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1399692

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date	05/01/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Sheep Meat: Imports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent assessment he has made of the potential effect on the Welsh lamb industry of the end of US restrictions on the import of British lamb.
tabling member constituency	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
tabling member printed	John Lamont
uin	904906
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2022 answer text <p>The lifting of this ban is fantastic news and brings Welsh farmers one step closer to putting their first-class lamb on US menus for the first time in 20 years.</p><p>Farmers will now be able to reach a new market of over 300 million people. This win will support vital jobs and growth in Wales.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 05/01/2022 16:19:41 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4608 label Biography information for John Lamont

1399693

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what recent assessment the Government has made of the contribution of the steel industry in Wales to the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Jacob Young
uin	904907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2022 answer text <p>The UK Government recognises the importance of the steel industry in Wales and the UK. This House only needs to look at the £30 million loan we secured for Celsa to see our commitment to the sector. Our response during the pandemic helped secure more than 1,000 steel jobs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 05/01/2022 16:20:17 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4825 label Biography information for Jacob Young

1399694

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Crown Estate Commissioners: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of devolving control of the Crown Estate in Wales to the Welsh Government.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Steven Bonnar
uin	904908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2022 answer text <p>Effective working relationships already exist between the Crown Estate and the Welsh Government.</p><p>There is no public appetite at all in Wales to devolve the Crown Estate, which would serve merely to fragment the market and delay the further development of key projects in Wales.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 05/01/2022 16:18:45 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4748 label Biography information for Steven Bonnar

1399695

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Wales Office
answering dept id	28
answering dept short name	Wales
answering dept sort name	Wales
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, if he will hold discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on support for (a) businesses and (b) people affected by the outbreak of the covid-19 omicron variant in Wales.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	904909
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2022 answer text <p>The UK Government has supported Welsh businesses and people throughout the pandemic, including providing £1.1bn through the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, £2.4bn in business support loans, and supported 475,000 employees through the furlough scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We have further confirmed £270m the Welsh Government can spend in advance of budgets being finalised at Supplementary Estimates.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 05/01/2022 16:17:18 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1399761

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what recent steps have been taken by the EU to facilitate trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland; and what steps he is taking to help ensure that business are able to source parts from Great Britain for (a) vehicles and (b) lawn mowers.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	98282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government welcomed the European Union’s acknowledgement in October last year that the current operation of the Protocol is having considerable impacts on Northern Ireland businesses and on the people of Northern Ireland more widely.</p><p>In December, the European Union published proposals with the intention to facilitate medicine supply to Northern Ireland. The Government is considering these proposals carefully.</p><p>In relation to movement of goods, whilst the Trader Support Service and the Movement Assistance Scheme provides support to traders moving goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, businesses continue to raise significant concerns with me and it is clear that there needs to be substantively different processes for goods remaining in the UK, in order to deal with these very real challenges.</p><p>The Government has made clear that discussions with the EU need to proceed with renewed urgency and our continued preference is to reach a comprehensive solution dealing with all the issues now. However, as long as there is no agreed solution, Article 16 safeguards remain on the table to deal with the very real problems faced in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 13/01/2022 13:25:39 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1399762

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
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	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she has taken to collaborate with countries neighbouring Afghanistan to (a) keep those countries' borders open and (b) resettle refugees who flee from Afghanistan by land.
tabling member constituency	St Helens South and Whiston
tabling member printed	Ms Marie Rimmer
uin	98335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>FCDO officials have engaged with governments in the region, notably Pakistan and in Central Asia, to allow Afghan nationals to cross their borders from Afghanistan on humanitarian grounds. We have supported over 3,400 people to leave Afghanistan, or to move from third countries to the UK, since the end of Op PITTING. To date, the UK Government has disbursed £10 million to support preparedness in the region and to help mitigate widespread humanitarian disaster, including to £3 million to Iran, £4 million to Pakistan and £2 million to Tajikistan.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 12/01/2022 17:45:52 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4457 label Biography information for Ms Marie Rimmer

1399763

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
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	Dementia and Heart Diseases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there has been a relative increase in the numbers of people diagnosed with (a) dementia and (b) heart disease over the last 18 months.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	98283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2022 answer text <p>There has been a decrease in the numbers of people diagnosed with dementia and heart disease in the last 18 months. The reduction in the numbers of people diagnosed with dementia and heart disease can be attributed to the impact of COVID-19.</p><p>The number of people registered to with a general practitioner (GP), the data shows that 0.72% were diagnosed with dementia in November 2021, compared to 0.73% in June 2020. This coincided with a reduction of 25% in referrals from GPs to memory clinics. There has been a reduction of 0.04% in the number of people diagnosed with heart disease in England in the last 18 months.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 14/01/2022 13:43:11 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1399764

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
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: Negligence
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 23 September 2021 to Question 43518 on NHS: Negligence, how much NHS Resolution spent on medication errors in (a) hospitals and (b) GP surgeries in the financial year 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	98284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>The information is not held in the format requested as NHS Resolution indemnify their members under various schemes between primary and secondary care. However, the following table shows the total value of payments made by NHS Resolution for damages and legal costs for medication errors in secondary care and primary care in England in 2020/21.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Type</p></td><td><p>Damages paid</p></td><td><p>National Health Service legal costs</p></td><td><p>Claimant legal costs</p></td><td><p>Total costs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Secondary care</p></td><td><p>£5,773,001</p></td><td><p>£839,761</p></td><td><p>£10,155,919</p></td><td><p>£16,768,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Primary care</p></td><td><p>£38,140</p></td><td><p>£13,792</p></td><td><p>£63,541</p></td><td><p>£115,474</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 11/01/2022 11:56:13 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1399765

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
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	Xenotransplantation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any operations have taken place using animal organs specifically for transplants in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	98285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2022 answer text <p>NHS Blood and Transplant has a statutory duty to match and allocate organs for transplant to hospitals within the United Kingdom. All organs supplied for transplant come from deceased or living human donors.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 11/01/2022 16:18:43 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1399766

registered interest
date	05/01/2022
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	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Exercise
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 NICE's updated guidance on exercise for sufferers of ME, whether his Department has plans to promote that information to health and social care staff.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	98286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2022 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is working with the National Health Service to support the implementation of its guidance. While the guidance describes best practice and should be taken into account in the treatment of patients, it is not mandatory and does not override a medical practitioner’s clinical judgement.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 17/01/2022 14:13:34 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon