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1520660

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of repealing the High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	61389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government is committed to managing the public finances in a disciplined and responsible way.</p><p> </p><p>Restricting Child Benefit for those on higher incomes ensures that the Government supports the majority of families whilst keeping welfare expenditure sustainable. As with all elements of tax policy, the Government keeps this under review.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 19/10/2022 16:50:36 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1609977

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Sentencing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make it his policy to make it mandatory for those who are convicted of a crime to attend sentencing.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	180110
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2023 answer text <p>Offenders should be brought before the court to face the consequences of their crimes.</p><p> </p><p>An offender’s refusal to attend their hearing can cause anger and upset for victims and their families. We are looking carefully at how best to address this issue so that offenders face up to their actions and victims can see justice being served.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 24/04/2023 16:53:13 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1647956

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2023
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Rape: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of rape charge rates in England and Wales.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	191227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2023 answer text <p>Through the Rape Review, we are making sustained progress on our ambitions to increase the number of referrals to the CPS, CPS charges, and Crown Court receipts for adult rape cases back to 2016 levels. 2016 levels are an ambitious target – convictions in 2016 were 30% higher than in 2010 under Labour.</p><p> </p><p>According to the latest quarter of data we have either exceeded or are on track to exceed each ambition:</p><p>o There were 1,079 total police referrals, more than double the 2019 quarterly average of 461 and up by 41% compared to the 2016 quarterly average of 766. (Oct-Dec 2022)</p><p>o There were 472 CPS charges, nearly double the 2019 quarterly average of 244, just 12% below the 2016 quarterly average of 538. (Oct-Dec 2022)</p><p>o The number of adult rape Crown Court receipts continued to increase in the first quarter of 2023 with 605 Crown Court receipts, exceeding our ambition of 553. (Jan- March 2023)</p><p> </p><p>Crucially we are increasing the number of cases we are bringing to court. Adult rape prosecutions continue to rise, up to 1,710 in 2022, an increase of 4% on 2010 under Labour.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 04/07/2023 13:32:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1700517

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Naloxone
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information his Department holds on the number of naloxone kits issued (a) within custodial settings in and (b) on release from HM Prisons in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	21404
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>Naloxone kits have been issued and maintained by individual healthcare providers across the prison estate and have not been supplied by the Ministry of Justice over the time specified in the question.</p><p>From January 2024, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is coordinating roll-out of Naloxone training on a voluntary basis to prison staff. We will collate data on the use of Naloxone by HMPPS staff as roll-out and usage progresses.</p><p>The information requested for opioid overdose reversals is not held centrally. In relation to fatalities, ONS data on drug-related deaths includes the number in which opiates are mentioned on the death certificate (which differs from the number of overdoses) – table 7 in this publication <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/drugrelateddeathsandsuicideinprisoncustody" target="_blank">Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>. However, this only covers up to 2019, as it uses data from Coroner’s reports on which there is a considerable time lag. Furthermore, depending on the circumstances, an opioid overdose could be classed as a self-inflicted death or an ‘other: non-natural' death. Therefore, without checking the individual cases, it is not possible to obtain an accurate figure from the wider data, on fatalities.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21405 21406 question first answered 22/04/2024 12:43:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1700518

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Naloxone
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times naloxone has been administered in custodial settings in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	21405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>Naloxone kits have been issued and maintained by individual healthcare providers across the prison estate and have not been supplied by the Ministry of Justice over the time specified in the question.</p><p>From January 2024, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is coordinating roll-out of Naloxone training on a voluntary basis to prison staff. We will collate data on the use of Naloxone by HMPPS staff as roll-out and usage progresses.</p><p>The information requested for opioid overdose reversals is not held centrally. In relation to fatalities, ONS data on drug-related deaths includes the number in which opiates are mentioned on the death certificate (which differs from the number of overdoses) – table 7 in this publication <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/drugrelateddeathsandsuicideinprisoncustody" target="_blank">Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>. However, this only covers up to 2019, as it uses data from Coroner’s reports on which there is a considerable time lag. Furthermore, depending on the circumstances, an opioid overdose could be classed as a self-inflicted death or an ‘other: non-natural' death. Therefore, without checking the individual cases, it is not possible to obtain an accurate figure from the wider data, on fatalities.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21404 21406 question first answered 22/04/2024 12:43:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1700519

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Prisons: Opioids
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many opioid overdoses in custodial settings have (a) been successfully reversed and (b) resulted in fatalities in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	21406
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p>Naloxone kits have been issued and maintained by individual healthcare providers across the prison estate and have not been supplied by the Ministry of Justice over the time specified in the question.</p><p>From January 2024, His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) is coordinating roll-out of Naloxone training on a voluntary basis to prison staff. We will collate data on the use of Naloxone by HMPPS staff as roll-out and usage progresses.</p><p>The information requested for opioid overdose reversals is not held centrally. In relation to fatalities, ONS data on drug-related deaths includes the number in which opiates are mentioned on the death certificate (which differs from the number of overdoses) – table 7 in this publication <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/drugrelateddeathsandsuicideinprisoncustody" target="_blank">Drug-related deaths and suicide in prison custody - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a>. However, this only covers up to 2019, as it uses data from Coroner’s reports on which there is a considerable time lag. Furthermore, depending on the circumstances, an opioid overdose could be classed as a self-inflicted death or an ‘other: non-natural' death. Therefore, without checking the individual cases, it is not possible to obtain an accurate figure from the wider data, on fatalities.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 21404 21405 question first answered 22/04/2024 12:43:37 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1278665

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2021
	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	Coronavirus: Hospitals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to provide staff to Nightingale hospitals in the event that general hospitals are overwhelmed by covid-19 patients.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	140955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2021 answer text <p>The Nightingale hospitals stand ready to provide support to local services and accept patients if needed based on local clinical advice. The National Health Service has flexed hospital capacity throughout the pandemic and will continue to do so, including staffing Nightingale hospitals as needed.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/02/2021 11:39:12 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1309489

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2021
	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: Waiting Lists
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to reduce the backlog for operations and enable NHS staff to take all allocated their annual leave in 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	181461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have asked local services to draw up plans to tackle the elective backlog, while taking into account staff wellbeing. An additional £1 billion funding has been made available to the National Health Service in 2021-22 to support the start of the recovery of elective activity, to reduce patient waiting times.</p><p>NHS England and NHS Improvement have issued planning guidance for 2021-22 which prioritises ‘looking after our people and helping them to recover’. This includes encouraging NHS trusts to offer flexibility for staff to take time off to recover, to allow staff to carry over all unused annual leave, or to buy back unused leave.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/04/2021 16:41:03 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1311869

	registered interest
	date	23/04/2021
	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	Motor Neurone Disease: Research
	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 increase the allocation of funding from the public purse for motor neurone disease research to above £5 million per year.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	186275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2021 answer text <p>Over the past five years, the Government has spent a total of £55 million on motor neurone disease (MND) research. In 2019/20, the Department, through the National Institute for Health Research, spent £2.7 million on MND research. Additionally, UK Research and Innovation, through the Medical Research Council, spent £13.4 million on MND research in 2019/20. We are currently working on ways to significantly boost further research on dementia and neurodegeneration, including MND.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/04/2021 09:59:59 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1378641

	registered interest
	date	15/11/2021
	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: Finance
	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 make it his policy that additional NHS funding will be allocated to (a) bringing down joint replacement waiting times and (b) providing support to people waiting for surgery.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	75149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2021 answer text <p>Funding has already been announced which will improve joint replacement surgery capacity. This includes £2 billion this year and £8 billion over the next three years to increase elective activity and deliver approximately nine million more checks, scans and procedures. We have provided £5.9 billion capital funding for new surgical hubs to address waiting times for clinical tests, including for patients awaiting joint replacement surgery.</p><p>Further information on support for people waiting for elective care, such as joint replacement surgery, will be outlined in the upcoming elective recovery plan which is due to be published by the end of this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/11/2021 11:54:39 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols