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1723855

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date	26/07/2024
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	Naloxone
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 roll out training on the use of naloxone.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	1945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2024 answer text <p>The Department is working to expand access to naloxone, to increase the availability of this life saving medicine. On 29 July 2024 we laid legislation which, subject to passage through Parliament, will enable more services and organisations to provide take-home supplies of naloxone without a prescription.</p><p>As part of these changes, we will ensure appropriate training requirements are in place, so that naloxone supply across all services and professions is safe. We will require that new services and professionals supplying naloxone, other than armed forces personnel, meet specific training requirements, including understanding appropriate practice around storing and supplying naloxone, and ensuring they can properly support an individual being supplied with naloxone, including how to administer the medicine.</p><p>Training in responding to an opioid overdose, including the use of available naloxone, is already very well established in most parts of the country, alongside naloxone provision. Operational guidance for providing take-home naloxone, including safe use and supply, is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/implementing-the-recommendations-of-the-neonatal-critical-care-transformation-review/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/implementing-the-recommendations-of-the-neonatal-critical-care-transformation-review/</a></p><p>Information on the new training requirements will be updated after the legislation comes into force.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 01/08/2024 09:56:29 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1669845

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
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	Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh: Humanitarian Situation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment his Department has made of the level of humanitarian need in (a) Nagorno-Karabakh and (b) Armenia since September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Norwich South
tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
uin	1945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The UK remains concerned for the welfare of those in Nagorno-Karabakh affected by limited access to supplies following September's military action in the region. We welcome Azerbaijan's decision to grant UN access into Nagorno-Karabakh and encourage them to continue supporting international efforts to address humanitarian need. We also welcome Armenian and international assistance provided to the 100,000 or more people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh into Armenia. The UK is providing £1 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to provide life-saving medication, healthcare and other essential support. We are liaising with the UN, ICRC and others to further assess humanitarian need in the region.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 20/11/2023 15:27:12 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

1178359

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
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	Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department plans to introduce a work allowance for all universal credit claimants who do not meet the existing criteria; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Neil Gray
uin	1945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Universal Credit is a modern, flexible, personalised benefit reflecting the rapidly changing world of work and replaces six outdated and complex benefits with one. It is simplifying the benefits system and making work pay. Monthly assessment periods align to the way the majority of people are paid and also allows Universal Credit to be adjusted each month. This means that if a claimant’s income falls, they will not have to wait several months for a rise in their Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has made significant investment to improve work incentives including: the reduction in the Universal Credit taper rate from 65% to 63% in 2017, and an extra £1.7 billion a year put into work allowances for working parents and disabled claimants to increase them by £1,000 a year from April 2019. This is providing a boost to the incomes of the lowest paid and result in 2.4 million families keeping an extra £630 per year of what they earn.</p><p> </p><p>We are committed to helping the most vulnerable to improve their life chances by tackling the root causes of poverty, and ensuring that children have the best possible start in life continue to reform the welfare system so that it promotes work as the most effective route out of poverty and is fairer towards those who receive it and the taxpayers who pay for it. We also want to identify opportunities to create a highly productive workforce, improving progression prospects for the lowest paid people so everyone has the right skills to meet the UK’s future demand.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 24/02/2020 18:08:40 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4365 label Biography information for Neil Gray

1150725

registered interest
date	18/10/2019
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Bangladesh: Missing Persons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Bangladeshi counterpart on enforced disappearances of opposition party members in that country.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	1945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2019 answer text <p>We continue to stress to the Government of Bangladesh the importance of respect for human rights and the rule of law. Bangladesh remains a Human Rights Priority Country for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and we regularly raise our human rights concerns including enforced disappearances with the Government of Bangladesh. The then Foreign Secretary raised these concerns with Prime Minster Hasina in September 2018. We urge the Government of Bangladesh to engage constructively with opposition parties, civil society and the media to support a stable, democratic and prosperous Bangladesh.</p><p>​</p> answering member constituency South Derbyshire answering member printed Mrs Heather Wheeler question first answered 28/10/2019 13:33:15 answering member 4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

746710

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provisions will be made to compensate county and unitary councils who suffer a financial loss as a result of Fire and Rescue Services being transferred to Police and Crime Commissioners; and how much has been made available for that compensation.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	1945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>The Policing and Crime Act 2017 enables PCCs to take on responsibility for local fire and rescue services where a local case is made.</p><p>It is for individual PCCs to consider whether to bring forward such a proposal. The Secretary of State will only give effect to the proposal where it appears, in her view, to be in the interests of economy, efficiency and effectiveness or public safety to do so.</p><p>It is expected that a PCCs proposal will take account of transition costs, the impact on existing collaborations and where the fire and rescue authority is integrated within a local authority, the impact on wider council functions.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 04/07/2017 15:30:50 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

349769

registered interest
date	10/06/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Self-harm
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department has taken to reduce the incidence of self-harm.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	1945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>Self-harm is a symptom of serious emotional distress which must be acted upon to ensure people get the help they need.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department funds the multicentre study of self-harm, which provides monitoring data on self-harm, and underpins knowledge about self-harm in England. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on the short-term and longer term management of self-harm cite many outputs from the study.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Self-harm can occur at any age but is most common in adolescence and young adulthood. While many acts of self-harm do not come to the attention of healthcare services, where they do, it is generally at a point of crisis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We asked the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to investigate people’s experiences of help, care and support during a mental health crisis. The CQC’s report makes it clear that there is still more to do to make sure everyone is treated compassionately in the right place and at the right time. The CQC highlighted that staff attitudes were not always helpful, particularly where people were repeatedly presenting in crisis with self-harm, and that this has implications for risks of self-harm when people are not seen quickly or compassionately enough to stop crises from escalating.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have increased investment in mental health. Spending on mental health was estimated to increase by £302 million in 2014/15, with total mental health spending rising from £11.362 billion in 2013/14 to £11.664 billion planned in 2014/15, an increase of 0.6% in real terms. We have also introduced the first treatment targets to make sure people get the prompt support they need and mental health is treated on the same terms as physical health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to making children and young people’s mental health a high priority. The Children and Young People's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is being expanded to cover children and young people across England by 2018 and include additional areas of clinical practice. This will involve additional clinical staff being trained in the most effective evidence based treatment for self-harm, depression and anxiety.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 18/06/2015 13:25:44 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson