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1721611

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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: Health Services
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 plans to take to improve (a) the support, (b) provision of services and (c) health care plans for people with dementia in the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Suffolk Coastal
tabling member printed	Jenny Riddell-Carpenter
uin	326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2024 answer text <p>Diagnosis is vital in getting people the support they need. To support recovery of the dementia diagnosis rates and implementation of the Dementia Care Pathway, NHS England has funded an evidence-based improvement project for two trusts in each region, 14 sites in total, to pilot tools to improve the diagnosis of dementia and the provision of support in care homes.</p><p>The provision of dementia health care services is the responsibility of local integrated care boards (ICBs). NHS England would expect ICBs to commission services based on local population needs, taking account of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s guidelines, and to work closely with the third sector in their geographical area to offer appropriate services.</p><p>To improve care for patients with dementia, NHS England's RightCare team is refreshing the RightCare Dementia Scenario and developing a dementia model pathway to provide a high-level view of what dementia care activity looks like for local areas. This will aid targeted support where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 23/07/2024 16:04:28 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
tabling member	5160

1667951

registered interest
date	07/11/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Sign Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment has his Department made of the adequacy of changes in the level of communication (a) for deaf children in early years settings and (b) between family members who use British Sign Language as their primary language since the entry into force of the British Sign Language Act 2022.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2023 answer text <p>The British Sign Language (BSL) Act (2022) recognises BSL as a language of Great Britain, and places duties on the DWP Secretary of State:</p><ol><li>to produce a report detailing the use of BSL in the central communications of Ministerial Departments listed in the schedule to the Act; and</li><li>to produce guidance on the use of BSL in the public sector.</li></ol><p> </p><p>To sit alongside the BSL Act, the Government has established a non-statutory board of BSL users to advise it on matters arising from the Act and of importance to Deaf people.</p><p> </p><p>The BSL Advisory Board will advise the Government on the guidance detailed in the BSL Act and its implementation to best represent the Deaf community.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 13/11/2023 16:03:56 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1461256

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that school pupils with SEND are receiving sufficient catch-up support to achieve their full potential following the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2022 answer text <p>In total the department has announced almost £5 billion for an ambitious, multi-year education recovery plan to support young people to catch up on education lost.</p><p>The department has consistently prioritised children who attend specialist educational settings by providing additional uplifts both in the catch-up premium in the 2020/21 academic year and the recovery premium in the 2021/22 academic year, in recognition of the significantly higher per pupil costs they face. We are also providing £1 billion to extend the recovery premium funding for academic years 2022/23 and 2023/24. Alongside this, in Summer 2021, specialist educational settings were given an uplift to deliver summer schools, where they wanted to, at three times the normal rate.</p><p>The school-led tutoring element of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) also gives schools flexibility, enabling them to select those tutors most suitable to support pupils with SEND. On 31 March 2022, the department announced that we will allocate all tutoring funding through the NTP directly to schools next year, which will give them the freedom and flexibility to develop a tutoring offer that works best for their pupils.</p><p>The 16-19 Tuition Fund also continues to support students with SEND as well as 19-24 year olds with an education, health and care (EHC) plan through the provision of one to one and small group tuition. To ensure 16 to 19 year old students with high needs, and those up to age 25 with an EHC plan can benefit, institutions have greater flexibility in how they deliver additional hours for these students.</p><p>The Schools White Paper published on 28 March 2022 sets out our vision for a school system that helps every child to fulfil their potential, including SEND pupils. The Parent Pledge included in the White Paper will be an essential part of this, promising that any child who falls behind in English or maths will receive the right evidence-based targeted support, appropriate to their needs, to help them get back on track.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/05/2022 12:18:09 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1313480

registered interest
date	11/05/2021
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	NHS Wales: Topwood
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he had with his departmental Permanent Secretary or other officials when or after Topwood Limited was awarded a contract with NHS Wales.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2021 answer text <p>The Permanent Secretary discusses a range of issues with Ministers, including on propriety matters. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has discussed his declarations of interests with the Permanent Secretary and advice was provided. A record of all specific occasions where potential conflicts of interests were discussed is not held. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care discussed his declarations of interests with the then Deputy Cabinet Secretary.</p><p>Ministers have a duty to abide by the Ministerial Code, which states that:</p><p>“It is the personal responsibility of each Minister to decide whether and what action is needed to avoid a conflict or the perception of a conflict, taking account of advice received from their Permanent Secretary and the independent adviser on Ministers’ interests.”</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 320 321 322 323 324 325 779 780 question first answered 20/05/2021 11:45:07 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1168798

registered interest
date	20/12/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: York
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding each school in York Central has received in each year since 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2020 answer text <p>Allocations are not calculated based on constituencies, rather by local authority area.</p><p>The revenue funding figures shown below are for 2013-18. Before 2013-14, funding allocated by the Department through the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) was allocated to local authorities as a single amount intended to fund: school budget shares including academies; local authority central services for schools; additional support for high needs pupils; and provision for early years education. In 2013-14 the DSG was divided into funding blocks for each of these areas: a schools block; central services schools block; high needs block; and early years block. The schools block is allocated based on the number of pupils in schools within each local authority. The amounts allocated by York City Council from their schools block to primary and secondary schools for each year since 2013-14 to 2018-19 are shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Schools classed as primary schools (£million)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Schools classed as secondary schools (£million)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total (£million)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>45.80</p></td><td><p>40.28</p></td><td><p>86.08</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>46.63</p></td><td><p>38.92</p></td><td><p>85.54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>46.71</p></td><td><p>39.29</p></td><td><p>86.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>47.50</p></td><td><p>39.38</p></td><td><p>86.88</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>48.15</p></td><td><p>40.42</p></td><td><p>88.57</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>50.20</p></td><td><p>42.82</p></td><td><p>93.03</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Information for 2019-20 is due for publication at the end of January 2020.</p><p>This funding is allocated using the local authority’s own formulae based upon nationally agreed factors and the table attached shows the allocations for each school, rounded to the nearest £1,000.</p><p>Figures showing funding for each school in the York City Council and relevant links to where these figures are published are provided in the attached table.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 10/01/2020 14:51:43 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb attachment 1 file name 326 York City Council Funding Allocation Table.xls title 326_Table
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1148861

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	NHS: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Explanatory Memorandum to The Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2019, 7.12, whether in the event of a Serious Shortage Protocol being issued for immunosuppressant medicines patients would always be referred back to the prescriber for any decision on their treatment before any therapeutic or generic alternative is supplied.
tabling member constituency	High Peak
tabling member printed	Ruth George
uin	326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>While Serious Shortage Protocols (SSP) in England have the scope to cover all medicines and appliances that are on a National Health Service prescription in primary care, including immunosuppressant medicines, it is clear that an SSP for therapeutic or generic equivalents will not necessarily be suitable for all medicines and patients. For example, where medicines need to be prescribed by brand for clinical reasons, which may be the case for certain immunosuppressant medicines. In these cases, patients would always be referred back to the prescriber for any decision about their treatment before any alternative is supplied.</p><p>Any protocol would however only be introduced if clinicians with expertise in the relevant area think it is appropriate. So, if an SSP for an immunosuppressant medicine was under consideration, this would be agreed with, for example, transplant specialists or other relevant clinicians. Pharmacists will have to use their professional judgment as to whether supplying against the protocol rather than the prescription is appropriate or the patient should be referred to their prescriber.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 22/10/2019 11:21:30 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4662 label Biography information for Ruth George

731344

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Paracetamol: General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to allow GP surgeries to directly provide patients with paracetamol, and other low cost readily available drugs, rather than issuing such medication via a prescription.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to make changes to legislation to enable general practitioners to directly provide paracetamol, or other low cost readily available drugs for patients without the need for a prescription.</p><p> </p><p>These drugs remain available to patients over the counter.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 27/06/2017 11:40:34 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

347257

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress has been made by investigations into cases of historical child abuse.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>No case of child abuse is ‘historical’ for victims and survivors. They must live with the consequences of their abuse each and every day of their lives. The Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has been set up to determine whether state and non-state institutions take, and have taken, seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse within England and Wales. Any specific allegation to the Inquiry will, where necessary, be referred to law enforcement bodies for consideration for criminal investigation. The Home Office has funded Operation Hydrant, which is the national policing response to the oversight and co-ordination of all child abuse investigations concerning persons of public prominence or those offences which have taken place in institutional settings. The day-to-day investigation into cases of child sexual abuse, including abuse that has taken place in the past, is an operational matter for the police and law enforcement.</p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 02/06/2015 14:10:45 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham