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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

1690562

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: Clinical Trials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how her Department plans to ensure that increases in funding lead to increased participation in clinical trials of people living with dementia.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	14989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2024 answer text <p>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 the Department for Science Innovation and Technology, with research delivered via UK Research and Innovation. The NIHR is investing in a range of activities to increase the participation of people living with dementia in clinical trials.</p><p>In January 2024, the NIHR announced the Dementia-Translational Research Collaboration Trials Network (D-TRC TN) which is supported by almost £50 million of funding over five years. This will expand the United Kingdom’s early phase clinical trial capabilities in dementia, speeding up the development of new treatments. The D-TRC-TN will increase opportunities for people with dementia to take part in clinical trials, irrespective of where they live in the UK. The NIHR also works in partnership with Alzheimer’s Research UK, the Alzheimer’s Society and Alzheimer’s Scotland to deliver and invest in Join Dementia Research, an online platform which enables the involvement of people with a dementia diagnosis, and their carers, to take part in a range of research, including clinical trials.</p><p> </p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care published the full response to the O’Shaughnessy Review into commercial clinical trials on 22 November 2023, integrating the response into the delivery of our vision to benefit all kinds of clinical research, including trials funded by medical research charities, as well as industry. This included the announcement of a Clinical Trials Delivery Accelerator focused on dementia, with up to £20 million of funding.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 26/02/2024 10:08:55 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1686739

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
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	Sewage: Luton South
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 sewage releases there were in Luton South constituency in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	12656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>Over the past eight years the Environment Agency and Defra have worked with water companies to introduce Event Duration Monitors (EDMs), which provide them with much more information about where and when storm overflows are occurring. Water companies submit annual returns of their EDM data, which are publicly available <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenvironment.data.gov.uk%2Fdataset%2F21e15f12-0df8-4bfc-b763-45226c16a8ac&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C42c5b3437e0749f2218f08dc264340c3%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638427317484148666%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=WgO9o2RD3JFCv0rgtFrIqdxHV0wRdA4Miwb3DcuoBXk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">here</a>. The annual returns for 2023 are not yet available. The 2022 return shows that there were 32 storm overflows reported by Thames Water within the Luton South constituency. Only 5 of these storm overflows had EDM installed in 2022. EDM recorded 12 spills from these 5 overflows in 2022, lasting a total of 8.62 hours. Of the remaining 27 overflows without EDM, 2 were reported as being no longer operational, and their discharge permits have now been revoked. The other 25 overflows were all due to have EDM installed by December 2023. At the end of 2023, the Government target of having all storm overflows in England monitored was met, so EDM data on these sites should soon be available as well.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 14/02/2024 15:50:13 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1686740

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
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	Sewage: Caddington
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 sewage was released into the chalk aquifer in Caddington in (a) 2022 and (b) 2023.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	12657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2024 answer text <p>Caddington sewage treatment works has a discharge permit to discharge treated sewage effluent to ground. The permit states that the discharge must consist solely of treated sewage effluent and that the point of discharge is to ground via a soakaway. The borehole soakaways infiltrate into the unsaturated zone of the underlying Middle Chalk. The permit includes limiting values for the chemical composition of the effluent being discharged, to minimise the potential for pollution to arise from the discharge. This is what is known as an “indirect discharge” insomuch that it discharges to the unsaturated zone. Direct discharges to the saturated zone of the Chalk are forbidden.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Robbie Moore question first answered 14/02/2024 15:49:27 answering member 4861 label Biography information for Robbie Moore
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1688082

registered interest
date	01/02/2024
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Women: Unemployment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help reduce economic inactivity among women between the ages of 45 and 64.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	901454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2024 answer text <p>DWP supports people up and down the country to start, stay and succeed in work.</p><p>At Autumn Statement, we announced DWP’s Back to Work Plan alongside a suite of other measures to reduce economic inactivity. These included;</p><p>· Doubling the number of places on the Universal Support employment programme, to provide support for 100,000 people per year when fully rolled out;</p><p>· Formally launching WorkWell, which will bring together the NHS, local authorities and other partners, in collaboration with jobcentres, to provide light touch work and health support in approximately 15 pilot areas;</p><p>· Building on the extension of the certification of the fit notes to a wider range of healthcare professions, exploring new ways of providing individuals receiving a fit note with timely access to work and health support; and</p><p>· Establishing an expert group to support the development of the voluntary national baseline for Occupational Health provision.</p><p>This is alongside pre-existing support such as the Midlife MOT which was rolled out in Jobcentres from January 2023 to encourage individuals to optimise re-skilling prospects and improve health and longer-term financial resilience. The Mid-life MOT acts as a vital prompt to engage more people in planning more actively for later life – both for work and retirement. It provides individuals in their 40s, 50s and 60s with signposting to information and guidance on wealth, work and wellbeing, providing a holistic assessment to ensure that individuals can plan for the later life that they want. We continue to work with organisations, and with employers, on how they can offer the Mid-life MOT.</p><p>The DWP 50PLUS Champions network also provides dedicated support to Work Coaches to enable them to effectively direct suitable support to claimants who are aged 50 and over.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 07/02/2024 15:56:06 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1686472

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
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	Gaza: Genocide Convention
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what discussions he has had with his (a) Israeli counterpart and (b) the UK’s international allies on the provisional measures set forth by the International Court of Justice in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel).
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	12463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The FCDO has welcomed the Court's call for the immediate release of hostages and the need to get more aid into Gaza.</p><p>We are clear that an immediate pause is necessary to get aid in and hostages out, and then we want to build towards a sustainable, permanent ceasefire, without a return to the fighting.</p><p>We respect the role and independence of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). However, we have also stated that we have considerable concerns about this case. Our view is that Israel's actions in Gaza cannot be described as a genocide, which is why we thought South Africa's decision to bring the case was wrong and provocative.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 06/02/2024 09:05:08 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins

1686473

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
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	UNRWA: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether his Department forecasted aid funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees for the financial year 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Luton South
tabling member printed	Rachel Hopkins
uin	12464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2024 answer text <p>We are appalled by allegations that United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff were involved in the 7 October attack against Israel, a heinous act of terrorism that the UK Government has repeatedly condemned. As we have said, we are pausing any future funding of UNRWA, whilst we review these concerning allegations. The pause will remain in place until we review the allegations, and any future funding decisions will be taken after this point. We are looking to our partners in the UN to carry out a robust and comprehensive investigation.</p><p>We remain committed to getting humanitarian aid to people in Gaza who desperately need it.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 05/02/2024 17:37:39 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4873 label Biography information for Rachel Hopkins