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1588247

registered interest
date	22/02/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Health: Products
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to (a) remove and (b) reduce VAT on essential healthcare products.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	150637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>VAT rules do not distinguish between supplies on the basis of whether they might be considered essential. VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the twenty per cent standard rate applies across a very broad range of goods and services. While there are exceptions to the standard rate, these are strictly limited by legal and fiscal considerations. One such exception is that medicines on the NHS prescription list are zero-rated for VAT when dispensed by a pharmacist.</p><p> </p><p>Removing or reducing VAT on a broad range of healthcare products would likely come at a significant cost to the Exchequer, and with no guarantee that it would reduce the cost to consumers of the products themselves. While all taxes are kept under review, the Government has no current plans to make changes here.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 27/02/2023 15:51:42 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan

1586778

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Parents
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to increase social security payments available to parents under 25 years old, in line with payments available to parents over 25.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	147449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>There are no plans to change the policy around the standard allowance rates for those under 25 at this time.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 27/02/2023 17:01:13 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan

1586779

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the National Audit Office report entitled Child maintenance, published in March 2022, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help increase the number of successful child maintenance arrangements.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	147450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>As at September 2022 there were 872,000 children covered by Child Maintenance Service (CMS) arrangements. The service has recorded an increase in the number of children covered by CMS arrangements increasing by 25,700 between June 2022 and September 2022.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Direct Pay service Child Maintenance Service provides the calculation and no further use of the service is required. Parents are issued a text message three months after they set up their arrangement and at each annual review, to check the arrangement is still meeting their requirements. If they cannot arrange payments between themselves or a Paying Parent does not keep up with the payments, the Receiving Parent can ask to switch to the Collect and Pay Service.</p><p> </p><p>61% of all Child Maintenance Service arrangements use Direct Pay with 37% using Collect and Pay.</p><p>At the end of September 2022:</p><ul><li>548,800 children were covered by 384,600 Direct Pay arrangements</li><li>304,200 children were covered by 231,000 Collect &amp; Pay arrangements <ul><li>164,800 of these children were covered by 117,500 Collect &amp; Pay arrangements where the Paying Parent paid some maintenance during the quarter</li><li>139,400 of these children were covered by 113,500 Collect &amp; Pay arrangements where no maintenance was paid during the quarter</li></ul></li></ul><p>The number of children covered by CMS arrangements has increased steadily over the last 2 years.</p><p><em>(Source – Child Maintenance Service published statistics – data to September 2022)</em></p><p>The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) continues to take rigorous action to collect maintenance, combining robust negotiation activity with the highly effective use of its extensive range of Enforcement Powers. This approach is driven by the Payment Compliance strategy increasing CMS compliance influencing activities to tackle non-paying cases and challenge non-compliant behaviours. CMS applies a Continuous Improvement focus to Enforcement strategy and processes.</p><p> </p><p>Total child maintenance collected using enforcement actions amounted to £36.1 million in the quarter to September 2022 compared with £33.8 in September 2021 and £28.4 in September 2020. This rise in collections is linked directly to increased collections through Deductions from Earnings Orders, lump sum and regular deductions taken directly from paying parents’ bank accounts, Liability Order and Bailiff actions and making full use of all available sanctions.</p><p> </p><p><em>(Source – Child Maintenance Service published Statistics : National Tables – table 7.1 ‘Enforcement Actions’, April 2015 to September 2022).</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p>As a result of a focussed effort to increase enforcement activity and influence Paying Parents to pay their child maintenance £49.4 million was paid through the Collect &amp; Pay service in the quarter to September 2022 compared to £45.6 million in the quarter ending March 2022 when the NAO report was published.</p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>(Source – Child Maintenance Service published Statistics : National Tables – table 5 ‘Money Due and Paid each quarter’ January 2015 to September 2022).</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p>There has been a consistent downward trend in the proportion of unpaid maintenance as a proportion of maintenance arranged since 2017, falling from 12.5% in 2017 to 8.2% in September 2022.</p><p> </p><p><em>(Source – Child Maintenance Service published Statistics : National Tables - table 6 ‘ how much maintenance CMS has arranged March 2015 to September 2022).</em></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 27/02/2023 18:21:59 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan

1586786

registered interest
date	17/02/2023
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	Sunscreen: Prices
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 impact of the price of sunscreen on the rate of people wearing sunscreen and the risk of cancer among those who do not wear it.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	147457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>No specific assessment has been made.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/02/2023 13:12:57 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan

1551225

registered interest
date	13/12/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Cost of Living Payments: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to provide additional cost of living support to families with seriously ill children.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	109786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government recognises that the rising cost of living has presented additional financial challenges to many people, and especially to the most vulnerable members of society, such as children with serious health conditions and their families. That is why the Government is taking decisive action to support households while ensuring we act in a fiscally responsible way.</p><p /><p>If a child or young person has extra-costs arising from their disability, then they may qualify for disability benefits such as Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children or Child Disability Payment in Scotland. At Autumn Statement 2022, the Government announced that it will provide a further Disability Cost of Living Payment of £150 in 2023/24 to people in receipt of extra-costs disability benefits such as Child Disability Payment or DLA for children. This is additional to the £150 payment for recipients of disability benefits in 2022 already announced as part of the Cost of Living package in May. The families and/or carers of disabled children will benefit from this payment if they live in the same household as a disabled child. These payments can also be received in addition to the other Cost of Living Payments for households on means-tested benefits (such as Universal Credit), namely the £650 payment announced in May and the additional £900 payment announced at Autumn Statement.</p><p>Disabled children and their families will also benefit from other forms of non-means-tested support which the Government is providing to assist with household energy bills. We have taken decisive action to support millions of households with rising energy costs through the Energy Price Guarantee, ​which limits the price suppliers can charge customers for units of gas and electricity. In addition to the Energy Price Guarantee, millions of the most vulnerable households will receive further support this year through the £400 Energy Bills Support Scheme.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 19/12/2022 15:51:18 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan

1545403

registered interest
date	24/11/2022
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	Cancer: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much public funding his Department has spent on cancer research in each year since 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	95941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a partner organisation of BEIS, funds research relating to cancer across all UKRI councils.</p><p> </p><p>The table below presents spend data for each of the relevant Research Councils for each year from 2015/16 to 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Cancer research</strong></em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>UKRI spend £m<strong>[i]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p>98.1</p></td><td><p>116.9</p></td><td><p>109</p></td><td><p>114.4</p></td><td><p>119.1</p></td><td><p>125.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MRC spend £m</p></td><td><p>96.2</p></td><td><p>102.7</p></td><td><p>93.4</p></td><td><p>96.3</p></td><td><p>101.6</p></td><td><p>106.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC spend £m</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td><td><p>14.3</p></td><td><p>15.2</p></td><td><p>14.2</p></td><td><p>15.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ESRC spend £m</p></td><td><p>1.9</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td><td><p>2.9</p></td><td><p>3.3</p></td><td><p>3.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em>Notes on cancer research figures</em></p><ol><li><em>Spend figures include data provided by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC).</em></li><li><em>Spend data for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Innovate UK (IUK), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Research England (RE) and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are not provided.</em></li><li><em>BBSRC spend data for 2015/16 is unavailable.</em></li><li><em>MRC and BBSRC spend is provided by the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI). Spend is based on the percentage of each research project that is relevant to cancer research.</em></li><li><em>ESRC total spend for each relevant grant is included in the data above.</em></li><li><em>BBSRC</em> <em>spend figures represent underpinning bioscience research relevant to cancer. BBSRC does not fund research directly to understanding specific human diseases.</em></li></ol><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 02/12/2022 14:06:59 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan

1544010

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of his Department's communications on changes to the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	92349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s investigation into the communication of changes to women’s State Pension age is ongoing. Section 7(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private”.</p><p> </p><p>It would be inappropriate to comment whilst the investigation is ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 92350 question first answered 28/11/2022 16:07:19 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan

1544011

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s reports on the Women's State Pension age, whether he is taking steps to improve communications processes in his Department.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	92350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s investigation into the communication of changes to women’s State Pension age is ongoing. Section 7(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private”.</p><p> </p><p>It would be inappropriate to comment whilst the investigation is ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 92349 question first answered 28/11/2022 16:07:19 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan

1544012

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s reports on the Women's State Pension age, if he will hold discussions with representatives of Women Against State Pension Inequality on the Ombudsman's fundings.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	92351
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2022 answer text <p>The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has not completed his investigation into communication of changes to women’s state pension. It would be inappropriate to discuss the investigation whilst it is ongoing. Section 7(2) of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 states that Ombudsman investigations “shall be conducted in private”.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is cooperating fully with the PHSO in their investigation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 28/11/2022 16:10:30 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan

1544013

registered interest
date	21/11/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of introducing Vehicle Excise Duty on the uptake of electric (a) cars, (b) vans and (c) motorcycles.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Amy Callaghan
uin	92352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>HMT is responsible for setting tax rates, including vehicle excise duty and company car tax rates, and carry out assessments relating to fiscal measures they take.</p><p> </p><p>From 2025, electric vehicles will still have preferential first year rates of vehicle excise duty in comparison to the most polluting vehicles, in addition to having preferential rates of company car tax out to April 2028. This will continue to support the uptake of all electric vehicles.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/11/2022 09:52:37 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4770 label Biography information for Amy Callaghan