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1549972

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2022
	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	Cancer: Radioisotopes
	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 he is taking to ensure NHS cancer services have supplies of the isotopes used in the detection and measurement of cancer spread, following mechanical failures at the SCK CEN nuclear plant in Belgium.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	106396
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Department has worked closely with the British Society of Nuclear Medicine and other specialist clinicians to issue guidance to the National Health Service on how to manage patient services affected by the recent shortage of Technetium-99m generators and other reactor-produced radioisotopes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the importance of maintaining access to radioisotopes for medical applications. We are working closely with counterparts in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to explore the role United Kingdom’s nuclear sector could have in supporting access to the reactor-produced medical radioisotopes in the future and to support the delivery of the £6 million Medical Radionuclide Innovation Programme. This is a new scheme aiming to develop technologies which could produce the isotopes required for nuclear medicine.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/12/2022 10:53:07 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 42669 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1485438

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure adequate provision of social care services for children and young people with disabilities and their families.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	900855
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2022 answer text <p>In the past three months we have published the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper, and the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care published its final report.</p><p>The SEND and AP Green Paper aims to ensure the right support is delivered in the right setting at the right time for children and young people with SEND. Our proposals include the introduction of national standards for how needs are assessed, identified and met across education, health and care in order to drive greater national consistency</p><p>The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care has also now published its final report, making a number of recommendations on the support that disabled children and their families should receive. To respond to this Review we will publish a detailed and ambitious implementation strategy later this year. We are committed to aligning this with the SEND and AP reforms so that we build a coherent system with the best interest of all vulnerable children at its heart.</p><p>Local authorities have access to £54.1 billion core spending power in the 2022/23 financial year to deliver their services, including for children and young people, this is £3.7 billion more than in the 2021/22 financial year.</p><p>As part of this, the government has boosted the social care grant, increasing it by £636 million, and so bringing it to a total of around £2.35 billion in the 2022/23 financial year. Local authorities will have access to a one-off Services Grant in the 2022/23 financial year, which is worth over £800 million and can be used for all services, including children’s social care.</p><p>The department is also making better respite care available for those who care for children with special educational needs and disabilities, with councils invited to bid for an extra £30 million for the next three years to set up more than 10,000 additional short break and respite placements for vulnerable children.</p><p>We will publish proposals to improve support for young people with disabilities and their families.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/07/2022 16:34:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1364751

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Children: Social Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What assessment he has made of the need to identify and provide support services for children with a parent serving a term of imprisonment.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	903951
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2021 answer text <p>We recognise the impact that a parent going to prison can have on a child’s learning, behaviour, mental health, and wellbeing. This is why statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children is clear that anyone who has concerns about a child’s welfare should make a referral to local authority children’s social care.</p><p>The local authority and its social workers have specific roles and responsibilities to lead statutory assessments. Every assessment should reflect children’s needs within their family and community context, including taking account of a parent being in prison. These children’s circumstances vary considerably and therefore local agencies are best placed to determine what support is needed – whether early help, statutory social care services, or support for other needs such as mental health.</p><p>Statutory guidance for schools (Keeping Children Safe in Education) is clear that staff should consider the additional needs of children with a family member in prison or who are affected by parental offending. The guidance highlights the risk of poor outcomes including poverty, stigma, isolation, and poor mental health. It signposts staff to the National Information Centre on Children of Offenders website which provides specialist staff advice and resources to support professionals working with offenders’ children and their families, to help mitigate negative consequences for those children.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/11/2021 16:54:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1523668

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2022
	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	Dementia: Screening
	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 provide additional resources to GP practices in deprived areas to increase dementia screening rates.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	65655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>We committed an additional £1.5 billion for general practice until 2023/24 for additional staff to create a further 50 million general practice appointments through increasing and diversifying the workforce. This is in addition to a £4.5 billion real terms annual increase for primary and community care by 2023/24. The global sum allocation formula is designed to ensure that resources are directed to practices based on an estimate of patient workloads and unavoidable practice costs.</p><p>NHS England is working with general practice IT system providers to reproduce the Dementia Quality Toolkit (DQT) using SNOMED coding. The DQT includes system searches which can be used by general practitioners to identify patients whose records suggest that they may have dementia but do not have a recorded dementia diagnosis. Publication of the Toolkit is anticipated by April 2023.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 26/10/2022 14:54:52 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 27462 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1521798

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2022
	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: Bristol East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of NHS dentist provision in Bristol East constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	62730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. In September, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which outlines how we will meet oral health needs and increase access to dental care, including in Bristol East.</p><p>The plan includes improvements to ensure dentists are renumerated fairly for more complex work, allowing greater flexibility to reallocate resources and to utilise dentists with greater capacity to deliver National Health Service treatment, whilst enabling full use of the dental team. The plan also includes streamlining processes for overseas dentists and holding the local NHS to account for dentistry provision. In addition, Health Education England is also reforming dental education to improve the recruitment and retention of dental professionals.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 26/10/2022 14:22:20 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 25549 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1535362

	registered interest
	date	24/10/2022
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Departmental Responsibilities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to publish the ministerial responsibilities for Ministers in her Department.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	69551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>Ministerial responsibilities have been published.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/11/2022 13:19:44 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 29186 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1521799

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2022
	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	General Practitioners: Bristol East
	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 provided additional (a) financial and (b) other support to help tackle (i) patient backlogs and (ii) increased workloads in GP surgeries in Bristol East constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	62731
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’, published in February 2022, stated the ambition to reduce patient backlogs for planned National Health Service treatments and the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25. We made £520 million available to expand general practice capacity during the pandemic. This was in addition to at least £1.5 billion announced in 2020 by 2024 which includes supporting increased workloads in general practitioner (GP) surgeries, including in Bristol East. In September 2022, ‘Our plan for patients’ announced measures to support GP practices increase access and manage workloads, such as the provision of 31,000 phone lines and funding to expand the staff roles working in general practice, including in Bristol East.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 21/10/2022 09:24:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 25043 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1128353

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Local Housing Allowance: Bristol
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of local housing allowance compared with the cost of rented accommodation in Bristol.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	257483
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the adequacy of the level of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) compared with the cost of rented accommodation in Bristol.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of private market rents that are at or below the LHA rate are set out below. This is based on:</p><ul><li>2019/20 LHA rates published here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-lha-rates-applicable-from-april-2019-to-march-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-lha-rates-applicable-from-april-2019-to-march-2020</a></li><li>Valuation Office Agency data <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-list-of-rents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-list-of-rents</a>.</li></ul><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Shared accommodation</p></td><td><p>1 bedroom</p></td><td><p>2 bedrooms</p></td><td><p>3 bedrooms</p></td><td><p>4 bedrooms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note: South West figures calculated as the average for the following Broad Rental Market Areas: Kernow West, North Cornwall &amp; Devon Borders, Plymouth, South Devon, Exeter, North Devon, Mid &amp; East Devon, Mid &amp; West Dorset, Taunton &amp; West Somerset, Yeovil, Weston-S-Mare, Mendip, Bath, Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, West Wiltshire, Swindon, Salisbury and Bournemouth.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 257484 question first answered 05/06/2019 16:29:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1128354

	registered interest
	date	22/05/2019
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Local Housing Allowance: South West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of rental accommodation is affordable to those receiving the maximum rate of local housing allowance in (a) Bristol and (b) the South West.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	257484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2019 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the adequacy of the level of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) compared with the cost of rented accommodation in Bristol.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion of private market rents that are at or below the LHA rate are set out below. This is based on:</p><ul><li>2019/20 LHA rates published here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-lha-rates-applicable-from-april-2019-to-march-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-lha-rates-applicable-from-april-2019-to-march-2020</a></li><li>Valuation Office Agency data <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-list-of-rents" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-housing-allowance-list-of-rents</a>.</li></ul><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Shared accommodation</p></td><td><p>1 bedroom</p></td><td><p>2 bedrooms</p></td><td><p>3 bedrooms</p></td><td><p>4 bedrooms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bristol</p></td><td><p>8%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>5%</p></td><td><p>7%</p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>15%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note: South West figures calculated as the average for the following Broad Rental Market Areas: Kernow West, North Cornwall &amp; Devon Borders, Plymouth, South Devon, Exeter, North Devon, Mid &amp; East Devon, Mid &amp; West Dorset, Taunton &amp; West Somerset, Yeovil, Weston-S-Mare, Mendip, Bath, Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, West Wiltshire, Swindon, Salisbury and Bournemouth.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 257483 question first answered 05/06/2019 16:29:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

1610455

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	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	NHS: Databases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will submit for Parliamentary approval his preferred candidate organisation to be awarded the NHS Federated Data Platform contract.
	tabling member constituency	Bristol East
	tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
	uin	180588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>The approval process for the Federated Data Platform Full Business Case, which will include details of the preferred supplier, will follow the standard process for approval via the following Government Departments ahead of contract award:</p><p>- Department of Health and Social Care;</p><p>- Cabinet Office; and</p><p>- HM Treasury.</p><p>Parliamentary approval will not be required ahead of contract award. Details of the contract award will be published online.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 24/04/2023 18:19:34 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 70711 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy