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1660981

registered interest
date	15/09/2023
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	Care Homes: Fees and Charges
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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an £86,000 cap on care home costs before 2025.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	199697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2023 answer text <p>In January 2022, the Government published an impact assessment for introducing an £86,000 cap on personal care costs and extending the means test in October 2023.</p><p>This applied to both residential and domiciliary care. As announced in the Autumn Statement, we listened to the concerns of local government and took the difficult decision to delay the planned adult social care charging reforms.</p><p>The funding intended for charging reform has been retained in local authority budgets to address current pressures and ensure that local authorities have the capacity and system readiness to deliver reform successfully.</p><p>The impact assessment is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1044903/adult-social-care-charging-reform-impact-assessment.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1044903/adult-social-care-charging-reform-impact-assessment.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 26/09/2023 11:28:02 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1661125

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Retail Trade: Crime
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 reduce retail crime in Birmingham.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	906433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>I would like to group this question with question 19. Following the recent police commitment to investigate all reasonable lines of enquiry I have made clear to forces I expect them to take a zero-tolerance approach to retail crime. The Home Office is supporting Pegasus which will provide a national picture of organised retail crime. I continue to work with the sector to tackle this important issue.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/09/2023 14:55:34 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1652955

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
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	Surgery: 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 he is taking to support people who are waiting for traumatic and orthopaedic surgery for longer than 18 months.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	193839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government is taking steps with NHS England to support people waiting for appointments and surgery for long-term conditions, including in trauma and orthopaedics, by offering online support, increasing elective capacity and encouraging personalised support.</p><p> </p><p>As set out in its elective recovery delivery plan, the National Health Service is increasing elective capacity and improving patient pathways to reduce avoidable delays in care. This includes funding new surgical hubs and expanding those already in operation to increase elective capacity and improve treatment waiting times for patients with long-term conditions. Through improvements to patient pathways, there will be greater end-to-end support, including help to prevent patients sustaining secondary injuries.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS England is working to develop further guidance to support local health systems to provide personalised and targeted support for patients and their carers, to help them manage their symptoms, prevent deterioration and recover effectively from treatment.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England launched the My Planned Care platform in February 2022, giving patients advice and support to manage their health and avoid significant deterioration of symptoms whilst they wait for appointments. This online platform includes advice on movement, medication and mental health.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/07/2023 08:27:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1652956

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
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	Health Services: 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 he is taking to help ensure the NHS meets the 10.3 per cent annual growth in treatment volumes required over the next two years to meet the elective recovery targets by 2025.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	193840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>To support elective recovery, the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund, to help drive up and protect elective activity. As part of the Autumn Statement 2022, the Government announced an additional £3.3 billion for 2023/24 and 2024/25 to support the National Health Service in England, enabling rapid action to improve emergency, elective and primary care performance towards pre-pandemic levels. Taken together, this funding could deliver the equivalent of around nine million more checks and procedures and will mean that the NHS in England can aim to deliver around 30% more elective activity by 2024/25 than before the pandemic.</p><p>The Government has now moved its focus to cutting waits of 65 weeks or more to as near zero as possible by March 2024. To help achieve this goal, we are taking a range of actions to maximise our productivity and capacity. This includes work to reduce outpatient follow-ups by 25%, expanding community diagnostic centres, increasing surgical capacity through surgical hubs, giving patients greater choice through a national hub model, and the development of the Independent Sector Provider offer to patients.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/07/2023 08:28:41 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1652957

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
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	Musculoskeletal Disorders: 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 percentage of community musculoskeletal services are submitting data on waiting list times.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	193841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Community Health Services waiting list data is published at provider level. They submit aggregated information for service lines, irrespective of the number of integrated care boards or regions they provide services within. Published data for May 2023 shows that 96% of providers submitted data to the Community Health Services Situation Reports.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 20/07/2023 08:29:29 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1652958

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
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	Musculoskeletal Disorders: 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 services his Department plans to include in community musculoskeletal hubs.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	193854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>We are working with partners to define and scale up musculoskeletal (MSK) hubs in the community. This includes expanding access to community-based physical activity interventions and testing vocational support to help people with MSK conditions to manage their condition and remain in or return to work</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/07/2023 08:30:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1652101

registered interest
date	11/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: Ticket Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of train ticket office closures on elderly passengers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	193292
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2023 answer text <p>When proposing major changes to ticket office opening hours, including closures, operators are required to take into account the adequacy of the proposed alternatives in relation to the needs of all passengers; and to include this in the notice of the proposal sent to other operators and passenger groups. We would also expect operators to consider other equality related needs and make this clear in the notice sent to other operators and passenger groups.</p><p> </p><p>Together with the industry, we want to improve and modernise the passenger experience by moving staff out from ticket offices to provide more help and advice in customer focused roles. No currently staffed station will be unstaffed as a result of industry changes, and train operators will ensure staff are well located to meet passenger needs in future.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 18/07/2023 15:26:47 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1646725

registered interest
date	22/06/2023
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	Cystic Fibrosis: 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, with reference to findings in the Cystic Fibrosis Trust report entitled UK Cystic Fibrosis Service Resourcing 2020 to 2022, published in March 2023, on the availability of access to full multidisciplinary teams at cystic fibrosis centres, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that cystic fibrosis centres have fully staffed multidisciplinary teams.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	190763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2023 answer text <p>NHS England’s adult and paediatric cystic fibrosis service specifications sets out national standards for cystic fibrosis services, including guidance on the composition of multi-disciplinary teams.</p><p>Service specifications are contractual documents between commissioners and providers. However, they do not mandate the number of staff in a multi-disciplinary team, as that is determined by the local trust according to the size of the service and the needs of the patient population.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 30/06/2023 11:24:09 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 84737 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1644153

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
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	Jobcentres: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if it is his Department's policy for Job Centre Work Coaches to not supply personal references for their customers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	189147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>The department does not have any policy that would prevent a Work Coach providing a personal reference for a customer.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/06/2023 15:08:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

1643105

registered interest
date	08/06/2023
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	Prescriptions: Pregnancy
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 his Department has made of the potential merits of making maternity exemption certificates apply from the start of the pregnancy even if applied for later.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	188460
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2023 answer text <p>We have made no specific assessment. The National Health Service (Charges for Drugs and Appliances) Regulations 2015 provide that a maternity exemption certificate (Matex) must be backdated one month before the date on which the application is received by the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA). NHS BSA then process applications for Matex certificates on behalf of the Secretary of State.</p><p>The application process requires that a health care professional such as a midwife or a general practitioner to authorise the application to confirm the patient’s pregnancy and expected due date, with NHS BSA then issuing the Matex on this basis.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 14/06/2023 15:37:45 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe