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1148768

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Business: Crawley
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps her Department has taken to support businesses in Crawley.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to making the UK the best place to start and grow a business, ensuring all businesses have access to the advice and support they need<del class="ministerial"> to succeed to start, grow, and scale up their businesses</del>.</p><p> </p><p>All businesses can access core services, information and guidance on starting up and running a business, as well as their statutory rights and obligations, on our GOV.UK sites and <a href="http://www.gov.uk/browse/business" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/browse/business</a>. The Business Finance and Support Finder tool on the website provides information on how to access a wide range of Government-backed financial support for start-up businesses, such as funding and grant schemes. The Government backed British Business Bank (BBB), as of July 2019, has provided funding of £6.6bn to over 89,000 businesses. In addition, since 2012, the Start-Up Loans Company (now part of BBB) has delivered over 67,000 loans worth over £534m. In Crawley they have issued 99 loans since 2012, worth over £680,000.</p><p> </p><p>This Government continues to work with Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) to drive forward local growth. Through three rounds of competitive Growth Deals, Government has invested over £9 billion of funding, including £304.3 million to Coast to Capital LEP, which covers Crawley, to empower local areas to reach their potential, boosting national productivity and growth.</p><p> </p><p>We have also supported and invested in the creation of a network of 38 Growth Hubs. Businesses in the Crawley constituency can access business advice through the Coast to Capital Growth Hub. Led and governed by the Coast to Capital LEP, the Growth Hub provides a free, impartial, ‘single point of contact’ to help businesses in the area identify and access the right support for them at the right time no matter their size or sector. This support includes helping businesses prepare for Brexit. In 2018-19 the Coast to Capital Growth Hub supported over 1,503 businesses and helped more than 313 individuals start a business.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 21/10/2019 16:11:37 question first ministerially corrected 22/10/2019 15:30:10 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 620 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1365659

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2021
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Education: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the £1.8 billion in education recovery funding, announced at the Spending Review on 27 October 2021, will be used to fund catch-up health and care services for (a) disabled and (b) other young people.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	68208
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>Health services are accessed through the NHS and not funded by the Department for Education. Local authorities are responsible for providing respite care and short breaks for disabled children, these services are funded through the main local government settlement.</p><p>Helping children and young people to catch up on education missed due to the COVID-19 outbreak remains a top priority of this government. Our £1.8 billion investment announced as part of the Spending Review is targeted at those who most need help catching up. It includes over £800 million to provide a universal uplift with an additional 40 hours of education for students aged 16-19 who have the least time left to recover; and an additional £1 billion of catch up funding directly to schools so they can best decide how to support education recovery for the pupils that need it, focused on evidence-based approaches.</p><p>The department has consistently prioritised children with SEND in our recovery programmes, for example by providing additional uplifts for those who attend specialist education providers (including SEND units in mainstream schools) in both the catch-up premium in the 2020/21 academic year and the recovery premium for the 2021/22 academic year, and providing additional funding to special and alternative provision schools to provide one to one tutoring for their pupils, with greater flexibility to schools to make it easier for them to take on local tutors or use existing staff to supplement those employed through the existing National Tutoring Programme. The 16-19 tuition fund continues to support students with SEND as at present through small group tuition.</p><p>The department is providing over £42 million in the 2021-22 financial year to continue funding projects to support children with SEND. This investment will ensure that specialist organisations around the country can continue to help strengthen local area performance, support families and provide practical support to schools and colleges. It will strengthen participation of parents and young people in the SEND system, ensuring they have a voice in designing policies and services and have access to high quality information and support.</p><p>Alongside recovery funding, the department is investing £2.6 billion between the financial years 2022 and 2025 to deliver new places and improve existing provision for pupils with SEND or who require alternative provision. This funding represents a significant, transformational investment in new high needs provision and will help deliver tens of thousands of new places.</p><p>More widely, the department has continued to provide local authorities with their full high needs revenue funding allocations throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, including more than £1.5 billion of high needs funding over financial years 2020-21 and 2021-22, bringing the total high needs funding allocated this year to more than £8 billion. The department announced in summer 2021 that high needs funding will increase by a further £780 million, or 9.6%, in the next financial year, compared to this year. Through the Spending Review the department secured for schools and children and young people with high needs an increase of £4.7 billion by financial year 2024-25, compared to our original 2022-23 plans. This includes £1.6 billion in additional funding for 2022-23 budgets, on top of the year-on-year increase of £2.4 billion already confirmed at the 2019 Spending Review, and which is intended to help the sector respond to the pressures the department knows they are seeing: in overall costs, in national insurance, on high needs, in managing COVID-19 and in supporting children and young people to recover from the COVID-19 outbreak. The department will confirm in due course how this funding will be allocated in 2022-23 for schools and high needs.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 09/11/2021 16:30:59 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1439845

	registered interest
	date	10/03/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Defibrillators
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to require every school to have a defibrillator.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	138019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2022 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Crawley, to the answer I gave on 2 December 2021 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-11-22/79483" target="_blank">79483</a><strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/03/2022 13:09:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1458742

	registered interest
	date	20/04/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how (a) local authorities and (b) other commissioners and service provides will be held to account if they fail to meet their legal duties in respect of support to children with SEND and their families.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	156423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>It firmly remains a priority for my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, that local authorities and other providers fulfil their statutory duties in providing the right support at the right time for children and young people with SEND and their families. The Secretary of State is committed to holding them to account where these statutory obligations are not met.</p><p>From May 2016, Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) began inspecting local areas (including local authorities and other commissioners and service providers) on their effectiveness in fulfilling their duties for children and young people who have SEND.</p><p>Under the current framework, Area SEND inspections consider how effectively the local area identifies and meets the needs of different groups of children and young people who have special educational needs or a disability, as defined in the Children and Families Act 2014 and set out in the SEND Code of Practice. The inspections also consider how effectively the local area improves the outcomes of these children and young people. They may also provide evidence for local areas to receive appropriate external support and intervention.</p><p>The department has commissioned CQC and Ofsted, with the support of the Department of Health and Social Care, to develop a new area SEND inspection framework to launch after the existing inspection cycle has finished. Taking account of learning from the first cycle, this framework will include a greater focus on the experience of children and young people with SEND and their families and give more prominence to the quality integration and commissioning of education, health, and care services.</p><p>The SEND and AP Green Paper proposes to strengthen accountability measures, including through Ofsted and CQC inspections and strengthened oversight via the department's new Regions Group.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/04/2022 11:24:54 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1462787

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 27 April 2022 to Question 156423 on special educational needs, if his Department will take steps to (a) intervene when service providers do not meet their legal duties to families with disabled children and (b) provide redress in those cases to affected families.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	1500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2022 answer text <p>Children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are a priority and where a local area is deemed to be underperforming, either by way of inspection or concerns raised, the department will not hesitate to intervene in cases of systemic and/or persistent failure. For example, we may issue a formal improvement notice or use powers under Section 497A of the Education Act 1996 to issue a statutory direction directing the council to take any further actions we deem necessary, which may include requiring the responsible local authority to work with a SEND commissioner.</p><p>Where families wish to seek redress or otherwise resolve disagreements about Education, Health and Care needs assessments or plans, they have the option to do so via disagreement resolution, mediation, or by registering an appeal with the first-tier tribunal (SEND). The department is currently consulting on proposals to strengthen this system in the SEND and AP Green Paper.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/05/2022 10:05:07 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1467366

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Visual Impairment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the use of specialist professions for children with sight loss as part of the SEND review.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	11643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>In the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper, the department announced it would establish a single, national SEND and AP system. This will set clear standards for provision, processes and systems, clear roles and responsibilities, and set strengthened accountabilities at every level to drive up outcomes and improve consistency for children and young people with SEND.</p><p>The proposals aim to drive national consistency in how needs are assessed, identified, and met across education, health, and care through the introduction of national standards. These are intended to provide clarity and consistency in the types of support that should be available for children and young people with SEND or those who require AP, including access to specialist professionals.</p><p>The department knows the value that mainstream schools place on high-quality, accessible specialist advice. This includes advice from educational psychologists and qualified teachers of visually impaired children and young people. The SEND and AP Green Paper sets out the department’s vision for an inclusive education system to ensure that all children and young people, including those with sight loss, have timely access to specialist services and support.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 11644 question first answered 16/06/2022 17:12:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1467367

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2022
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he plans to include a right to access specialist professionals, such as habilitation workers, in the planned SEND national standards.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	11644
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>In the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision (AP) Green Paper, the department announced it would establish a single, national SEND and AP system. This will set clear standards for provision, processes and systems, clear roles and responsibilities, and set strengthened accountabilities at every level to drive up outcomes and improve consistency for children and young people with SEND.</p><p>The proposals aim to drive national consistency in how needs are assessed, identified, and met across education, health, and care through the introduction of national standards. These are intended to provide clarity and consistency in the types of support that should be available for children and young people with SEND or those who require AP, including access to specialist professionals.</p><p>The department knows the value that mainstream schools place on high-quality, accessible specialist advice. This includes advice from educational psychologists and qualified teachers of visually impaired children and young people. The SEND and AP Green Paper sets out the department’s vision for an inclusive education system to ensure that all children and young people, including those with sight loss, have timely access to specialist services and support.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 11643 question first answered 16/06/2022 17:12:29 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1524205

	registered interest
	date	19/10/2022
	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	Cancer: Radiotherapy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the 10-Year Cancer Plan includes specific strategies to improve access to radiotherapy cancer treatments.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	66942
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2022 answer text <p>Following a call for evidence for a new cancer plan held earlier this year, we received approximately 5,000 responses. Further information will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 27/10/2022 16:31:50 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1539224

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2022
	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	Heart Diseases: Screening
	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 answer of 18th July 2022 to Question 26734 on Heart Diseases: Screening, whether he is taking steps to reduce waiting times for echocardiography.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	78675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2022 answer text <p>The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ sets out how the National Health Service will recover and expand elective services over the next three years, including in echocardiography. To increase diagnostic activity and reduce patient waiting times, the Department has committed £2.3 billion for up to 160 community diagnostic centres (CDCs). As of 23 October 2022, CDCs have now completed 54,759 additional echocardiography checks since 13 July 2021.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 10/11/2022 12:42:45 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1586244

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2023
	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	Medical Equipment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will make an assessment of the impact of the removal of healthcare products and devices from the market due to price increase applications being rejected by NHS Supply Chains on the users of those products.
	tabling member constituency	Crawley
	tabling member printed	Henry Smith
	uin	146880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>NHS Supply Chain (NHSSC) has robust measures in place to monitor supply chains and works closely with markets to ensure continuity of supply, so that the National Health Service has the medical devices and clinical consumables it needs to deliver care. Given the economic environment and global inflationary pressures, NHS Supply Chain recognises the challenges that suppliers are facing and is committed to working with them within the bounds of contractual agreements, to secure value for money for taxpayers and maintain availability.</p><p> </p><p>An established process exists for all price increase requests. These are evaluated by NHSSC on a case-by-case basis in line with the terms and conditions of awarded framework agreements. In order for an increase to be accepted, it needs to be justified and evidenced, and suppliers are expected to play their part in mitigating their cost pressures.</p><p> </p><p>With specific reference to energy costs, the Government remains committed to supporting businesses via the Energy Bill Relief Scheme which provides a discount on the wholesale element of gas and electricity bills to ensure that eligible non-domestic customers are protected from excessively high energy costs over the winter period. Following an HM Treasury led review, the new Energy Bill Discount Scheme will run from April until March 2024 and continue to provide a discount to eligible non-domestic customers.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 146881 146882 question first answered 27/02/2023 13:56:33 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith