the primary or sole intent of the learning is for leisure.</p><p> </p><p>The government has to take difficult decisions on where to prioritise funding. Given the economic and social challenges in the country, it is right that the primary purpose of the ASF is to support learners into employment and to progress to further learning. The ASF also supports wider outcomes including improving health and wellbeing, equipping parents and carers to support their child’s learning and developing stronger and more integrated communities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewisham East answering member printed Janet Daby question first answered 06/09/2024 15:28:26 answering member 4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1713468

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2024
	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	Social Services: Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has issued recent guidance to integrated care boards on their role in assessing the mental and emotional health of young people entering care using a person qualified to assess mental health as part of the initial health assessment.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	23541
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The statutory guidance, Promoting the health and wellbeing of looked after children, published in 2015, reflects the requirement that the relevant local authority must make arrangements for the initial health assessment to be carried out by a registered medical professional who is suitably qualified to assess a young person's physical, emotional, and mental health needs.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 29/04/2024 16:29:40 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1713080

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2024
	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	Housing: Construction
	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 updating the National Planning Policy Framework to enable local planning authorities to use the most recent Office for National Statistics household projections in the standard method of calculating local housing need.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	23262
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2024 answer text <p>A review of the standard method formula was undertaken in 2020. As part of the consultation, we asked if we should incorporate more recent household projections data into the formula. Following careful consideration of the responses received, to provide stability and certainty for local authorities and other stakeholders we decided to retain the existing formula.</p><p>We have kept the standard method under review. Through a consultation on changes to national policy held in 2022/23 we committed to review our approach to assessing housing needs once new household projections data, based on the 2021 Census, is released in 2025.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 26/04/2024 08:48:06 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1701581

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Grants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing non-repayable maintenance grants for higher education students from the least advantaged backgrounds.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	22095
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>The government believes that income contingent student loans are a fair and sensible way of financing higher education (HE). It is only right that those who benefit from the system should make a fair contribution to its costs. The government have continued to increase maximum loans and grants for living and other costs for undergraduate and postgraduate students each year, with a 2.8% increase for the 2023/24 academic year and a further 2.5% increase announced for 2024/25.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the government have frozen maximum tuition fees for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years. By 2024/25, maximum fees will have been frozen for seven successive years. The department believe that the current fee freeze achieves the best balance between ensuring that the system remains financially sustainable, offering good value for the taxpayer, and reducing debt levels for students in real terms.</p><p> </p><p>The government understands the pressures people have been facing with the cost of living and has taken action to help. The government have already made £276 million of student premium and mental health funding available for the 2023/24 academic year to support successful outcomes for students including disadvantaged students.</p><p> </p><p>The government have also made a further £10 million of support available to help student mental health and hardship funding for the 2023/24 academic year. This funding will complement the help universities are providing through their own bursary, scholarship and hardship support schemes. For the 2024/25 financial year, the government have increased the Student Premium (full-time, part-time, and disabled premium) by £5 million to reflect high demand for hardship support. Further details of this allocation for the academic year 2024/25 will be announced by the Office for Students in the summer.</p><p> </p><p>Overall, support to households to help with the high cost of living is worth £108 billion over 2022/23 to 2024/25, which is an average of £3,800 per UK household. The government believes this will have eased the pressure on family budgets, which will in turn enable many families to provide additional support to their children in HE to help them meet increased living costs.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 19/04/2024 10:24:10 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1699200

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Horse Riding
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the safety of (a) horses and (b) horse riders on roads.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	20740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government takes the safety of horse riders and other vulnerable road users very seriously and is committed to reducing the number of people killed or seriously injured on England’s roads.</p><p> </p><p>Following Parliamentary approval, The Highway Code was updated on 29 January 2022 to include changes to improve safety for cyclists, pedestrians and horse riders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 15/04/2024 11:18:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1697346

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2024
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Maternal Mortality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to help reduce maternal mortality.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	902133
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>At the Spring Budget, the Government announced £35m over the next three years to improve maternity safety across England.</p><p>This is in addition to our three-year maternity plan, backed by £186m per year from April. Through this, we have introduced 14 maternal medicine networks to provide specialist advice to pregnant women, and we expect all CSs to have a Maternal Mental Health Service by the end of the month.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 20/03/2024 15:22:08 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1695894

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2024
	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	Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what her planned timetable is for making a decision on redress for people affected by mesh implants following the publication of The Hughes Report on 7 February 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	18548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government commissioned the Patient Safety Commissioner (PSC) to produce a report on redress for those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. We are grateful to the PSC and her team for completing this report, and our sympathies remain with those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. The Government is now carefully considering the PSC’s recommendations, and will respond substantively in due course.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 18/03/2024 10:34:57 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1687063

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2024
	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	Care Homes: Kent
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many adult social care residential care home places there were in (a) Kent and (b) Canterbury in each year since 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	12842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) publish the CQC Care Directory annually, which lists the number of care home registrations in the adult social care sector. This includes the number of care home beds, with or without nursing. The following table shows the number of CQC registered care home beds for Kent, on 1 January of each year from 2015 onwards:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Registered Care Home Beds</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>15,198</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>15,131</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>14,406</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>14,590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>14,431</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>14,610</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>14,586</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>14,598</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>14,543</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024</p></td><td><p>14,638</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of care home beds for Canterbury, on 1 January of each year from 2015 onwards:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Registered Care Home Beds</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>943</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>980</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>973</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>1,020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>1,025</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>1,007</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>984</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>976</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024</p></td><td><p>1,087</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note: This data is also from the CQC Care Directory but cross-referenced with postcode data to identify care home beds in Canterbury with or without nursing.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 07/02/2024 17:39:50 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1684795

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Dental Services: Cancer
	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 has made an assessment of the potential relationship between the availability of NHS dentistry appointments and patient access to bone-strengthening medication to treat cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	11405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>Whilst the Department has not made a formal assessment, some integrated care boards (ICBs) may be looking at this, using the flexible commissioning model opportunity to meet the needs of their populations. Cancer services remain a priority for ICBs.</p><p>The Government has implemented a package of reforms to improve access to National Health Service dental care, which has had an effect with more patients being seen and a 23% increase in NHS activity in the past year. We know we need to do more, and the Department’s Dentistry Recovery Plan will be published shortly, setting out a big package of change.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 29/01/2024 09:47:26 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1684796

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Dangerous Dogs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many applications his Department has received for certificates of exemption to keep an American Bully XL type dog in (a) Canterbury constituency and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Canterbury
	tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
	uin	11406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>Defra received over 61,000 applications for Certificates of Exemption ahead of the deadline from dog owners in England and Wales. These applications are still being processed and may include duplicates, errors or ineligible applications. Defra does not collate this data by constituency.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 14/02/2024 09:52:44 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield