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1702168

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of freezing the level of the tax-free Personal Allowance on the economy; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing this level.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	22481
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government is committed to keeping taxes low to support people to keep more of what they earn. The Personal Allowance has nearly doubled since 2010 and is over 20% higher in real terms.</p><p> </p><p>As with all aspects of the tax system, the Government keeps the Personal Allowance under review and any decisions on future changes will be made by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/04/2024 08:51:21 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1702169

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2024
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	State Retirement Pensions: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting state pension from tax; and if he will make an assessment of whether state pension should be classified as income.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	22482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>The Personal Allowance is currently set at a level high enough to ensure that those pensioners whose sole income is the full rate of the new State Pension or basic State Pension do not pay any income tax.</p><p> </p><p>The Government keeps all aspects of the tax system under review and any decision on future changes will be made by the Chancellor in the context of the wider public finances.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 24/04/2024 08:49:31 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1700015

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	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	Hedges and Ditches: Conservation
	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 recent steps his Department has taken to protect (a) hedgerow habitats and (b) associated species.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	20889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Hedgerows are important ecological and environmental building blocks across our landscapes. As set out in the Environment Improvement Plan (EIP), Defra will support farmers to create or restore at least 30,000 miles of hedgerows by 2037, increasing to 45,000 miles of hedgerows by 2050.</p><p> </p><p>On the 16 April the Government laid before Parliament new regulations that will place management practices for hedgerows on agricultural land into legislation. These practices include a cutting ban between 1 March and 31 August to protect nesting birds during this period, and a 2m buffer strip around a hedge where green cover must be established and maintained to protect the health of the hedge and the wildlife that use it.</p><p> </p><p>The new regulations will be supplemented by actions being undertaken by many through Environmental Land Management schemes. There are now over 55,920 miles of hedgerows with one or both sides managed under 16,000 Countryside Stewardship and Sustainable Farm Incentive agreements.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 23/04/2024 12:32:54 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1701307

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	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	Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Employment and Support Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people (a) applied for and (b) received employment and support allowance for inflammatory bowel disease in (i) Preston, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) England in each year since 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	21884
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/04/2024 13:17:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1701308

	registered interest
	date	16/04/2024
	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	Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in (a) Preston, (b) Lancashire and (c) England have (i) applied for and (ii) received Personal Independence Payments for inflammatory bowel disease in each year since 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	21885
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>The latest available data on personal independence payment (PIP) clearances and awards can be found <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">here.</a> The requested data can be found on the ‘PIP Clearances’ dataset by going to ‘Geography’, ‘National – Regional – LAs – OAs’ and following the drop downs to the relevant areas. Similarly, you can filter for those with inflammatory bowel disease through ‘Disability’, ‘Gastrointestinal disease’ and selecting ‘Inflammatory bowel disease’. To further filter just for those awarded, you can go to ‘Clearance Type Detail’ and select ‘Awarded’.</p><p> </p><p>A lookup which shows which Local Authorities are in Lancashire is available <a href="https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/4466088cf22849f3aa030e330fbba0a0_0/explore" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p> </p><p>Data is based on primary disabling condition as recorded on the PIP computer systems. Claimants may often have multiple disabling conditions upon which the decision is based but only the primary condition is shown in these statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">here.</a> An account is not required to use Stat- Xplore, the ‘Guest Login’ feature gives instant access to the main functions.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 23/04/2024 13:19:54 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1701826

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2024
	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	Hearing Impairment and Visual Impairment: 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 her Department is taking to ensure (a) blind, (b) partially sighted, (c) deaf and (d) hearing impaired patients receive (i) care and (ii) communications related to their heath in an accessible format; and if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of missed appointments due to (A) inaccessible and (B) missed communications.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	22234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2024 answer text <p>Under the Equality Act (2010), health and social care organisations must make reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled people, including blind, partially sighted, deaf, and hearing impaired patients, are not disadvantaged.  Since 2016, all National Health Service organisations and publicly funded social care providers in England are required to comply with the Accessible Information Standard (AIS).</p><p>NHS England is responsible for the AIS, and have completed a review of the AIS to help ensure that the communication needs of people with a disability, impairment, or sensory loss are met in health and care provision. The AIS review included input from individuals with lived experience and voluntary sector organisations for blind, partially sighted, deaf, and hearing impaired patients<em>.</em></p><p>One of the aims of the review was to strengthen assurance of implementation of the AIS, and a self-assessment framework has been developed to support providers of NHS and social care services, to measure their performance against the AIS and develop improvement action plans to address gaps in implementation. The AIS self-assessment framework is designed to enable enhancements around assurance and allows organisations, commissioners, and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to judge performance and compliance.</p><p>NHS England will publish a revised AIS in due course. Following publication, NHS England will continue work to support its implementation with awareness raising, communication and engagement, and updated e-learning modules on the AIS to ensure NHS staff are better aware of the standard, and their roles and responsibilities in implementing it.</p><p>NHS England collects data on the total costs of missed appointments, but that data is not broken down sufficiently to enable us to make an estimate of appointments missed due to inaccessible or missed communications.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 23/04/2024 08:12:42 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1700008

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept id	215
	answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	hansard heading	Energy: Meters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what information her Department holds on the number of reports of faulty smart meters in (a) the North West, (b) Lancashire and (c) Preston in the last 12 months; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure energy companies are accountable for the quality of smart meters they install.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	20887
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Almost 9 in 10 smart meters are sending automatic readings, but those that don’t will still be accurately measuring consumers’ energy, like a traditional meter.</p><p>The Government is working closely with industry to drive down the number of smart meters not sending automatic readings. The numbers are improving but more progress is needed.</p><p> </p><p>Energy suppliers have an obligation to take all reasonable steps to operate smart meters in smart mode and Ofgem are responsible for regulating suppliers against this obligation.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not hold geographic data on smart meters that aren’t sending automatic readings.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 22/04/2024 10:55:49 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1700014

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Sign Language: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing free access to British sign language classes for the (a) parents and (b) caregivers of all newly-identified deaf children.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	20888
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Adult Education Budget (AEB) targets a wide range of eligible individuals including parents and caregivers of all newly-identified deaf children.</p><p>The Adult Education Budget (AEB) funds qualifications in, or focussing on, British Sign Language (BSL) up to and including Level 2. Approximately 60% of the AEB has been devolved to Mayoral Combined Authorities and the Greater London Authority, who determine which provision to fund for learners who live in their areas. The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) provides the remaining funding for learners who live in non-devolved areas, which includes Preston Constituency.</p><p>ESFA funded AEB qualifications include, for example, the Level 1 Award in BSL, which allows learners to communicate in BSL on a range of topics that involve simple, everyday language use, thereby giving them the basic skills and confidence in production and reception of BSL. It will depend on an individual’s circumstances as to whether they are entitled to free provision or expected to meet part of the cost through co-funding. Where community learning providers offer BSL courses, those providers are responsible for determining the course fees, including levels of fee remission.</p><p>For parents learning BSL on an AEB funded course, there is also additional support available. The AEB provides funding to colleges and providers to help adult learners overcome barriers preventing them from accessing learning. Providers have discretion to help learners meet costs such as transport, accommodation, books, equipment and childcare. Learning support funding also helps colleges and training providers to meet the additional needs of learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and the costs of reasonable adjustments as set out in the Equality Act 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 22/04/2024 15:34:28 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1700016

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Windrush Compensation Scheme
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in (a) England, (b) the North West, (c) Lancashire and (d) Preston have been (i) awarded and (ii) denied compensation from the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	20890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Information on the number of Windrush Compensation Scheme claims that have received a compensation payment and that have received a zero entitlement decision is published as part of the Transparency Data release. The latest published data, covering the period up to the end of February 2024, is available here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fwindrush-compensation-scheme-data-february-2024&amp;data=05%7C02%7CKaren.Bryant1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C0c56333980914d2cee2008dc5a11d402%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638484279826223857%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=tKQVxiTnfWZbDJENy51h9QekgFeqFNqKvsxxOvPryGM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Windrush Compensation Scheme data: February 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p>The Windrush Compensation Scheme does not publish regional data about compensation awards and zero-entitlement decisions.</p><p>A zero entitlement claim is one where the person making the claim meets the eligibility criteria under the scheme rules, but is not entitled to any compensation as we have not been able to identify any losses or impacts suffered as a result of an inability to demonstrate lawful status.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 22/04/2024 11:43:30 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1700041

	registered interest
	date	12/04/2024
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Drugs: Lancashire
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to reduce levels of drug offences in (a) Preston and (b) Lancashire.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
	uin	20891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>Reducing drug-related crime is a key priority of the Government’s 10-year drugs strategy.</p><p>We are making good progress. Since April 2022 we have closed over 2,500 county lines and delivered over 6,000 major and moderate organised crime group disruptions.</p><p>We are also investing £532m into drug treatment which reduces crime and reoffending. There are now 24,500 more people in treatment across England, including increases in Lancashire.</p><p>We are targeting treatment referrals at offenders. The percentage of prison leavers continuing treatment after release has also risen to a record high of 52% - an increase of 10% in the last 12 months.</p><p>We are working with the National Police Chiefs Council to increase police referrals into drug treatment, as well as expanding Drug Testing on Arrest to identify those who use drugs. This builds on £2.1 million funding to deliver Project ADDER – a co-ordinated approach across policing and treatment to crack down on supply and support people tackle their addiction – in 13 hard hit areas including Lancashire.</p><p>The government has asked every area in England to form a Combating Drugs Partnership (CDP) to work together to reduce drug-related harm and crime. Preston is covered by the Lancashire CDP, and the Government has supported the establishment of the Pan Lancashire Drugs and Alcohol Alliance, to help coordinate work across Lancashire’s three CDPs.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 22/04/2024 14:37:33 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick