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1681516

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date	11/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish a list of diversity and inclusion training programs in the civil service.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	9144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>The Civil Service has limited diversity and inclusion specific training. The current list of courses available through the cross Civil Service learning offer is listed below. This does not include training designed for departments and professions to meet specific needs or that which is purchased outside of the centrally managed contracts.</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Civil Service Expectations</p></li><li><p>Collaborating effectively in cross-cultural teams</p></li><li><p>Creating an Inclusive Culture</p></li><li><p>Creating Inclusive Virtual Teams</p></li><li><p>Creating Team Inclusivity</p></li><li><p>Cultivating your Cultural Intelligence</p></li><li><p>Dealing with Everyday Racism</p></li><li><p>Disability inclusive management</p></li><li><p>Ignite inclusion</p></li><li><p>Inclusive leadership</p></li><li><p>Leading inclusive teams</p></li><li><p>Managing Inclusion</p></li><li><p>Modern Leadership – skills for managing a diverse workforce</p></li><li><p>Neurodiversity in the workplace</p></li><li><p>POC Managers Session 1: Leading inclusively</p></li><li><p>Power of choice</p></li><li><p>Respect Training</p></li><li><p>Sexual Harassment</p></li><li><p>Understanding multiple perspectives</p></li><li><p>Working with different cultures – a Managers Toolkit</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>In May 2023, the Chancellor of the Exchequer commissioned a review of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion expenditure in the Civil Service. The review which included capturing spend on equality, diversity and inclusion training is now concluded and I am now engaging with the Cabinet Office who led the review, to determine next steps.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 19/01/2024 14:43:49 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1681519

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Cattle: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cattle were refused a cattle passport in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Bill Wiggin
uin	9176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency registers in the region of 2.5 million cattle every year. In the time available we are not able to provide information on how many cattle passports were refused in each of the last five years. However, as of 11 January 2024 the number of animals in GB currently alive and issued with a CPP35 – Notice of Registration (Refused Passport) is 13,075.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 19/01/2024 17:34:18 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1681520

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Cattle: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cattle were (a) DNA tested and (b) refused a cattle passport in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Bill Wiggin
uin	9177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency registers in the region of 2.5 million cattle every year. The total number of DNA appeals received by the Rural Payments Agency is given in the table below. In the time available we are not able to establish the number of cattle and the number of Passports refused following a DNA appeal being unsuccessful.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>DNA Appeals Received</strong></p></td><td><p>736</p></td><td><p>590</p></td><td><p>506</p></td><td><p>466</p></td><td><p>479</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between 2019 and 2021 the data provided is for GB. From 2021 the data does not include appeals made in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 19/01/2024 17:28:09 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1681521

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Cattle: Transport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people appealed against decisions made by the Rural Payments Agency on the passporting of cattle in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Herefordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Bill Wiggin
uin	9178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>The Rural Payments Agency registers in the region of 2.5 million cattle every year. The total number of appeals made is given in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2022</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2023</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Appeals Received</strong></p></td><td><p>878</p></td><td><p>1173</p></td><td><p>1044</p></td><td><p>809</p></td><td><p>839</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between 2019 and 2021 the data provided is for GB. From 2021 the data does not include appeals made in Scotland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 19/01/2024 17:23:00 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	1428 label Biography information for Sir Bill Wiggin

1681522

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Police: Elections
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Security Minister's role leading the Defending Democracy Taskforce, if he will take steps to appoint (a) a lead police force and (b) a lead officer in each police force for election security and electoral offences.
tabling member constituency	Norwich North
tabling member printed	Chloe Smith
uin	9203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>The Defending Democracy Taskforce seeks to protect the democratic integrity of the UK from the threats of foreign interference working across government and with operational partners, including Counter Terrorism Policing as a standing Taskforce member.</p><p>The National Police Chiefs’ Council has a national portfolio lead for policing of elections. This role is currently held by Assistant Commissioner Nik Adams of the City of London Police.</p><p>The National Police Operations Centre (NPoCC) are coordinating national planning for policing relating to the elections. This work is bringing together regional representatives from police forces to ensure efficient and effective national coordination for the preparation, planning and delivery of policing responses to elections in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 18/01/2024 16:54:49 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith

1681523

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Diabetes: Medical Treatments
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 her Department is taking with (a) the NHS, (b) community organisations and (c) health experts to help tackle inequalities in the treatment of diabetes.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	9263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2024 answer text <p>Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for improving the health of their populations, including the planning and delivery of diabetes clinical services and addressing health inequalities. The national NHS Diabetes Programme (NDP) develops policies and provides leadership and support to ICBs to improve diabetes care and outcomes.</p><p>The NDP ensures local health care systems can identify inequalities in diabetes care and outcomes through National Diabetes Audit data that contains demographic information such as age, deprivation, ethnicity. The NDP allocates funding to support the costs of diabetes clinical lead posts in local health systems, with a key priority to supporting improvement in addressing health inequalities at the local level.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 19/01/2024 12:06:17 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1681524

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Physician Associates: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training programmes are available for physician associates in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	9264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>Physician associates (PAs) must pass an intensive two-year university course at diploma or masters level to learn clinical knowledge and skills after completing a three-year biomedical or healthcare related degree. They train in both the acute sector and primary care to gain a rounded patient centred clinical experience. There are 36 PA schools across England and currently one PA school delivering the postgraduate degree apprenticeship for PA.</p><p> </p><p>Subject to final training numbers and costs, NHS England estimates they will provide approximately £20.5 million for the training of 2,227 physician associates in the 2023/24 financial year broken down as follows:</p><p> </p><p>- East of England: £2,252,701;</p><p>- London: £3,001,033;</p><p>- Midlands: £2,205,406;</p><p>- North East and Yorkshire: £2,493,019;</p><p>- North West: £4,178,322;</p><p>- South East: £2,804,249; and</p><p>- South West £1,742,302.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 9272 question first answered 17/01/2024 17:27:59 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1681525

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Physician Associates: Recruitment
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 her Department is taking to recruit physician associates to the NHS in (a) primary and (b) secondary care settings.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	9265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2024 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (LTWP) sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce that meets the changing needs of the population over the next 15 years.</p><p>The Plan will focus on expanding enhanced, advanced, and associate roles to offer modernised careers, with a stronger emphasis on the generalist and core skills needed to care for patients with multimorbidity, frailty or mental health needs. This includes setting an ambition to grow the proportion of staff in these newer roles from approximately 1% to 5% in the next 15 years. As part of this, we will increase physician associate training places to over 1,500 by 2031/32. Over 1,200 physician associates (PAs) will be trained per year from 2023/24, increasing to over 1,400 a year in 2027/28 and 2028/29, establishing a workforce of 10,000 PAs by 2036/37.</p><p> </p><p>At a local level, NHS organisations are best placed to determine their own recruitment needs, informed by their workforce, service and financial planning and ensuring there is sufficient skilled workforce in both primary and secondary care settings.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 16/01/2024 10:03:35 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1681526

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Physician Associates: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to regulate the physician associate role.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	9266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>On 13 December 2023, the Department laid draft legislation in both Houses and in the Scottish Parliament that will empower the General Medical Council (GMC) to regulate physician associates and anaesthesia associates.</p><p>Subject to parliamentary scrutiny, this legislation will instruct the GMC to commence regulation. The GMC will then have to consult on their own rules, policies and guidance and begin regulating these roles in or before December 2024.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 18/01/2024 12:43:57 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1681528

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
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	Physician Associates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent guidance her Department has issued to NHS Trusts on the integration of physician associates into healthcare teams.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	9267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has worked with royal colleges and the General Medical Council (GMC) to develop appropriate curricula, core capability and career frameworks, standards for continued professional development, assessment and appraisal and supervision guidance for the physician associate (PA) role.</p><p>NHS England continues to work with partners, including the GMC and medical royal colleges, to ensure that PAs can be effectively trained and integrated into teams across a range of specialties through the ongoing development of national standards, a defined scope of practice, and assessment of educational capacity.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 17/01/2024 17:33:02 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi