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1507743

	registered interest
	date	22/09/2022
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Cost of Living Payments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to introduce targeted cost of living support for people who do not qualify for any form of benefit but are under state pension age.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	54512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>The government understands that people across the UK are worried about the rising cost of living, and has taken decisive action to get households and businesses through this Winter and the next, while ensuring action in a fiscally responsible way.</p><p> </p><p>The government has already announced £37 billion of support for this financial year. This includes one-off Cost of Living Payments for millions of the most vulnerable households – including low-income households eligible for means-tested benefits, people with a disability, and pensioners.</p><p> </p><p>However, all households have been feeling the pressure of rising energy prices and it is right that the government steps in to help everyone. That is why the government has announced the Energy Price Guarantee, which means that a typical UK household will have to pay bills equivalent to no more than £2500 a year on their energy bills this winter.This comes in addition to the £400 discount already announced through the Energy Bills Support Scheme.</p>For households that are not eligible for one-off Cost of Living Payments or for families that need additional support, the government has provided £1.5 billion total funding towards the cost of essentials, including a further six-month extension to the Household Support Fund from October 2022 to March 2023. The fund is distributed by Local Authorities in England through small payments to support vulnerable households to meet daily needs such as food, clothing, and utilities. answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 17/10/2022 17:07:01 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1457738

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	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	Ambulance Services: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average ambulance response times were in (a) York and North Yorkshire and (b) England for the latest period for which figures are available; and what steps his Department is taking to help reduce ambulance response times.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	153931
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not held for York and North Yorkshire. However, the following table shows the mean average response time in hours minutes and seconds for each category in England and the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) and England in March 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Category</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>YAS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Category 1</p></td><td><p>9:35</p></td><td><p>9:42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Category 2</p></td><td><p>1:01:03</p></td><td><p>46:41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Category 3</p></td><td><p>3:28:13</p></td><td><p>2:33:59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Category 4</p></td><td><p>3:07:42</p></td><td><p>2:37:25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The National Health Service is implementing its Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Action Plan to improve patient flow through hospital to help improve performance in accident and emergency (A&amp;E) departments, accelerating patient handovers and releasing ambulances to respond new calls. The Plan aims to ensure that medically fit patients can be discharged earlier, increase the role of NHS 111 to assist people to access the appropriate primary care service and avoid additional demands on urgent care and A&amp;E.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 153932 question first answered 25/04/2022 12:08:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1457739

	registered interest
	date	14/04/2022
	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	Ambulance Services: Standards
	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 his Department is taking to help improve ambulance response times by assisting hospitals in (a) reducing ambulance patient handover and (b) ambulance queuing times.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	153932
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>The information requested is not held for York and North Yorkshire. However, the following table shows the mean average response time in hours minutes and seconds for each category in England and the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) and England in March 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Category</p></td><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>YAS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Category 1</p></td><td><p>9:35</p></td><td><p>9:42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Category 2</p></td><td><p>1:01:03</p></td><td><p>46:41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Category 3</p></td><td><p>3:28:13</p></td><td><p>2:33:59</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Category 4</p></td><td><p>3:07:42</p></td><td><p>2:37:25</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The National Health Service is implementing its Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Action Plan to improve patient flow through hospital to help improve performance in accident and emergency (A&amp;E) departments, accelerating patient handovers and releasing ambulances to respond new calls. The Plan aims to ensure that medically fit patients can be discharged earlier, increase the role of NHS 111 to assist people to access the appropriate primary care service and avoid additional demands on urgent care and A&amp;E.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 153931 question first answered 25/04/2022 12:08:44 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1386899

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2021
	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	Ichthyosis: Medical Treatments
	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 ensure that people with the skin condition ichthyosis can access the cream Udrate to treat that condition via (a) GP prescription and (b) pharmacies nationwide.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	90870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. General practitioners and clinician are responsible for working with patients to determine the appropriate course of treatment, with the provision of the most clinically appropriate care being the primary consideration. Clinicians are responsible for making prescribing decisions for their patients, taking into account best prescribing practice and the decision-making of their respective clinical commissioning groups.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 90871 question first answered 16/12/2021 17:10:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1386900

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2021
	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	Ichthyosis: Medical Treatments
	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 he has made of local variation in access to the cream Udrate for the treatment of the skin condition ichthyosis.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	90871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. General practitioners and clinician are responsible for working with patients to determine the appropriate course of treatment, with the provision of the most clinically appropriate care being the primary consideration. Clinicians are responsible for making prescribing decisions for their patients, taking into account best prescribing practice and the decision-making of their respective clinical commissioning groups.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 90870 question first answered 16/12/2021 17:10:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1360280

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2021
	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	Prescription Drugs
	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 his Department is taking to minimise the wastage of prescribed tablets and other medication.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	57009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement’s programme on medicines optimisation includes improving the use of medicines and reducing wastage and aims to help patients to improve their outcomes; take their medicines as intended; avoid taking unnecessary medicines; reduce wastage of medicines; and improve medicines safety. Reducing waste medicines is also a focus for the National Health Service environmental programme 'Delivering a net zero NHS'.</p><p>In addition, the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England has completed a review on overprescribing, which was published on 22 September 2021. The review sets out a series of further practical and cultural changes necessary to ensure patients get the most appropriate treatment for their needs while ensuring clinicians’ time is well-used and taxpayer money is spent wisely.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/10/2021 13:05:59 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1360281

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2021
	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	Prescription Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what procedures are in place in NHS hospitals in England for the (a) retention or (b) reissue of prescribed medications for inpatients on their discharge from a hospital stay; how those medications' retention or reissue procedures compare with those followed in private hospitals; and what estimate his Department has made of the potential for NHS cost savings where inpatients retain their prescribed medications upon discharge.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	57010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2021 answer text <p>National Health Service hospitals in England have procedures in place which recognise that retention and reissue of a patient’s own routine medicines, following a review, allows patients to continue with their familiar regime in their home or from their community pharmacy and reduces discharge delays and adverse incidents. Additional clinically urgent medicines, prescribed during the stay, are supplied by the hospital.</p><p>Other procedures include dispensing for discharge at the start of a stay, full dispensing of all medicines needed at discharge or, for short episodes where no changes are made to the patient’s medicine regime, no supply. The new Community Pharmacy Discharge Medicines Service can support patients requiring on-going support with their medicines needs after discharge.</p><p>All hospitals, whether NHS or private, are subject to the same regulatory standards, overseen by the Care Quality Commission. We have made no estimate of the potential for NHS cost savings of inpatients retaining their prescribed medications upon discharge.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 28/10/2021 13:35:56 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1314763

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2021
	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	Endoscopy: 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 (a) steps his Department is taking and (b) resources have been allocated to reduce NHS endoscopy waiting times.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	1307
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2021 answer text <p>Endoscopy is a key part of diagnostic activity. The 2020 Spending Review committed £325 million for diagnostics in 2021/22, including the development of community diagnostics hubs. The exact allocations of this funding will be confirmed in due course.</p><p>In addition, the Accelerator programme has commenced in May 2021 which supports 13 integrated care systems and £160 million has been allocated to support new rapid programmes of work over a 13 week period, which include diagnostic recovery. Learning from these sites will be applied rapidly across England to support wider elective recovery. Alongside the Accelerator programme, £1 billon is being invested in 2021/22 through the Elective Recovery Fund. Endoscopy activity is one of the activities included as part of the Elective Recovery Fund. This fund is available across England for all providers of secondary care services to increase levels of elective activity including diagnostics.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/05/2021 16:01:54 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1271769

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2020
	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	Hospital Beds
	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 his Department is taking to increase the number of high dependency hospital beds to reduce waiting lists for minor operations for people who have additional medical issues that require a high dependency bed.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	130708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2021 answer text <p>As part of their response to the current pandemic, providers have increased critical care surge beds. However, this has not been to specifically help reduce waiting lists. The use of these beds will be dependent upon the prevailing priorities for treatment.</p><p>Each provider will carry out a risk assessment to determine whether a patient requires a period of time within critical care post procedure and ensure that a bed is available if required.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 15/01/2021 14:21:36 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1271771

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2020
	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	Knee Replacements: 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 the national average waiting time is for knee surgery in most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	York Outer
	tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
	uin	130709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>Information on average waiting times for knee surgery is not published in the format requested. Knee surgery is included in the category ‘trauma and orthopaedics’, for which the median waiting time in weeks for October 2020 was 14.3 weeks.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 11/01/2021 14:23:38 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy