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1792780

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date	07/04/2025
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	NHS: Crimes of Violence
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 trends in the level of (a) harassment and (b) abuse of NHS staff.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
uin	44550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>There is no national mechanism at present to capture and report incidents of harassment and abuse. Data is held at a local level. The NHS Staff Survey captures data on self-reported incidents. Results from the 2024 NHS Staff Survey showed that 25.08% of staff have experienced at least one incident of harassment, bullying, or abuse from patients or service users in the last 12 months. This shows a slight improvement in trends of the level of staff experiencing harassment, bullying, or abuse since 2020, as it is at its lowest reported levels in the past five years.</p><p>However, everyone working in the National Health Service has a fundamental right to be safe at work. There is a zero-tolerance approach to any incidents of harassment or abuse against NHS staff, and the Government is taking further action to tackle it. On 9 April 2025, the Government announced that 36 out of 37 of the non-pay recommendations from the 2023 Agenda for Change pay deal have been accepted. These include significant commitments to tackling violence and aggression against NHS staff. The recommendations include improving the data and reporting of incidents and ensuring Violence Prevention and Reduction standards are upheld and form part of Care Quality Commission’s assessments.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 22/04/2025 08:54:13 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1792805

registered interest
date	07/04/2025
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Housing: Construction
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of planning control and enforcement in preventing (i) vibration and (ii) damage to neighbouring properties during construction works.
tabling member constituency	Melton and Syston
tabling member printed	Edward Argar
uin	44458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>The Department has not undertaken such an assessment.</p><p> </p><p>Planning conditions can be used to mitigate the adverse effects of a development, such as vibration, where they meet the tests set out in the National Planning Policy Framework.</p><p> </p><p>It is for local planning authorities to consider whether it is appropriate to attach conditions to the grant of planning permission and to take any subsequent enforcement action where there is a breach of planning control on a case-by-case basis.</p> answering member constituency Greenwich and Woolwich answering member printed Matthew Pennycook question first answered 22/04/2025 08:47:24 answering member 4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook
tabling member	4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar

1792819

registered interest
date	07/04/2025
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Childcare: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what methodology her Department used to assess bid applications for the school-based nursery capital grant.
tabling member constituency	Harborough, Oadby and Wigston
tabling member printed	Neil O'Brien
uin	44536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>Bid applications for the school-based nursery capital grant were assessed on four key criteria: project overview and value for money, local need for childcare, approach to early years education and management of provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 22/04/2025 07:48:27 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien

1792821

registered interest
date	07/04/2025
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	NHS Trusts: ICT
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 NHS Trusts meet digital capability targets.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Rusholme
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	44532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>NHS England has supported over 160 trusts with digital transformation, which includes the implementation of Electronic Patient Records. Currently, we have achieved a 91% rollout of Electronic Patient Records, with work underway to provide tailored support to the remaining 19 trusts that do not yet have an Electronic Patient Record.</p><p>The Digital Maturity Assessment was also successfully completed in May 2024, with a 100% response rate from secondary care organisations and integrated care systems. This assessment provides a baseline and a holistic view of digital maturity across National Health Service trusts in England. The assessment will be run yearly to track progress and identify areas for improvement.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 44427 question first answered 22/04/2025 08:43:18 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1792822

registered interest
date	07/04/2025
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	Preventive Medicine
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 promote the adoption of (a) digital technologies and (b) AI to support the transition of healthcare from treatment to prevention.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Rusholme
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	44533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>The National Health Service is already home to world-first digital innovation, with NHS England supporting the rollout of key products, many of which support the shift to prevention and early diagnosis. Examples include the world's first certified autonomous artificially intelligent (AI) diagnostic tool, which can triage patients with suspected skin cancer, as well as digital innovations supporting people struggling with mental health and musculoskeletal issues to gain or remain in employment.</p><p>NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and the Department are developing a rules based pathway (RBP) for medical technology in the NHS. The RBP aims to create a clear, consistent, and efficient process for evaluating and adopting medical technologies, including digital technologies, in the NHS.</p><p>The Early Detection using Information Technology in Health, or EDITH trial, announced in February 2025, is backed by £11 million of Government support via the National Institute for Health and Care Research. It is the latest example of how British scientists are transforming cancer care, building on the promising potential of cutting-edge innovations to tackle one of the United Kingdom’s biggest killers.</p><p>Between October 2021 and May 2023 funding was invested in a risk-stratification tool to identify women who are at most risk of developing life-threatening and life-altering complications of pre-eclampsia.</p><p>Between October 2020 and September 2023, the Department invested £1.9 million in an AI stroke technology, capable of automatically processing acute stroke computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging scans, which can provide real-time, clinically useful information in the acute stroke setting, leading to faster decisions.</p><p>Between October 2020 and September 2021 funding was invested towards generating a toolkit prototype which can automatically generate placental metrics from a 3D-US scan. These can be combined with other known risk factors and blood results to generate a multi-factorial screening test for fetal growth restriction, which is the single most common cause of stillbirth.</p><p>The deployment of AI in the NHS is still at a relatively early stage, with many AI tools being used in a research capacity. To address this, the Department is carrying out work, with NHS England, to assess the barriers of safe, ethical, and effective adoption, and improve the way AI tools are deployed and used in the NHS across England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 44425 question first answered 22/04/2025 08:40:41 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1792823

registered interest
date	07/04/2025
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	NHS: 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, what steps he is taking to increase levels of (a) diagnosis and (b) early disease detection through the adoption of AI.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Rusholme
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	44534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>The Department has provided £113 million, through the NHS AI Health and Care Awards, to 86 artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which have been live in 40% of National Health Service acute trusts in England and hundreds of primary care networks across the United Kingdom. This funding is helping us to generate the evidence needed to deploy effective AI tools across the NHS and improve the lives and health outcomes of our population.</p><p>Many of these AI technologies are being tested and evaluated to aid healthcare diagnostics. For example, AI is being used to analyse and interpret acute stroke brain scans, to support doctors making treatment decisions in 100% of stroke units in England. In addition, the Department is focusing the £21 million AI Diagnostic Fund on the deployment of technologies in key, high-demand areas such as chest X-ray and chest computed tomography scans, to enable faster diagnosis of lung cancer in over half of acute trusts in England.</p><p>Despite these exciting examples of AI use, deployment of AI in the NHS is still at a relatively early stage. To address this, the Department is carrying out work to assess the barriers of effective adoption and improve the way AI tools are deployed across the NHS.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 44429 question first answered 22/04/2025 08:46:51 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1792824

registered interest
date	07/04/2025
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she next plans to review the per-meal funding rate for free school meals.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	44431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>The department spends over £1.5 billion annually on the provision of free and nutritious meals to 2.1 million of the most disadvantaged school pupils, 90,000 low-income students in further education, and 1.3 million infant pupils. In addition to this, eligibility for free meals drives billions of additional pounds in disadvantage funding.</p><p>The government will continue to engage with schools to ensure high-quality meals are provided for children. As with all government programmes, the department keeps free school meal provision under review.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 22/04/2025 07:42:55 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1792825

registered interest
date	07/04/2025
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Free School Meals: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions on the average cost of providing free school meals.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	44432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>The department is providing schools and high needs settings with over £930 million in the 2025/26 financial year to support them with their increased National Insurance contributions (NICs) costs. This support is additional to the £2.3 billion increase to core school funding announced at the Autumn Budget 2024.</p><p>Schools will have flexibility in how they use funding through their NICs grant allocations to meet their overall cost increases as a result of the NICs changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 22/04/2025 07:41:19 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds

1792826

registered interest
date	07/04/2025
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	Preventive Medicine
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 encourage the adoption of (a) AI and (b) other digital technologies to support the healthcare transition from treatment to prevention.
tabling member constituency	Bolton South and Walkden
tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
uin	44425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>The National Health Service is already home to world-first digital innovation, with NHS England supporting the rollout of key products, many of which support the shift to prevention and early diagnosis. Examples include the world's first certified autonomous artificially intelligent (AI) diagnostic tool, which can triage patients with suspected skin cancer, as well as digital innovations supporting people struggling with mental health and musculoskeletal issues to gain or remain in employment.</p><p>NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and the Department are developing a rules based pathway (RBP) for medical technology in the NHS. The RBP aims to create a clear, consistent, and efficient process for evaluating and adopting medical technologies, including digital technologies, in the NHS.</p><p>The Early Detection using Information Technology in Health, or EDITH trial, announced in February 2025, is backed by £11 million of Government support via the National Institute for Health and Care Research. It is the latest example of how British scientists are transforming cancer care, building on the promising potential of cutting-edge innovations to tackle one of the United Kingdom’s biggest killers.</p><p>Between October 2021 and May 2023 funding was invested in a risk-stratification tool to identify women who are at most risk of developing life-threatening and life-altering complications of pre-eclampsia.</p><p>Between October 2020 and September 2023, the Department invested £1.9 million in an AI stroke technology, capable of automatically processing acute stroke computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging scans, which can provide real-time, clinically useful information in the acute stroke setting, leading to faster decisions.</p><p>Between October 2020 and September 2021 funding was invested towards generating a toolkit prototype which can automatically generate placental metrics from a 3D-US scan. These can be combined with other known risk factors and blood results to generate a multi-factorial screening test for fetal growth restriction, which is the single most common cause of stillbirth.</p><p>The deployment of AI in the NHS is still at a relatively early stage, with many AI tools being used in a research capacity. To address this, the Department is carrying out work, with NHS England, to assess the barriers of safe, ethical, and effective adoption, and improve the way AI tools are deployed and used in the NHS across England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 44533 question first answered 22/04/2025 08:40:41 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

1792827

registered interest
date	07/04/2025
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Food
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she next plans to review her Department's guidance on school food standards.
tabling member constituency	East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Damian Hinds
uin	44433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2025 answer text <p>It is important that children eat nutritious food at school and the department encourages schools to have a whole-school approach to healthy eating. The School Food Standards define the foods and drinks that must be provided, that are restricted and those which must not be provided.</p><p>We keep our approach to school food and its guidance under continued review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan question first answered 22/04/2025 07:49:46 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds