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1649902

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date	04/07/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	UK Internal Trade: Labelling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether she plans to take steps to support the suppliers of fresh and frozen products seeking to send their products to Northern Ireland with labelling requirements.
tabling member constituency	East Antrim
tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
uin	192284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>On 9 June UK Government published guidance to support industry to implement the new labelling requirements. We also engage stakeholders regularly to provide further bespoke support. The UK Government will also provide financial support to help businesses with the new labelling requirements for October 2023. Further guidance on this will be provided later in the year.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 07/07/2023 10:10:24 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson

1650024

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Water Companies: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to help improve the financial stability of the water industry.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	192416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <ul><li>The sector as a whole is financially resilient. Water companies are responsible for ensuring that they remain financially resilient, however, over recent years, as investment requirements have risen, Ofwat has taken further steps to strengthen the financial resilience of companies. This includes increasing its financial monitoring, improving levels of reporting transparency and strengthening the ring-fence licence conditions, which ensure the regulated company maintains sufficient financial and management resources which enable it to carry out its functions in a sustainable manner.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Government and Ofwat take the financial resilience of the water sector very seriously. Government gave new powers to Ofwat through the Environment Act and in March 2023, Ofwat set out new measures to increase financial resilience in the sector. This includes additional powers to stop water companies making dividend payments earlier if the company's financial resilience is at risk.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Ofwat has also strengthened the existing dividend licence condition so that there is an explicit requirement for companies to measure performance by reference to delivery for customers and the environment. Companies will need to demonstrate this in their annual reporting on dividends and dividend decisions.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>In addition, Ofwat has also tightened up the measures around water company executives’ bonuses so that Ofwat will make shareholders pay for bonuses, not the customer, where there is poor performance.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 07/07/2023 10:08:24 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1650025

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Deep Sea Mining
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support an international ban on deep-sea mining.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	192445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>The UK recognises the growing pressure to extract deep-sea resources, and is actively monitoring the potential impacts of mining activities on the fragile marine environment. The UK's policy is not to sponsor or support the issuing of any exploitation licences for deep sea mining projects unless and until there is sufficient scientific evidence about the potential impact on deep sea ecosystems, and strong enforceable environmental Regulations, Standards and Guidelines have been developed by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) and are in place. The UK's approach is both precautionary and conditional.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 07/07/2023 11:01:08 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1650028

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
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: Training
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 NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 3 July 2023, for what reason he plans to reduce the number of trainee children's nurses.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	192368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>NHS England’s initial assessment is that there is currently a sufficient number of training places to meet demand for children’s nursing, but this will be kept under review. The modelling within this Plan will be independently verified and further information will be provided in due course.</p><p>The model will be kept up to date, aligning service, finance and workforce planning much more closely together in future years. As programme teams collate more data, the impact of integrated care systems feeds through and as our actions start to be delivered, we can more precisely predict workforce demand.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/07/2023 13:45:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1650030

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
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: Training
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 NHS Long Term Workforce Plan will require the creation of the new training course for NHS staff.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	192370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 30 June 2023, sets out the steps the NHS and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. It will put the workforce on a sustainable footing for the long term.</p><p>The Plan sets out significant expansion of domestic education, training and recruitment. This will include more doctors and nurses alongside an expansion in a range of other professions, including more staff working in new roles.</p><p>Training will need to be reformed to support the education expansion set out in the Plan and ensure that we train the healthcare professionals of the future. Actions include improving productivity by working and training in different ways, building broader teams with flexible skills, changing education and training to deliver more staff in roles and services where they are needed most, and ensuring staff have the right skills to take advantage of new technology that frees up clinicians’ time to care, increases flexibility in deployment, and provides the care patients need more effectively and efficiently.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/07/2023 13:50:24 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1650031

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
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: Training
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 an assessment of the potential merits of widening access to NHS careers by providing (a) support for mature students and (b) childcare and grants to assist with staff training.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	192371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>Widening access to NHS careers remains a key priority for Government. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 30 June 2023 sets out an ongoing ambition to work to widen participation in education and training, so the NHS workforce is representative of the communities we serve, and students gain the skills, knowledge and experience they need to deliver high quality care to a hugely diverse population.</p><p>The NHS Learning Support Fund provides eligible nursing, midwifery and allied health professions students with a non-repayable training grant of a minimum of £5,000 per academic year. Further funding is available depending on personal circumstances, including a non-repayable grant of £2,000 per academic year for students with one or more child dependents.</p><p>The NHS Bursary provides payment for tuition fees for students on medical and dental courses from year five of an undergraduate course, and from year two of a graduate-entry course. The NHS Bursary also provide students, where eligible, with a dependants’ allowance, parent learning allowance and childcare allowance.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/07/2023 13:45:10 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1650033

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
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: Training
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 have discussions with the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the provision of key worker housing for staff training relating to the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	192372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>We recognise the importance of ensuring high-quality, affordable accommodation is available to National Health Service staff. We are working closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to explore how we can best support NHS trusts to deliver key worker accommodation where it is needed. Local organisations are ultimately responsible for determining the appropriate use of NHS estate, including for key worker accommodation. NHS staff also have access to the national First Homes scheme, established in 2021, which enables key workers to purchase homes at a discount to the market value on new housing sites, paid for by developer contributions.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/07/2023 13:44:30 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1650035

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
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	Health Visitors
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 take steps to ensure that (a) the number of health visitors and (b) caseloads for health visitors return to 2015 levels.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	192373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>It is the responsibility of local authority commissioners, working with their service provider, to determine health visitor numbers based upon local needs. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out the steps the NHS and its partners need to take to deliver a workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years. As part of this ambition, we aim to expand health visiting training places by 74% to over 1,300 by 2031/32. To support working towards this expansion, training places for health visitors will grow by 17% by 2028/29.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/07/2023 09:17:43 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1650036

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
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	Physiotherapy
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 an assessment of the adequacy of the proposed number of physiotherapists provided for by the NHS Workforce Plan in (a) 2026-27, (b) 2031-32 and (c) 2036-37.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	192374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan models the workforce supply and demand for staff in different professions over a 15-year timeframe, and the resulting shortfall. The model suggests a shortfall between 0% and 5% for physiotherapists in 2036/37. Shortfall is not estimated for any other periods.</p><p>The Plan modelling aims to provide strategic insights to inform policy choices relating to education, training, recruitment and retention, rather than operational insights, targets or precise values. The National Audit Office (NAO) will carry out an independent assessment of the modelling behind the Plan. The NAO anticipates publishing their independent assessment in the first half of 2024.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/07/2023 09:19:10 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1650054

registered interest
date	04/07/2023
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	Motor Neurone Disease
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 provide a breakdown of how the £50 million funding ring-fenced for research into Motor-Neurone Disease is to be spent.
tabling member constituency	Southport
tabling member printed	Damien Moore
uin	192421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>Funding for motor neurone disease research has always been available via open competition. In 2021/22, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) spent £3.8 million on MND research, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), through the Medical Research Council (MRC), spent around £10.8 million.</p><p>The Government has committed to make at least £50 million available for MND research over the next five years, ending in March 2027. In June 2023, we set out how £36.5 million of the £50 million pledged to MND research is now allocated to cutting-edge researchers.</p><p>The £36.5 million package includes, £7m of new research grants allocated by the MRC, including three fellowships and four research grants. £8 million for early phase clinical research for MND, speeding up innovative new treatments for patients through the NIHR Biomedical Research Centres. This is made up of a £4.7 million investment in a collaboration of UK researchers who will take forward an early phase platform trial to screen for drugs which have the potential to be successful in clinical trials. It also includes a further £3.25 million investment to train a new group of MND researchers to support future research and £12.5 million to support the best discovery science at the UK Dementia Research Institute.</p><p>In June 2022, a £4.25 million MND collaborative partnership was launched to bring the MND research community together, for leading researchers to collaborate on accelerating delivery of new treatments, with £1 million contribution from Government. NIHR is contributing a further £2 million to the MND Collaborative Partnership led by LifeArc to focus on gathering and analysing existing data on the condition to explore the underlying causes of MND and help develop breakthrough new treatments.</p><p>£6 million fund, £3 million from MRC and £3 million from NIHR, for a translational accelerator investment which will connect the UK Dementia Research Institute, the MND collaborative partnership, and the UK Dementias Platform.</p><p>To support this work, the Government published a joint NIHR MRC Highlight Notice inviting outstanding researchers across the academic and life science sector to submit applications to an open call. For the remainder of the £50 million, we are encouraging all researchers to apply for this funding via open call.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 07/07/2023 13:43:50 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4669 label Biography information for Damien Moore