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1221056

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Theatres: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will take steps with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to increase the rate of Theatre Tax Relief.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	69663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State and DCMS are committed to supporting the cultural sector through this challenging time and we recognise how severely theatres, theatre companies and live music venues have been hit by COVID-19. The Government is supporting these sectors through unprecedented financial measures, including business rate reliefs, the Job Retention Scheme, Self-Employed Income Support Scheme and the world-leading £1.57 billion support package for culture. DCMS has also worked closely with its arm’s-length bodies to deliver tailored support packages at speed, including the £160m Emergency Funding Package announced by Arts Council England, made possible by Government funding.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In 2018-19, £78 million of theatre tax relief was paid out relating to 3,380 productions, of which 950 were touring and 2,430 were non-touring. Since Theatre tax relief was introduced in September 2014, £208 million has been paid out relating to 8,395 productions. HM Treasury keeps all tax reliefs under review and DCMS continues to engage with these sectors extensively to best understand the challenges they face and consider the additional measures that may be needed to support the long-term recovery of these sectors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 69664 question first answered 09/07/2020 13:32:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1221057

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Music Venues: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will discuss with the Chancellor of the Exchequer the potential merits of extending eligibility to Theatre Tax Relief to live music venues.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	69664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State and DCMS are committed to supporting the cultural sector through this challenging time and we recognise how severely theatres, theatre companies and live music venues have been hit by COVID-19. The Government is supporting these sectors through unprecedented financial measures, including business rate reliefs, the Job Retention Scheme, Self-Employed Income Support Scheme and the world-leading £1.57 billion support package for culture. DCMS has also worked closely with its arm’s-length bodies to deliver tailored support packages at speed, including the £160m Emergency Funding Package announced by Arts Council England, made possible by Government funding.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In 2018-19, £78 million of theatre tax relief was paid out relating to 3,380 productions, of which 950 were touring and 2,430 were non-touring. Since Theatre tax relief was introduced in September 2014, £208 million has been paid out relating to 8,395 productions. HM Treasury keeps all tax reliefs under review and DCMS continues to engage with these sectors extensively to best understand the challenges they face and consider the additional measures that may be needed to support the long-term recovery of these sectors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage grouped question UIN 69663 question first answered 09/07/2020 13:32:53 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1173439

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Social Services
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 9 January 2020 to Question 80 on Social Services, what the timetable is for cross-party talks on social care reform.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	8468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government will seek to build cross-party consensus and will outline next steps shortly.</p><p>Putting social care on a sustainable footing, where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, is one of the biggest challenges we face as a society. As the Prime Minister has said, the Government will bring forward a plan for social care this year.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 03/02/2020 15:46:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1171889

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
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	Disability: Health Education
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 he is taking to raise awareness hidden disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	5532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government will publish a National Strategy for Disabled People in 2020 to ensure all disabled people can lead a life of opportunity and fully participate in society.</p><p>In addition, National Health Service trusts are taking actions to help improve awareness of hidden disabilities such as:</p><p>- Several trusts have signed up to the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Lanyard Scheme. Through the wearing of a sunflower lanyard, patients and the public can indicate that they have a hidden disability and that they may require additional assistance; and</p><p>- The Accessible Information Standard is a requirement for organisations that provide NHS care or publicly-funded adult social care. It ensures that people with a disability, impairment or sensory loss are provided with information they can easily read or understand, with support, so they can communicate effectively with services.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/01/2020 17:23:34 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1172077

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
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	Cervical Cancer: Research
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 funding he has allocated from the public purse to research on (a) cervical cancer and (b) cervical cancer screening in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	5546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2020 answer text <p>The Department invests £1 billion per year in health research through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).</p><p>NIHR’s cancer research expenditure has risen from £101 million in 2010/11 to £132 million in 2018/19. This constitutes the largest investment in a disease area.</p><p>As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas. The level of research spend in a particular area, such as cervical cancer, is driven by factors including scientific potential and the number and scale of successful funding applications.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 28/01/2020 17:27:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

887072

registered interest
date	19/04/2018
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	Autism: Children
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 effectiveness of Government programmes that assist low-income families who are supporting children with autism.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	136640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>No recent assessment has been made by this Department of the effectiveness of Government programmes in specifically assisting low-income families with autistic children.</p><p> </p><p>The special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms in the Children’s and Families Act 2014 have brought benefits for all autistic children and young people and their families by providing for a system of support across education, health and social care to ensure that services are organised with the needs and preferences of the child and their family at the centre of the process.</p><p> </p><p>Reforms introduced by the Act include the publication of local offers of SEND services by local authorities, the introduction of streamlined education, health and care needs assessments and Education, Health and Care Plans, which set out in one place the support from education, health and care services children and young people will receive.</p><p> </p><p>Since May 2016, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission have been inspecting local areas on their effectiveness in fulfilling their new duties for children with SEND. All 152 local areas in England will be inspected over a period of five years.</p><p> </p><p>We have included autism indicators on diagnosis and post-diagnostic outcomes in the Mental Health Services Dataset, with data collected from 1 April 2018. This will bring more transparency to the process, provide more accurate data on performance nationally and help drive up performance.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/04/2018 12:51:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan