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1460071

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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	Epilepsy: Medical Equipment
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 ensure that UK residents will be able to import epilepsy seizure monitors following the UK's transition from European Medical Device Regulation.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	158878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/04/2022 08:57:53 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1460072

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
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	Epilepsy: Medical Equipment
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 ensure that epilepsy seizure monitors are available to purchase at an affordable price.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	158879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/04/2022 08:58:13 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1460108

registered interest
date	25/04/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will take steps to ensure that local authorities, schools, academies and free schools are issued with guidance on the continuation of transitional protection of free school meal eligibility during the 2022-2023 academic year for children from families in receipt of Universal Credit.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	158880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>When the government introduced the new free school meals (FSM) eligibility criteria in April 2018, they introduced transitional protections that would apply during the universal credit roll out period to ensure that no child would lose their eligibility to FSM. These protections were enacted in our Commencement Order with the end date of March 2022, the date the rollout was then due to end.</p><p>When the end date moved to March 2023, the government confirmed that it had extended the end date of the protections to match this. Whilst the rollout is in progress, the government will continue to keep its guidance under review and will make any necessary changes ahead of March 2023.</p><p>The extended date of March 2023 has been confirmed in the school census guidance available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1047457/2021-22_School_Census_Business_and_Technical_Specification_Version_1.7_publishing.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1047457/2021-22_School_Census_Business_and_Technical_Specification_Version_1.7_publishing.pdf</a> and is also available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals</a>.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/04/2022 15:49:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1458529

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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	Health Education England: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the budget is for Health Education England for 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	155606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>Health Education England has received an opening programme budget of more than £5 billion for 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2022 12:11:04 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1458530

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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	Cancer: Nurses
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 estimate of the costs of training a cancer clinical nurse specialist.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	155607
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>Cancer Nurse Specialist (CNS) is a post registration nursing specialism. There are a number of different routes to becoming a CNS. Typically, a CNS would have qualified as an adult nurse before undertaking post registration training, which often comprises a number of BSc and/or MSc modules or programmes.</p><p>A Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Education funded study by the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent shows the total investment training cost for an undergraduate nurse as £66,544. No specific estimate of post registration CNS training has been made. Training would normally be funded by employers and the cost varies according to the nature of training provided.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2022 12:31:21 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1458531

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
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	NHS: Staff
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 Spending Review 2021, what the specific yearly allocation of additional funding for the NHS workforce is.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	155608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>Health Education England has received an opening programme budget of more than £5 billion for 2022/23. Budgets for 2023/24 and 2024/25 will be determined prior to the start of the relevant financial year.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 25/04/2022 12:26:31 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1458077

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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	Food: Prices
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 his Department is taking to support the food and drink supply chain with direct increases in food prices as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	153815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>The UK has a highly resilient food supply chain, well equipped to deal with situations with the potential to cause disruption. Our high degree of food security is built on supply from diverse sources, strong domestic production as well as imports through stable trade routes.</p><p>As the global economy recovers from COVID-19, many economies are experiencing high inflation, in part due to pressures from rising energy and commodity prices, along with disruptions to global supply chains caused by a mismatch between elevated global demand and bottlenecks in supply as a result of the pandemic.</p><p>Our extensive work in this space has reinforced the long-standing view that the most effective response to food supply disruption is industry-led, with appropriate support and enablement from the Government. Consequently, Defra maintains a collaborative relationship with industry, and has for example recently expanded the membership of our longstanding UK Agricultural Market Monitoring Group. We have also supported industry through, for example, removing tariffs on imports of sensitive agri-food products from the US and removing other technical barriers to trade. We continue to engage with the sector regarding supply chain disruption.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 28/04/2022 08:23:41 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1458078

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
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	Food: Supply Chains
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 support he is providing to the food and drink sector to help mitigate increased supply chain costs resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	153816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2022 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Banbury answering member printed Victoria Prentis question first answered 28/04/2022 10:51:24 answering member 4401 label Biography information for Victoria Prentis
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1458079

registered interest
date	14/04/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Primary Education: Free School Meals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to increase the allowance of universal infants free school meals to help tackle to effect of rising levels of inflation on the cost of food.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	153817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>The department spends around £600 million per year ensuring around 1.3 million infants enjoy a free, healthy, and nutritious meal at lunchtime following the introduction of the universal infant free school meal policy in 2014. The per meal rate of £2.34 per child was increased in the 2020/21 financial year. The funding rate for the 2022/23 financial year will be published with the funding allocations in June.</p><p> </p><p>The department holds regular meetings with other government departments and with food industry representatives, covering a variety of issues including public sector food supplies. Schools are responsible for the provision of school meals and may enter individual contracts with suppliers and caterers to meet this duty. The department is confident that schools will continue providing pupils with nutritious school meals as required by the school food standards.</p><p> </p><p>The department routinely considers contingency arrangements and expect schools and catering companies supplying them to do the same.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 26/04/2022 15:41:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1455578

registered interest
date	29/03/2022
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	Personal Independence Payment: Cancer
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 reported delays to personal independence payments for people living with cancer.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	149184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2022 answer text <p>Entitlement to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is assessed on the basis of the needs arising from a health condition or disability, rather than the health condition or disability itself. People with the same condition or impairment can have very different daily living or mobility needs. New claims from claimants who are terminally ill are currently being cleared in an average of three days.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We are committed to ensuring people can access financial support through PIP in a timely manner.  Reducing customer journey times for PIP claimants is a priority for the Department and we are working constantly to make improvements to our service, including using a blend of phone, video and fact-to-face assessments to deliver a more efficient and user-centred process.  We always aim to make an award decision as quickly as possible, taking into account the need to review all available evidence, including that from the claimant.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 31/03/2022 15:41:11 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson