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1308271

registered interest
date	13/04/2021
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: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to tackle the cancer care and treatment backlog.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	914218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>Cancer is a priority. As well as a £325 million investment in diagnostic machines, we have provided an additional £1 billion to the National Health Service to tackle the elective backlog,and ensure there is sufficient capacity in place to diagnose and treat the additional people coming into the system. To encourage patients to come forward to their general practitioner if they have symptoms, we launched the successful ‘Help us Help you’ campaign. NHS England also recently published Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance, highlighting that cancer recovery remains a priority for the NHS as a whole. Systems should meet the increased level of referrals and treatment required to address the shortfall in number of first treatments by March 2022.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 13/04/2021 15:40:52 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1303447

registered interest
date	17/03/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Mark Roberts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he last had discussions with Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts on football matters.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	170532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>The department is in regular contact with the Home Office, the National Police Chiefs’ Council Football Lead, and the UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) across a range of issues including tackling discrimination.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>I understand the Premier League and English Football League also meet frequently with the UKFPU, including recently with social media companies to focus on tackling online abuse, and hope they will continue to do so as we work together to rid this abhorrent behaviour from the game and society.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 170535 question first answered 22/03/2021 08:27:39 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1303448

registered interest
date	17/03/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Football: Racial Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when he last requested a report from the football authorities on the steps they are taking to eradicate racism from the game.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	170533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government continues to liaise closely and regularly with all the football authorities about their work to tackle discrimination. This includes actions targeted at and around football grounds, such as improving reporting systems, providing better training and support for referees and stewards, and improving the quality of CCTV around stadia.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We also welcomed the launch of The FA’s ‘Football Leadership Diversity Code’ last year which is a step in the right direction to ensure English football better represents our modern and diverse society, on and off the pitch.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In January, the Government convened a roundtable with footballers, alongside the Chair of The FA’s Inclusion Advisory Board and the Professional Footballers’ Association, to discuss social media abuse and the upcoming Online Safety Bill.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>However, there is still progress to be made and the Government will continue to press the football authorities to build on their work to date to tackle discrimination.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 170534 question first answered 22/03/2021 08:29:21 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1303449

registered interest
date	17/03/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Football: Racial Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent reports he has received from the football authorities on the steps they were taking to eradicate racial abuse from the game.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	170534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>The Government continues to liaise closely and regularly with all the football authorities about their work to tackle discrimination. This includes actions targeted at and around football grounds, such as improving reporting systems, providing better training and support for referees and stewards, and improving the quality of CCTV around stadia.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We also welcomed the launch of The FA’s ‘Football Leadership Diversity Code’ last year which is a step in the right direction to ensure English football better represents our modern and diverse society, on and off the pitch.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In January, the Government convened a roundtable with footballers, alongside the Chair of The FA’s Inclusion Advisory Board and the Professional Footballers’ Association, to discuss social media abuse and the upcoming Online Safety Bill.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>However, there is still progress to be made and the Government will continue to press the football authorities to build on their work to date to tackle discrimination.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 170533 question first answered 22/03/2021 08:29:21 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1303450

registered interest
date	17/03/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Football: Racial Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether he was made aware that Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts wrote in January 2021 to the (a) Premier League and (b) English Football League requesting that they work together to tackle racist abuse against players; and will he make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	170535
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>The department is in regular contact with the Home Office, the National Police Chiefs’ Council Football Lead, and the UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) across a range of issues including tackling discrimination.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>I understand the Premier League and English Football League also meet frequently with the UKFPU, including recently with social media companies to focus on tackling online abuse, and hope they will continue to do so as we work together to rid this abhorrent behaviour from the game and society.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 170532 question first answered 22/03/2021 08:27:40 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1303451

registered interest
date	17/03/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Football Banning Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if he will list all the Football Banning Orders that are in operation by (a) football club, (b) time served and (c) offence committed.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	170536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2021 answer text <p>The Home Office is the lead department for Football Banning Orders and has published football-related arrests and banning orders statistics, in England and Wales, for the 2019/20 season on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/football-related-arrests-and-banning-orders-england-and-wales-2019-to-2020-season/football-related-arrests-and-banning-orders-england-and-wales-2019-to-2020-season" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 22/03/2021 16:34:50 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1302173

registered interest
date	12/03/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Research: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the level of demand on the UK Research and Innovation budget.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	167832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2021 answer text <p>In contrast to the number of open calls that UKRI runs, which remained relatively stable with an additional surge to deliver specific COVID-19 related funding, the number of applications for funding from UKRI has risen over the last year, including in response to COVID-19. To date the trend has already shown an increase of over 1,000 applications ending December 2020, with a further projection of another 2,000 applications to be received in the final quarter. These increases are against an active portfolio of approximately 14,000 grants.</p><p> </p><p>UKRI has also responded to increased demand to help stabilise the system and the pressures felt across the research and innovation community. Active grants continue to attract a high number of requested changes through their life, but more recently hundreds more enquiries have resulted from COVID-19 disruption, generating many requests for both costed and no cost extensions with £90 million in costed grant extensions paid this year.</p><p> </p><p>Other stabilising interventions that UKRI has made in response to the pandemic include bringing forwards £100 million of Quality Related funding from Academic Year 2020-21 to AY 2019-20, and providing additional funding through the Sustaining University Research Expertise (SURE) Fund in financial year 2020-21.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 17/03/2021 18:08:37 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1300279

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
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: Health Services
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 Government next plans to publish details of a NHS multi-year funding plan for workforce and cancer diagnostic equipment.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	164351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2021 answer text <p>In order to prioritise the response to COVID-19, the Chancellor of the Exchequer conducted a one-year Spending Review. This provided an additional £260 million to continue to increase the National Health Service workforce. Full details on funding allocations towards NHS workforce budgets, including relating to the cancer workforce, in 2021-22 are subject to a detailed financial planning exercise and will be finalised in due course. The 2021-22 settlement included £325 million capital funding for NHS diagnostics, to replace over two thirds of imaging equipment that is over 10 years old.</p><p> </p><p>Funding beyond 2021-22 will be decided at the next Spending Review, of which further information will be announced by HM Treasury in due course. This will be aligned with the development of a longer term plan for the NHS workforce. For diagnostics, this is in line with the Health Infrastructure Plan to improve hospitals and other health infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/03/2021 14:07:51 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 89605 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1300280

registered interest
date	08/03/2021
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: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the £1 billion allocation in the 2020 Spending Review for tackling the patient backlog will be allocated to cancer diagnosis, care and treatment.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	164352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2021 answer text <p>The arrangements for deployment of the dedicated £1 billion elective recovery funding will be set out shortly, including, where appropriate, details of any clinical prioritisation.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 15/03/2021 11:43:37 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 89608 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts

1286814

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Insulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment he has made of the potential cost to leaseholders of essential non-cladding work to make buildings fire safe.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield South East
tabling member printed	Mr Clive Betts
uin	154551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2021 answer text <p>On 10 February, the Secretary of State announced an unprecedented investment in building safety and hundreds of thousands of leaseholders will be protected from the cost of replacing unsafe cladding on their homes. The Government has rightly targeted funding at the removal of dangerous cladding to make homes safer, quicker – the costs for remediating this are high, and the risks posed by it are also high.</p><p>Our approach prioritises action on buildings 18 metres and above, where risk to multiple households is greater when fire does spread. This is in line with longstanding expert advice on which buildings are at the highest risk.</p><p>We want to go further, and through an additional package we will provide a financing scheme for the remediation of dangerous cladding to support remediation of buildings of between 11 and 18 metres in height. As part of this financing scheme, leaseholder payments towards remediation costs will be capped at a maximum of £50 per month.</p><p>We are also providing £30 million in funding to pay for the costs of installing an alarm system in high rise residential buildings with unsafe cladding. Common alarm systems will enable costly waking watch measures to be replaced in buildings waiting to have unsafe cladding removed.</p><p>Section 11 of the Building Safety Bill: Impact Assessment provides estimates of the average costs per building for addressing safety remediation in high rise (18m and above) buildings. These estimates consider all necessary remediation, which goes beyond façade remediation.</p> answering member constituency Tamworth answering member printed Christopher Pincher question first answered 24/02/2021 17:46:39 answering member 4075 label Biography information for Christopher Pincher
tabling member	394 label Biography information for Mr Clive Betts