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1245056

	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	Food Poverty: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on trends in the level of food insecurity among children since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	106310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2020 answer text <p>This Government is committed to supporting the most vulnerable in society. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions engages regularly with her counterparts, including the Secretary of State for Education.</p><p> </p><p>Secretaries of State will continue to talk across government to ensure all the levers available are used to tackle poverty, including for the most disadvantaged children and families. The Department for Environment and Rural Affairs also established a cross-government Task Force on Food and Other Essential Supplies for Vulnerable People.</p><p> </p><p>We have taken unprecedented action to support and protect jobs, with over 9.5 million people having been supported through the furlough scheme. The Department for Work and Pensions quickly introduced a package of support, including welfare changes worth £9.3bn this year to help people with the financial consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>The Government established a £500m local authority hardship fund to protect people, by banning evictions, securing mortgage holidays and helping with energy bills. It has provided a further £63m to local authorities in England for their Welfare Assistance schemes to help those families struggling to afford food and other essentials.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 28/10/2020 17:40:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1490319

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Pupils: Assessments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that political and Ministerial changes at his Department do not affect the (a) smooth running of this year’s exams and (b) his Department's ability to address any issues arising from them.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	38609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2022 answer text <p>The responsibility for maintaining standards in exams lies with Ofqual, the independent regulator of qualifications. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education is assured that the exam boards and Ofqual have well established processes in place to manage any issues arising with the delivery of exams and awarding and are keeping the department informed. This is not affected by political or ministerial changes.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 26/07/2022 16:32:37 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1521750

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2022
	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: Bolton South East
	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 her Department is taking to help improve access to NHS dental services in Bolton South East constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	62761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. 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 Bolton South East.</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 grouped question UIN 62762 question first answered 21/10/2022 13:08:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1521751

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2022
	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: Bolton South East
	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 NHS dentist provision in Bolton South East constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	62762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2022 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made. 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 Bolton South East.</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 grouped question UIN 62761 question first answered 21/10/2022 13:08:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1521752

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2022
	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	Breast Cancer: Bolton South East
	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 her Department is taking to help increase the uptake of breast cancer screening in Bolton South East constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	62763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department is working with NHS England to finalise the delivery of £10 million for breast screening units, including determining which areas will benefit from this investment.</p><p>National Health Service breast screening providers are also encouraged to work with Cancer Alliances, Primary Care Networks, NHS regional teams and the voluntary sector to promote the uptake of breast screening and ensure access to services.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/10/2022 16:01:07 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1521754

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2022
	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	Surgery: Bolton South East
	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 her Department is taking to help reduce waiting times for elective surgeries in Bolton South East constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	62765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2022 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 Bolton South East. 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 03/11/2022 12:48:34 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1521755

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2022
	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	General Practitioners: Bolton South East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has provided additional (a) financial and (b) other support to help tackle (i) patient backlogs and (ii) increased workloads in GP surgeries in Bolton South East constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	62766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’, published in February 2022, stated the ambition to reduce patient backlogs for planned National Health Service treatments and the government plans to spend more than £8bn from 2022/23 to 2024/25. We made £520 million available to expand general practice capacity during the pandemic. This was in addition to at least £1.5 billion announced in 2020 by 2024 which includes supporting increased workloads in GP surgeries, including in Bolton South East. In September 2022, ‘Our plan for patients’ announced measures to support GP practices increase access and manage workload such as, the provision of 31,000 phone lines and freeing up funding rules to widen the types of staff that work in general practice, including in Bolton South East.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/10/2022 16:01:32 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1521756

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2022
	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	General Practitioners: Bolton South East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will take steps to increase the availability of face-to-face GP appointments in Bolton South East constituency..
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	62767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2022 answer text <p>On 22 September 2022, we announced ‘Our plan for patients’, which contains measures to assist people make an informed choice on their general practitioner (GP) practice, book an appointment more easily, benefit from more care options and increase the diversity of general practice teams. This aims to increase the availability of appointment types, such as face-to-face, in England, including in Bolton South East.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s guidance states that GP practices must provide face to face appointments and remote consultations and should respect preferences for face-to-face care unless there are good clinical reasons to the contrary.  While remote consultations can provide additional choice, flexibility and convenience for patients, this is not suitable for all patients or in all circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 28/10/2022 12:45:05 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1612233

	registered interest
	date	19/04/2023
	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	Junior Doctors: Pay
	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 Government intends to reallocate the wages of junior doctors who are striking to other projects.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	181524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government has no such plans.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 26/04/2023 16:38:32 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1142738

	registered interest
	date	02/09/2019
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Translation Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 15 July 2019 to Question 275723 on translation services, what assessment he has made of the reasons for the increase in expenditure between the 2015-16 and 2016-17 financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	284295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Spend on language services increased in October 2016 as a result of an intentional move by the Ministry of Justice to increase the quality of the services. A new set of contracts commenced in 2016 which included various improvements based on independent recommendations made about the previous contract. These changes included a more robust performance management regime, improved data and the implementation of a new quality assurance service.</p><p> </p><p>Spend on Language Services is expected to fluctuate due to the nature of the contracts being demand led.</p> answering member constituency Aldridge-Brownhills answering member printed Wendy Morton question first answered 05/09/2019 14:21:42 answering member 4358 label Biography information for Wendy Morton
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi