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1672597

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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	Pension Credit: Applications
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the application process for Pension Credit; and if he will take steps to help increase the accuracy of decisions made on Pensions Credit applications.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
	tabling member printed	Anne McLaughlin
	uin	3498
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The Department regularly looks at the effectiveness of its Pension Credit claims processes. A Quality Framework is used to assess the accuracy of Pension Credit decisions and this informs operational learning and continuous improvement. Pension Credit is being modernised and user research is integral to our design for modernising the Pension Credit application processes to ensure the effectiveness and accuracy of Pension Credit application processes.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 28/11/2023 11:36:51 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4437 label Biography information for Anne McLaughlin

1672601

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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	Pensioners: Low Incomes
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Trial encourages low-income pensioners to apply for extra financial support, published on 17 July 2023, what the priority objectives are of the invitation to claim trial.
	tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
	tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
	uin	3444
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>In addition to our ongoing Pension Credit communications campaign, in July we launched a more targeted ‘Invitation to Claim’ trial. Approximately 2,500 pensioner households across ten local authority areas in Great Britain were sent letters encouraging them to contact DWP and make a claim. The areas were chosen to be representative of urban, rural and coastal communities and target households were identified as most likely to be missing out because they were claiming Housing Benefit but not Pension Credit.</p><p> </p><p>The objectives of the trial are to learn whether using data in this way can help accurately identify eligible households; and whether directly contacting households in this way is an effective way of boosting Pension Credit applications.</p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 28/11/2023 11:04:25 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1672643

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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: Weather
	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 her Department is taking to help prepare the NHS for winter 2023-24.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Ashley Dalton
	uin	3561
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>Winter planning for the National Health Service started earlier this year than in previous years. The urgent and emergency care recovery plan was published in January 2023 which included £1 billion of dedicated funding to support capacity. In July 2023, NHS England wrote to integrated care boards, trusts and primary care networks to set out a national approach to 2023/24 winter planning and the key steps to be taken across all parts of the system to meet the challenges expected from winter pressures.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 28/11/2023 09:44:56 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4981 label Biography information for Ashley Dalton

1672649

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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	Energy: Prices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people with Rett Syndrome are able to heat their homes to a safe temperature.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North East
	tabling member printed	Fabian Hamilton
	uin	3418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government is continuing to provide targeted support for vulnerable households as prices come down. In 2023-24 the Government is already providing additional cost of living payments of up to £900 to households on means-tested benefits, £300 to pensioner households, and £150 to those on eligible disability benefits.</p><p> </p><p>This is alongside existing and ongoing energy bills support for the most vulnerable that includes the:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Warm Home Discount providing a £150 rebate on electricity bills for up to three million households in most need this winter;</li><li>Winter Fuel Payment, worth between £250 - £600;</li><li>Cold Weather Payment, a £25 payment for vulnerable households on qualifying benefits, is also available to help with the cost of bills when the weather is or expected to be unusually cold.</li></ul> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 28/11/2023 07:33:15 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	415 label Biography information for Fabian Hamilton

1672659

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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	Energy: Prices
	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 she has made an assessment of the potential merits of providing additional financial support for energy costs to people with a terminal illness.
	tabling member constituency	Belfast South
	tabling member printed	Claire Hanna
	uin	3553
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The Government frequently assesses the merits of energy cost support policies and the impacts various policy ideas would have on the most vulnerable households.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is continuing to provide targeted support for vulnerable households as prices come down. In 2023-24 the Government is already providing additional cost of living payments of up to £900 to households on means-tested benefits, £300 to pensioner households, and £150 to those on eligible disability benefits.</p><p> </p><p>This is alongside existing and ongoing energy bills support for the most vulnerable that includes the:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Warm Home Discount providing a £150 rebate on electricity bills for up to three million households in most need this winter;</li><li>Winter Fuel Payment, worth between £250 - £600;</li><li>Cold Weather Payment, a £25 payment for vulnerable households on qualifying benefits, is also available to help with the cost of bills when the weather is or expected to be unusually cold.</li></ul> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 28/11/2023 07:41:48 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	4827 label Biography information for Claire Hanna

1672660

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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	Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 22 November 2023 to Question 1712 on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Drugs, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of her Department’s processes to (a) manage and (b) mitigate problems in the supply of medicines used for the management of ADHD.
	tabling member constituency	Lewisham East
	tabling member printed	Janet Daby
	uin	3545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>Medicine supply problems can occur for several reasons; for example, they can be due to manufacturing difficulties, regulatory problems, problems with the supply of raw materials, sudden demand spikes or from issues which are related to the distribution of the product.</p><p> </p><p>We have well-established processes for managing and mitigating medicine supply issues, which involve working with the pharmaceutical industry, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, NHS England, the devolved governments and others operating in the supply chain to help ensure patients have access to the treatments they need.</p><p>Disruptions to the supply of medicines used for the management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been primarily driven by issues which have resulted in capacity constraints at key manufacturing sites. The Department has been working closely with the respective manufacturers and some issues have now been resolved. However, we know that there continue to be disruptions to the supply of some other medicines, which are expected to resolve by the end of 2023 or in early 2024.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 28/11/2023 10:10:31 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4698 label Biography information for Janet Daby

1672666

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the average length time (a) children and (b) adults wait for an autism assessment (i) nationally and (ii) in York.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	3500
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The data requested is not held centrally. However, some relevant information can be drawn from the Mental Health Services Data Set.</p><p>Whilst data is not available at a constituency level, it is available at the integrated care system (ICS) level. According to the latest Autism Waiting Time Statistics in June 2023, nationally 6% of adults, whose referrals have been open for at least 13 weeks, received their first contact appointment within 13 weeks. In Humber and North Yorkshire, this was higher at 11%.</p><p>Nationally, in June 2023, for children aged between 0 to 17 years old, 7% had their first appointment within 13 weeks compared to 3% in Humber and North Yorkshire. Data on children and young people in this dataset is expected to be an underestimate. Caution should be used when interpreting these statistics since they are experimental rather than official statistics.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 28/11/2023 12:05:28 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1672667

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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: Diagnosis
	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 she has made of the adequacy of the number of staff available to conduct autism assessments for (a) children and (b) adults (i) nationally and (ii) in York.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	3501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The National Framework for autism assessment services, published by NHS England in April 2023, recognises the need to increase the supply of specialist workforce for autism assessment services.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out the steps the National Health Service and its partners need to take to deliver an NHS workforce; this is backed by over £2.4 billion over the next five years to fund additional education and training places. We aim to increase training places by 26% for both clinical psychology and child and adolescent psychotherapy by 2031, taking the combined number of training places to over 1,300. Training places will be more than 1,000 each year up to 2028/29.</p><p>In addition to education and training for clinical psychologists and child and adolescent psychotherapists, over the next three years, NHS England has committed funding of over £600 million to grow the wider psychological professions workforce through training approximately 15,000 more individuals to undertake psychological therapist and psychological practitioner roles.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 28/11/2023 10:09:53 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1672669

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on (a) changes in the levels of autism assessments in children and (b) the potential impact of those changes on services supporting education, health and care plans.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	3503
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>My Rt. Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has regular discussions on a wide range of matters with Cabinet colleagues. We recognise that in recent years demand for autism assessments for children and young people has increased. The Department of Health and Social Care is working closely with the Department for Education to ensure that children and young people with Special Educational Need and Disability (SEND), including autistic children, receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time. We are doing this through working together to implement the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, which was published 2 March 2023.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 28/11/2023 12:06:19 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1672670

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2023
	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	Special Educational Needs: Neurodiversity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Education on ensuring school environments are suitable to support (a) children with autism and (b) other neurodivergent children.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	3504
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2023 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has regular discussions on a wide range of matters with Cabinet colleagues including the Secretary of State for Education.</p><p>The Department of Health and Social Care is working closely with the Department for Education to ensure that children and young people with Special Educational Need and Disability (SEND), including autistic children, receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time. We are doing this through working together to implement the SEND and Alternative Provision Improvement Plan, which was published on 2 March 2023<strong>.</strong></p><p>In 2023/24, £4.2 million is available to improve services for autistic children and young people, as well as pre and post diagnostic support, including the continuation of the Autism in Schools programme. Autism in Schools is a national project which aims to ensure schools offer environments in which autistic students can thrive, supporting good mental health and promoting a sense of belonging.</p><p>On 22 November 2023, we announced the Partnerships for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools programme. This new programme, backed by £13 million of investment, is a partnership between the Department of Health and Social Care, the Department for Education and NHS England and will bring together integrated care boards (ICBs), local authorities, and schools, working in partnership with parents and carer to support schools to better meet the needs of neurodiverse children. The programme will deploy specialists from both health and education workforces to upskill schools and build their capacity to identify and meet the needs of children with autism and other neurodiverse needs. The programme is expected to reach around 10% of mainstream primary schools. It will be evaluated, and learning will be used to inform future policy development around how schools support neurodiverse children.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 28/11/2023 10:10:10 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell