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1679128

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date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	217
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	BBC: Political Impartiality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the BBC’s compliance with the impartiality clauses in its charter.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Dehenna Davison
uin	7670
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The BBC has a duty to deliver impartial and accurate news coverage and content under its Royal Charter. As such, the Government has been clear that the BBC must place a firm emphasis on impartiality and maintaining the highest editorial standards.</p><p>The Government welcomes that the BBC accepted the findings and recommendations of the Serota Review and has committed to reform through its 10 point Impartiality and Editorial Standards Action Plan. The BBC now needs to demonstrate clear and continued progress as the plan is embedded into business as usual.</p><p>The Government established Ofcom as the independent regulator of the BBC in 2017. Ofcom is responsible for holding the BBC to account against its impartiality responsibilities. It remains a priority for the Government to work with Ofcom to deliver an effective and proportionate regulatory framework that holds the BBC to account while maintaining its creative freedom and operational independence.</p><p>A key focus of the Government’s Mid-Term Review of the BBC is to look at the regulatory and governance measures which can enable progress on impartiality, more accountability for editorial standards, including the handling of complaints, and a BBC that represents the breadth of the audience it was established to serve.</p><p>Our work on the Mid-Term Review is ongoing. The Charter specifies that the review must take place between 2022 and 2024, and we will publish our findings and conclusions in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 08/01/2024 11:48:47 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4737 label Biography information for Dehenna Davison

1679243

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Wheelchairs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the quality of locally led provision of NHS wheelchair services throughout the country.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of local wheelchair services and the development of their local wheelchair service eligibility criteria based on the needs of their local population. NHS England is responsible for funding allocations to ICBs and supports ICBs to commission effective, efficient, and personalised wheelchair services. The Government does not currently have any plans to review current investment levels in wheelchair services.</p><p>The Government has not made an assessment of the quality of locally led provision of wheelchair services, however NHS England is taking a number of steps to reduce regional variation in the quality and provision of NHS wheelchairs and to support ICBs to reduce delays in people receiving timely intervention and wheelchair equipment. These steps include, firstly, establishing a national wheelchair dataset, whereby data has been collected quarterly from clinical commissioning groups, now ICBs, since July 2015 and supports the drive for improvements in wheelchair services. This data looks at waiting times at the various stages across the pathway to enable targeted action if improvement is required.</p><p> </p><p>The second step revolves around developing wheelchair currencies, whereby the currency model offers a structured way for providers, commissioners and systems to understand the complexity of a patient population and support commissioning conversations using the currencies as an evidence base. The model also supports benchmarking across localities and on a national basis.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, NHS England is publishing a model wheelchair service specification. This specification sets out NHS England’s ambition for excellent wheelchair services and is a tool to enable ICBs to review and improve their wheelchair services. Finally, NHS England is introducing personal wheelchair budgets and legal rights for people, which offers a clear framework to commission personalised wheelchair services which are outcomes focused and integrated.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL1342 question first answered 08/01/2024 12:44:12 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1679245

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	Wheelchairs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Wheelchair Alliance report The Value of a Wheelchair, published in December 2023, whether they will undertake a review of current investment levels in wheelchair services to ensure that demand and demographic changes are taken fully into account.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the provision and commissioning of local wheelchair services and the development of their local wheelchair service eligibility criteria based on the needs of their local population. NHS England is responsible for funding allocations to ICBs and supports ICBs to commission effective, efficient, and personalised wheelchair services. The Government does not currently have any plans to review current investment levels in wheelchair services.</p><p>The Government has not made an assessment of the quality of locally led provision of wheelchair services, however NHS England is taking a number of steps to reduce regional variation in the quality and provision of NHS wheelchairs and to support ICBs to reduce delays in people receiving timely intervention and wheelchair equipment. These steps include, firstly, establishing a national wheelchair dataset, whereby data has been collected quarterly from clinical commissioning groups, now ICBs, since July 2015 and supports the drive for improvements in wheelchair services. This data looks at waiting times at the various stages across the pathway to enable targeted action if improvement is required.</p><p> </p><p>The second step revolves around developing wheelchair currencies, whereby the currency model offers a structured way for providers, commissioners and systems to understand the complexity of a patient population and support commissioning conversations using the currencies as an evidence base. The model also supports benchmarking across localities and on a national basis.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, NHS England is publishing a model wheelchair service specification. This specification sets out NHS England’s ambition for excellent wheelchair services and is a tool to enable ICBs to review and improve their wheelchair services. Finally, NHS England is introducing personal wheelchair budgets and legal rights for people, which offers a clear framework to commission personalised wheelchair services which are outcomes focused and integrated.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham grouped question UIN HL1340 question first answered 08/01/2024 12:44:12 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1679247

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
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	HIV Infection: Mental Health Services
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking (1) to ensure provision of mental health services for people living with HIV, and (2) to ensure there are effective referral pathways between HIV clinics and NHS Talking Therapies.
tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
uin	HL1344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has now approved plans to fully delegate the commissioning of appropriate specialised services to integrated care boards (ICBs), including specialised HIV services, in the East of England, Midlands and the North West regions of England from April 2024.</p><p>NHS England will also continue to jointly commission appropriate specialised services with ICBs, including specialised HIV services, in the South West, South East, London and the North East and Yorkshire regions of England for a further year. This will help support a smooth transition of commissioning responsibility by April 2025.</p><p>The national service specification sets out the requirement for agreeing pathways which define responsibility for meeting non-HIV needs of patients and identify shared care, including clinical psychology and psychological support services.</p><p>From 2018/19, all NHS Talking Therapies services have been commissioned to establish pathways for people living with long-term physical health conditions as a key mechanism to ensure the delivery of increased access to psychological therapies. The NHS Talking Therapies Programme has developed an e-learning module for Talking Therapies staff on HIV. This will enable therapists to support people with anxiety and depression related to the experience of living with HIV.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 08/01/2024 12:32:11 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1679278

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Afghanistan: Refugees
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to remarks by Lord Sharpe of Epsom on 18 December 2023 (HL Deb cols 2046–2049), what plans they have to respond to the recommendations of the Hazara Inquiry report, published in September 2022, and which of its recommendations, if any, they plan to take forward.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL1317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The report has done much to raise awareness of the situation of Hazaras in Afghanistan. In line with the report's recommendations, we continue to monitor and document discrimination and abuses against Hazaras, both through the UN and other institutions, and through our own programme work. The FCDO does not plan to respond further to the report.</p><p>More broadly, officials from the UK Mission to Afghanistan regularly press Taliban acting ministers and Afghan officials to protect religious and ethnic minorities, including Shia Muslims and Hazara communities.</p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon question first answered 08/01/2024 12:31:15 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1678520

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Dangerous Dogs
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 has made an assessment of the potential merits of using DNA testing in the scientific classification of XL Bully dogs.
tabling member constituency	Wyre Forest
tabling member printed	Mark Garnier
uin	7321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>Under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, the assessment of whether an individual dog is prohibited is strictly based on ‘breed type’ and its physical characteristics.</p><p> </p><p>Defra has produced guidance on the physical characteristics of the XL Bully breed type to support Dog Legislation Officers and dog owners to determine whether a dog may be prohibited.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 08/01/2024 11:45:30 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier

1678521

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Dangerous Dogs
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of the guidance entitled Official definition of an XL Bully dog.
tabling member constituency	Wyre Forest
tabling member printed	Mark Garnier
uin	7322
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>We developed the definition of an XL Bully dog by convening a group of experts and other stakeholders to define the physical characteristics of the breed type. This included representatives from the police, local authorities, devolved administrations and the Animal Welfare Committee, which advises the Government on animal welfare issues. We reviewed existing breed standards provided by breed registries in the United States and the UK and tested the standard in practice. We have provided further guidance to support owners in applying this.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 08/01/2024 11:28:55 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier

1678531

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of allowing employers in (a) commercial laundries and (b) other sectors to use 25% of their apprenticeship levy funds for non-apprenticeship training.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	7374
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 November 2023 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-11-07/614" target="_blank">614</a>.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 08/01/2024 13:16:57 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1678568

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Israel: Sanctions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will apply Magnitsky-style sanctions to Israel’s (a) Minister of National Security and (b) Finance Minister in the context of settler violence in the West Bank.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	7299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>Tensions in the West Bank must ease and we continue to urge Israel to address extremist settler violence. This includes preventing such acts of violence, and holding those responsible to account. The Foreign Secretary has announced that we will ban those responsible for settler violence from entering the UK. We keep our sanctions under review and reserve the right to introduce further measures.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 08/01/2024 12:42:56 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

1678575

registered interest
date	18/12/2023
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	Chemicals: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many substances have been (a) grandfathered and (b) notified to UK REACH and are subject to the extended data submission deadlines in the REACH (Amendment) Regulations 2023 in the (i) one-ten, (ii) 10-100, (iii) 100-1,000 and (iv) over 1,000 tonnes per year band.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	7412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2024 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of substances by tonnage band notified as of 1 August 2023 to the Health and Safety Executive as (a) having a grandfathered registration and / or (b) being included in a Downstream User Import Notification (DUIN). Each distinct substance appears no more than once in each column; where the same substance was notified multiple times it is listed in the highest notified tonnage band. Where an individual substance has been notified as having both a grandfathered registration and being subject to a DUIN it will appear once in each column.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Grandfathered</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>DUIN</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>1-10tpy</strong></p></td><td><p>1,093</p></td><td><p>7,765</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>10-100tpy</strong></p></td><td><p>818</p></td><td><p>3,508</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>100-1000tpy</strong></p></td><td><p>650</p></td><td><p>1,171</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>&gt;1000tpy</strong></p></td><td><p>665</p></td><td><p>715</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Tonnage not reported</strong></p></td><td><p>836</p></td><td><p>9,283</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The tonnage band is not a legal requirement of notification but will be confirmed when notifications proceed to full registration.</p><p> </p><p>The number of substances that are subject to full registration may be lower than the numbers set out above, as full registration is dependent on firms’ commercial decisions.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 08/01/2024 12:45:30 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones