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1216965

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2020
	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	Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent assessment she has made of the removal of the spare room subsidy on levels of household income.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	63458
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2020 answer text <p>There has been no such assessment.</p><p> </p><p>The policy allows for the provision of an additional bedroom in certain circumstances, such as to support the needs of disabled people as well as exempting households in receipt of pension age Housing Benefit.</p><p> </p><p>If a claimant’s ability to mitigate any shortfall between their housing support and rent has changed Discretionary Housing Payments can be considered by their local authority. We announced last year an additional £40 million for Discretionary Housing Payments for 2020/21 in England and Wales</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 29/06/2020 16:16:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1316984

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2021
	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	Poverty: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate she has made of the level of child poverty in (a) Wales and (b) Ceredigion.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	5250
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2021 answer text <p>This Government is wholly committed to tackling poverty. Throughout the pandemic, our priority has been to support the most vulnerable including through spending an additional £7.4billion to strengthen the welfare system, taking our total expenditure on welfare support for people of working age to an estimated £112 billion in 2020/21. Additionally, in December 2020 we introduced our Covid Winter Grant Scheme, providing funding to Local Authorities in England to enable them to support people with food and essential utility bills during the coldest months. It will now run until June as the Covid Local Support Grant, with a total investment of £269m.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>National Statistics on the number and percentage of children in low income are published annually in the “Households Below Average Income” publication. Data for Ceredigion is unavailable due to insufficient sample size.</p><p> </p><p>Latest statistics for the levels of children who are in low income in Wales, covering 2019/20, can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/households-below-average-income-for-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2020</a>,“children-hbai-timeseries-1994-95-2019-20-tables” in table 4.16ts (relative low income, before and after housing costs) and in table 4.22ts (absolute low income, before and after housing costs).</p><p> </p><p>In the three years to 2019/20 the absolute levels of child poverty, before housing costs, for Wales, was 16%, down 8 percentage points since the three years to 2009/10</p><p> </p><p>The Department now publishes supplementary official statistics on the number of children in low income families at constituency level. Children in Low Income Families data is published annually.</p><p>In 2019/20 the absolute levels of child poverty, before housing costs, in Ceredigion was 16%. The latest figures on the number of children who are in low income in Ceredigion and in Wales covering 2019/20, can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-2014-to-2020/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-fye-2015-to-fye-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-2014-to-2020/children-in-low-income-families-local-area-statistics-fye-2015-to-fye-2020</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Due to methodological differences, the figures in these two publications are not comparable.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/05/2021 13:57:40 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1316985

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2021
	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	Poverty: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effect of the £20 uplift in universal credit on levels of child poverty in (a) Wales and (b) Ceredigion.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	5251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/05/2021 answer text <p>No assessment has been made.</p><p> </p><p>This Government is wholly committed to supporting those on low incomes, including by increasing the living wage, and by spending an estimated £112 billion on welfare support for people of working age in 2020/21. This included around £7.4 billion of Covid-related welfare policy measures.</p><p> </p><p>We introduced our Covid Winter Grant Scheme providing funding to Local Authorities in England to help the most vulnerable children and families stay warm and well fed during the coldest months. It will now until June as the Covid Local Support Grant, with a total investment of £269m.</p><p> </p><p>As the economy recovers, our ambition is to help people move into and progress in work as quickly as possible based on clear evidence around the importance of employment, particularly where it is full-time, in substantially reducing the risks of poverty. We are investing over £30 billion in our ambitious Plan for Jobs which is already delivering for people of all ages right across the country.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 4737 5195 6168 6212 question first answered 27/05/2021 13:17:58 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1488785

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Home Education: Registration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to provisions in the Schools Bill, what steps he has taken to ensure that sufficient safeguards are in place around the (a) use and (b) protection of the data collected as part of the proposed requirements to create a register of home schooled children; what assessment he has made of the compatibility of those provisions with GDPR; and to whom that register will be accessible.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	36071
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2022 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p> </p><p>The proposed ‘children not in school’ registers are intended to help with the identification of children being educated otherwise than at school, so that local authorities can undertake their existing responsibilities, to ensure all children are receiving a suitable education.</p><p> </p><p>All local authorities will be required to process personal data they collect and store on their register in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018. This legislation requires each local authority, as a data controller, only to collect and store the minimum personal data necessary and to protect and restrict access to the personal data by implementing appropriate technical and organisational measures.</p><p> </p><p>Policy changes which require personal data processing, such as the ‘children not in school’ registers, are subject to scrutiny by the data protection officer (DPO) and their team, as part of the Data Protection Impact Assessment. The DPO will discuss requirement with the Information Commissioner’s Officer as part of their duties under the ‘prior notification’ obligations in Article 36 of the UK GDPR. This will ensure there are safeguards in place to protect the data on local authority registers.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 25/07/2022 15:21:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1521354

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2022
	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	Health and Care Professions Council
	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 her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed 20 per cent fee increase for registrants to the Health and Care Professional Council.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	62037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2022 answer text <p>The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is independent from Government and is responsible for setting its registration fees policy. Any changes to its fees are included in rules which must be laid before Parliament.</p><p>On 22 September 2022, the HCPC opened a consultation on a proposal to increase the fees it charges registrants and applicants. The HCPC published an online equality impact assessment alongside its consultation, which is due to close on 15 December 2022.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 04/11/2022 13:18:15 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1564777

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2023
	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	Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's budget was derived from the public purse in each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	119065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The information requested is not collected centrally. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is an executive agency of the Department. The MHRA is primarily funded by income from fees for sales of products and regulatory services. The MHRA’s fees are set to cover full costs incurred by the Agency, in accordance with HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money guidelines. An approximate breakdown of the agency’s funding is 50% fees for services, 25% industry periodic fees and 25% Department funding.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the Department’s funding over the previous five financial years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£29,957,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£43,336,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£43,450,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£34,559,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>£28,800,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>A more in-depth breakdown of the MHRA’s income and expenditure is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency-annual-report-and-accounts-2021-to-2022</a></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/01/2023 16:32:48 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1564778

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2023
	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	Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of funding the cost of medicines regulation undertaken by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	119066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">No assessment has been made.</del> The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is a largely fee charging regulator with approximately three quarters of its income derived from fees levied on applicants. This is a standard form of cost recovery for regulators worldwide. The MHRA has recently concluded a public consultation on its statutory fees to ensure all costs involved in delivery are recovered, which concluded on 23 November 2022.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 16/01/2023 15:48:08 question first ministerially corrected 16/01/2023 18:02:12 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince previous answer version 47021 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1585240

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2023
	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	Plastics: Health Hazards
	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 potential merits of establishing a fund for research into the potential impact of plastic on human health.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	142898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>No further assessment has been made. The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR funds research for the protection of public health from environmental hazards and to understand the complex role of the environment on disease development.</p><p>The NIHR is funding research on microplastic toxicity in humans through the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Exposures and Health, which is a partnership between Imperial College London and the UK Health Security Agency. This work will be reported in peer reviewed academic journals in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/02/2023 10:33:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1600469

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2023
	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	Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
	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 discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on the potential merits of expanding reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the EU to include elective treatment.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	156227
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>As a result of the EU-UK Trade Cooperation Agreement, the United Kingdom benefits from a comprehensive reciprocal healthcare agreement with the European Union.</p><p>The arrangements includes the “S2” planned treatment funding route which entitles UK residents to National Health Service funding for planned state healthcare treatment in an EU country if certain criteria, set out in the Agreement, are met. This covers elective treatment.</p><p>Treatment must normally be provided on the NHS, be available on the treating country’s state healthcare scheme, and the same treatment cannot be provided to the patient on the NHS within a time period that is medically justifiable.</p><p>There are currently no plans to further expand reciprocal healthcare arrangements with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 06/03/2023 17:59:57 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

1623259

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2023
	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	Pethidine
	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 his Department has made of the adequacy of pethidine supplies in April 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
	tabling member printed	Ben Lake
	uin	182397
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>We are aware of supply issues with pethidine 50 milligram tablets until October 2023. However, alternative oral opioid analgesics remain available and clinicians who wish to continue to prescribe pethidine 50 milligram tablets can access these from specialist importers. Advice has been communicated to National Health Service healthcare professionals via the Specialist Pharmacy Service website. Pethidine injection remains available also.</p><p>While health is a devolved matter, we work closely with devolved Governments, suppliers, NHS England, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and other stakeholders to ensure patients continue to have access to the medicines they need.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 182398 question first answered 27/04/2023 09:09:21 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake