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1696025

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date	07/03/2024
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	Environmental Land Management Schemes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will publish an impact assessment of the structure of payments within the Environmental Land Management schemes.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	901991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>This Government will always back British farmers which is why in January we increased the payment rates across our Environmental Land Management schemes by 10% on average and will open an expanded offer this July. We have made almost 13,000 Sustainable Farming Incentive agreement offers to farmers. As part of this offer, we are constantly assessing the impact of outside events while making sure all farm types can access funding and support that works for them.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 14/03/2024 16:49:20 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1692474

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who were (a) treated with contaminated blood products and (b) given contaminated blood transfusions by the NHS in Luton South constituency.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	16224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has not made an estimate of the number of people who were treated with contaminated blood products and given contaminated blood transfusions by the National Health Service in the Luton South constituency.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 06/03/2024 12:59:12 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1692475

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the number of people who have died since being (a) treated with contaminated blood products and (b) given contaminated blood transfusions in Luton South constituency.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	16225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has not made an estimate on the number of people who have died since being treated with contaminated blood products and given contaminated blood transfusions, in the Luton South constituency.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 06/03/2024 12:57:42 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1692476

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what psychological support is available for people (a) infected and (b) affected by contaminated blood and blood products in Luton South.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	16226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>Psychological support is available for those who are beneficiaries of the England Infected Blood Support Scheme (EIBSS) and their families. The EIBSS provides a grant of up to £900 a year for beneficiaries and family members to access counselling and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence approved talking therapies. In August 2022, this offer was expanded to enable beneficiaries to access funding for ongoing or longer-term treatment. Further information is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/talking-therapy-support" target="_blank">https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/talking-therapy-support</a>.</p><p>A bespoke psychological support service for infected blood victims, commissioned by NHS England, is currently being developed, and is intended to go live in early summer 2024.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 06/03/2024 13:03:42 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1692477

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will (a) identify and (b) contact people in Luton South who were (i) infected and (ii) affected by the contaminated blood scandal as part of Government preparations for responding to Infected Blood Inquiry recommendations on compensation.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	16227
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>The Statistical Expert Group, established by the Infected Blood Inquiry, has provided valuable insight into the numbers of infections from blood and blood products in the UK between 1970 and 1991 and subsequent survival rates. Since October 2022, the Government has paid over £400 million in interim compensation payments to those infected or bereaved partners registered with the UK Infected Blood Support Schemes, totalling over 4,000 individuals. However, the requested information is not available by Parliamentary constituency. There is also considerable uncertainty over the number of people, especially those affected, who might be eligible under Sir Brian Langstaff’s recommendations. Therefore I am not able to provide a substantive response to the Honourable Member’s questions on her constituency.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 16228 question first answered 07/03/2024 17:29:21 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1692478

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have received interim compensation payments because of (a) their and (b) their family member’s infection from contaminated blood or blood products in Luton South constituency.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	16228
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>The Statistical Expert Group, established by the Infected Blood Inquiry, has provided valuable insight into the numbers of infections from blood and blood products in the UK between 1970 and 1991 and subsequent survival rates. Since October 2022, the Government has paid over £400 million in interim compensation payments to those infected or bereaved partners registered with the UK Infected Blood Support Schemes, totalling over 4,000 individuals. However, the requested information is not available by Parliamentary constituency. There is also considerable uncertainty over the number of people, especially those affected, who might be eligible under Sir Brian Langstaff’s recommendations. Therefore I am not able to provide a substantive response to the Honourable Member’s questions on her constituency.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 16227 question first answered 07/03/2024 17:29:21 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1693687

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
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	Mental Health Services: Access
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 she is taking to improve access to mental health services.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	901813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <ul><li><p>We increased investment in mental health services by close to a billion pounds in 2022-23 compared to the previous year, with almost £16 billion going on mental health care. This enabled 3.6 million people to access mental health support, a 10% increase from 2021-22.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>We are also funding 24 early support hubs for young people across England, one of which will serve constituents in the Honourable Member’s Luton constituency.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 05/03/2024 16:57:15 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1692191

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
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	Councillors: Disclosure of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Government response to the Committee for Public Life report on Local Government Ethical Standards, published on 18 March 2022, what plans he has to ensure that councillors are not required to publicly disclose their home addresses.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	16049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>The sensitive interest provisions at Section 32 of the Localism Act 2011 currently allows councillors to request that their home addresses are not published if disclosure could lead to them, or a person connected to them, being subject to violence or intimidation. The Government encourages monitoring officers to look sympathetically at requests for withholding home addresses where there are legitimate concerns.</p><p>Intimidation is unacceptable and it is vital that councillors feel able to raise concerns about intimidation, and that those in leadership positions in councils take concerns seriously and deal with them appropriately.</p> answering member constituency North Dorset answering member printed Simon Hoare question first answered 04/03/2024 16:52:58 answering member 4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1690560

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
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	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, what steps she is taking to double funding for dementia research by 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	14987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government is dedicated to supporting research into dementia and has committed to doubling funding for dementia research, to £160 million per year by the end of 2024/25. The Government’s responsibility for delivering dementia research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and Department for Science Innovation and Technology, with research delivered via UK Research and Innovation.</p><p>The Government is making significant progress towards meeting its commitment and has instigated momentous new programmes of work, such as investing almost £50 million over five years into the NIHR’s Dementia Translational Research Collaboration Trial Network which will expand the United Kingdom’s early phase clinical trial capabilities in dementia, speeding up the development of new treatments. A new Clinical Trials Delivery Accelerator focused on dementia was also announced in the Autumn Statement 2023, with up to £20 million of funding to help innovation reach National Health Service patients even faster. Many new initiatives and research projects will begin to spend in 2024/25.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022/23, the most recent year we have data for, we estimate that total Government spend on dementia research was £96.9 million. Spend is dependent on the number and quality of applications received as well as the volume of research that requires infrastructure support, therefore research spend can only be calculated retrospectively after the end of the financial year.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 26/02/2024 10:34:54 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1690561

registered interest
date	20/02/2024
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	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, how the £95 million investment in dementia clinical (a) trials and (b) innovative research will be allocated across the Mission’s pillars of (i) innovations in biomarkers, data and digital and imaging technologies, (ii) increasing the number and speed of UK-based clinical trials for research into dementia and neurodegeneration and (iii) end-to-end implementation.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	14988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>The Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission was launched in August 2022 with £95 million of Government funding. There is now more than £120 million of committed funding to the mission, which will be invested into three key pillars. The first pillar centres on biomarkers and experimental medicine, and will receive £50 million of the funding for the mission, with the intention of securing match funding from industry partners. As part of this pillar, Innovate UK launched a Small Business Research Initiative competition, with the aim of accelerating innovations in clinical biomarker tools and technologies for dementia, where organisations could apply for a share of £6 million of funding out of the allocated £50 million. These technologies will enable the discovery, validation, and implementation of a suite of decision-enabling biomarkers to help transform clinical trials and precision therapies. The competition closed on 4 September 2023, and the recipients awarded a portion of the £6 million will be announced soon.</p><p> </p><p>The second pillar will focus on clinical trial infrastructure and innovation, with two recently announced initiatives to support its delivery. The first of these initiatives is the National Institute for Health and Care Research’s Dementia-Translational Research Collaboration Trials Network, with almost £50 million of funding over five years. This will expand the United Kingdom’s early phase clinical trial capabilities for dementia, speeding up the development of new treatments. The second initiative is the Clinical Trials Delivery Accelerator, focused on dementia, also named the Dementia Accelerator. This was announced in the Autumn Statement 2023, in response to Lord O’Shaughnessy’s independent review into commercial clinical trials in the UK, with up to £20 million of additional funding.</p><p> </p><p>The third pillar will be focused on end-to-end implementation, specifically on aligning translational research, clinical practice, and regulatory frameworks to prepare health-systems for new dementia medicines. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NHS England, the Department, the devolved administrations, and the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission are already working closely together to plan for the implementation of new dementia medicines, should they gain approval in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 26/02/2024 13:09:02 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins