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1566231

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
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	Water Companies: Regulation
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 assessment she has made of effectiveness of the regulation of water companies.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	902963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government and regulators continue to work together to hold water companies to account and we plan to strengthen regulations further, including consulting on making it easier for the Environment Agency to issue fines.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2015, the Environment Agency has brought 56 prosecutions against water companies, securing fines of almost £141 million.</p><p> </p><p>In November Defra and HM Treasury announced that future fines handed out to water companies will be channelled into work to improve water quality.</p><p> </p><p>The Government believes in effective economic and environmental regulation of water companies. Privatisation has unlocked around £170 billion of investment to improve water services and the environment.</p><p> </p><p>But where companies fail to meet their obligations, regulators have not hesitated to take action, including criminal prosecutions.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 12/01/2023 15:12:46 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1566232

registered interest
date	12/01/2023
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	Agriculture: Subsidies
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 estimate she has made of the number of payments made to farmers by the Rural Payments Agency.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	902965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>By 31 December, the Rural Payments Agency had made over 107,000 payments worth more than £1.6 billion across the Basic Payments, Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship schemes. This means that 97.9% of farmers had received at least one payment during the first month of the opening of the payment window.</p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 12/01/2023 15:10:44 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1565007

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Prime Minister: Sign Language
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to make the Prime Minister's (a) press conferences and (b) speeches outside Parliament accessible to British Sign Language users.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	119003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-10-10/59318" target="_blank">PQ 59318</a>.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring government communications are available in an accessible format. British Sign Language interpretation is provided for the vast majority of No.10 press conferences through the BBC. In addition, speeches by the Prime Minister outside of Parliament are published on GOV.UK.</p><p>Training is provided to members of the Government Communication Service on accessible communications, including digital comms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 12/01/2023 16:41:37 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1565373

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Property Management Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of his Department's policies on protecting residents from unscrupulous management companies; and whether he plans to take further steps to protect residents.
tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
tabling member printed	Brandon Lewis
uin	119928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>I refer my Rt. Hon. Friend to the answer I gave to Question UIN <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fquestions-statements.parliament.uk%2Fwritten-questions%2Fdetail%2F2022-12-20%2F114795&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cfabe072d72184d754dd108daf94b1912%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638096398176953009%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=D7rD9cTg04pL%2FO%2BW1R1eSNAOChgCHIPbOqM3rk2u0qk%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">114795</a> on 13 January 2023.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 18/01/2023 16:38:57 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis

1565374

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
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	Land Registry: Applications
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 the average wait time is for an application to change the land registry to be fully processed as of 10 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
tabling member printed	Brandon Lewis
uin	119929
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>HM Land Registry’s latest processing times are published on GOV.UK <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-processing-times" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Over 90% of information requests are delivered instantly via digital services, with the remainder within three days. The average waiting time for all other applications was two weeks in December, although more complex applications can take longer.</p><p> </p><p>Customers can request fast-tracking at no extra cost if an application becomes urgent. HMLR processes over 1000 of these every day, with 95% completed within 10 working days.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 18/01/2023 14:11:11 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis

1565375

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average payment time is for each Governmental department for invoices submitted by SMEs as of 10 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Great Yarmouth
tabling member printed	Brandon Lewis
uin	119930
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government does not currently require departments to publish the average time taken to pay invoices to SMEs. However, departments do publish information on the overall percentage of invoices paid within 5 to 30 days. As of the end of the last financial year, 13 out of 16 departments were paying over 85% of all invoices within 5 days, and 14 of 16 departments were paying in excess of 95% of their invoices within 30 days.</p><p>The Procurement Bill currently progressing through the Commons contains a Clause (68) that will require all contracting authorities to publish specified information relating to invoice payments. It is intended that the average time taken to pay an invoice will be one of those specified pieces of information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 18/01/2023 17:13:46 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis

1565381

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
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	Autism and Learning Disability
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 he is taking to tackle closed cultures in inpatient settings for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	119933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2023 answer text <p>Health and care providers have a responsibility to prevent and detect closed cultures and their systems for setting and monitoring culture and encouraging staff to speak up.</p><p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has developed ‘Right support, right care, right culture’ guidance for services for people with a learning disability and autistic people which outlines the importance of ensuring a service’s model of care, policies and procedures are in line with the current best practice.</p><p>The CQC has increased its scrutiny and oversight of providers of support for people with a learning disability and autistic people. The CQC uses both the guidance and observation when regulating registered services, including the monitoring, assessing and inspecting of such services. As a result, the CQC has identified more closed cultures and has taken enforcement action to protect people.</p><p>NHS England has also established a three year quality improvement programme which seeks to tackle the root causes of unsafe, poor-quality inpatient care in mental health, learning disability and autism settings.</p><p>We are considering what else may also be needed to address quality wider issues for mental health inpatient care.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 13/01/2023 16:50:34 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1565383

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
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	Health Services: Mental Illness
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 his Department is taking to ensure that patients with severe mental illness have adequate access to physical health checks.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	119992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan commits to 390,000 people with a severe mental illness receiving a full annual physical health check each year by 2023/24. As of quarter 2 of 2022/23, 239,372 people with severe mental illness received the complete list of physical health checks in the preceding 12 months, with more receiving at least one element of the physical health check.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2021/22, NHS England’s Quality and Outcomes Framework has incentivised general practices for delivering all six elements of these physical health checks. As part of the £500 million funding from the Mental Health Recovery Action plan 2021/22, we have also provided £14 million to support the physical health of people living with severe mental illness, such as with physical health checks, or getting their COVID-19 vaccine.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 16/01/2023 17:25:53 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1565386

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
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	HIV Infection: Clinics
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 take steps to ensure that contracts awarded to HIV clinics require those clinics to conduct annual audits of (a) the number of people in the local area requiring HIV care and (b) the capacity of those clinics to provide that care.
tabling member constituency	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
tabling member printed	David Mundell
uin	119937
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>Contracts awarded to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) clinics are the responsibility of NHSE specialist commissioning groups and local authority commissioners who assess the need in their local populations and set the requirements of the contracts. Data on HIV treatment and care are collected from HIV services by the United Kingdom Health Security Agency and reported back centrally to assist commissioners and service providers in monitoring performance.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 16/01/2023 17:08:41 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	1512 label Biography information for David Mundell

1565388

registered interest
date	10/01/2023
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	Water Supply and Sewerage Services (Customer Service Standards) Regulations 2008
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she plans to (a) carry out a review of and (b) publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review of Part 3 of the Water Supply and Sewerage Services (Customer Service Standards) Regulations 2008 under Regulation 17P, as inserted by the Water Supply and Sewerage Services (Customer Service Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	120121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2023 answer text <p>We recognise that the post implementation review (PIR) of The Water Supply and Sewerage Services (Customer Service Standards) Regulations 2008, as amended, is outstanding. We intend to complete our Post Implementation Review by the end of 2024.</p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 24/01/2023 16:34:26 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild