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1537799

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Parental Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to reduce the anticipated 18 months’ lead time that HMRC require, in order to implement paid neonatal leave following Royal Assent for the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	74755
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to implementing entitlement to Neonatal Leave and Pay as soon as possible. HMRC cannot begin delivery until the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill has Royal Assent. Provisions in the Bill bring this new statutory payment within scope of HMRC’s legal functions, giving it the authority to incur costs.</p><p> </p>HMRC will need to make changes to their IT systems for the administration, payment and reporting of Neonatal Pay, as well as supporting customers with a calculator, a new suite of online forms and updated guidance. HMRC also need to draw up and publish requirements for external developers, who will need to build Neonatal Leave and Pay into their payroll software products so that employers can administer Neonatal Leave and Pay through payroll. HMRC is working closely with BEIS to establish exact delivery timelines on the basis that Royal Assent is expected in Spring 2023. answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 08/11/2022 17:53:37 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1724478

	registered interest
	date	30/07/2024
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Bus Services: Rural Areas
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to introduce a minimum bus service frequency standard in rural areas.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Claire Young
	uin	2615
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2024 answer text <p>The government knows that Britain needs a modern transport network to help kickstart economic growth. Good local bus services are an essential part of prosperous and sustainable communities. As announced in the King’s Speech, the government will introduce the Better Buses Bill to put the power over local bus services back in the hands of local leaders right across England, to ensure networks can meet the needs to the communities who rely on them, including in rural areas. We plan to empower local transport authorities through reforming bus funding and introducing local network safeguards, giving local transport authorities enhanced accountability over bus operators.</p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 02/09/2024 13:08:12 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
	tabling member	5140

1727662

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Health and Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that prisons are safe workplaces for staff.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Claire Young
	uin	4485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2024 answer text <p>Staff must be able to expect a safe and decent work environment. We will not tolerate any violence against prison officers and prisoners who are violent towards staff will face the full consequences of their actions.</p><p>The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 doubled the maximum penalty to up to two years’ imprisonment for those who assault emergency workers, including prison officers. There are higher maximum penalties in place for more serious offences, including ABH, GBH and sexual assault.</p><p>We are providing targeted support to adult male prisons with the highest assault rates to tackle local drivers of violence.</p><p>We are continuing with plans for a phased removal of wet-shave razors in up to 30 prisons in the adult male estate in 2024/25.</p><p>To protect staff from serious assaults, prison officers in the adult male estate are provided with PAVA, a synthetic pepper spray. Every prison officer across public sector prisons can wear a Body Worn Video Camera whilst on shift, providing high-quality evidence to support prosecutions against those who commit assaults against staff.</p><p>We are implementing measures to ease prison crowding as we know that crowded conditions can increase violent incidents in prisons.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 10/09/2024 09:32:22 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5140

1727663

	registered interest
	date	05/09/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what (a) protections and (b) support mechanisms are in place for whistleblowers in prisons.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Claire Young
	uin	4486
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice has a comprehensive whistleblowing policy which all staff can access via the intranet. The policy sets out the protections and support available to a whistleblower. Protections include protection under the <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/23/contents" target="_blank">Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA)</a> and the assurance that the Department will take disciplinary action if a whistleblower is subject to detrimental treatment as a result of having raised a concern.</p><p>Sources of support include Nominated Officers, who can advise on how to raise a concern, and specialist teams including Counter Corruption, the HM Prison and Probation Service Tackling Unacceptable Behaviours Unit, and the Department’s employee assistance provider.</p> answering member constituency Scunthorpe answering member printed Sir Nicholas Dakin question first answered 11/09/2024 16:07:23 answering member 4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin
	tabling member	5140

1132760

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2019
	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: Mental Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps he is taking to help protect the mental health of NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	911417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>The NHS People Plan will develop a new offer for our people through which they will have voice and support including a focus on improved mental health.</p><p>This will build on progress implementing mental health standards in ‘Thriving at Work – a review of mental health and employers’, which have been included in NHS Standard Contracts and embedded in the National Health Service staff health and wellbeing framework.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 18/06/2019 14:50:57 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1470056

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2022
	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 Centres and Hospitals: Capital Investment
	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 fund capital investment in new hospitals and health centres.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	900475
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government has committed to deliver 40 new hospitals by 2030, backed by an initial £3.7 billion. Together with eight existing schemes, this will mean 48 hospitals by the end of the decade, the biggest hospital building programme in a generation.</p><p>In addition to this, multi-year funding to 2024/25 of £1.7 billion has been secured for over 70 hospital upgrades, including health centres, to improve health infrastructure across the country over the long term. The aim of this investment is to modernise and transform the NHS’s buildings and services by funding physical upgrades across the country. We have already completed 65 upgrade schemes since 2017.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 14/06/2022 15:31:57 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1537399

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2022
	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	Medical Equipment: Energy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on ensuring that households which use (a) home-oxygen and (b) other medical equipment are not prevented from doing so by rising energy costs.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	74749
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>Certain National Health Service specialised services provide rebates on energy costs for patients using medical equipment at home, such as home oxygen concentrators.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 08/11/2022 17:43:28 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1537400

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2022
	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	Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme
	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 extend the remit of the NHS Healthcare Travel Cost Scheme to include parents attending hospital to care for a baby in neonatal care, recognising that they are not visitors to their baby, but essential caregivers.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	74750
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2022 answer text <p>There are no plans to extend the Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 15/11/2022 14:01:25 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1537401

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2022
	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	Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to review the qualifying criteria for the NHS Healthcare Travel Cost Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	74751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2022 answer text <p>There are no plans to review the qualifying criteria.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 10/11/2022 12:31:02 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall

1563562

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2022
	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	Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the high travel costs for parents of babies in neonatal care for extended periods; and whether the existing NHS Healthcare Travel Cost Scheme provides adequate support to such parents.
	tabling member constituency	Thornbury and Yate
	tabling member printed	Luke Hall
	uin	114698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>We have made no specific assessment. Visitors to patients in hospitals cannot claim their travel costs through the NHS Healthcare Travel Cost Scheme and there are no plans to review the scheme’s qualifying criteria.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 09/01/2023 09:22:40 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall