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1678057

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date	14/12/2023
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	Cyprus: Land Mines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of the cooperation proposal by the President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus entitled De-mining the Island of Cyprus, dated 1 July 2022; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Republic of Cyprus’s rejection of that proposal.
tabling member constituency	East Antrim
tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
uin	7009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>In accordance with the rest of the international community, with the sole exception of Turkey, the UK does not recognise the self-declared &quot;Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus&quot; as an independent state. The UK is unequivocal in its support for a mine-free Cyprus and, in line with the UN Security Council, continues to urge the leaders of both communities to agree a plan to achieve this. It remains for the leaders to determine the details of this cooperation.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 19/12/2023 17:23:48 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson

1678058

registered interest
date	14/12/2023
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	Community Health Services: Children
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 help reduce waiting times in children’s community health services.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	6950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2024 answer text <p>We monitor community health services waiting lists for children and young people and hold NHS England to account on actions to reduce waiting times.</p><p>NHS England has asked local health systems to develop plans to reduce waiting lists for community health services.</p><p>Recognising the waiting times for speech and language therapy, in September 2023, the Department for Education launched 'Early Language Support for Every Child' (ELSEC), with NHS England. ELSEC is a two-year pathfinder programme funding innovative workforce models to improve early identification and support for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs within early years and primary school settings. ELSEC will take place in nine sites across England, one in each Change Programme Partnership. It is running across two academic years from September 2023 to August 2025.</p><p>In future more healthcare will be provided in the community, and that is why the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan includes commitments to increase the community workforce, with increases in training places for community nurses and allied health professionals, and a renewed focus on retaining existing staff.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 12/01/2024 14:20:43 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 8840 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1678059

registered interest
date	14/12/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Hospitality Industry: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of business rate relief for businesses in the hospitality sector.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	7090
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2023 answer text <p>At Autumn Statement 2023, the government announced it will extend the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure (RHL) relief scheme at 75 per cent, up to a cash cap of £110,000 per business for 2024-25. This is a tax cut worth nearly £2.4 billion and around 230,000 retail, hospitality and leisure properties will be eligible for relief.</p><p> </p><p>The government also announced a freeze to the small business multiplier for the fourth consecutive year in 2024-25, protecting over a million ratepayers from bill increases.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 6256 question first answered 18/12/2023 14:04:16 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1678060

registered interest
date	14/12/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an equality impact assessment of the Driver Services Recovery Programme.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	7021
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) takes its Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) responsibilities seriously. The DVSA has advised Ministers about the steps it is taking to reduce car practical driving test waiting times. Ministers have agreed a package of measures that the DVSA is implementing, and the average waiting time for a practical driving test is reducing as a result.</p><p>As part of the advice it presented to Ministers, the DVSA included a PSED assessment, as it does with all ministerial advice. The agency did not identify any PSED issues that required action at the time, but the agency keeps the PSED situation under review and would take action if necessary.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 19/12/2023 10:12:31 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1678061

registered interest
date	14/12/2023
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	Disease Control
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 consult people who shielded during the covid-19 pandemic on the preparation of pandemic preparedness plans.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	7054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>We cannot perfectly predict the characteristics of a future pandemic or know precisely which groups will be most affected by it, and we are therefore strengthening our pandemic preparedness by considering the flexible and scalable response capabilities that can be adapted to any threat that the health and social care system may need to respond to. We continue to review our pandemic planning, in close collaboration with system partners including the UK Health Security Agency, in response to new information and lessons learned from COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks. We continue to draw on a wide range of evidence, both from government research organisations and expert committees, as well as the wider research community</p><p><br> We understand that Versus Arthritis has submitted the recommendations of the Covid Shielding Voices report to the United Kingdom COVID-19 Inquiry. We are committed to learning from the Inquiry’s findings, which will play a key role in informing the Government’s planning and preparations for the future.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 7055 7056 question first answered 19/12/2023 17:46:21 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1678062

registered interest
date	14/12/2023
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	Disease Control
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 assessment of the potential implications for her policies on future pandemic preparedness planning of the report entitled Covid Shielding Voices published by the Centre for Epidemiology, Versus Arthritis: University of Manchester in October 2023.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	7055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>We cannot perfectly predict the characteristics of a future pandemic or know precisely which groups will be most affected by it, and we are therefore strengthening our pandemic preparedness by considering the flexible and scalable response capabilities that can be adapted to any threat that the health and social care system may need to respond to. We continue to review our pandemic planning, in close collaboration with system partners including the UK Health Security Agency, in response to new information and lessons learned from COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks. We continue to draw on a wide range of evidence, both from government research organisations and expert committees, as well as the wider research community</p><p><br> We understand that Versus Arthritis has submitted the recommendations of the Covid Shielding Voices report to the United Kingdom COVID-19 Inquiry. We are committed to learning from the Inquiry’s findings, which will play a key role in informing the Government’s planning and preparations for the future.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 7054 7056 question first answered 19/12/2023 17:46:22 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1678063

registered interest
date	14/12/2023
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	Disease Control
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 have discussions with the UK Health Security Agency on the adequacy of NHS preparedness for rapidly producing a shielded patient list in the event of a pandemic.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	7056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>We cannot perfectly predict the characteristics of a future pandemic or know precisely which groups will be most affected by it, and we are therefore strengthening our pandemic preparedness by considering the flexible and scalable response capabilities that can be adapted to any threat that the health and social care system may need to respond to. We continue to review our pandemic planning, in close collaboration with system partners including the UK Health Security Agency, in response to new information and lessons learned from COVID-19 and other disease outbreaks. We continue to draw on a wide range of evidence, both from government research organisations and expert committees, as well as the wider research community</p><p><br> We understand that Versus Arthritis has submitted the recommendations of the Covid Shielding Voices report to the United Kingdom COVID-19 Inquiry. We are committed to learning from the Inquiry’s findings, which will play a key role in informing the Government’s planning and preparations for the future.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 7054 7055 question first answered 19/12/2023 17:46:22 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1678064

registered interest
date	14/12/2023
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	Coronavirus: Disease Control
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 help ensure that people still required to shield can access (a) in person and (b) other essential health services.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	7057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The COVID-19 shielding programme for people identified as clinically extremely vulnerable was formally ended by the government in September 2021. The decision to end the programme was based on there being more information available on the virus and what makes individuals more or less vulnerable, the success of the COVID-19 vaccination programme and the emergence of effective treatments for the disease</p><p><br> However, because a smaller number of immunosuppressed people may remain at higher risk of serious illness from COVID-19, despite vaccination, the Government has put in place a range of enhanced protection measures including treatments, booster vaccines, free lateral flow tests and public health advice for these individuals on keeping themselves safe. More information can be found in COVID-19: guidance for people whose immune system means they are at higher risk<em>,</em> updated on 13 November 2023, and is available at the following link:<br> <br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-people-whose-immune-system-means-they-are-at-higher-risk/covid-19-guidance-for-people-whose-immune-system-means-they-are-at-higher-risk" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-people-whose-immune-system-means-they-are-at-higher-risk/covid-19-guidance-for-people-whose-immune-system-means-they-are-at-higher-risk</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 20/12/2023 17:13:28 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 8846 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1678065

registered interest
date	14/12/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Religion: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make a comparative assessment of the number of Ofsted deep dives by core subject; and if she will take steps to increase the number of deep dives on religious education.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	7058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2023 answer text <p>This is a matter for His Majesty’s Chief Inspector. I have asked the Chief Inspector to write to the hon. Member for York Central directly and a copy of that reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 19/12/2023 15:53:49 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1678066

registered interest
date	14/12/2023
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	Dental Services and Prescriptions: Pregnancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number of maternity exemption certificates that were issued in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	7091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of maternity exemption certificates issued between 2019 and 2023 to date:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar Year</p></td><td><p>Maternity Exemption Certificates Issued</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>483,299</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>444,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>463,214</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>471,603</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2023 (as of 15 December)</p></td><td><p>524,279</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Business Services Authority</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 20/12/2023 17:41:09 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi