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1536455

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
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	Social Services: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to intervene in the agency market of social care recruitment to (a) prevent money going out of the system to recruitment agencies and (b) support with staffing levels in that sector.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	72450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2022 answer text <p>Most care workers are employed by private sector providers who make their own recruitment decisions, independent of central government. It is, therefore, the responsibility of individual providers to make decisions on the use of recruitment agencies to support with capacity.</p><p>To support the sector with workforce capacity, we are supporting recruitment at home and at abroad - investing £15 million to boost the international recruitment of care workers and launching our domestic National Recruitment Campaign in early November.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 07/11/2022 14:28:54 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1520710

registered interest
date	11/10/2022
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	Care Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans her Department has to (a) intervene in the market for agency care workers and (b) reduce the cost of employing care staff.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	61325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>There are no plans to do so. The majority of care workers, including agency care workers, are employed by private sector providers who set their pay, independently of central Government. Local authorities work with care providers to determine fee rates, which should take account of wage costs based on local market conditions.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 26/10/2022 14:45:39 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1519385

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Food: Marketing
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 she will take to ensure restrictions on placement promotions for foods high in fat, salt and sugar do not increase the cost of goods for consumers experiencing the rising cost of living.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	60039
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2022 answer text <p>We recognise the need to balance implications costs and benefits to businesses individuals, society and the National Health Service. Following consultation, a number of exemptions were made to ease the impact on businesses where appropriate. The restrictions only apply to products that are high in fat, salt or sugar and are assessed as ‘less healthy’, retailers are free to promote products that are healthier and that are not deemed in scope of the policy.</p><p>The location restrictions on promotions which came into force on 1 October are expected to accrue health benefits of over £57 billion and provide NHS savings of over £4 billion, over the next 25 years. In light of the unprecedented global economic situation, we have delayed the implementation of the volume price promotions by 12-months. These restrictions will come into force in October 2023.</p> answering member constituency Sleaford and North Hykeham answering member printed Dr Caroline Johnson grouped question UIN 60038 question first answered 26/10/2022 12:17:40 answering member 4592 label Biography information for Dr Caroline Johnson
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1519615

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
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	Adult Social Care Discharge Fund
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 £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund she announced on 22 September 2022, which organisations will receive this funding, and what proportion of the funding local authorities will receive.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	60041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>The Department is finalising the details of the Adult Social Care Discharge Fund. Further information will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 60182 question first answered 18/10/2022 13:08:32 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1505502

registered interest
date	06/09/2022
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	Supported Housing: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the £300 million for supported housing will be made available; and how (a) local authorities and (b) housing providers will be able to access that funding.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	48490
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/09/2022 answer text <p>The ‘People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform’ white paper, published on 1 December 2021, announced a £300 million investment in housing over the next three years to connect housing with health and care and increase the stock of new supported housing. We are currently developing this work with local authorities, housing providers and others and further information will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 29/09/2022 09:49:13 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1483354

registered interest
date	27/06/2022
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	Tobacco
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 3 August 2020 to Question 72841 on Tobacco: Marketing and the US Food and Drug Administration's Modified Risk Granted Order reference MR0000192, published on 11 March 2022, if he will (a) make it his policy to commission independent research into heated tobacco products as recommended in the Khan review: making smoking obsolete, published on 9 June 2022 and (b) introduce a new regulatory framework for those products.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	25993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2022 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The next Vaping in England report, commissioned by the former Public Health England and produced by Kings College London, includes a chapter on heated tobacco products. This will be published in summer 2020.</p><p>Plans for future research will be set out in the forthcoming white paper on health disparities and the Tobacco Control Plan, which will be published later this year. There are no current plans to introduce new regulatory framework for these products.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 05/07/2022 10:41:44 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1472120

registered interest
date	21/06/2022
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	Food: Advertising
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 his Department's press release, Government delays restrictions on multibuy deals and advertising on TV and online, published on 14 May 2022, when his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to delay the implementation of restrictions on the advertising of foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	22506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2022 answer text <p>We will provide further information on how the delay to the legislation will be implemented in due course.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 27/06/2022 16:22:34 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1470309

registered interest
date	14/06/2022
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	Tobacco: Research
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 Advancing Our Health: Prevention in the 2020s Green Paper published on 22 July 2019, if he will recommit to undertaking a call for independent research on heated tobacco products.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	18029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The next Vaping in England report, commissioned by the Department, includes a chapter on heated tobacco products. It reviews data on use of these products, the evidence for use in smoking cessation and the exposure of users to major toxicants. The report will be published later this summer. In addition, a systematic review on heated tobacco was published by the Cochrane Collaboration earlier this year, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013790.pub2/full" target="_blank">https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013790.pub2/full</a></p><p>No assessment has been made for the introduction of a traffic light system for the relative health impacts on tobacco and nicotine products.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup grouped question UIN 18031 question first answered 21/06/2022 10:42:26 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1470311

registered interest
date	14/06/2022
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	Nicotine and Tobacco: Health Hazards
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 potential merits of introducing a traffic light system for the relative health impacts on tobacco and nicotine products.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	18031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2022 answer text <p>The next Vaping in England report, commissioned by the Department, includes a chapter on heated tobacco products. It reviews data on use of these products, the evidence for use in smoking cessation and the exposure of users to major toxicants. The report will be published later this summer. In addition, a systematic review on heated tobacco was published by the Cochrane Collaboration earlier this year, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013790.pub2/full" target="_blank">https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013790.pub2/full</a></p><p>No assessment has been made for the introduction of a traffic light system for the relative health impacts on tobacco and nicotine products.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup grouped question UIN 18029 question first answered 21/06/2022 10:42:26 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1468089

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
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	Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021
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 Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) Regulations 2021, made on 2 December 2021, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of placement measures on businesses.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	13814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2022 answer text <p>The costs to businesses were considered in the Government’s impact assessment for the placement restrictions, published in December 2020. The impact assessment show that the costs for businesses are expected to be £423 million per year, with transition costs for the first year, to implement the placement restrictions expected to be £47 million. While we recognise the costs associated with implementation, the costs of obesity to individuals, society and the National Health Service are considerable and the benefits from reducing calorie intakes across the population are substantial.</p><p> </p><p>Following consultation in 2020, we made a number of exemptions to the placement restrictions to ease the impact on businesses where appropriate. Micro and small businesses are out of scope of the restrictions entirely, with only medium and large businesses with 50 or more employees subject to the restrictions. Stores that are smaller than 185.8 square metres will be exempt from the location restrictions, as well as specialist retailers which sell one type of food product category, such as chocolatiers or confectioners.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 29/06/2022 13:24:25 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley