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1716397

registered interest
date	08/05/2024
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	Food: Packaging
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to stop child friendly packaging being used to advertise unhealthy food to children.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	25204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to working with businesses to ensure that we create the conditions for a healthier nation, and we are implementing an ambitious programme of measures to tackle childhood obesity. On 1 October 2022, the Government introduced legislation to restrict the location of foods high in fat, salt, or sugar in shops and online. These restrictions will have the single biggest impact on reducing children’s calorie consumption, and are expected to accrue health benefits of over £57 billion, and provide the National Health Service savings of over £4 billion, over the next 25 years.</p><p>On 1 October 2025, the volume price promotion restrictions will come into force, restricting volume price promotions such as three for two offers on less healthy products. The Government will simultaneously introduce a United Kingdom-wide 9:00pm television watershed for products high in fat, salt, or sugar, and a restriction of paid-for advertising of these products online, also on 1 October 2025. We continue to work with industry on the Food Data Transparency Partnership, to co-develop voluntary reporting requirements for food business to demonstrate the healthiness of their sales.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/05/2024 11:17:21 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1692756

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 19 June 2023 to Question 188964 on Ophthalmic Services, what recent progress her Department has made on developing standard service specifications for enhanced eye care services.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	16321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>The new standard of clinical specification for community eye care services, both minor and urgent, was published by the Local Optical Committee Support Unit on 23 February 2024. The specification will help local commissioners in getting the best outcomes, if they choose to commission these services as part of their local eye care provision. The specification is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://locsu.co.uk/what-we-do/pathways/community-minor-and-urgent-eye-care-clinical-specification/" target="_blank">https://locsu.co.uk/what-we-do/pathways/community-minor-and-urgent-eye-care-clinical-specification/</a></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/03/2024 14:25:06 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1692757

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take steps to ensure that appropriately-qualified optometrists are able to access NHS prescription forms to help reduce the onward referral of patients with eye health conditions.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	16322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>When commissioning community enhanced eye care services, we would expect integrated care boards to consider the need to give appropriately qualified optometrists access to National Health Service prescription forms.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/03/2024 14:28:59 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1692473

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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 steps her Department is taking to ensure all general practice nursing staff will receive a pay uplift for 2023-24.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	16109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>We hugely value and appreciate the vital work carried out by general practice (GP) nurses. The Government accepted the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body’s recommendation on salaried GP staff pay, and increased the 2023/24 GP contract to provide funding for them to receive a 6% pay rise. We encourage all practices to pass this on to staff. As self-employed contractors to the National Health Service, it is for GPs to determine employee pay.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/03/2024 11:47:19 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

1680931

registered interest
date	09/01/2024
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	Ophthalmic Services
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 (a) reduce waiting times and (b) improve patient outcomes in NHS opthamology services.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	8731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>We are taking action to recover elective services, including ophthalmology, by working towards the targets set out in the Elective Recovery Plan and providing the National Health Service with record levels of staffing and funding. We plan to transform the way the NHS provides elective care by increasing activity, including through dedicated and protected surgical hubs, focusing on providing high volume low complexity surgery as recommended by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. These hubs will initially focus on driving improvement in six high volume specialties, one of these being ophthalmology.</p><p>Most recent published data from NHS England shows the average wait time for referral to treatment for ophthalmology was 11.7 weeks, below the national average of 14.4 weeks.</p><p>NHS England is currently considering how eye care services should be commissioned to ensure future sustainability. This includes looking at how more patients can be triaged and managed in the community, freeing up capacity for those that need face to face specialist care.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 17/01/2024 14:46:29 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

523941

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will publish a plan setting out how all government departments plan to contribute to reducing the UK's carbon emissions.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	39977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2016 answer text <p>In preparation for our new emissions reduction plan we are working with colleagues across government to identify action that will cut emissions cost effectively. Our new plan will set out our proposals for meeting our carbon budgets and decarbonising through the 2020s. It will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 16/06/2016 15:24:16 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

523469

registered interest
date	07/06/2016
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Greenhouse Gas Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make it her policy for the UK to reduce its actual greenhouse gas emissions by 61 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	39703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>This Government remains firmly committed to the Climate Change Act, and to meeting our climate change target of an at least 80% emissions reduction by 2050. We are clear that this must be done while keeping our energy supply secure and low cost.</p><p> </p><p>Discussions on the fifth carbon budget (2028-2032) are continuing and we will make an announcement as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 14/06/2016 13:49:34 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

429047

registered interest
date	18/11/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will re-introduce feed-in tariff preaccreditation for community renewable energy schemes.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	16794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government proposed changes to the feed-in tariff scheme (FITs) as part of the FIT review, on which we consulted widely between 27<sup>th</sup> August and 23<sup>rd</sup> October.</p><br /><p>We are currently analysing feedback submitted during the consultation and intend to publish a Government response as soon as possible.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/11/2015 14:38:09 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

106222

registered interest
date	04/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Human Trafficking
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many cases of human trafficking were uncovered by HM Revenue and Customs as part of its minimum wage enforcement activity in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013 and (e) 2014 to date.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	213233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government takes the enforcement of the National Minimum Wage very seriously. Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) review every complaint that is referred to them by the Pay and Work Rights Helpline. In addition, HMRC undertake targeted enforcement on employers across the United Kingdom who are more likely to be not paying National Minimum Wage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HMRC also undertake joint working with the police, Home Office and local authorities across the country in cases that may involve slavery and servitude, but do not keep statistics relating to any trafficking offences which may be taken forward by the relevant authorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 10/11/2014 17:50:00 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield