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1663481

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date	13/10/2023
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	Healthy Start Scheme
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 and what proportion of recipients of Healthy Start paper vouchers have not re-enrolled via the online registration system.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	201335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Business Services Authority estimate that as of 15 October 2023 there were 20,500 households which previously were in receipt of paper vouchers which have not successfully applied to the NHS Healthy Start prepaid card scheme. This is around 7% of the 286,791 households that were in receipt of paper vouchers in August 2021. The 7% figure includes households that are no longer eligible to apply for the Healthy Start scheme.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2023, uptake for the Healthy Start scheme was 68.2%. Uptake of the fully digitised scheme is higher than the previous paper voucher scheme. Healthy Start now supports around 367,000 beneficiaries.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 20/10/2023 13:58:04 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 98353 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1663795

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Malnutrition
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 hospital admissions for malnutrition in England were there in the latest period for which data is available, broken down by age groups (a) 0-5 years, (b) 5-10 years, (c) 10-16 years and (d) over-16 years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	201648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>The following tables show activity in National Health Service hospitals and NHS-commissioned activity in the independent sector in England. NHS England has provided a count of Finished Admission Episodes with a “primary” or “primary or secondary diagnosis” of scurvy, rickets, vitamin D deficiency and malnutrition by age group for 2022/23.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Primary Diagnosis</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patient Age (years)</p></td><td><p>Scurvy</p></td><td><p>Rickets</p></td><td><p>Vitamin D Deficiency</p></td><td><p>Malnutrition</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-16</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17 or over</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>752</p></td><td><p>741</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Primary or Secondary Diagnosis</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patient Age (years)</p></td><td><p>Scurvy</p></td><td><p>Rickets</p></td><td><p>Vitamin D Deficiency</p></td><td><p>Malnutrition</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>317</p></td><td><p>2,052</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>1,757</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-16</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>5,251</p></td><td><p>153</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17 or over</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>176,317</p></td><td><p>10,301</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The root causes of malnutrition may be clinical (for example disease-related), social and/or economic. These problems often interact in a complex cycle. Some health conditions can lead to malnutrition including eating disorders, although malnutrition itself is not an eating disorder.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 201649 question first answered 18/10/2023 16:59:08 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 98352 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1663796

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Deficiency Diseases
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 hospital admissions were there for (a) scurvy, (b) rickets and (c) vitamin D deficiency in England in the latest period for which data is available, broken down by age groups (i) 0-5 years, (ii) 5-10 years, (iii) 10-16 years and (iv) over-16 years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	201649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2023 answer text <p>The following tables show activity in National Health Service hospitals and NHS-commissioned activity in the independent sector in England. NHS England has provided a count of Finished Admission Episodes with a “primary” or “primary or secondary diagnosis” of scurvy, rickets, vitamin D deficiency and malnutrition by age group for 2022/23.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Primary Diagnosis</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patient Age (years)</p></td><td><p>Scurvy</p></td><td><p>Rickets</p></td><td><p>Vitamin D Deficiency</p></td><td><p>Malnutrition</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>12</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-16</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17 or over</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>752</p></td><td><p>741</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Primary or Secondary Diagnosis</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Patient Age (years)</p></td><td><p>Scurvy</p></td><td><p>Rickets</p></td><td><p>Vitamin D Deficiency</p></td><td><p>Malnutrition</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-4</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>317</p></td><td><p>2,052</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-9</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>1,757</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10-16</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>56</p></td><td><p>5,251</p></td><td><p>153</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17 or over</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>77</p></td><td><p>176,317</p></td><td><p>10,301</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The root causes of malnutrition may be clinical (for example disease-related), social and/or economic. These problems often interact in a complex cycle. Some health conditions can lead to malnutrition including eating disorders, although malnutrition itself is not an eating disorder.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien grouped question UIN 201648 question first answered 18/10/2023 16:59:08 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien previous answer version 98356 answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1658611

registered interest
date	06/09/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Ukrainian refugees are awaiting biometric residence permits; for what reasons there have been delays in processing those permits; and what the average wait time was to receiving a permit in the latest period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	198050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The information is not available publicly and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 11/09/2023 14:24:47 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1657914

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
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	Healthy Start Scheme
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 13 June 2023 to Question 188559 on Healthy Start Scheme, for what reason Departmental forecasts on numbers of beneficiaries and uptake of the Healthy Start scheme are not available.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	197437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>While the Department forecasts the numbers of beneficiaries on the Healthy Start scheme, the forecasts are updated frequently and are not centrally validated. As a result, these internal forecasts are not released in the public domain.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 07/09/2023 16:08:24 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1657915

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
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	Healthy Start Scheme
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 available audited data on the cost of operating the Healthy Start scheme in the 2022/23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	197438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2023 answer text <p>Audited financial information for the Department is due to be published in November 2023 as part of the Annual Review of Accounts (ARA). Specific information related to the costs of the Healthy Start scheme may not be explicit within the ARA due to the size of the programme but will be available from that point.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 07/09/2023 16:11:17 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1652851

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Visas: Ukraine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2023 to Question 188007 on Visas: Ukraine, if she will detail what the particular challenges are in obtaining a representative response.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	193939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2023 answer text <p>There are a number of challenges in surveying this population. In particular, it is expected that those who are in relatively precarious circumstances will be less likely to respond to an online survey of this type.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/07/2023 16:02:22 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1650481

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2023 to Question 190584 on Apprentices: Taxation, how many students were studying at Level (a) 3 and (b) 4 and above in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	192570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2023 answer text <p>The data showing apprenticeship participation for the last five academic years is shown in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018/19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019/20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020/21</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2021/22</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Advanced apprenticeship (level 3)</p></td><td><p>372,430</p></td><td><p>356,150</p></td><td><p>338,680</p></td><td><p>326,380</p></td><td><p>330,410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Higher apprenticeship (level 4 and above)</p></td><td><p>84,240</p></td><td><p>123,950</p></td><td><p>165,510</p></td><td><p>207,860</p></td><td><p>238,820</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:</p><p>(1) 2017/18 to 2021/22 figures cover full academic years volumes.</p><p>(2) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>(3) Participation is the count of learners that participated at any point during the year. Learners undertaking more than one course will appear only once in the grand total.</p><p>(4) Participation at intermediate, advanced, and higher levels is a count of learners that participated at those levels at any point during the year. Learners undertaking more than one course will only appear once at each level but can appear in the count at more than one level.</p><p><br> Further apprenticeship statistics can be found in the ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships statistics’ publication, available at:<a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships" target="_blank"> https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships</a>.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 10/07/2023 13:57:44 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1648497

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Local Government Finance: South Tyneside
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2023 to Question 127773 on South Tyneside, if he can provide a breakdown of what the returned grant funding was allocated for.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	191593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The returned grant allocations were in respect of the business rates system. Following submission of outturn figures, South Tyneside made the below reconciliation repayments to DLUHC. The repayments are against funding paid to the local authority on account based on estimates they provided.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Amount</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Purpose </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£92,320.00</p></td><td><p>Adjustments to the Covid Tax Income Guarantee Scheme for 20-21<sup>3</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£6,393,896.00</p></td><td><p>Adjustments to Business Rates Relief grants for 20-21<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£18,130.00</p></td><td><p>Adjustments to Business Rate Retention payments for 2019-20<sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£246,099.00</p></td><td><p>Adjustments to Business Rate Retention payments for 2020-21<sup>1</sup></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> The figure can be found in the published 2020-21 NNDR3 <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1104063%2FNNDR3_2020-21_LA_dropdown_september.xlsx&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJohn.Brookes%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cc083e674747744dfac1608db7960f979%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638237229623770277%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=FfPykB0GlDs5gqWk7yA3mva2M9p3TjPZYgM4jOtLZB0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1104063/NNDR3_2020-21_LA_dropdown_september.xlsx</a></p><p><sup>2 </sup>The figure can be found in the published 2019-20 NNDR3 <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1104043%2FNNDR3_2019-20_LA_dropdown_september.xlsx&amp;data=05%7C01%7CJohn.Brookes%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Cc083e674747744dfac1608db7960f979%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638237229623770277%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=h%2FnNI1Bhmwx%2BKONfyxykbFZDNTN9BRHTc3EuHF8offY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1104043/NNDR3_2019-20_LA_dropdown_september.xlsx</a></p><p><sup>3</sup> A reconciliation calculation was carried out by DLUHC based on submitted 2020-21 NNDR1 and NNDR3 figures to compensate LAs for a share of lost local tax in response to Covid. A calculator was shared with LAs to allow them to calculate their final value of this grant in advance.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 03/07/2023 14:48:35 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1646380

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Empty Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of (a) current and (b) former houses owned by his Department were unoccupied in May 2023; and what was the cost to the public purse of maintaining empty houses owned by his Department in the (i) 2020-21, (ii) 2021-22 and (iii) 2022-23 financial years.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	190582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>The vast majority of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) is leased from Annington Homes Ltd (AHL). Any properties no longer required for Service personnel are handed back to AHL.</p><p> </p><p>The number of unoccupied (void) SFA properties in May 2023, was 9,167 or 19.18% of the c.47,800 total SFA housing stock in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The total void maintenance costs for the four Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) accommodation contracts covering the North, Central, South East and South West regions for Financial Year 2022-23 was £5,902,941. This maintenance cost was for a total of 9,571 void properties at that time.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is only able to provide the cost of maintaining void SFA for the FDIS accommodation contracts which came into force in April 2022. Under the previous National Housing Prime contract, there was no contractual requirement to record maintenance cost data by occupied and void SFA. This was rectified for the FDIS contracts.</p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 27/06/2023 12:20:19 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck