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1665400

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date	17/10/2023
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	Heart Diseases: 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, with reference to the recommendations of the British Society for Echocardiography made in its report entitled The UK Echocardiography Workforce published in June 2023, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that the NHS retains a sufficient number of experienced echocardiographers to train new recruits.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	202955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>NHS England has developed a new fast-track echocardiography training scheme, which has led to 150 additional echocardiographers with further support being available in 2023/24.</p><p>More generally, the NHS People Plan and the People Promise set out a comprehensive range of actions to improve staff retention. They provide a strong focus on creating a more modern, compassionate and inclusive culture in the National Health Service by strengthening health and wellbeing, equality and diversity, culture and leadership and flexible working.</p><p> </p><p>NHS priorities and operational planning guidance 23/24 has asked systems to refresh their 2022/23 whole system workforce plans to improve staff retention through a systematic focus on all elements of the NHS People Promise.  Staff wellbeing should be strategically aligned with elective recovery plans, including workforce demand and capacity planning.  In addition, the NHS Retention Programme is continuously seeking to understand why staff leave, resulting in targeted interventions to support staff to stay whilst keeping them well.</p><p> </p><p>The Long Term Workforce Plan builds on the People Plan and sets out how to improve culture and leadership to ensure that up to 130,000 fewer staff leave the NHS over the next 15 years. This includes: implementing actions from the NHS People Plan that have been shown to be successful; and implementing plans to improve flexible opportunities for prospective retirees and delivering the actions needed to modernise the NHS pension scheme.</p><p> </p><p>These interventions apply across staff groups, including echocardiographers.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/10/2023 09:37:50 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1662984

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Genomics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within the field of genomics will form part of the agenda at the upcoming AI Summit in November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	200838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The UK Summit will focus on frontier AI risks, which includes risks from frontier AI models to biosecurity (and within that, genomics), which are increasingly urgent to address at an international level. The Government is also undertaking a full programme of work to assess how we can minimise the risks from biological data and protect our burgeoning bioeconomy.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/10/2023 14:51:38 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1662985

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: BGI Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether representatives of (a) BGI Group, (b) subsidiaries of BGI Group and (c) companies in which BGI Group has invested have been invited to attend the UK AI safety summit scheduled to take place in November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	200839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>To ensure the AI Safety Summit can achieve its objectives, it is necessary to have a small but international discussion at the event. This will limit the participants to around 100, including world leaders and companies at the cutting edge of frontier AI. The UK has actively considered national security in decision making to ensure that the partnerships and invitees are aligned with our National Security interests. Further information about invitees will be made available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/10/2023 14:49:05 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1662986

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Genomics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment the Government has made of the potential impact of the Chinese state's activity relating to genomics on national security; and whether that matter will be discussed at the UK AI safety summit scheduled for November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	200840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government does not comment on specific details of national security assessments. The AI Safety Summit will focus on safety risks in ‘frontier’ AI which includes issues of emerging importance such as biosecurity and genomics. During the first day of the AI Safety Summit, there will be a roundtable discussion on the <em>Risks to Global Safety from Frontier AI Misuse</em> where safety risks to biosecurity will be discussed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/10/2023 16:41:59 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1662987

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Genomics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will take steps to include the potential impact of the Chinese state’s activity relating to genomics on national security in any international framework that is developed at the UK AI safety summit in November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	200841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government does not comment on specific details of national security assessments. The Summit will aim to develop a forward process on how to support national and international frameworks on AI safety which include emerging issues such as biosecurity and cybersecurity, including from the potential misuse of models by non-state actors.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/10/2023 15:21:08 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1663441

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Cats: Animal Breeding
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 she has made of the potential impact of over-breeding on (a) cats and (b) their kittens.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	201295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2023 answer text <p>In light of concerns raised by stakeholders during the post-implementation review of the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018, the department has commissioned an opinion from the Animal Welfare Committee on the welfare implications of feline breeding practices.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 19/10/2023 15:34:37 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1663926

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Dog Fighting
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 steps she is taking to tackle illegal dog fighting.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	201779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>Causing an animal fight to take place, or attempting to do so, is an offence under Section 8 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. It is also an offence to be present a at a dog fight without reasonable excuse or lawful authority.</p><p> </p><p>The Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Act 2021 increases the maximum sentence for such offences from six months to five years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. This strengthened penalty sends a clear message that animal cruelty will not be tolerated and will enable our courts to take a firm approach to cases such as dog fighting.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 20/10/2023 11:30:37 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1661852

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
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	Commonwealth: Flags
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to permanently fly the Commonwealth flag on his Department's building on Whitehall.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	200270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) flies the Commonwealth flag on its UK estate for the week starting the second Monday in March to celebrate Commonwealth Day, and our Posts in Commonwealth countries can do the same where the Post has sufficient flagpoles to do so. It is not our practice to fly, on a permanent basis, the flags of organisations of which the UK is a member. FCDO flag policy is reviewed on an annual basis.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 200271 question first answered 16/10/2023 16:29:04 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1661853

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
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	Commonwealth: Flags
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make it his policy to fly the Commonwealth flag alongside the Union Flag at British (a) high commissions, (b) embassies and (c) missions.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	200271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) flies the Commonwealth flag on its UK estate for the week starting the second Monday in March to celebrate Commonwealth Day, and our Posts in Commonwealth countries can do the same where the Post has sufficient flagpoles to do so. It is not our practice to fly, on a permanent basis, the flags of organisations of which the UK is a member. FCDO flag policy is reviewed on an annual basis.</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley grouped question UIN 200270 question first answered 16/10/2023 16:29:04 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1661866

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Road Signs and Markings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make it his policy to erect historic county boundary signs on roads maintained by National Highways.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	200272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to ask National Highways to implement historic county boundary signs on the Strategic Road Network (SRN).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 16/10/2023 16:00:50 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith