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1719461

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	North Wales Coast Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress he has made on the proposed electrification of the North Wales Coast Line.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	27199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>We are continuing to work closely with the rail industry to develop the Government priorities outlined in the Prime Minister’s Network North announcement, which includes an unprecedented £1 billion investment to fund the electrification of the North Wales Main Line. In February, the Transport Secretary hosted a meeting with local leaders in North Wales to discuss how HS2 savings will be rerouted to improve rail links in Wales.</p><p>We are in the early stages of establishing the next steps for the North Wales electrification scheme, including the costs and programme for development and delivery. We will share further information when that work is complete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 23/05/2024 14:45:22 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1697179

registered interest
date	19/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Vetting: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's standard completion timetable is for processing DBS applications; how many applications his Department are processing and how many applications have been processed outside the standard timetable in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	19488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>For the 2023/24 financial year, the Disclosure and Barring Service’s (DBS) targets are to complete 85% of Basic checks within two days, 85% of Standard checks within three days, and 80% of Enhanced checks within 14 days.</p><p> </p><p>DBS publishes its performance against these targets on a quarterly basis at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fdbs-dataset-1-disclosure-progress-information-disclosed-and-update-service-subscriptions&amp;data=05%7C02%7CDavid.Watson1%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C4a47d6485b0e4102e25d08dc48d2a57c%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638465316758423705%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=IPMsAIBiPyOXoAGDEIR4WMsSTRjnrwrn1PGDOkMso78%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">DBS dataset 1: DBS checks, the DBS Update Service, and disputes - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. This includes the total monthly volumes of applications processed and the totals issued within target. The latest published information is up to December 2023.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this data, DBS’s performance for January and February 2024 is as follows:</p><ul><li>Basic checks – 435,350 checks processed of which 382,412 completed within the two-day target, exceeding the 85% target.</li><li>Standard checks – 70,729 checks processed, of which 62,898 completed within the three-day target, exceeding the 85% target.</li><li>Enhanced checks – 691,244 checks processed, of which 544,082 completed within the 14-day target, achieving 78.7% against the 80% target.</li></ul> answering member constituency Newbury answering member printed Laura Farris question first answered 22/03/2024 10:49:13 answering member 4826 label Biography information for Laura Farris
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1692192

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	North Wales Coast Line: Electrification
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the status of the planning and scoping process is for electrification of the North Wales mainline as of 27 February 2024.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	16038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>We are working closely with the rail industry to develop the Government priorities outlined in the Prime Minister’s Network North announcement, which includes an unprecedented £1 billion investment to fund the electrification of the North Wales Main Line. We are in the early stages of establishing the next steps for the North Wales electrification scheme, including the costs and programme for development and delivery. We will share further information when that work is complete.</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 04/03/2024 12:06:41 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1685393

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Programme for International Student Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of PISA test scores.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	901205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>The OECD’s PISA 2022 results showed that 15-year-old pupils in England performed above the OECD averages for all of reading, mathematics and science. While the pandemic has had an adverse impact on education across the world, and also affected the study, England was ranked 11<sup>th</sup> in maths and 13<sup>th</sup> in both reading and science – up from 27<sup>th</sup> in maths, 25<sup>th</sup> in reading and 16<sup>th</sup> in science in 2009.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 29/01/2024 17:17:35 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1681642

registered interest
date	11/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inflation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2024 to Question 8220 on Inflation, what specific (a) fiscal and (b) other steps he has taken to help reduce inflation; and what the outcome of each of those steps was.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	9306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>There are four key things the government has done to reduce inflation:</p><ol><li>Remaining steadfast in our support for the Bank of England as it takes action to return inflation sustainably to the 2% target.</li><li>Keeping borrowing under control. Borrowing is lower this year and next than it was forecast to be in the Spring.</li><li>Introducing ambitious supply-side measures to support non-inflationary growth, including delivering full expensing.</li><li>Boosting labour supply. Labour market conditions are a key problem affecting UK businesses’ growth, as well as a significant driver of domestic inflation. Together, the packages at Autumn Statement and Spring Budget 2023 were the two largest increases to labour supply and potential GDP resulting from policy the OBR has ever scored.</li></ol><p> </p><p>The OBR confirms policies in the Autumn Statement reduce inflation next year and do not “have a material impact on the path of inflation” over the scorecard.</p><p> </p><p>Inflation has more than halved, but it remains a challenge. The OBR forecasts inflation to return to the 2% target in the first half of 2025 and helping the Bank of England in its fight to do so remains a key focus.</p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami question first answered 17/01/2024 11:27:25 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1679741

registered interest
date	05/01/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Inflation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to his Oral Statement of 22 November 2023 on the Autumn Statement, column 325, what assessment his Department has made of how much each of the steps he is taking has contributed to the reduction in inflation.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	8220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is responsible for producing forecasts for the UK economy, including making assessments of the impacts that Government policies have on inflation.</p><p>The full EFO can be seen here: <a href="https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-november-2023/" target="_blank"><strong>Economic and fiscal outlook – November 2023 - Office for Budget Responsibility (obr.uk)</strong></a></p> answering member constituency Hitchin and Harpenden answering member printed Bim Afolami question first answered 11/01/2024 11:46:17 answering member 4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1673518

registered interest
date	28/11/2023
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	Intensive Care: 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, pursuant to the Answers of 20 November to Questions 2738 and 2739 on Intensive Care: Hospital Beds and Hospital Beds respectively, if she will make a comparative estimate of the number of NHS acute hospital beds (a) available and (b) required in winter 2023-24; how many and what proportion of the 5,000 additional beds that were promised have been deployed; and what her planned timeframe is for the deployment of the remainder of the 5,000 beds in each constituency.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	4287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2023 answer text <p>Published data from NHS England shows that there were 99,067 total general and acute (G&amp;A) beds available in October 2023, including 96,781 core beds and 2,285 escalation beds.</p><p>Our Delivery Plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services set the ambition to increase the core G&amp;A bed base by 5,000 permanent staffed beds in 2023/24 compared to planned levels for 2022/23. This would increase the number of core beds to 99,500. As of October, the National Health Service has delivered 2,281 additional core beds. NHS England continues to work with local systems and trusts to deliver this ambition this winter.</p><p>G&amp;A bed numbers are expected to peak in January 2024 in response to expected demand. A breakdown of these additional beds by constituency is not available centrally.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 04/12/2023 15:48:52 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1671772

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will publish statistics on the number of words spoken in Cabinet meetings in the last 12 months broken down by individual.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	2972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet, and its Committees, is not normally shared publicly.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 27/11/2023 17:58:42 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1671604

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
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	Intensive Care: 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 recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of hospital beds for acute treatment.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	2738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>Our Delivery Plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services set the ambition to increase the core general and acute bed base, above originally planned 2022/23 levels, by 5,000 sustainable, permanent beds in 2023/24. This takes the funded core bed base to over 99,000. NHS England in continuing to work with local systems and trusts to deliver this ambition.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 2739 question first answered 27/11/2023 14:19:40 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 3003 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts

1671605

registered interest
date	20/11/2023
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	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, with reference to the NHS England publication of 20 January 2023 entitled Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services, what his planned timetable is for delivering 5,000 additional permanent beds; and what steps the Government is taking to progress delivery of those additional beds.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr Rob Roberts
uin	2739
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2023 answer text <p>Our Delivery Plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services set the ambition to increase the core general and acute bed base, above originally planned 2022/23 levels, by 5,000 sustainable, permanent beds in 2023/24. This takes the funded core bed base to over 99,000. NHS England in continuing to work with local systems and trusts to deliver this ambition.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 2738 question first answered 27/11/2023 14:19:40 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 3004 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044
tabling member	4810 label Biography information for Mr Rob Roberts