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1754617

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	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	Squirrels: Conservation
	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 steps he is taking to support the conservation of red squirrels.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>This Government is committed to taking action to recover our threatened native species and delivering our legally binding biodiversity targets on species abundance, species extinction and habitat creation and restoration, which will benefit many of our priority native species including red squirrels.</p><p> </p><p>The leading causes of red squirrel decline in England include the squirrel pox virus, habitat availability and competition from non-native grey squirrels. We are considering how to go further to reduce the impacts of grey squirrels on our woodlands and red squirrel populations and shall have an update in due course.</p> answering member constituency Coventry East answering member printed Mary Creagh question first answered 15/01/2025 16:26:01 answering member 1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1754697

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	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, with reference to paragraph 2.71 of the Autumn Budget 2024, whether the £70 million for new radiotherapy machines will be made available to upgrade machines.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients have access to the most up-to-date treatments.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne grouped question UIN 23290 23293 question first answered 15/01/2025 11:22:55 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1754698

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	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, with reference to paragraph 2.71 of the Autumn Budget 2024, how the £70 million for new radiotherapy machines will increase access to (a) adaptive radiotherapy and (b) other forms of modern radiotherapy.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23290
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients have access to the most up-to-date treatments.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne grouped question UIN 23289 23293 question first answered 15/01/2025 11:22:55 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1754700

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	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, with reference to paragraph 2.71 of the Autumn Budget 2024, what estimate he has made of the number of radiotherapy machines that will be replaced; and whether his Department plans to fundi a rolling replacement programme.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23292
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>NHS England will allocate funding to trusts to purchase new radiotherapy machines, and trusts may purchase different types of machines. Therefore, it is not yet known how many machines will be purchased. There are currently no plans to have a rolling replacement programme.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 15/01/2025 11:32:59 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1754701

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	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: Finance
	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 paragraph 2.71 of the Autumn Budget 2024, what criteria he plans to use to prioritise the allocation of the funds for radiotherapy cancer treatments.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients have access to the most up-to-date treatments.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne grouped question UIN 23289 23290 question first answered 15/01/2025 11:22:55 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1754703

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	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, whether his Department (a) has consulted and (b) plans consult with (i) clinical experts, (ii) the radiotherapy industry, (iii) patients and (iv) charities on how best to allocate the funds announced in the Budget for new radiotherapy machines.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed, so that the new machines can best meet the needs of patients across the country. The Department has no plans to consult on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 15/01/2025 11:31:29 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1754704

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	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: Infrastructure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of radiotherapy infrastructure.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to make an assessment of radiotherapy infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 15/01/2025 11:29:56 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1754706

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of cancer patients have access to radiotherapy as their primary treatment; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of barriers to increasing that percentage.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23298
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>Radiotherapy is available to all patients. Clinicians will help patients to determine the best treatment option for their cancer. No assessment has been made of the potential implications, as all patients have access to radiotherapy treatment on the National Health Service.</p> answering member constituency Gorton and Denton answering member printed Andrew Gwynne question first answered 15/01/2025 11:27:19 answering member 1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

1754946

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Buses: Licensing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many Public Service Vehicle operator licences were issued in each of the last five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
	tabling member printed	Alex Mayer
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>The Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain collect annual data on the number of active and newly issued public service vehicle (PSV) operator licences and the vehicles authorised to operate under these licences. The number of new PSV operator licences issued in each of the last five years is as follows. Data for the reporting year ‘2024 – January 2025’ is accurate as of 14 January 2025.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Reporting Year (April – March)</p></td><td><p>Number of new PSV operator licences granted</p></td><td><p>Number of vehicles authorised as a result of a new application</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>474</p></td><td><p>2810</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>317</p></td><td><p>1323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>264</p></td><td><p>2292</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>310</p></td><td><p>1463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023/24</p></td><td><p>368</p></td><td><p>1451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2024 – January 2025</p></td><td><p>273</p></td><td><p>1401</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Nottingham South answering member printed Lilian Greenwood question first answered 15/01/2025 14:19:58 answering member 4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood
	tabling member	5141

1754948

	registered interest
	date	13/01/2025
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Bus Services: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2024 to Question 20346 on Bus Services: ICT, if she will take steps to ensure all new buses include charging points.
	tabling member constituency	Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
	tabling member printed	Alex Mayer
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	23559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2025 answer text <p>The government is committed to delivering better bus services, and wants to make them a strong choice for passengers. Local bus operators have responsibility for managing and maintaining their bus fleets, and we expect them to consider how best to improve the experience for passengers when making decisions about their fleet, including considering making charging points available to passengers on their buses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wakefield and Rothwell answering member printed Simon Lightwood question first answered 15/01/2025 14:35:40 answering member 4943 label Biography information for Simon Lightwood
	tabling member	5141