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1541902

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date	14/11/2022
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	Cancer: Waiting Lists
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 his Department is taking to improve the waiting times for cancer patients between urgent GP referral and treatment.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	86543
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ sets out how the National Health Service will recover and expand elective services over the next three years, including cancer services. We have allocated more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund already made available in 2021/2022 to increase elective activity.</p><p> </p><p>The plan also sets out how NHS England will return the number of people waiting more than 62 days to start treatment following an urgent referral due to suspected cancer to pre-pandemic levels by March 2023. We have established 91 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) to ensure patients receive earlier diagnostic tests closer to home, including for cancer. We will deliver up to 160 CDCs to support the NHS to undertake up to 17 million tests by March 2025, with capacity for a further nine million per year once fully operational.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 22/11/2022 17:06:14 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541903

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
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	Post Offices: Rural Areas
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 steps his Department is taking to help ensure effective provision of post office services in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	86544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government has provided over £2.5 billion in funding to support the Post Office network over the past 10 years and is further providing £335 million for the Post Office over the next three years. This package includes funding to ensure the viability of rural and community branches. Since 2019 funding for the network has been maintained at £50 million a year and will remain at the same level until 2025.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Government-set access criteria requires 95% of the population in rural areas to be within three miles of the nearest branch. The Post Office network meets and exceeds this at a national level.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake grouped question UIN 86545 question first answered 22/11/2022 17:07:45 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541904

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
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	Post Offices: 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 recent steps his Department has taken to (a) retain and (b) invest in post offices in uncommercial parts of the network.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	86545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government has provided over £2.5 billion in funding to support the Post Office network over the past 10 years and is further providing £335 million for the Post Office over the next three years. This package includes funding to ensure the viability of rural and community branches. Since 2019 funding for the network has been maintained at £50 million a year and will remain at the same level until 2025.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Government-set access criteria requires 95% of the population in rural areas to be within three miles of the nearest branch. The Post Office network meets and exceeds this at a national level.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake grouped question UIN 86544 question first answered 22/11/2022 17:07:45 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541905

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
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	World War II: Medals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when applications for the Women’s Land Army and Timber Corps veteran’s badge will be reopened.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	86546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>The Women’s Land Army and Timber Corps veteran’s badge scheme is currently paused due to administrative changes. As soon as these changes have been concluded, the re-opening of the scheme will be made clear on the appropriate gov.uk page and communicated to any stakeholders who have made enquiries whilst the scheme has been paused. In the meantime, Defra has been processing outstanding and extraordinary applications. We value all veterans’ valuable service to the war effort and want to ensure that HM Government continues to recognise all those who served the home front during the war.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 22/11/2022 14:21:36 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541906

registered interest
date	14/11/2022
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	Housing Associations: Service Charges
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 steps his Department is taking to support housing association tenants with the rising cost of service charges.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	86547
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>Following our recent consultation on social housing rent increases, the Government announced at Autumn Statement that it will cap the increase in social rents at a maximum of 7% in 2023-24. In line with the proposal set out in our consultation, we will amend the policy statement to encourage providers to apply the 7% limit to service charge increases in 2023-24.</p><p>Our policy statement also states that tenants should be supplied with clear information on how service charges are set, and in the case of social rent properties, providers are expected to identify service charges separately from the rent charge.</p> answering member constituency Bishop Auckland answering member printed Dehenna Davison question first answered 23/11/2022 11:16:50 answering member 4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541495

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Married People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her department is taking to expedite the processing of out-of-country spouse visa applications.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	84932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>The Home Office had been prioritising Ukraine Visa Schemes applications in response to the humanitarian crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As such earlier this year the service standard was changed from 60-days to 120-days as a direct result.</p><p>In exceptional circumstances, requests to expedite UK Family Visa applications are considered on a case-by-case basis and take a range of factors into consideration.</p><p>The bulk of resource has now returned to the route, along with an additional investment of new staff.</p><p>We are keeping the service standard level under review.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 21/11/2022 15:51:41 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541496

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent progress his Department has made on reducing the time it takes to process probate applications.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	84933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>Despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the probate service during the Covid 19 pandemic, and the increased volume of applications that have been seen since, the average length of time taken for a grant of probate following receipt of the documents required has been maintained at between five and seven weeks - with the average responses being almost 1 week faster in quarter 2 of 2022 than the yearly average for 2020 and 2021.</p><p>HMCTS has increased resources to meet the higher demand following an increased number of estates requiring probate and is further increasing resourcing to further bring down overall timeliness on digital and paper applications.</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants, from April 2022 to June 2022, are published on gov.uk via Family Court Statistics Quarterly (Table 25): <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/family-court-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2022</a>.</p><p>Information covering up to September 2022 will be published on 15 December.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 21/11/2022 11:00:19 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541497

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent progress her Department has made on increasing the number of school places available for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	84934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2022 answer text <p>The department is investing £2.6 billion between 2022 and 2025 to support local authorities to deliver new places and improve existing provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities or who require alternative provision. This represents a significant investment in new high-needs provision. It will support local authorities to deliver new places in mainstream and special schools, as well as other specialist settings, and will also be used to improve the suitability and accessibility of existing buildings.</p><p>As part of this commitment, in March 2022 the department announced High Needs Provision Capital Allocations amounting to over £1.4 billion of new investment, focused on the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years. It is ultimately up to local authorities to determine how to best prioritise their funding to address their local priorities.</p><p>The £2.6 billion capital investment in high needs provision announced in October 2021 will also help to deliver up to 60 new special and alternative provision free schools. This is in addition to the 48 special free schools already in the pipeline and 90 special free schools already opened.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Claire Coutinho question first answered 21/11/2022 17:51:20 answering member 4806 label Biography information for Claire Coutinho
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541498

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
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: 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, whether he has made a comparative assessment of regional differences in accessing dementia care.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	84935
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2022 answer text <p>No formal assessment has been made. The Care Act 2014 requires local authorities to deliver a wide range of sustainable high-quality care and support services which meet the needs of the local population, including those living with dementia.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 18/11/2022 13:10:54 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton

1541499

registered interest
date	11/11/2022
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
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 maintain the pensions triple lock.
tabling member constituency	Somerton and Frome
tabling member printed	David Warburton
uin	84936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2022 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is currently conducting his statutory annual review of State Pension and benefit rates. We cannot pre-empt the outcome of that review, which will be announced shortly. ​</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 16/11/2022 11:56:40 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4526 label Biography information for David Warburton