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1255370

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2020
	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	Department of Health and Social Care: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 November 2020 to Question 1116638 on Government departments: procurement, what steps he is taking to (a) identify and (b) tackle potential (i) conflicts of interest and (ii) bias in his Department's procurement process.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	120986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2020 answer text <p>Regulation 24 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 requires contracting authorities to take appropriate measures to effectively prevent, identify and remedy conflicts of interest arising in the conduct of procurement procedures. The Department has robust rules and processes in place to ensure that conflicts of interest do not occur, including declaration from suppliers, publication of ministerial interests and robust departmental guidance.</p><p>At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the critical urgency of the situation and requirement to protect the National Health Service and the country led to specialist consultants and contractors being brought in at extreme pace. This meant that some work was initiated before final contract details were put in place or had been formally awarded. This situation has been addressed. Over 900 contracts have been awarded by the Department and its executive agencies in response to COVID-19. Information on the precise number of such cases has not been centrally collated by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 120988 question first answered 04/12/2020 11:46:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 65370 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1127289

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	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	Drugs: Prices
	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 the affordability of medicines as a result of the redrafted WHO resolution entitled, Improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines and other health-related technologies proposed by Italy on 29 April 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	255695
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has a long-established and globally-recognised track record of assessing the price of new, innovative medicines by their clinical benefit and value, rather than by their development costs or international reference prices.</p><p>The UK will engage constructively with the talks at the World Health Assembly to achieve the best outcome for people here and globally, including in low and middle income countries. Pricing arrangements are the responsibility of Member States and are highly context specific, but the Department supports information sharing and mutual learning initiatives, where appropriate, in seeking to improve value for money for country procurement budgets.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 22/05/2019 14:32:11 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1288119

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	16 to 19 Tuition Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will ensure that covid-19 catch-up funding for 16 to 19 year olds is not limited to students with low prior attainment in GCSE English and maths.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	156534
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2021 answer text <p>Catch-up funding for 16 to 19 year olds is provided through the 16-19 Tuition Fund. This is focused on supporting those young people who are at significant disadvantage and whose learning has been impacted most severely by the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>We targeted this funding among 16 to 19 year old students for those with low prior attainment because:</p><ul><li>We know that these young people are disproportionately likely to be from disadvantaged backgrounds.<p> </p></li><li>Students who leave full-time education with low attainment are far more likely to become Not in Education, Employment or Training and far less likely to progress to higher level courses, including higher education and apprenticeships. We also know that they earn significantly less over their lifetimes.<p> </p></li><li>Students with low prior attainment are more likely to have fallen behind in lockdown, as they will have found it harder to ‘self-study’ at home and are more likely to disengage.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>Those without GCSE English and/or maths at the expected standard at age 16 is the agreed measure used for disadvantage in 16 to 19 education and an established part of the 16 to 19 funding formula.</p><p>Funding is available to spend on those students without a grade 5 or above in English and/or maths GCSE. However, providers are required to prioritise support for students who have not achieved a grade 4 in English and/or maths. If providers have funding available within their allocations, they can consider whether any young people with a grade 4 also needs catch up support.</p><p>As further evidence emerges, we will consider if refinements to eligibility for future funding are needed to maximise its value and impact in providing catch-up support for 16 to 19 students.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 25/02/2021 12:17:08 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1663325

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2023
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments
	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 ensure that 76% of patients are admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours in A&Es by March 2024.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	201179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>Under our Delivery plan to recover urgent and emergency care services, we are taking a range of measures to improve patient flow through hospital and reduce waiting times in accident and emergency.</p><p> </p><p>These include the delivery of 5,000 more staffed, permanent beds this year compared to 2022/23 plans, supported by £1 billion of dedicated funding. This is alongside a further £1.6 billion of funding for social care to reduce the numbers of beds occupied by patients ready to be discharged. We are also improving hospital discharge processes by establishing ‘Care transfer hubs’ in every hospital ahead of next winter, alongside new approaches to step-down care to free up bed capacity for those who need it. We are also scaling up the use of virtual wards by an additional 3,000 beds, with over 10,000 beds now available nationally.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/10/2023 15:59:41 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1542831

	registered interest
	date	16/11/2022
	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	Addictions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the level of support provided by his Department to families affected by addiction.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	89014
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2022 answer text <p>There are a number of programmes in place to support families impacted by addiction, including family support within specialist gambling clinics and the Children of Alcohol Dependent Parents Programme, which was supported by £7.2 million over four years. This investment in drug and alcohol treatment services through the drug strategy enables local authorities to embed learning from this programme into family-based interventions.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 22/11/2022 13:15:53 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1310699

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2021
	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	Addictions: Departmental Coordination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress the Government has made on the cross-government addiction strategy, announced on 28 November 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	184539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2021 answer text <p>Work on the cross-Government addiction strategy was paused during the COVID-19 pandemic but has now resumed.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 27/04/2021 16:55:32 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1290129

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2021
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Adultery: LGBT+ People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans the Government has to bring forward legislative proposals to update the definition of adultery to include members of the LGBT+ community.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	159016
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2021 answer text <p>Parliament considered this definition during passage of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. Adultery in this context has a longstanding definition and can, within the terms of the 2013 Act, take place only between a man and a woman. A same sex extramarital affair can therefore not be cited in support of the legal fact of adultery for the purpose of a divorce petition under the existing law. People can and do, however, use the fact of behaviour in a divorce petition to cite same sex affairs or other kinds of infidelity that do not meet the legal definition of adultery.</p><p> </p><p>Reforms to be implemented by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 will remove the use of adultery and other facts to show irretrievable breakdown in divorce and dissolution proceedings and replace these with a statement that the marriage or civil partnership has broken down irretrievably. There will therefore no longer be a requirement to evidence matters of a personal nature that can introduce or worsen conflict in the legal process to the detriment of any arrangements for the future, particularly about children. The Government is working to an indicative timetable of autumn 2021.</p> answering member constituency Cheltenham answering member printed Alex Chalk question first answered 02/03/2021 14:43:36 answering member 4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1308045

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assssment he has made of the effectiveness of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	179435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has been working with Lord Pickles on reviewing and improving the regime governing the acceptance of employment following departure from Government. This ongoing work will also take into account any lessons learnt from the Boardman review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 179436 question first answered 29/04/2021 10:50:43 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1308046

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Advisory Committee on Business Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of reforming the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACBOA) including (a) statutory status, (b) enhancing sanctioning powers, (c) increasing resources and (d) making ACOBA fully independent of Government.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	179436
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has been working with Lord Pickles on reviewing and improving the regime governing the acceptance of employment following departure from Government. This ongoing work will also take into account any lessons learnt from the Boardman review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith grouped question UIN 179435 question first answered 29/04/2021 10:50:43 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1353603

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2021
	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: Politics and Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Prime Minister's Oral Statement on Afghanistan on 6 September 2021, Official Report, column 26, by when he expects all representations made by hon. Members to have been answered.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	44431
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2021 answer text <p>As Minister Cleverly set out in the Urgent Question on 9 September, where the FCDO has received cases which are to be dealt with by the Home Office and MoD under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme and the Afghan Citizens’ Resettlement Scheme, we will pass those on to the relevant Department, whilst also individually notifying MPs which Department their specific cases have been passed to by 16 September. The FCDO will continue to handle British National cases and will be in contact with MPs about the specific cases they have raised within 7 days, providing as much detail as possible.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 10/09/2021 14:07:51 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden