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1281223

registered interest
date	27/01/2021
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her Department's target timescale for processing applications for Alternative Payment Arrangements; and what percentage of claims are processed within this target.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	144615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2021 answer text <p>There is no target timescale for processing applications for Alternative Payment Arrangements (APAs). APAs are available at any point during Universal Credit claims where there is risk of financial harm to a claimant and/or their family.</p><p> </p><p>APAs can help claimants who need additional support with:</p><ul><li>paying housing costs of Universal Credit as a Managed Payment direct to the landlord;</li><li>more frequent than monthly payments; or;</li><li>split payment of an award between partners.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Universal Credit payment timeliness statistics are published in the Households on Universal Credit section on Stat-Xplore. These figures can be broken down by those with APAs and can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/02/2021 15:43:17 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1281225

registered interest
date	27/01/2021
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	Universal Credit: Rents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of claims for managed payments to landlords were rejected in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	144616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2021 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 01/02/2021 16:19:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1341848

registered interest
date	29/06/2021
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	Employment: Veterans
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 range of support provided by her Department to members of the armed forces in the transition to civilian life; what proportion of veterans are employed within three months of discharge; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	24098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2021 answer text <p>The Department remains committed to the Armed Forces Covenant and will do what is necessary to help and support members of the Armed Forces Community to transition to civilian life.</p><p> </p><p>We have recently introduced our new model for Armed Forces Champions which comprises 50 Armed Forces Champions working alongside 11 Group Leads at managerial level.</p><p> </p><p>It means for the first time that there is at least one Armed Forces Champion in each Jobcentre Plus District and resources in the new network are targeted where there are particularly high levels of demand, for example in garrison towns, and here the Armed Forces work will form a significant part of that done in individual Jobcentres.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the Armed Forces Champions roles, all 27,000 DWP Work Coaches are trained to provide veterans and others with the help and support they need.</p><p> </p><p>We have also recently introduced an Armed Forces “identifier” on to the Universal Credit system, giving customers the opportunity to tell us whether they are a veteran or currently serving. This will help us ensure that veterans and serving personnel receive any additional support they need.</p><p> </p><p>We have a range of other support arrangements in place for members of the Armed Forces community. For example, veterans are given early voluntary entry to the Work and Health Programme.</p><p> </p><p>We also work alongside the Career Transition Partnership, whose resettlement provision helps personnel leaving the Armed Forces prepare for entering the civilian job market and to make a successful transition to employment. The outcomes are good; 84% of veterans are employed within 6 months of discharge. These rates compare very favourably with the wider population, where 76% are in employment.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s preferred method is to look at employment outcomes from within 6 months of discharge as those collected earlier are likely to provide unfair reflections on “unplanned exits” who are only able to receive minimal employment support prior to leaving service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/07/2021 16:15:03 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1506067

registered interest
date	07/09/2022
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: Bridlington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will investigate the current provision of orthodontic services in Bridlington following the closure of the Bridlington Orthodontic Centre; what assurances she has received from NHS England that they have made alternative provision for all those effected thereby; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	49080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2022 answer text <p>NHS England recently undertook a procurement for orthodontic services in the Northern region due to the conclusion of previous contracts. Under the Public Contract Regulations 2015, NHS England is required to re-procure time limited contracts.</p><p>Through this procurement process, a number of providers have secured contracts to provide orthodontic services. If a child’s orthodontic practice was unsuccessful in this procurement or did not submit a bid, it was offered the opportunity to conclude any treatment already commenced. Where the practice did not continue any National Health Service treatment beyond the end date of its contract, it has been necessary to transfer patients to another orthodontic practice.</p><p>NHS England is working with new providers to transfer patients for ongoing treatment, mobilise the new contracts and confirm all allocated providers for patients. Patients are being contacted by the new providers and offered appointments.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/09/2022 13:58:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1524383

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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: East Yorkshire
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 the current NHS dental provision in the East Yorkshire constituency; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	66916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. However, NHS England asked dental practices to return to full delivery of contracted activity from July 2022, including in East Yorkshire. 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 East Yorkshire.</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 24/10/2022 15:31:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1536386

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
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	Hospital Wards: Closures
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 wards are closed or not being used as a ward; and which hospitals those wards are in.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	72209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/11/2022 15:58:06 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 29197 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1538800

registered interest
date	02/11/2022
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	Surgery: East Yorkshire
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 his department taking to help reduce waiting times for elective surgery in East Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	77307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ sets out how the National Health Service will recover and expand elective services over the next three years, including in East Yorkshire. We have allocated more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund already made available in 2021/2022 to increase elective activity. This funding aims to deliver the equivalent of approximately nine million additional checks and procedures and 30% further elective activity by 2024/25 than pre-pandemic levels. A proportion of this funding will be invested in workforce capacity and training and we have committed to invest £5.9 billion for new beds, equipment and technology.</p><p>The target to eliminate waiting times of two years or more for elective procedures was met in July 2022 and we aim to eliminate waiting time of eighteen months or more by April 2023. This will be achieved through increasing capacity, seeking alternate capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients to understand choices made regarding their care.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/11/2022 09:40:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1551183

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
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	Health Professions: Yorkshire and the Humber
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 (a) doctors and (b) nurses have been recruited by the NHS in Yorkshire in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	109453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The following table shows the headcount number of doctors and nurses and health visitors that joined active service in National Health Service hospital trusts and commissioning bodies in the North East and Yorkshire region for the last five years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>June 2017 to 2018</p></td><td><p>June 2018 to 2019</p></td><td><p>June 2019 to 2020</p></td><td><p>June 2020 to 2021</p></td><td><p>June 2021 to 2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Doctors</p></td><td><p>2,881</p></td><td><p>3,186</p></td><td><p>4,088</p></td><td><p>2,755</p></td><td><p>3,514</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nurses and Health Visitors</p></td><td><p>4,865</p></td><td><p>5,226</p></td><td><p>5,827</p></td><td><p>4,316</p></td><td><p>6,741</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital, Quarterly Workforce Statistics June 2022</p><p>Notes:</p><p>Joiners can include those returning to active service (for example from maternity leave or career breaks), as well as those newly joining the NHS or joining from a different part of the health and social care system (for example general practice).  This is particularly important to note in respect to doctors as they may undertake periods of work outside of hospital trusts as part of their training programmes and development.</p><p>Data is published by NHS England Geographical region hence the data presented covering the wider geography of the North East and Yorkshire region.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/12/2022 11:47:07 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 43409 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1580884

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
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	Ambulance Services: Standards
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 reduce ambulance response times for emergencies in East Yorkshire.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	132305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>A range of measures are in place to reduce ambulance response times, including in East Yorkshire. The National Health Service winter resilience plan will increase NHS bed capacity by the equivalent of at least 7,000 general and acute beds, helping reduce pressure in accident and emergency so that ambulances can get swiftly back out on the road.</p><p>An additional £250 million has been made available to enable the NHS to buy up beds in the community to safely discharge thousands of patients from hospital and capital for discharge lounges and ambulance hubs. This will improve flow through hospitals and reducing waits to handover ambulance patients. This is on top of the £500 million already invested last year.</p><p>NHS England has allocated £150 million of additional system funding for ambulance service pressures in 2022/23, alongside £20 million of capital funding to upgrade the ambulance fleet in each year to 2024/25.</p><p>As announced in the Autumn Statement, the Government is investing an additional £3.3 billion in each of 2023/24 and 2024/25 to enable rapid action to improve urgent and emergency, elective, and primary care performance towards pre-pandemic levels. The NHS will soon set out detailed recovery plans to deliver faster ambulance response times.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 30/01/2023 16:57:34 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

1582548

registered interest
date	31/01/2023
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	Hospitals: Repairs and Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the estimated cost of awaiting maintenance projects at (a) all NHS Hospitals, (b) hospitals within the management of York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and (c) Bridlington Hospital in East Yorkshire; what steps he plans to take to reduce the cost of these projects; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
uin	136541
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>The 2021/22 publication of the Estates Return Information Collection sets out the latest data on backlog maintenance costs across the National Health Service acute estate. Data covers four levels of risk maintenance (low, moderate, significant, and high). This shows the following: for all hospitals in England total backlog maintenance costs stand at £10.2 billion; the sites reported under York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have total backlog maintenance costs of £36,454,338; and Bridlington Hospital in East Yorkshire has total backlog maintenance costs of £5,994,670.</p><p>This Government is investing record sums to upgrade and modernise NHS buildings, including £4 billion this year and £12 billion over the next three years. This includes £39 million for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as part of the ‘Hospital Upgrades’ programme.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 14/02/2023 16:10:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight