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1716361

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date	08/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Money Laundering: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many individuals have been convicted for breaches of the Money Laundering Regulations in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Dame Margaret Hodge
uin	25131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>The majority of businesses supervised by HMRC are compliant and play an important role in our financial system.</p><p> </p><p>Those who fail to comply with the Money Laundering Regulations leave themselves, and the UK economy, open to attacks by criminals. HMRC takes a robust approach to non-compliance and uses a wide range of measures to tackle those who breach the regulations, including civil penalties as well as criminal prosecutions.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC does not publish the data of the number of prosecutions under the Money Laundering Regulations but details of other supervisory sanctions applied can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/businesses-not-complying-with-money-laundering-regulations-in-2018-to-2019/businesses-that-have-not-complied-with-the-regulations-2023-to-2024" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/businesses-not-complying-with-money-laundering-regulations-in-2018-to-2019/businesses-that-have-not-complied-with-the-regulations-2023-to-2024</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 15/05/2024 15:11:59 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

1715987

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the Royal National Institute of Blind People's research entitled Provision under pressure: Gaps in Educational Support for Children and Young People with Vision Impairment in England (2023), published in February 2024; and what steps her Department (a) is taking and (b) plans to take to ensure that children and young people with vision impairment have equitable access to education.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	24977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>The department’s ambition is that all children and young people receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life.</p><p> </p><p>The special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and alternative provision (AP) Improvement Plan outlines the government’s mission to establish a single, national SEND and AP system, with the proposal to develop national standards a fundamental foundation for this.</p><p> </p><p>This new single national system will set standards on what support should be made available in mainstream settings, including for children with vision impairment. The National Standards will outline the types of special educational provision that should be available, who is responsible for delivering that support, and clarify expectations on mainstream settings and local services. To inform national standards, the department is engaging with stakeholders across education, health and social care, as well as children, young people and their families, this includes members of the Royal National Institute of Blind People.</p><p> </p><p>The department is committed to ensuring a steady supply of teachers of children with vision impairment in both specialist and mainstream settings. To teach a class of pupils with vision impairments, a teacher is required to hold the relevant mandatory qualification for sensory impairment (MQSI). There are currently six providers of the MQSI, with a seventh from September 2024. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) is developing a new occupational standard for teachers of sensory impairment, expected to be available from September 2025. Children and young people with special educational needs have more access to assistive technology following investment in remote education and accessibility features, which can reduce or remove barriers to learning. ​</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed David Johnston question first answered 15/05/2024 16:47:54 answering member 4761 label Biography information for David Johnston
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

1715988

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
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	Osteoporosis: Health Services
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 her Department is taking to improve waiting times for treatment for osteoporosis patients.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Our aim is that 95% of patients needing a diagnostic check receive it within six weeks, by March 2025. As of April 2024, there are 160 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) currently operational that have delivered over seven million additional tests since July 2021. Some of these CDCs will offer bone density scans, also known as dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scans, which can be used to diagnose or assess patients’ risk of osteoporosis. There are 22 CDCs already providing DEXA scans across England, as of March 2024.</p><p>From 2022/23 to 2024/25, the Government is spending more than £11.3 billion to support elective recovery and tackle long waiting times, which could deliver nine million more checks and procedures to help support patients with conditions like osteoporosis.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 15/05/2024 15:17:30 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1715989

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
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	Injuries: Medical Treatments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of when single-step scaffold insertion will be available on the NHS for people with torn cartilage injuries.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24913
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2024 answer text <p>The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently consulting on draft interventional procedures guidance that recommends single-step scaffold insertion as an option for repairing symptomatic chondral knee defects, with standard arrangements in place for clinical governance, consent, and audit. The NICE currently expects to publish final guidance in September 2024. Once the NICE has published final guidance, National Health Service organisations will be expected to take it fully into account, but the guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 10/05/2024 13:49:44 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1715990

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
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	Anaemia: Women
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 her Department is taking to improve diagnosis of anaemia in women.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24914
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>There is information available from NHS Choices to support the identification of symptoms related to anaemia, which advises individuals to seek general practitioner (GP) advice should they experience those symptoms.</p><p>GPs exercise their clinical judgement with support from relevant guidance to arrange appropriate tests and investigations that may lead to a diagnosis, such as blood tests to assess the full blood count, which may highlight indicators of anaemia. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s Clinical Knowledge Summaries website also provides guidance on testing and treatment of all types of anaemia.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/05/2024 13:01:02 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1715991

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming university funding models to reduce dependence on the income of international students.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>It is important that there is a sustainable system to support students and support higher education (HE) that is responsive to the needs of the labour market and the wider economy, and that is fair to students and fair to taxpayers. The government keeps the higher education (HE) funding system under continuous review to ensure that it remains sustainable and provides many different opportunities for learners to acquire vital skills. Longer-term funding plans for the HE sector will be set out at the next multi-year Spending Review, in line with the approach to long-term public spending commitments across government.</p><p> </p><p>In 2021/22, the total income of the HE sector in England was £40.8 billion, up from £28 billion in 2014/15, including £8.8 billion income from international student fees. Of the £40.8 billion, approximately £16 billion was provided by the government. Over the current spending review period, both the Department for Education and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are investing £1.3 billion in capital funding to support teaching and research.</p><p> </p><p>The department is proud that the UK is home to some of the world’s top universities who benefit from strong international ties, so much so that the UK HE system has educated 58 of current and recent world leaders and has 4 out of the top 10 globally ranked universities. Attracting the brightest students internationally is good for the UK’s universities and delivers growth at home.</p><p> </p><p>Education policy is a devolved matter, and different HE funding arrangements apply in the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Luke Hall question first answered 15/05/2024 12:20:02 answering member 4450 label Biography information for Luke Hall
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1715992

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Remote Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of taking steps to increase the number of civil servants working from the office.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Research into workplace practices across all sectors was undertaken which confirmed the clear benefits of face to face, workplace based collaborative working, which led to agreement across government for such an approach. That's why I set out the expectation for staff to be in the office at least 60% of the time, and I believe that our senior civil servants need to set an example as leaders.</p><p>There are significant benefits from spending time working together in person, either within teams, with colleagues from the same department or – in Government hubs – with colleagues from other departments. These include collaboration, innovation and fostering a sense of community. We know that in particular junior colleagues benefit from having time face to face with senior leaders and that those early in their careers find working face to face with their peers and managers makes them more effective more quickly.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 15/05/2024 16:39:55 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1715993

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Shoplifting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to protect retailers from shoplifting.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>Since 2010 our communities are safer, with neighbourhood crimes including burglary, robbery and theft from the person down 48% and overall violent crime down 44%, and more police officers on the streets than in 2010.</p><p>However, there has been a worrying rise in shoplifting and violence towards retail workers, which we are taking action to address. The Government’s plan – <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fighting-retail-crime-more-action" target="_blank">&quot;Fighting Retail Crime: more action&quot;</a> was launched on 10 April. It includes a new standalone offence for assaults on retail workers, which will be introduced via the Criminal Justice Bill, currently before Parliament.. We are working with police and businesses to roll out the latest facial recognition to catch these perpetrators; championing good practice to design out crime; and making it easier for retailers to report crime.</p><p>We will also legislate through the Criminal Justice Bill, to introduce a presumption towards electronic monitoring as part of a sentence served in the community for those who repeatedly steal from shops.</p><p>The Government’s action plan builds on the police-led <a href="https://news.npcc.police.uk/resources/e6e5n-gfsgg-qru39-qjnkc-dbait" target="_blank">Retail Crime Action Plan</a>, launched in October 2023, which includes a commitment to prioritise police attendance at the scene where violence has been used towards shop staff, where an offender has been detained by store security, and where evidence needs to be secured and can only be done by police personnel. Additionally, where CCTV or other digital images are secured, police will run this through the Police National Database to aid efforts to identify prolific offenders or potentially dangerous individuals. Early indications suggest that there has been improved police attendance at the retail crime incidents prioritised. This has been echoed by major retailers.</p><p>Police forces across England and Wales have also committed to pursuing any available evidence where there is a reasonable chance it could lead them to catching a perpetrator and solving a crime and this includes shoplifting. These are substantial operational policing commitments, which I am overseeing delivery of through the National Retail Crime Steering Group.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 15/05/2024 15:11:27 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1715994

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
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 she is taking to reduce A&E waiting times.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	24918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>Our Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services sets out the range of measures being taken to improve accident and emergency waiting times. The plan is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/delivery-plan-for-recovering-urgent-and-emergency-care-services/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/delivery-plan-for-recovering-urgent-and-emergency-care-services/</a></p><p>Backed by £1 billion of dedicated funding, the National Health Service delivered 5,000 additional core hospital beds in 2023/24, and will maintain this capacity expansion in 2024/25, to support patient flow through hospitals. Accident and emergency waiting times improved year-on-year in 2023/24 for the first time since 2009/10, not including the first year of the pandemic. The NHS Planning Guidance, published in March 2024, commits to further improvements in emergency care performance in 2024/25, with more information available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/operational-planning-and-contracting/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/operational-planning-and-contracting/</a></p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 14/05/2024 09:00:47 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1715995

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
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	Development Aid: Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, with reference to paragraph 4.11 of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s report entitled UK aid’s international climate finance commitments, published on 29 February 2024, for what reason his Department has categorised 30 per cent of the funding for the Afghanistan Multi-Year Programme Phase 2 project as international climate finance.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	24887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2024 answer text <p>To recognise the work that is being undertaken to support resilience building in the most climate-vulnerable countries a fixed proportion of 30 per cent International Climate Finance will be applied to humanitarian work being carried out in countries that fall into the bottom 10 per cent in terms of recognised climate vulnerability rankings, including Afghanistan.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 13/05/2024 15:01:44 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas