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1132410

registered interest
date	17/06/2019
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	Universal Credit: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether there is a freephone number that universal credit claimants can use when attempting to make phone contact with her Department from abroad.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	265570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2019 answer text <p>You can dial all of the 0800 numbers from abroad using the 0044 prefix. If a claimant does find themselves needing to dial an 0800 number from abroad, then they may incur charges at the standard international rate. This cost will vary depending on where they are calling from.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/06/2019 12:30:10 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1191780

registered interest
date	29/04/2020
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, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the £16,000 savings threshold for eligibility for universal credit.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	41570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2020 answer text <p>A key principle of UC is that it supports people who do not have assets available to meet their basic needs. While it is important to protect the incentive to save for claimants on low earnings, people with substantial capital can take responsibility for their own support. This is to ensure that we can maintain our focus on getting money to citizens who need it and safeguarding the most vulnerable.</p><p> </p><p>If capital exceeds £16,000 there will be no entitlement to UC, unless the capital can be disregarded, for example personal injury compensation payments. Capital above £6,000 will reduce the amount of UC paid by £4.35 per month for every £250 of capital or part thereof.</p><p> </p><p>If someone has money in their account that is to be used for business purposes, for example for paying tax, it will not be counted towards their capital, but they may be asked to prove that the money is for business purposes. People should make clear in their application the savings that are business assets, and note it in their online journal.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/05/2020 15:11:53 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 19214 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1193765

registered interest
date	06/05/2020
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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of suspending the under-occupancy charge during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	44017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2020 answer text <p>The Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (RSRS) policy has helped to contain growing housing support expenditure, encourage mobility within the social rented sector, strengthen work-incentives and make better use of available social housing. There are currently no plans to change this policy. It would not be practical to make such temporary adjustments to the size criteria, which require regulatory changes, to reflect self-isolation or shielding when the household, property and rental costs have not changed.</p><p> </p><p>Previously, Housing Benefit claimants who live in the social rented sector generally had their rents met in full and their entitlement was not affected by whether or not they under occupied their homes. However, this was no longer considered sustainable and from April 2013 Housing Benefit for working-age tenants in the social rented sector has been restricted. These restrictions apply where people live in a property that is too large for their needs.</p><p> </p><p>As with all spending decisions difficult choices have to be made about priorities and where to focus additional resources. Those unable to meet a shortfall in their rent can seek assistance via the Discretionary Housing Payment (DHPs) scheme. DHPs can be paid to those in receipt of Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit who face a shortfall in meeting their rental housing costs.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, we have just announced an extra £40 million for DHPs in 2020/21 in England and Wales.</p><p /> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 12/05/2020 16:58:15 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1245156

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
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	Discretionary Housing Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in discretionary housing payments was allocated between March and July (a) 2020 and (b) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	106448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>Since 2013 the Department has requested that Local Authorities provide details of their use of Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) funds. This monitoring information is collected twice yearly; in the middle and at the end of the financial year.</p><p> </p><p>The returns are published on-line, and the information to the end of March 2020 is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-financial-year-2019-to-2020/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-analysis-of-end-of-year-returns-from-local-authorities-april-2019-to-march-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-financial-year-2019-to-2020/use-of-discretionary-housing-payments-analysis-of-end-of-year-returns-from-local-authorities-april-2019-to-march-2020</a></p><p> </p><p>DHPs for Scotland were devolved from 1 April 2017, information and statistics on the use of DHPs in Scotland are available here: <a href="https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Social-Welfare/dhp" target="_blank">DHPs in Scotland</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/10/2020 13:10:38 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1245157

registered interest
date	20/10/2020
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	Discretionary Housing Payments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much in 2020-21 discretionary housing payments had been distributed nationally as of August 2020.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	106449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2020 answer text <p>We have provided £180m in Discretionary Housing Payment (DHPs) funding to Local Authorities (LAs) to support vulnerable claimants with housing costs in the private and social rented sector in England and Wales for 2020/21. This includes an extra £40m as announced last year at the spending round.</p><p> </p><p>Each year the Department publishes the annual LA allocations; the current year allocations are available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-benefit-subsidy-circulars-2020/s22020-2020-21-discretionary-housing-payments-government-contribution-for-english-and-welsh-local-authorities" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-benefit-subsidy-circulars-2020/s22020-2020-21-discretionary-housing-payments-government-contribution-for-english-and-welsh-local-authorities</a></p><p> </p><p>Since 2017 DHPs have been fully devolved in Scotland; the Scottish Government is responsible for informing Scottish LAs of their individual allocations.</p><p /> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/10/2020 13:40:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1379454

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will publish the average wait times for SEN school places as at 17 November 2021.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	76790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>The department does not collect information on waiting times for places in special schools.</p><p>Where a local authority identifies that a pupil requires a special school place (through the statutory education, health and care assessment process), they are statutorily required to secure the placement under the Children and Families Act 2014. Local authorities have a duty to arrange suitable education for any pupil of compulsory school age who, because of illness, permanent exclusion or other reasons, would not get a suitable education without such provision. Local authorities are required to keep the sufficiency of special educational provision in their area under review.</p><p>On 27 October 2021, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that an additional £2.6 billion has been made available over the next three years to deliver new places and improve existing provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities or who require alternative provision. The government continues to invest in the Free Schools programme, through which 74 special and 50 alternative provision free schools have opened across the country since 2010, with 70 similar projects in the pipeline.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 76791 question first answered 22/11/2021 17:22:26 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1379455

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of waiting times for places in SEN schools on families.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	76791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2021 answer text <p>The department does not collect information on waiting times for places in special schools.</p><p>Where a local authority identifies that a pupil requires a special school place (through the statutory education, health and care assessment process), they are statutorily required to secure the placement under the Children and Families Act 2014. Local authorities have a duty to arrange suitable education for any pupil of compulsory school age who, because of illness, permanent exclusion or other reasons, would not get a suitable education without such provision. Local authorities are required to keep the sufficiency of special educational provision in their area under review.</p><p>On 27 October 2021, my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that an additional £2.6 billion has been made available over the next three years to deliver new places and improve existing provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities or who require alternative provision. The government continues to invest in the Free Schools programme, through which 74 special and 50 alternative provision free schools have opened across the country since 2010, with 70 similar projects in the pipeline.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 76790 question first answered 22/11/2021 17:22:26 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1523766

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	Medical Records: Disclosure of Information
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 she has made of the implications for her policies of the practice of limiting the access of patients’ health records between the National Health Services of the devolved Administrations.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	65965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2022 answer text <p>‘Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data’ sets out the importance of a United Kingdom-wide data focus to ensure the public have confidence in the health and care system. Legal routes are available to allow the sharing of health data in the UK to support individual care and to improve health outcomes. We are working with the devolved administrations to ensure that health and care data can be accessed safely and effectively.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/11/2022 13:00:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 27468 answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick answering member 4320
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1566073

registered interest
date	11/01/2023
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	Health Services: Cooperation
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 implications for patient care of (a) levels of communication and (b) information sharing facilities between the NHS in England and health services in the devolved nations.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	121063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>At an operational level, there are arrangements in place to support the sharing of information across borders. Organisations share information where appropriate to inform good decision-making, support healthcare and minimise risk to patients.</p><p>Legal routes are available to allow the sharing of health data in the United Kingdom to support individual care and to improve health outcomes. We are working with the devolved administrations to ensure that health and care data can be accessed safely and effectively. We have established an agreed processes to manage cross-border healthcare with Wales for patients who live on the English and Welsh border.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/01/2023 16:36:32 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1610607

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	Pregnancy: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency plans to assess the long-term health implications of the mixture of Dicyclomine and Doxylamine in the previous pregnancy drug Debendox.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	180740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2023 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) does not plan to assess the long-term health implications of the mixture of Dicyclomine and Doxylamine in the previous pregnancy drug Debendox. This medicine was withdrawn for commercial reasons from the market in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s.</p><p>MHRA remains alert to emerging evidence concerning the safety and efficacy of all medicines, taking action to protect the public when necessary. We encourage anyone to report side effect or adverse reactions to medicines they may have taken, however long ago, via the Yellow Card scheme.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 19/04/2023 13:33:59 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle