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1643572

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date	12/06/2023
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	Finerenone
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 number of patients that have been given finerenone since it was introduced to the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>According to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), between August 2022 and March 2023, a total of seventeen patients in England were prescribed and given finerenone. August 2022 being the earliest month recorded in the NHSBSA’s data for prescribing this product, and March 2023 is the most recent month they have data for.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/06/2023 14:47:42 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1643573

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the bulk purchasing of driving test slots.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) recognises there is a high demand for learners who are wanting to take their car practical driving test.</p><p> </p><p>The DVSA has a 24-week forward booking window and tests are not available to book beyond this. As the booking service is live, test appointments can also become available to book through other candidates cancelling, or rescheduling, their test.</p><p> </p><p>The DVSA is aware of apps or bots that constantly search its systems for driving test slots. The DVSA does not employ, encourage or licence anyone to provide such a cancellation service checking for newly open slots. These apps or bots are not approved by the DVSA as they make it harder for candidates to get a test and can result in people paying more for a test than the official test fee. Using such services also means that any changes to the test may not necessarily be relayed to the candidate.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure its booking system is used correctly, the DVSA has:</p><p>- stopped accepting new automatic online registrations to use its tests booking service – any new applications must be made by email, where they will be thoroughly checked by the DVSA.</p><p>- stopped accepting any new registrations from companies who do not directly employ a driving instructor.</p><p>- removed registrations not linked to driving instructors.</p><p>- reduced the number of times a driving test appointment can be changed from 10 to the pre-pandemic limit of 6 and updated the test booking service terms and conditions to make it clear that users must not book tests and sell them for profit.</p><p> </p><p>Users found breaching the terms and conditions may have their accounts closed.</p><p> </p><p>The DVSA is continuing to take steps to block cancellation services from accessing the booking system. This is having a positive impact. Following recent changes, there has been a significant drop in traffic to these services because the DVSA is successfully identifying and blocking apps or bots.</p><p> </p><p>The agency will also continue to inform candidates of the official channels for booking a test. The DVSA has taken measures to encourage learners to use the official booking site on GOV.UK by ensuring that it appears as high as possible on popular search engines and by promoting the official website on social media.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the measures already taken by the DVSA, overall, since April 2021, approximately 900,000 additional car test slots have been created. On average, the DVSA is creating around 37,000 extra car test slots each month.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 14/06/2023 12:44:18 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1643574

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
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	Antidepressants: Older People
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 number of people aged over 50 who have been newly prescribed anti-depressants since the start of the covid-19 pandemic.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 20/06/2023 16:14:44 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1643575

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ukraine: Air Force
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of the efficiency of Ukraine's air defences; and whether his Department plans to offer air defence support to Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The robust capabilities of Ukraine's air defence systems continue to deter Russian aircraft from venturing beyond the forward line of their own troops. Regular open-source reporting suggests that Ukraine's air defence is achieving a high success rate against both cruise missiles and one way attack drones.</p><p>To date, we have provided Ukraine with thousands of short and long-range air defence systems and missiles. This includes Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles and six Stormer vehicles fitted with Starstreak missile launchers.</p> answering member constituency Wells answering member printed James Heappey question first answered 19/06/2023 13:24:24 answering member 4528 label Biography information for James Heappey
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1643576

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
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	Dementia: Research
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 has had recent discussions with the director of UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University on treatments for Dementia.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2023 answer text <p>There have been no recent discussions with the Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University on treatments for Dementia.</p><p>On 17 May we published a call for evidence giving the public, charities, patient groups and other stakeholders an opportunity to inform the Major Conditions Strategy, helping to build consensus on what actions need to be prioritised. We would welcome contributions from the UK Dementia Research Institute and others on the subject of treatments for dementia. The call for evidence can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fconsultations%2Fmajor-conditions-strategy-call-for-evidence&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAaliyah.Ali%40dhsc.gov.uk%7C380d864e159544d92fd108db61ebca36%7C61278c3091a84c318c1fef4de8973a1c%7C1%7C0%7C638211437554714528%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=L801mG%2FwEd6U35zU6BCLv9w4gJF4mSwtjFbArN5lRKM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/major-conditions-strategy-call-for-evidence</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 16/06/2023 13:26:15 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1643577

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Vodafone: Broadband
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of Vodafone broadband outages on 10 April 2023.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>Reliable access to telecommunications and internet services is vital for the operation of essential services and our everyday home, work, education, and social lives. All service providers are responsible for their own networks. However, there are statutory obligations they have to meet set out by Ofcom the independent regulator.</p><p>The sector has proven itself extremely robust, and the UK has never suffered a major nationwide loss of telecoms or broadband services. On rare occasions where the sector does experience outages part of these statutory obligations on Vodafone and other providers is to maintain the availability of services and report significant outages to Ofcom. Therefore should thresholds for service failure have been met on this occasion, Ofcom would fully investigate the circumstances and take appropriate action.</p><p>There are protections in place for consumers under Ofcom’s voluntary industry automatic compensation scheme (of which Vodafone is a signatory). Following a loss of service, if repairs are delayed by more than two working days, customers may be entitled to compensation of £9.33 for each calendar day.</p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Sir John Whittingdale question first answered 20/06/2023 15:12:27 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1643578

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Social Rented Housing: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on trends in the level of demand for social housing.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department engages regularly with counterparts in devolved administrations on a range of issues, including housing.</p> answering member constituency Bishop Auckland answering member printed Dehenna Davison grouped question UIN 189555 question first answered 20/06/2023 16:00:35 answering member 4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1643579

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Pornography: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will make an assessment of the potential effectiveness of the Online Safety Bill in tackling online access to pornography by children.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>The Online Safety Bill will ensure that companies protect children from online pornography, wherever it appears online. It will cover all online sites that offer pornography, including commercial pornography sites, social media platforms, video sharing platforms, forums and search engines. These companies will have to prevent children from accessing pornography, using measures such as age verification, or Ofcom will be able to bring enforcement action against them.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 20/06/2023 09:22:45 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1643580

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Education: Equal Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the gender pay gap in the education sector.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	188882
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department monitors reporting of the gender pay gap in schools and works with the Government Equalities Office and the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to ensure schools comply with the reporting requirement.</p><p>Schools and colleges are responsible for implementing actions to reduce their gender pay gap. The Department expects schools and colleges, like all employers, to give due consideration to their obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and the way their employment practices affect different sections of their communities and staff at different stages of their careers.</p><p>The Department is committed to ensuring that the pay system for teachers is free from discrimination. To support schools in making appropriate pay decisions, the Department published guidance, drafted in partnership with the teaching unions, on handling equalities matters in the context of teachers pay. The Government is not responsible for and plays no role in setting or making recommendations about teacher pay in colleges. It is for individual colleges to set the pay of their staff.</p><p>The latest Office for National Statistics Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2022 data shows that the median pay gap in the UK between full time male and female 'teaching and education professionals' has fallen significantly over recent years from 7.2% in 2021 to 5.1% in 2022. 'Teaching and education professionals' includes teaching staff across early years, schools, further education, and higher education.</p><p>It is important to note universities, as autonomous institutions, are responsible for setting their own pay and conditions. Provisional data published by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association suggest the gender pay gap data for higher education has decreased from 20.7% in 2011/12 to 13.7% in 2021/22.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/06/2023 14:45:55 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1643581

registered interest
date	12/06/2023
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	Patients: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients were moved from hospitals to (a) care and (b) nursing homes to create space for anticipated covid-19 patients in England and Wales in (i) March and (ii) April 2020.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	188883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 188884 question first answered 15/06/2023 13:41:04 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen