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1623606

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
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	Russia: Sanctions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of UK sanctions against Russia.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2023 answer text <p>Sanctions are proving effective. They have sent Russia into recession, significantly degrading the building blocks for Russia's long-term growth and Putin's ability to fund his war machine. Russia's budget is in deficit and by March it had already spent 81 per cent of its forecast GDP deficit in 2023. Russia is now cut off from Western financial markets and service sectors, constraining growth and productivity. By sanctioning products found on the battlefield, Russia is forced to source lower quality substitutes elsewhere, where they are often less capable and liable to failure. We continue monitor the effectiveness of all of our sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 04/05/2023 16:29:06 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1623607

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
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	Ukraine: Armed Conflict
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help protect Chernobyl during the war in Ukraine.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>The UK is coordinating with key international partners, including the G7, to support the efforts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Ukrainian authorities to ensure the safety and security of Chernobyl and other civil nuclear facilities in Ukraine. We are supporting the IAEA's ongoing efforts to provide technical assistance to Ukrainian authorities. We will continue to monitor the situation closely.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 03/05/2023 11:43:30 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1623608

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
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	Heart Diseases: Artificial Intelligence
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 estimate of when an artificial intelligence programme for the detection of heart disease will be widely available on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>The Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award has provided £123 million to 86 artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The Award was created to accelerate the testing and evaluation of some of the most promising AI technologies that can support clinicians in stroke diagnosis, cancer screening and managing conditions at home.</p><p> </p><p>Some of these technologies being tested could support clinicians in diagnosing and treating heart disease. For example, iRhythm's Zio uses AI to help diagnose abnormal or irregular heart rhythms more quickly. Results from this trial are expected to be published in September 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Caristo’s CaRi-Heart uses AI to analyse CT scans to detect inflammation in the heart and predict a patient’s risk from a heart attack. This could help clinicians identify more people with cardiovascular disease and provide preventative treatments sooner. Results from this trial are expected to be published before the end of 2023.</p><p> </p><p>Ultromics’ EchGo uses AI to help analyse images of the heart, which could diagnose heart failure and coronary artery disease earlier and faster. Results from this trial are expected to be published early next year.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 09/05/2023 15:02:21 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1623609

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
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	Electronic Cigarettes: Children and Young People
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 he has made of the potential merits of making it illegal for people under the age of 21 to buy cigarettes and vaping devices.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>There is no current plan to increase the age of sale of tobacco to 21 years old. Our assessment is that an increase in the age of sale would be a major departure from the policy pursued over recent decades, which has emphasised personal responsibility and help for people to quit.</p><p>On vaping, there are no current plans to increase the age of sale. However, we have recently launched a call for evidence which will help us to further assess options to reduce youth vaping.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 03/05/2023 11:28:37 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1623610

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
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	Coronavirus and Influenza: Vaccination
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 estimate of the number of people who received a flu vaccine in the last twelve months compared to the number of people over the age of 50 who received a covid-19 booster vaccination in the same period.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2023 answer text <p>Monthly flu vaccine uptake is published and available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake:-figures" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake:-figures</a></p><p>However, all data are provisional until the annual reports for each flu season are published after the end of the season. The 2022/23 reports are due to be published on 22 June 2023, reporting on uptake between 1 September 2022 to 31 March 2023. The final numbers vaccinated will not be in the public domain until this date.</p><p>The COVID-19 2022/23 autumn booster programme ran from 5 September 2022 to 12 February 2023. By the end of week 10 2023, week ending 12 March 2023, 65.7%, 15,098,879 out of 22,970,162 eligible to receive a booster, of all people aged over 50 years old, living and resident in England, had been vaccinated with an autumn booster dose since 1 September 2022.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 28/04/2023 13:44:19 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1623611

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Income
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of recent trends in the level of GDP.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>HM Treasury does not prepare forecasts for the UK economy, including assessments of the impact of the Budget, which are the responsibility of the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).</p><p>The OBR judged that the overall impact of the policy package announced at Spring Budget 2023 is to increase the level of real GDP by around 0.2 per cent in 2027-28. This is the largest upward revision made to potential output as a result of government fiscal policy decisions in any of the OBR’s forecasts since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>Further details can be found in the OBR’s latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published in March 2023: <a href="https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/" target="_blank">https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-march-2023/</a></p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 02/05/2023 10:54:14 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1623612

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
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	Grouse Moors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a comparative assessment of the potential benefits of grouse moor management on the (a) abundance and (b) breeding success of (i) grouse and (ii) hen harriers.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>Shooting sports bring a range of conservation and economic benefits to rural communities and we therefore continue to support shooting as a legitimate activity, which provides jobs and investment in some of our most remote areas.</p><p> </p><p>There is evidence that sustainable control of predators on shooting estates can play a role in the recovery of rare or declining species, particularly ground nesting birds, such as lapwing and curlew.</p><p> </p><p>We take the decline in the hen harrier population in England seriously and we are committed to securing the future of this bird. That is why we took the lead on the Hen Harrier Action Plan. The plan sets out what will be done to increase hen harrier numbers in England and aims to restore hen harrier populations alongside the continuation of driven grouse shooting. The 2022 breeding season was the first time in over 100 years that more than 100 hen harrier chicks successfully fledged in England, showing real progress in efforts to protect and restore their numbers.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise that it is vital that wildlife and habitats are respected and protected, and we will continue to work to ensure a sustainable, mutually beneficial relationship between shooting and conservation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 02/05/2023 15:31:51 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1623613

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Prisoners: Travellers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of the recommendations of the report by the Traveller Movement entitled Disrupting the school to prison pipeline, published in July 2022.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2023 answer text <p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.</p><p>The Department recognises the issues faced by Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller pupils and how education can make a positive difference. The Department is responding to the seven recommendations in the report.</p><p>The report recommended that the Department must ensure a race equality and diversity policy is made a statutory element of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) for all schools. Already the PSED requires public bodies, including maintained schools and academies, to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and other conduct prohibited by the Equality Act 2010.</p><p>Schools have specific legal duties to publish information to demonstrate how they are complying with the PSED, and to prepare and publish equality objectives. Schools are also required to publish information relating to those who share a relevant protected characteristic and who are affected by their policies and practices. The Department has published guidance for schools on how to ensure they comply with their duties under the Equality Act.</p><p>The report recommended that all schools must have the ability and resources to provide assessment of Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans, when requested by a parent or guardian, including annual reviews. It also recommended Local Authorities should consider providing base level EHC plans funding to all schools.</p><p>On 2 March 2023, the Department published the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan in response to the Green Paper. The Improvement Plan outlines the approach for the successful implementation of these policy reforms, including proposals for EHC plan reform. The Department will develop reformed templates and guidance to deliver a nationally consistent EHC plan process which makes greater use of digital technology, with the aim to increase consistency and the speed with which support is put in place.</p><p>The report also recommended that the Department should require all school and academy trusts to establish an On-Site Inclusion Unit (OSIU). In July 2022, the Department published updated guidance on behaviour in schools and suspension and permanent exclusion statutory guidance. The behaviour guidance makes clear some schools can choose to have pupil support units (sometimes called ‘in school units’) which should be used to provide planned pastoral support for vulnerable pupils and as a last resort measure to support pupils at risk of exclusion.</p><p>Additionally, the report recommended that expert head teacher panels should be established to provide final assessments for proposed permanent exclusions and the department should develop standardised guidance for use of in school exclusionary practices and reporting guidelines for monitoring their use.</p><p>The updated exclusion guidance is clear that, in all cases, schools should consider initial intervention to address underlying causes of disruptive behaviour which may minimise the need for permanent exclusion. Whilst a permanent exclusion may still be an appropriate sanction, schools should take account of any contributing factors.</p><p>The statutory process to review school exclusions is clear that governing boards have a role to review the decision of the head teacher to permanently exclude and if the governing board decides to uphold the permanent exclusion, the parents have the right to an Independent Review Panel.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 04/05/2023 14:41:40 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1623614

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
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	Social Security Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing specific financial support for parent who was the full time carer of a child with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition for whom they were in receipt of benefits and on Universal Credit, following that child’s death.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to introduce a Bereavement Support Payment for parents who were full-time carers of a child with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition.</p><p> </p><p>Payment of Universal Credit will continue, unreduced, as a bereavement run-on for the current assessment period and the two assessment periods following the bereavement.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 09/05/2023 16:02:00 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1623615

registered interest
date	25/04/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Mortgages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of rises in the cost of living on the affordability of mortgage payments.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	182564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>Mortgage arrears levels remain at historically low levels.</p><p> </p><p>Where mortgage holders do fall into financial difficulty, Financial Conduct Authority guidance requires firms to offer tailored support. This could include a range of measures depending on individual circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also taken a number of measures aimed at helping people to avoid repossession, including Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) loans for those in receipt of an income-related benefit, and protection in the courts through the Pre-Action Protocol, which makes it clear that repossession must always be the last resort for lenders.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the Government has taken decisive action to support households across the UK through the cost-of-living challenges, whilst remaining fiscally responsible. Overall, the Government is providing support worth over £94 billion over 2022-23 and 2023-24 to help households and individuals with the rising cost of living – an average of over £3,300 per UK household. The Government is also maintaining the Energy Price Guarantee at £2,500 for an additional three months from April, saving households an additional £160, bringing total Government support for energy bills to £1,500 for a typical household since October 2022.</p> answering member constituency Arundel and South Downs answering member printed Andrew Griffith question first answered 02/05/2023 10:49:16 answering member 4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon