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1197096

	registered interest
	date	19/05/2020
	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	Social Security Benefits: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of increasing legacy benefits in line with the increase in universal credit during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	49102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2020 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. The Government has announced a suite of measures that can be quickly and effectively operationalised to benefit those facing the most financial disruption during the pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>We estimate that 2.5 million households receiving Universal Credit will benefit straight away from the increase in the standard allowance rates which was announced on 20 March, and which is additional to the planned annual uprating. New claimants who have either become unemployed, or whose earnings or work hours have decreased because of the outbreak, will benefit too; subject to their eligibility.</p><p> </p><p>We have also made a number of changes to legacy and other working age benefits in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, including increasing certain entitlements, such as Local Housing Allowance. Up-to-date information about the employment and benefits support available, including Universal Credit, Statutory Sick Pay, New style Jobseeker's Allowance, and Employment and Support Allowance, can be found here: <a href="http://www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/employment-and-benefits-support/" target="_blank">www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/employment-and-benefits-support/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>It has always been the case that claimants on legacy benefits can make a claim for UC if they believe that they will be better off.</p><p> </p><p>However, claimants should check their eligibility before applying to Universal Credit as legacy benefits will end when they submit their claim and they will not be able to return to them in the future. For this reason, prospective claimants are signposted to independent benefits calculators on GOV.UK. Neither DWP nor HMRC can advise individual claimants whether they would be better off moving to UC or remaining on legacy benefits.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 11/06/2020 16:47:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1243923

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2020
	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	Universal Credit and Working Tax Credit: Coronavirus
	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 potential effect of reducing universal credit and working tax credit by £20 a week in April 2021 on (a) working age and (b) child poverty.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	104156
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government introduced a package of temporary welfare measures worth around £9.3 billion this year to help with the financial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This included the £20 weekly increase to the Universal Credit Standard Allowance rates as a temporary measure for the 20/21 tax year.</p><p> </p><p>Future decisions on spending will be made by the Chancellor at the next appropriate fiscal event, and Parliament will be updated accordingly.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/10/2020 16:17:05 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1418213

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of high numbers of student complaints on the financial viability of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	114883
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2022 answer text <p>The Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) is an independent organisation that is funded by subscriptions from higher education providers, who are members of the scheme.</p><p>The level of subscriptions is set by the OIA board each year and are largely based on student numbers, but also include an element related to the previous case receipts of providers. In 2021, the OIA received 2,763 complaints, which was a 6% increase on 2020 figures.</p><p>A statement of the OIA’s financial activities can be found in its annual report published on its website: <a href="https://www.oiahe.org.uk/media/2633/operating-report-2021.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.oiahe.org.uk/media/2633/operating-report-2021.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/02/2022 11:18:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1568259

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	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	NHS: Agency Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on agency staff in (a) 2012 and (B) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	126762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2023 answer text <p>Agency spend in 2011/12 was £1.69 billion and in 2012/13 was £2.09 billion. The information requested on expenditure on agency for the period 2021/2022 has not yet been validated.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 24/01/2023 13:58:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1568325

	registered interest
	date	18/01/2023
	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	NHS: Sick Leave
	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 NHS staff were off sick with stress-related illnesses in (a) 2012 and (b) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	126764
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2023 answer text <p>Data on sickness absence is collected in the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system for the National Health Service. Within this data it is not possible to specifically identify those recorded as absent due to ‘stress’. This sits within wider categories of absence collected, therefore for 2012, ‘stress-related’ reasons include 'Other Mental Disorders', 'Psychological', 'Stress' and 'S10 Anxiety/stress/depression/other psychiatric illnesses'. For 2021 and 2022, stress reasons include 'S10 Anxiety/stress/depression/other psychiatric illnesses'. The following table below shows the full time equivalent (FTE) days lost for ‘stress-related’ illnesses in 2012,2021 and 2022:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Type</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022 (January to August)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FTE days available</p></td><td><p>384,901,520</p></td><td><p>467,978,005</p></td><td><p>319,962,005</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FTE days lost due to all reasons</p></td><td><p>16,271,654</p></td><td><p>23,531,596</p></td><td><p>18,050,326</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FTE days lost due to stress related reasons</p></td><td><p>2,846,280</p></td><td><p>6,214,112</p></td><td><p>3,992,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stress related sickness absence rate as a percentage of FTE days available</p></td><td><p>0.7%</p></td><td><p>1.3%</p></td><td><p>1.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stress related sickness absence rate as a percentage of FTE days lost due to all reasons</p></td><td><p>17.5%</p></td><td><p>26.4%</p></td><td><p>22.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>FTE days lost due to Unknown reasons</p></td><td><p>2,490,021</p></td><td><p>697,063</p></td><td><p>485,420</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Sickness Absence Data</p><p>Notes:</p><ol><li>For 2012, stress reasons include 'Other Mental Disorders', 'Psychological', 'Stress' and 'S10 Anxiety/stress/depression/other psychiatric illnesses'. For 2021 and 2022, stress reasons include 'S10 Anxiety/stress/depression/other psychiatric illnesses'.</li><li>2022 only covers months of January to August 2022 as this is the latest data available at this time.</li><li>Part of the increase in FTE days lost by sickness absence reason may be attributable to the improvement in completion of sickness absence reason information by staff.</li></ol> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 26/01/2023 13:31:06 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1580321

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2023
	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	NHS: Agency Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question on NHS: Agency Workers, when he expects the information requested on expenditure on agency staff to be validated.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	131332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>While the NHS Consolidated Accounts have been published, this does not include an explicit figure for agency spend as it is bundled together with other spend items. We expect the agency data for 2021/22 to be published this spring.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 02/03/2023 17:24:38 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1580324

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2023
	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	Automated External Defibrillators Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on the process to appoint a selected partner for the Automated External Defibrillators Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	131333
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department is currently in the pre-procurement stage in its process of determining a selected partner for the Automated External Defibrillator Fund. The criteria for assessing whether proposed recipients are eligible to access the Automated External Defibrillators Fund will be part of the procurement process.</p><p>The Department will publish in due course a notice informing interested organisations of the upcoming opportunity and invite them to bid for the grant through GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 131334 question first answered 02/02/2023 13:12:03 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1580325

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2023
	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	Automated External Defibrillators Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department will use to assess whether proposed recipients are eligible to access the Automated External Defibrillators Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	131334
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2023 answer text <p>The Department is currently in the pre-procurement stage in its process of determining a selected partner for the Automated External Defibrillator Fund. The criteria for assessing whether proposed recipients are eligible to access the Automated External Defibrillators Fund will be part of the procurement process.</p><p>The Department will publish in due course a notice informing interested organisations of the upcoming opportunity and invite them to bid for the grant through GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 131333 question first answered 02/02/2023 13:12:03 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1580340

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2023
	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	NHS: Agency Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS spent on agencies in each year since 2012; and what proportion that spend is of the NHS budget in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	131339
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2023 answer text <p>The table below sets out the agency spend for the years 2011/12 to 2020/21 and its proportion against the National Health Service budget for those years. 2021/22 data for agency is yet to be validated and published.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total agency spend £ billions</p></td><td><p>Proportion of NHS budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>1.69</p></td><td><p>1.78%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2.09</p></td><td><p>2.13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2.55</p></td><td><p>2.72%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>3.33</p></td><td><p>3.43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>3.70</p></td><td><p>3.67%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2.93</p></td><td><p>2.77%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2.40</p></td><td><p>2.19%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2.39</p></td><td><p>2.09%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2.38</p></td><td><p>1.92%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2.44</p></td><td><p>1.7%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>NHS budget data source: HM Treasury’s Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses and the data is NHS RDEL, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fpublic-expenditure-statistical-analyses-pesa&amp;data=05%7C01%7CMercedes.Webb%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C6524b2018037470a19b508db051b3342%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C638109386593555308%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=HQSYN8WE5VfxE9rjlJC%2ByG5gR3Sjv7h%2B8DdJDNTo6zU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-expenditure-statistical-analyses-pesa</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 14/02/2023 16:08:36 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western

1581793

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2023
	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	Nurses: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of changes to the median nurse’s salary in real terms since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Warwick and Leamington
	tabling member printed	Matt Western
	uin	135400
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2023 answer text <p>The table shows the median basic pay per full time equivalent (FTE) for nurses and health visitors and the level of the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) in the 12-months to September 2010 and the 12-months to September 2022.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Nurse &amp; Health Visitor Median Basic Pay per FTE</p></td><td><p>Average CPI Index (2015 = 100)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12-months to September 2010</p></td><td><p>£27,186</p></td><td><p>88.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12-months to September 2022</p></td><td><p>£34,095</p></td><td><p>118.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Digital Earnings Statistics, Office for National Statistics.</p><p>Note: Basic pay figures do not include any additional earnings that staff may earn if they work unsocial hours or are in receipt of geographical allowances.</p><p>Over the period median basic pay per FTE increased by 25.4% while CPI increased by 33.7%</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/02/2023 14:41:59 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4617 label Biography information for Matt Western