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1640436

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept id	215
	answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
	hansard heading	Solar Power: Congleton
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that investment in solar energy generation at factory sites in Congleton constituency are incentivised by the policies of the local electricity network operator.
	tabling member constituency	Congleton
	tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
	uin	186834
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with network companies to release network capacity and improve the connection process to reduce connection timescales, including for onsite solar generation. Ofgem has also reduced connection costs for ‘final demand’ users, such as factory sites installing onsite generation capacity below their maximum demand, by deciding that they should no longer be charged for distribution network reinforcement costs.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 05/06/2023 10:52:11 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1640437

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the findings of the report Time Well Spent 2023 published by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations on 2 May 2023, whether she is taking steps to help improve satisfaction levels among volunteers.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	186835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Volunteering is vital for society and the Government recognises this. It benefits volunteers and the organisations involving them and has transformational impacts on beneficiaries and their communities. Government aims to remove barriers to getting people involved.</p><p>Government sees the experience and satisfaction of volunteers as a key part of unlocking the benefits of volunteering. We are supporting the volunteering sector’s Vision for Volunteering initiative, which focuses on improving the volunteer experience, including an investment of £609,000.</p><p>We will consider the full findings of the Time Well Spent survey when the report is published in June 2023 by NCVO.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 05/06/2023 14:05:10 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1640438

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla: Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has taken steps to retain the volunteers engaged in the Big Help Out during the 2023 Coronation.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	186836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Volunteering is vital for society and the Government recognises this. It benefits volunteers and the organisations involving them and has transformational impacts on beneficiaries and their communities. Government aims to remove barriers to getting people involved.</p><p>The Big Help Out was a day of community volunteering to mark the Coronation of King Charles III, held on 8 May 2023, and was led by the Together coalition and the Shaping the Future with Volunteering group ​​to encourage people to help out in their communities.</p><p>The Government provided £450,000 to support the campaign, which saw millions of people volunteering in their community. I have since met with the organisers, who are currently considering proposals to build on the legacy of the Big Help Out campaign.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 186837 question first answered 05/06/2023 14:23:24 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1640439

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla: Voluntary Work
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of turning the Big Help Out initiative on 8 May 2023 into an annual occurrence.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	186837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Volunteering is vital for society and the Government recognises this. It benefits volunteers and the organisations involving them and has transformational impacts on beneficiaries and their communities. Government aims to remove barriers to getting people involved.</p><p>The Big Help Out was a day of community volunteering to mark the Coronation of King Charles III, held on 8 May 2023, and was led by the Together coalition and the Shaping the Future with Volunteering group ​​to encourage people to help out in their communities.</p><p>The Government provided £450,000 to support the campaign, which saw millions of people volunteering in their community. I have since met with the organisers, who are currently considering proposals to build on the legacy of the Big Help Out campaign.</p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew grouped question UIN 186836 question first answered 05/06/2023 14:23:24 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1640440

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	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	Dental Services: Finance
	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 potential impact of an underspend in the primary dentistry budget on the availability of dentistry services.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	186838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>We have assessed the utilisation of underspends in National Health Service dentistry budgets on NHS dentistry services. NHS England has provided guidance for integrated care boards (ICBs) that requires dental funding to be ringfenced, with any unused resources re-directed to improve NHS dental access in the first instance. A schedule setting out the dental ringfence has been issued to ICBs. NHS England’s 2023/24 revenue finance and contracting guidance, which provides more detail, is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/</a></p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 05/06/2023 10:52:51 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1640441

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	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	Dental Services
	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 support dentists to take on new NHS patients.
	tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
	tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
	uin	186839
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>In July 2022, we announced a package of dental system improvements to increase access for National Health Service dental patients and make NHS dentistry more attractive to practices.</p><p>NHS England has negotiated amendments to the NHS dental contract with the British Dental Association and other stakeholders. These improvements, which came into effect in November 2022, include enabling commissioning of up to 110% of contracted Units of Dental Activity to increase NHS care; fairer remuneration for practices providing complex treatment within current Band 2 treatments; and removing barriers around use of staff skills mix in NHS dentistry teams.</p><p>We will announce our plan for further reform of the NHS dental system later this year. It will outline a number of additional actions across a number of areas to support and recover NHS dentistry.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 05/06/2023 10:43:54 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1640442

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make it her policy to develop a strategy to help the steel industry transition to net zero.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	186840
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The 2021 Net Zero Strategy reaffirms our commitment to continue to work with the steel industry on decarbonisation.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to support the sector in its decarbonisation efforts and to consider the implications of the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee; to ‘set targets for ore-based steelmaking to reach near-zero emissions by 2035’.</p><p> </p><p>Decarbonisation pathways will be a commercial decision for individual companies. We are working closely with companies to support them as they make those commercial decisions.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 05/06/2023 11:20:11 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1640444

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	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	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many people were employed by her Department to work on matters relating to equality, diversity and inclusivity in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	186810
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>Defra, alongside the wider Civil Service, is committed to a truly diverse workforce and culture of openness and inclusivity - not as ends in themselves but as means of delivering better outcomes to the citizens we serve.</p><p> </p><p>Defra employs a team of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) experts to realise this commitment, ensuring we employ and retain talented staff, while meeting our statutory obligations and delivering value for the taxpayer.</p><p> </p><p>The proportion has been calculated based on full-time roles as employed at the end of each calendar year, where the individual is formally employed to support delivery of the Defra group and Civil Service EDI strategy: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy-2022-to-2025" target="_blank">Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy: 2022 to 2025 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These roles are employed within Defra. However, they support and enable EDI delivery into the following executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies: Rural Payments Agency, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Natural England and Environment Agency.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>In post</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Additional on payroll</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Roles in post as of 31<sup>st</sup> December 2021</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Roles in post as of 31<sup>st</sup> December 2022</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>1 Maternity Leave</p></td><td><p>2 Career Break</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 05/06/2023 13:31:47 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Mark Spencer
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1640455

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	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	Tenofovir
	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 is taking steps to provide Descovy as a HIV prevention drug.
	tabling member constituency	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
	tabling member printed	David Mundell
	uin	186824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The updated NHS England clinical commissioning policy establishes the use of generic and second line pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for human immunodeficiency virus prevention, including emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide (Descovy®) as a second line treatment option for individuals who meet the inclusion criteria and cannot take the usual first-line PrEP therapy due to risk factors.</p><p>The commissioning policy was published on 22 May 2023 and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/reimbursement-for-the-use-of-generic-drugs-for-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-for-the-prevention-of-hiv/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/reimbursement-for-the-use-of-generic-drugs-for-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-for-the-prevention-of-hiv/</a></p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 05/06/2023 11:01:27 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
	tabling member	1512 label Biography information for David Mundell

1640457

	registered interest
	date	25/05/2023
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of (a) lost revenue and (b) compensation following the broken rail on the East Coast Mainline on Sunday 21 May.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	186843
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The industry performance regime allows that all the costs arising from an individual incident can typically only be calculated some time – which can be weeks – after the incident. The performance payments between train operators and Network Rail (accounting for lost revenue and compensation) are made every four weeks and are aggregated, based on average lateness for the previous four-week period. The way the performance regime works means that Network Rail do not calculate payments for individual incidents.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 05/06/2023 12:00:32 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris