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1795797

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2025
	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	Contraceptives
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to make the morning-after pill free at pharmacies in (a) Staffordshire and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle-under-Lyme
	tabling member printed	Adam Jogee
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The Department is currently planning to expand the Pharmacy Contraception Service to include the supply of emergency hormonal contraception from October 2025. This means women will have access to the ‘morning-after pill’ free of charge at pharmacies on the National Health Service, which will ensure a consistent offer across the country.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 24/04/2025 16:03:00 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
	tabling member	5168

1795833

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2025
	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	Pharmacy
	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 help increase the number of high street pharmacies.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Gibson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47055
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>Pharmacies play a vital role in our healthcare system, and the Government recognises the integral role they play within our communities, as an easily accessible ‘front door’ to the National Health Service, staffed by highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals.</p><p>Community pharmacies are private businesses that provide NHS funded services. Most pharmacies are not directly commissioned or contracted by the NHS, instead contractors apply to gain entry to the NHS pharmaceutical list and if an application is approved, a pharmacy can open and start providing services.</p><p>Local authorities are required to undertake a pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA) every three years to assess whether their population is adequately served by local pharmacies, and must keep these assessments under review. Integrated care boards (ICBs) give regard to the PNAs when reviewing applications from new contractors. Contractors can also apply to open a new pharmacy to offer benefits to patients that were not foreseen by the PNA. If there is a need for a new local pharmacy to open and no contractors apply to open a pharmacy and fill the gap, ICBs can commission a new pharmacy to open outside of the market entry processes and fund the contract from the ICBs’ budgets.</p><p>The Pharmacy Access Scheme helps protect access to pharmacies in areas where there are fewer pharmacies and higher health needs, so that no area is left without access to local, physical NHS pharmaceutical services.</p><p>In general, despite a reduction in the number of pharmacies in recent years, patient access to pharmacies remains good, and continues to be better in the most deprived areas when compared with the least deprived.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock grouped question UIN 47056 47057 question first answered 24/04/2025 16:04:40 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
	tabling member	5239

1795834

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2025
	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	Pharmacy
	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 (a) urban and (b) rural access to pharmacies.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Gibson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47056
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>Pharmacies play a vital role in our healthcare system, and the Government recognises the integral role they play within our communities, as an easily accessible ‘front door’ to the National Health Service, staffed by highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals.</p><p>Community pharmacies are private businesses that provide NHS funded services. Most pharmacies are not directly commissioned or contracted by the NHS, instead contractors apply to gain entry to the NHS pharmaceutical list and if an application is approved, a pharmacy can open and start providing services.</p><p>Local authorities are required to undertake a pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA) every three years to assess whether their population is adequately served by local pharmacies, and must keep these assessments under review. Integrated care boards (ICBs) give regard to the PNAs when reviewing applications from new contractors. Contractors can also apply to open a new pharmacy to offer benefits to patients that were not foreseen by the PNA. If there is a need for a new local pharmacy to open and no contractors apply to open a pharmacy and fill the gap, ICBs can commission a new pharmacy to open outside of the market entry processes and fund the contract from the ICBs’ budgets.</p><p>The Pharmacy Access Scheme helps protect access to pharmacies in areas where there are fewer pharmacies and higher health needs, so that no area is left without access to local, physical NHS pharmaceutical services.</p><p>In general, despite a reduction in the number of pharmacies in recent years, patient access to pharmacies remains good, and continues to be better in the most deprived areas when compared with the least deprived.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock grouped question UIN 47055 47057 question first answered 24/04/2025 16:04:40 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
	tabling member	5239

1795835

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2025
	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	Pharmacy: South West
	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 prevent the creation of pharmacy deserts in the south west of England.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Gibson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47057
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>Pharmacies play a vital role in our healthcare system, and the Government recognises the integral role they play within our communities, as an easily accessible ‘front door’ to the National Health Service, staffed by highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals.</p><p>Community pharmacies are private businesses that provide NHS funded services. Most pharmacies are not directly commissioned or contracted by the NHS, instead contractors apply to gain entry to the NHS pharmaceutical list and if an application is approved, a pharmacy can open and start providing services.</p><p>Local authorities are required to undertake a pharmaceutical needs assessment (PNA) every three years to assess whether their population is adequately served by local pharmacies, and must keep these assessments under review. Integrated care boards (ICBs) give regard to the PNAs when reviewing applications from new contractors. Contractors can also apply to open a new pharmacy to offer benefits to patients that were not foreseen by the PNA. If there is a need for a new local pharmacy to open and no contractors apply to open a pharmacy and fill the gap, ICBs can commission a new pharmacy to open outside of the market entry processes and fund the contract from the ICBs’ budgets.</p><p>The Pharmacy Access Scheme helps protect access to pharmacies in areas where there are fewer pharmacies and higher health needs, so that no area is left without access to local, physical NHS pharmaceutical services.</p><p>In general, despite a reduction in the number of pharmacies in recent years, patient access to pharmacies remains good, and continues to be better in the most deprived areas when compared with the least deprived.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock grouped question UIN 47055 47056 question first answered 24/04/2025 16:04:40 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
	tabling member	5239

1795837

	registered interest
	date	22/04/2025
	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	Pharmacy
	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 will take to (a) support and (b) expand the clinical role of community pharmacies.
	tabling member constituency	Chippenham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Gibson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	47059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>We have concluded the most recent consultation on funding for 2024/25 and 2025/26 with the community pharmacy sector. This deal represents the largest uplift in funding of any part of the National Health Service, over 19% across 2024/25 and 2025/26, and will support community pharmacies in providing clinical services.</p><p>As part of this deal, we have increased the fees for ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, the Pharmacy Contraception Service, Pharmacy First Clinical Pathways and Minor Illness, and the New Medicine Service, to support contractors offering these services. We will also expand the Pharmacy Contraception Service and the New Medicine Service.</p><p>The Government is committed to expanding the role of pharmacies and better utilising the skills of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, including by making prescribing part of the services delivered by community pharmacists. NHS England is currently testing how prescribing in community pharmacy could work to inform the commissioning of prescribing from community pharmacies in future.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 24/04/2025 16:06:05 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
	tabling member	5239

1794123

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Thirsk Station: Access
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Access for All funding allocated to Thirsk Station has been placed on hold.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The feasibility work for Thirsk station is underway and we expect all 50 of the feasibility studies announced last year to be complete in the spring. We expect to be able to confirm which stations will move forward over the summer. The Access for All programme continues to be heavily oversubscribed.</p><p> </p><p>We remain committed to improving the accessibility of the railway and recognise the valuable social and economic benefits this brings to communities.</p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 24/04/2025 15:45:29 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1794124

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	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	Nappies: Waste Disposal
	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 impact of used nappies discarded in public places on Public Health.
	tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
	tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has not made a specific assessment of the potential impact of discarded used nappies on public health. The UKHSA and other agencies provide support to local authorities and their directors of public health for localised incidents, such as risks associated with household waste.</p><p>The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Environment Agency have produced the statutory guidance Waste duty of care: code of practice, which is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice/waste-duty-of-care-code-of-practice</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for waste planning policy is published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waste" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waste</a></p> answering member constituency West Lancashire answering member printed Ashley Dalton question first answered 24/04/2025 12:37:46 answering member 4981 label Biography information for Ashley Dalton
	tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1794132

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	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	Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 41044 on Radiotherapy, by how much the National Health Service’s capital settlement for 2024-2025 was underspent; how much of the total 2024-2025 settlement was allocated for radiotherapy equipment; whether the £15 million additional funds were in addition to the 2024-2025 radiotherapy equipment settlement; and how much has been allocated from the 2025-2026 capital settlement for new radiotherapy equipment.
	tabling member constituency	Wells and Mendip Hills
	tabling member printed	Tessa Munt
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45610
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The National Health Service’s capital settlement for 2024/25 underspend figure is not yet available, although it should be included in the NHS’s annual accounts, which will be published later this year.</p><p>£15 million was allocated from capital underspend to replace ageing radiotherapy equipment, as per the answer I gave on 7 April 2025 to Question <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-25/41044" target="_blank">41044</a>. Any other spending on radiotherapy equipment was allocated at local level, and we do not hold details on this spend.</p><p>£70 million of central capital funding was announced as part of the Autumn Budget in 2024, which will be used to replace 28 machines during 2025/26.</p> answering member constituency West Lancashire answering member printed Ashley Dalton question first answered 24/04/2025 16:54:16 answering member 4981 label Biography information for Ashley Dalton
	tabling member	4089 label Biography information for Tessa Munt

1794133

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	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	British Indian Ocean Territory: Mauritius
	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 received formal representations from the Government of Mauritius on additional financial compensation under the proposed Chagos Islands agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Rayleigh and Wickford
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Francois
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45465
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>The overall quantum of the cost of the deal has not changed from what was originally negotiated under the previous Mauritian Prime Minister.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff South and Penarth answering member printed Stephen Doughty question first answered 24/04/2025 16:35:56 answering member 4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty
	tabling member	1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois

1794134

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2025
	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	Import Duties: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's guidance entitled Request for input on potential UK measures in response to US tariff, whether (a) lethal and (b) non-lethal police firearms are classified as military weapons under CN8 code 93039000 for the purposes of that consultation.
	tabling member constituency	Rayleigh and Wickford
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Francois
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	45466
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2025 answer text <p>We encourage responses to the request for input from all organisations that think their imports could be affected by any potential UK tariffs on a particular commodity code.</p><p>Lethal and non-lethal firearms under CN 93039000 are <strong>not</strong> classified as military weapons. Heading 9303 does not mention military weapons, military weapons are instead classified in the earlier headings, such as 9301 <em>(9301 Military weapons, other than revolvers, pistols and the arms of heading 9307 (</em><em>this heading covers semi-automatic firearms and rifles).</em></p><p>Organisations that have additional specific classification enquiries can be directed to the mailbox: classification.enquiries@hmrc.gov.uk</p> answering member constituency Lothian East answering member printed Mr Douglas Alexander grouped question UIN 46026 question first answered 24/04/2025 17:00:46 answering member 632 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Alexander
	tabling member	1444 label Biography information for Mr Mark Francois