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1623212

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Skilled Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what service will facilitate the digital technology global talent category of the Global Talent visa after 31 March 2023.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	182357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>On 25 April, it was announced that Tech Nation, the Global Talent endorsing body for digital technology, has become part of the Founders Forum Group. As part of the Founders Forum Group, Tech Nation will continue to process Global Talent digital technology endorsement applications for the foreseeable future. The application process is unaffected.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 27/04/2023 16:23:08 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1623213

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
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	NHS: Drugs
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 help reduce the price of drugs procured by the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	182358
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has well established systems for controlling costs and ensuring we get value for money for spending on medicines. The UK has two mechanisms for controlling overall spend on branded medicines: the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access (VPAS) and the statutory scheme for branded medicine pricing. Both schemes apply UK-wide.</p><p>The VPAS caps sales of branded medicines to the National Health Service, with the cap growing by 2% each year. Sales made above this cap are paid back by pharmaceutical companies to the Department.</p><p>All new medicines and significant licence extensions in England are assessed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) which makes recommendations to the NHS on whether they are clinically and cost-effective. The NHS in England is legally required to fund medicines recommended by NICE within 90 days of a final recommendation being made, and offers a unique proposition for global life sciences companies, as with a single commercial deal a company can have access to a market of over 55 million people.</p><p>For unbranded generic medicines, the Department relies on competition in the market to keep prices down. This has led to some of the lowest prices in Europe and allows prices to react to the market. In an international market this ensures that when demand is high and supply is low, prices in the UK can increase to help secure the availability of medicines for UK patients.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 03/05/2023 15:48:35 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1623214

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
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	Sodium Valproate: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timeframe is for the Patient Safety Commissioner for Valproate producing the lifetime costings of caring for a disabled child affected by sodium valproate.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	182328
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>Our sympathies remain with all those affected by the side effects of sodium valproate.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has asked the Patient Safety Commissioner, Dr Henrietta Hughes, to undertake work on redress for people harmed by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. The work is intended to focus on the views of those affected, improving the understanding of how many people have been affected and how, the case for redress and what form it could take. The work is expected to take around four months and the Patient Safety Commissioner will publish a report setting out the findings from this work. Once finalised, Ministers will consider the report’s findings before deciding how to proceed on this matter.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 02/05/2023 12:26:54 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1623215

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
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	Social Security Benefits: Overpayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information his Department holds on how may people received benefit overpayments as a result of fraud in the last financial year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	182296
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>We have interpreted your question as a request for the number of people with new debts entered on the department’s debt manager system in 2022/23, with a categorisation of fraud. Under this, fraud is specifically defined as where the claimant admits to fraud after being cautioned, has been convicted in court, or has accepted an administrative penalty.</p><p> </p><p>On that basis, the department recorded 2,171 new overpayments identified as arising from fraud on its debt management system in 2022/23.</p><p> </p><p>Categorisation of overpayments can alter if one of these conditions subsequently changes.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 27/04/2023 13:09:15 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1623216

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
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	Foxes: Animal Welfare
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of legislation to (a) prohibit the trapping and hunting of live foxes and (b) prevent all forms of cruelty to foxes.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	182364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>The Hunting Act 2004 makes it an offence to hunt a wild mammal with dogs except where it is carried out in accordance with the exemptions in the Act. Those found guilty under the Act are subject to the full force of the law.</p><p> </p><p>Foxes are not protected for conservation purposes in England. Cage traps and snares can lawfully be used to trap foxes. Anyone using cage traps or snares has a responsibility under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to act within the law to ensure their activities do not cause any unnecessary suffering. For instance, snares and cage traps must be checked at least once a day to prevent a captured fox (or non-target species) suffering. This government takes wildlife crime seriously and there are strong penalties in place for offences committed against wildlife. An industry-owned code of practice for the use of snares to control foxes in England sets out clear principles for the legal use of snares, using evidence from snare-use research to improve snare deployment and design.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 182365 182371 question first answered 02/05/2023 11:24:04 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1623217

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
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	Foxes: Animal Welfare
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 her Department is taking to (a) help tackle illegal fox hunting and (b) prevent all forms of cruelty to foxes.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	182365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2023 answer text <p>The Hunting Act 2004 makes it an offence to hunt a wild mammal with dogs except where it is carried out in accordance with the exemptions in the Act. Those found guilty under the Act are subject to the full force of the law.</p><p> </p><p>Foxes are not protected for conservation purposes in England. Cage traps and snares can lawfully be used to trap foxes. Anyone using cage traps or snares has a responsibility under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 to act within the law to ensure their activities do not cause any unnecessary suffering. For instance, snares and cage traps must be checked at least once a day to prevent a captured fox (or non-target species) suffering. This government takes wildlife crime seriously and there are strong penalties in place for offences committed against wildlife. An industry-owned code of practice for the use of snares to control foxes in England sets out clear principles for the legal use of snares, using evidence from snare-use research to improve snare deployment and design.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison grouped question UIN 182364 182371 question first answered 02/05/2023 11:24:04 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1623218

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
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	Environment Agency: Recruitment
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 data her Department holds on the amount of time taken to inform candidates applying for jobs at the Environment Agency of the outcome of their application and whether they have been called for interview in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	182230
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2023 answer text <p>The average time taken to inform candidates of the outcome of their application to a job advertised at the Environment Agency for each of the past full five calendar years is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p>The data is for the period between the advert close date and the date the applicant was notified of the outcome of their application. The outcome of the application is either for the applicant to be invited to interview or for them to be informed that they have not been invited to interview</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average time taken in working days for applicant to be notified of the outcome of an EA job application</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>14.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>16.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>12.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>12.7 for posts advertised using the established EA recruitment system 13.7 for selected posts that have used a different recruitment system for part of 2022</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 03/05/2023 11:34:25 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1623219

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
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	Royal Shrewsbury Hospital: Cancer
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 20 April 2023 to Question 179995, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the waiting time for appointments at the oncology department of Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	182259
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>We have no current plans to make a specific assessment. NHS England assesses the effectiveness of trust waiting time recovery plans, and publishes provider-based cancer waiting times data. Provisional data for February 2023 shows that 86.7% of patients with symptoms that might indicate cancer, who were given an urgent referral by their general practitioner to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, were given an appointment with a consultant within two weeks of their urgent referral by the trust. This is an improvement from 75.5% in February 2022.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 27/04/2023 13:07:50 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

1623220

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
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	General Practitioners: Wandsworth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many GPs worked in the London Borough of Wandsworth in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	182377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of full time equivalent (FTE) doctors in general practice, in the London Borough of Wandsworth from September 2015 to September 2022.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Doctors in general practice, FTE</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>185</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2016</p></td><td><p>204</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2017</p></td><td><p>205</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2018</p></td><td><p>228</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2019</p></td><td><p>239</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2020</p></td><td><p>238</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2021</p></td><td><p>243</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2022</p></td><td><p>248</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data before September 2015 is not included because of a change in the data collection methodology.</p><p>Source: <a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-personal-medical-services</a></p><p> </p><p>Notes</p><ul><li>Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) refers to the proportion of full time contracted hours that the post holder is contracted to work. 1 would indicate they work a full set of hours (37.5), 0.5 that they worked half time. In GPs in Training Grade contracts 1 FTE = 40 hours and in this table these FTEs have been converted to the standard wMDS measure of 1 FTE = 37.5 hours for consistency.</li><li>Figures shown do not include staff working in Prisons, Army Bases, Educational Establishments, Specialist Care Centres including Drug Rehabilitation Centres, Walk-In Centres and other alternative settings outside of traditional general practice such as urgent treatment centres and minor injury units.</li><li>Data from September 2015 onwards was collected using a new methodology and should therefore not be directly compared with data from before September 2015. Figures from September 2015 should be treated with caution as the data submission rates under the new methodology from practices were appreciably lower than for subsequent reporting periods. This means that the reported figures for the early years of the collection may be lower than the true picture. In September 2015, which was the first extract from the new Workforce Minimum Data Set, only three of four Health Education England regions submitted data.</li><li>Data from September 2015 onwards includes estimates for practices that did not provide fully valid staff records.</li></ul><p>Practices in the London Borough of Wandsworth were identified using the National Statistics Postcode Lookup.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 16/05/2023 14:01:07 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1623221

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much from the public purse his Department spent on repair work in service family accommodation in each year since 2015; and if he will provide a breakdown of costs for each year.
tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
tabling member printed	Luke Pollard
uin	182413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>The amount the Department spent on repair work in Service Family Accommodation (SFA) in each year since 2015 can be found in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£30.57 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£29.90 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>£30.98 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>£32.24 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>£32.35 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>£35.90 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>£38.28 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>£35.09 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In addition to the cost of repairs, the MOD has invested more than £936 million in SFA improvements in the last seven years.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/04/2023 11:38:49 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4682 label Biography information for Luke Pollard