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1694078

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date	06/03/2024
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	Allergies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the federated data platform will include functionality to enable the creation of a consolidated national allergy register.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	17376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>The current use cases for the Federated Data Platform (FDP) are:</p><p>- elective recovery, to address the backlog of people waiting for appointments or treatments;</p><p>- care coordination, to enable the effective coordination of care between local health and care organisations and services, reducing the number of long stays in hospital;</p><p>- vaccination and immunisation, to continue to support the vaccination and immunisation of vulnerable people while ensuring fair and equal access and uptake across different communities;</p><p>- population health management, to help integrated care systems proactively plan services that meet the needs of their population; and</p><p>- supply chain management, to help the National Health Service put resources where they are needed most, and buy smarter so that we get the best value for money.</p><p>The creation of a consolidated national allergy register, or identifiable national clinical data registries, is not in the current scope of the FDP, which will not be processing identifiable patient data at a national level. More products will be developed on the FDP throughout the lifecycle of this programme.</p><p>The FDP programme has developed a front door process and demand assessment framework which will be used for new requirements coming into the programme. The assessment framework assesses ideas and requests on the basis of their fit to the core FDP objectives and targeted business case outcomes, as well as assessing against the feasibility of successful delivery when considering things like cost, capacity, wider system dependencies, and other factors. In regard to a consolidated national allergy register, we would expect discussions to be held initially within the National Disease Registry Service.</p><p>Alongside the FDP, NHS England are investing in platform modernisation, including the Patient Outcomes and Registries Platform (ORP) which is a unified national registry platform integrated into NHS England’s system data infrastructure for improved data security, flow, linkage, and analysis, and faster pace of registry development.</p><p>The ORP’s directions cover all outcome registries, patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported experience measures, and shared decision-making and data collections across a wide range of conditions, including all surgical and interventional procedures in the NHS and independent sector. A national allergy register or registry may be in the scope for the ORP’s coverage.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 21/03/2024 14:21:35 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1694106

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people did not complete community payback in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
uin	17265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government is investing an additional £93m in Community Payback over three years. This will allow us to increase delivery of Community Payback back to pre-covid levels of delivery.</p><p>We have launched a national campaign to recruit more than 500 additional Community Payback staff to bolster resources in every probation region and new staff are arriving in post. The additional staffing will enable us to boost delivery of Community Payback to pre-covid levels.</p><p>There will be a particular focus on delivering more outdoor projects that improve local areas, sustainability focussed and allow the public to see justice being done.</p><p>The table below shows how many Community Payback requirements and the proportion that were not completed in each year since 2014. The data covers all reasons why Community Payback requirements may not have been completed including offender deaths, deportation, orders revoked and resentenced, successful appeals and Suspended Sentence Order (SSO) activated (i.e. offender imprisoned for the remainder of their sentence).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Community Payback Requirements Not Completed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of Community Payback Requirements Not Completed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>13,521</p></td><td><p>42.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>14,384</p></td><td><p>34.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>14,535</p></td><td><p>32.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>16,417</p></td><td><p>39.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>16,088</p></td><td><p>45.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>16,541</p></td><td><p>43.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>14,154</p></td><td><p>52.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>15,776</p></td><td><p>44.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>17,949</p></td><td><p>35.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>19,135</p></td><td><p>34.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data as of 7 March 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Please note these data relate to Community Payback requirements, not individuals or hours. An individual may have had multiple Community Payback requirements across the time period and all of these have been counted separately. It is important to note that some of those incomplete Community Payback requirements may have a number of hours completed.</p><p>Owing to the amalgamation of multiple legacy IT systems, with the introduction of Transforming Rehabilitation back in 2014, a slightly different methodology has been utilised to identify those cases where Community Payback had not been completed, in the years 2014 and 2015. This has been utilised to ensure that data are accurate, representative and consistent across the period shown.</p><p>The year listed is when the Community Payback requirement was terminated.</p><p>Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 17266 question first answered 19/03/2024 11:41:48 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1694107

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Community Orders
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of people given Community Payback as a community sentence did not complete the work assigned to them in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Dame Siobhain McDonagh
uin	17266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government is investing an additional £93m in Community Payback over three years. This will allow us to increase delivery of Community Payback back to pre-covid levels of delivery.</p><p>We have launched a national campaign to recruit more than 500 additional Community Payback staff to bolster resources in every probation region and new staff are arriving in post. The additional staffing will enable us to boost delivery of Community Payback to pre-covid levels.</p><p>There will be a particular focus on delivering more outdoor projects that improve local areas, sustainability focussed and allow the public to see justice being done.</p><p>The table below shows how many Community Payback requirements and the proportion that were not completed in each year since 2014. The data covers all reasons why Community Payback requirements may not have been completed including offender deaths, deportation, orders revoked and resentenced, successful appeals and Suspended Sentence Order (SSO) activated (i.e. offender imprisoned for the remainder of their sentence).</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Community Payback Requirements Not Completed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of Community Payback Requirements Not Completed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>13,521</p></td><td><p>42.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>14,384</p></td><td><p>34.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>14,535</p></td><td><p>32.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>16,417</p></td><td><p>39.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>16,088</p></td><td><p>45.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>16,541</p></td><td><p>43.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>14,154</p></td><td><p>52.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>15,776</p></td><td><p>44.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>17,949</p></td><td><p>35.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023</p></td><td><p>19,135</p></td><td><p>34.1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data as of 7 March 2024.</p><p> </p><p>Please note these data relate to Community Payback requirements, not individuals or hours. An individual may have had multiple Community Payback requirements across the time period and all of these have been counted separately. It is important to note that some of those incomplete Community Payback requirements may have a number of hours completed.</p><p>Owing to the amalgamation of multiple legacy IT systems, with the introduction of Transforming Rehabilitation back in 2014, a slightly different methodology has been utilised to identify those cases where Community Payback had not been completed, in the years 2014 and 2015. This has been utilised to ensure that data are accurate, representative and consistent across the period shown.</p><p>The year listed is when the Community Payback requirement was terminated.</p><p>Data are sourced from nDelius and while these data have been assured as much as practical, as with any large administrative dataset, the data should not be assumed to be accurate to the last value presented.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 17265 question first answered 19/03/2024 11:41:48 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1694146

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
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	Water Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department have made an assessment of the increase in water costs for metred properties against unmetered properties.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	17276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2024 answer text <p>Customers with water meters installed are charged based on the volume of water consumed, while those without a meter are charged for their water and sewerage services based on the rateable value of their property.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has asked water companies to increase smart metering and has enabled compulsory metering in areas of water stress, where there is consumer support and it represents value for money, as set out in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/plan-for-water-our-integrated-plan-for-delivering-clean-and-plentiful-water/plan-for-water-our-integrated-plan-for-delivering-clean-and-plentiful-water#chapter-3-securing-a-plentiful-supply-of-water" target="_blank">Plan for Water</a>. This can allow bill payers to cut costs by using water more efficiently where possible and assist in reducing overall water consumption by enabling water companies to reduce leakage, further reducing bills for customers.</p><p> </p><p>Some water companies also offer a lowest bill guarantee for consumers who switch to a metered charge, which guarantees the best value price for the first few years of installation and the option to switch back to unmetered charges if the meter is not helpful.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 09/04/2024 09:57:29 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

1694213

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
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	NHS: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she plans to include all patient records held by GPs in the NHS federated data platform.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	17432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2024 answer text <p>The Federated Data Platform is a vital upgrade for the National Health Service, allowing it to be much more effective in how it handles its data. It will bring together information about staff, waiting times, equipment and medicines to improve patient outcomes.</p><p> </p><p>Based on agreements between general practices' data controllers and integrated care boards, the Federated Data Platform will have the capability to include elements of local primary care data. This would be limited to the information required to support the provision of care and would only be utilised by local organisations within the local tenants of the Federated Data Platform, and not be shared beyond a local level.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 04/04/2024 09:30:19 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 23498 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1694224

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
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	Biodiversity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he plans to take to help tackle biodiversity decline.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	17340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2024 answer text <p>This Government is committed to turning the tide on nature’s decline. That is why, in England, we have set four legally binding targets for biodiversity. We have legislated to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030 and to reverse species decline by 2042; to reduce the risk of species extinction; and to restore or create more than 500,000 hectares of wildlife-rich habitats.</p><p> </p><p>These targets, alongside other targets, on water and air quality for example, will drive action to create and restore habitats, reduce pressures on nature, and recover species. We have set out our plan to deliver on these ambitious targets, along with our other environmental targets, in the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64a6d9c1c531eb000c64fffa/environmental-improvement-plan-2023.pdf" target="_blank">Environmental Improvement Plan</a> (EIP23) published 31 January 2023. Here we link the different objectives, plans and mechanisms for recovering nature.</p><p> </p><p>We have introduced significant new funding for nature - for woodland and peatland restoration, for green recovery and for landscape scale nature recovery - and we are developing new land management schemes that reward environmental benefits. In the update to our Agricultural Transition Plan, published in January this year, we announced premium payments for actions that will achieve greater environmental benefits, supporting habitats and species.</p><p> </p><p>In November we announced the 34 projects selected for the £25 million second round of our Landscape Recovery scheme. These projects will collectively restore more than 35,000 hectares of peatland, create over 7,000 hectares of new woodland and benefit more than 160 protected sites (SSSIs).</p><p> </p><p>In June last year we also launched a £25 million Species Survival Fund to provide early progress towards our species abundance targets and support the recovery of declining species. The fund will support projects focussed on the creation and restoration of wildlife-rich habitats, including on protected sites. Successful applications to the fund will be announced this month.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 09/04/2024 13:01:14 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1694235

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
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	Agriculture: Nature Conservation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to help farmers secure long term private finance for nature restoration.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Steve Reed
uin	17346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>As we set out in our Agricultural Transition Plan update in January, we want farmers and land managers to be able to confidently and securely access payments from both the public and private sector for the environmental benefits they produce.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is:</p><ul><li>supporting farmer-led innovation through Round 3 of the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund and two rounds of Landscape Recovery. These schemes will further test how nature markets and private investment can work with public funds and provide examples of how farmers can access both sources of income and deliver more for the environment.</li><li>developing standards for high integrity private investment into nature through the BSI nature investment standards programme.</li><li>committing £30 million of investment into a blended finance Big Nature Impact Fund, which will unlock significant private investment into UK nature projects (e.g. tree planting) that can provide a return on investment.</li><li>designing the environmental land management offer to make it easier for farmers to identify what private sector income they can access alongside any public payments.</li><li>helping farmers with advice and support on accessing nature markets; for example, Defra supported the Green Finance Institute to develop a Farming Toolkit for Assessing Nature Market Opportunities, which was published in January.</li><li>exploring with industry representatives ways to provide clarity on the taxation of nature markets.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We published an update on 12 March on progress to implement other measures in the Nature Markets Framework, and we will consult on specific steps and interventions needed to support growth of high integrity carbon and nature markets in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 27/03/2024 14:21:53 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

1694244

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
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	Members: Correspondence
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 he plans to respond to the correspondence of 8 September 2023 from the constituent of the hon. Member for Sefton Central on animal testing.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	17352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2024 answer text <p>A reply was sent to the hon. Member on 8 March 2024 advising that the issues raised in his correspondence are a matter for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. I apologise for the delay in responding.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 21/03/2024 18:10:03 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1694280

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Care Homes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 2.25(3) of the Spring Budget 2024, HC 560, published on 6 March 2024, how much and what proportion of the £165 million funding for the children’s homes estate will be spent on (a) new children’s homes, (b) rebuilding children’s homes and (c) repairing existing children's homes in each local authority area; and if she will make an estimate of the number of new places that will be created.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	17452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>In the Spring Budget, the department was awarded £165 million capital funding to invest in open and secure children’s homes. This consists of £45 million match funding to local authorities to create 200 new open children’s home (OCH) placements for the most vulnerable children, and £120 million to fund the maintenance of the existing secure children’s home (SCH) estate and rebuild Atkinson SCH and Swanwick SCH.</p><p>It will be for local authorities in receipt of this OCH match funding to decide how best to deliver these additional 200 placements to meet the needs of the children they look after.</p><p>The department will work with Atkinson and Swanwick SCHs and other SCHs to determine the number of places and maintenance required to meet current and future needs of the individual SCHs and the SCH estate as a whole. The department will then allocate the £120 million to the SCHs on this basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 22/03/2024 13:20:43 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1694318

registered interest
date	06/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of Windrush Compensation Scheme claims they have paid in full so far.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL3053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2024 answer text <p>Information on the total number of Windrush Compensation Scheme claims that have received a compensation payment is published as part of the Transparency Data release. The latest published data, covering the period up to the end of January 2024, is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/windrush-compensation-scheme-data-january-2024" target="_blank">Windrush Compensation Scheme data: January 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).</a></p><p>As of January 2024, over £80 million has been paid in compensation across 2,233 claims.</p><p>An individual could have more than one claim under the Windrush Compensation Scheme rules, for example as a primary claimant, close family member, or as a representative of an estate. In addition, a claim may receive a preliminary, interim and/or full and final payment.</p> answering member printed Lord Sharpe of Epsom question first answered 20/03/2024 12:37:31 answering member 4888 label Biography information for Lord Sharpe of Epsom attachment 1 file name Windrush Compensation Scheme data.xlsx title Windrush Compensation Scheme data
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth