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1672464

registered interest
date	22/11/2023
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	Israel: Hamas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent discussions he has had with his Israeli counterpart on Hamas’s placement of military infrastructure within civilian areas.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	3361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2023 answer text <p>It is clear that Hamas has put Palestinians at grave risk by embedding themselves in the civilian population, and Hamas has used civilians as human shields. The Foreign Secretary visited Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories on 23 November, where he met President Herzog, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Cohen and other senior Israeli interlocutors to discuss the conflict. However, we are not going to specifically comment on individual locations. Israel has a legitimate right to self-defence against Hamas but the Israel Defense Forces military actions in Gaza must be carried out in accordance with International Humanitarian Law and Israel must take all possible measures to protect civilians.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty question first answered 01/12/2023 14:43:55 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1672476

registered interest
date	22/11/2023
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	Agriculture: Land Use
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent estimate he has made of the acreage of farm land used for (a) housing development, (b) commercial development, (c) solar panels and (d) battery storage in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	3362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2023 answer text <p>Figures for 2019 onwards are derived using a revised methodology and are expressed as three-year totals. They are not directly comparable with figures for earlier years. Accordingly, the available information for the last three years for which figures are available for (a) and (b) is set out in the table below. Separate figures for (c) and (d) are not available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>Amount of land changing use (acres) <sup>(a)</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Period <sup>(b)</sup></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Change of use:</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p>Agriculture to residential</p></td><td><p>Agriculture to Industry and commerce</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>2019 to 2022<sup> (c)</sup></p></td><td><p>9,854</p></td><td><p>3,168</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><em>Source: DLUHC Land use change - hectarage statistics, (part of) Live Table P361 at </em><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fland-use-change-hectarage-2019-to-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CPS.Advisers%40levellingup.gov.uk%7C0a8b0e136ba643b45f6f08dbf24def18%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638370188759755101%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=0QAVk%2BGuG0Q5K5j8jK%2BI33jWrmTAY4HtoXHBkL7NbxA%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/land-use-change-hectarage-2019-to-2022</em></a></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Notes:</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>(a) Figures are published in hectares and have been converted into acres for this table.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley question first answered 01/12/2023 13:47:53 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1672478

registered interest
date	22/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Roads: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of highways funding for (a) Buckinghamshire and (b) England.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	3363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>Local highway authorities across England are set to benefit from an £8.3 billion boost in funding for highway maintenance, the biggest ever increase in funding for local roads. This funding is in addition to local transport funding from the last Spending Review and in addition to what local authorities were expecting to receive. Buckinghamshire will receive a minimum additional overall uplift of £51 million between 2023-24 and 2033-34, which should allow it to make major improvements to the condition of its local roads.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 29/11/2023 13:10:54 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1650488

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Endoscopy: Thames Valley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of potential barriers to reducing endoscopy waiting lists in (a) Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System and (b) Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	192667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>£2.3 billion was awarded at the 2021 Spending Review to transform diagnostic services over the next three years to increase diagnostic capacity, including for endoscopy services. This funding will also increase the number of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) up to 160 by March 2025, including a number delivering endoscopy services.</p><p>In 2022/23, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (ICS) spent a total of £24,790,510 on all diagnostic services. Of this, £5,179,888 (21%), was spent on diagnostic endoscopy procedures at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.</p><p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for endoscopy services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. This is a shared ambition amongst ICSs, including Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS. Priorities are set locally through joint strategic needs assessments as part of joint forward plans across the ICS and partnering NHS trusts.</p><p>In October 2021, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS opened West Berkshire Community Hospital CDC. West Berkshire Community Hospital CDC has since delivered 4,492 additional endoscopy tests closer to people’s homes, supporting earlier access to endoscopy procedures. Additional endoscopy capacity from new CDCs within the ICS will also start to come onstream later this year. This includes North Bedfordshire CDC (Whitehouse Health Centre), which will be located in the Buckingham constituency. Endoscopy services at these CDCs may be offered to the Buckingham population where convenient, to improve their access to diagnostic care.</p><p>The Government has not made a recent assessment of the barriers to reducing endoscopy waiting lists in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS. It is the responsibility of individual ICSs to work with NHS England to understand local barriers to delivering the required diagnostics services, including endoscopy, and to implement appropriate waiting list solutions based on local need.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 192668 192735 question first answered 24/07/2023 12:44:25 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1650489

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Endoscopy: Thames Valley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System's diagnostic funding was spent on diagnostic endoscopy procedures in Buckinghamshire NHS Healthcare Trust in 2022-23.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	192668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>£2.3 billion was awarded at the 2021 Spending Review to transform diagnostic services over the next three years to increase diagnostic capacity, including for endoscopy services. This funding will also increase the number of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) up to 160 by March 2025, including a number delivering endoscopy services.</p><p>In 2022/23, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (ICS) spent a total of £24,790,510 on all diagnostic services. Of this, £5,179,888 (21%), was spent on diagnostic endoscopy procedures at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.</p><p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for endoscopy services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. This is a shared ambition amongst ICSs, including Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS. Priorities are set locally through joint strategic needs assessments as part of joint forward plans across the ICS and partnering NHS trusts.</p><p>In October 2021, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS opened West Berkshire Community Hospital CDC. West Berkshire Community Hospital CDC has since delivered 4,492 additional endoscopy tests closer to people’s homes, supporting earlier access to endoscopy procedures. Additional endoscopy capacity from new CDCs within the ICS will also start to come onstream later this year. This includes North Bedfordshire CDC (Whitehouse Health Centre), which will be located in the Buckingham constituency. Endoscopy services at these CDCs may be offered to the Buckingham population where convenient, to improve their access to diagnostic care.</p><p>The Government has not made a recent assessment of the barriers to reducing endoscopy waiting lists in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS. It is the responsibility of individual ICSs to work with NHS England to understand local barriers to delivering the required diagnostics services, including endoscopy, and to implement appropriate waiting list solutions based on local need.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 192667 192735 question first answered 24/07/2023 12:44:25 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1650490

registered interest
date	05/07/2023
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	Endoscopy: Buckingham
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 Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System plans to take to increase capacity levels for endoscopy procedures for patients in Buckingham constituency.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	192735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2023 answer text <p>£2.3 billion was awarded at the 2021 Spending Review to transform diagnostic services over the next three years to increase diagnostic capacity, including for endoscopy services. This funding will also increase the number of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) up to 160 by March 2025, including a number delivering endoscopy services.</p><p>In 2022/23, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care System (ICS) spent a total of £24,790,510 on all diagnostic services. Of this, £5,179,888 (21%), was spent on diagnostic endoscopy procedures at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.</p><p>Cutting National Health Service waiting lists, including for endoscopy services, is one of the Government’s top priorities. This is a shared ambition amongst ICSs, including Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS. Priorities are set locally through joint strategic needs assessments as part of joint forward plans across the ICS and partnering NHS trusts.</p><p>In October 2021, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS opened West Berkshire Community Hospital CDC. West Berkshire Community Hospital CDC has since delivered 4,492 additional endoscopy tests closer to people’s homes, supporting earlier access to endoscopy procedures. Additional endoscopy capacity from new CDCs within the ICS will also start to come onstream later this year. This includes North Bedfordshire CDC (Whitehouse Health Centre), which will be located in the Buckingham constituency. Endoscopy services at these CDCs may be offered to the Buckingham population where convenient, to improve their access to diagnostic care.</p><p>The Government has not made a recent assessment of the barriers to reducing endoscopy waiting lists in the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICS. It is the responsibility of individual ICSs to work with NHS England to understand local barriers to delivering the required diagnostics services, including endoscopy, and to implement appropriate waiting list solutions based on local need.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 192667 192668 question first answered 24/07/2023 12:44:25 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1645162

registered interest
date	15/06/2023
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	Rheumatology: Buckinghamshire
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the provision of rheumatology care in Buckinghamshire in the last (a) 12 and (b) 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	189916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. Rheumatology services are generally commissioned locally by integrated care boards which have a statutory responsibility to commission healthcare services that meet the needs of their whole population.</p><p>The Government has committed to publishing the Long-Term Workforce Plan shortly. This will include projections for the number of doctors, nurses and other professionals that will be needed. The plan will provide estimates of NHS workforce as a whole; however, it will not go into detail about condition-specific workforce, such as for rheumatology. The recruitment of staff for multi-disciplinary rheumatology teams is for local determination.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 189917 question first answered 23/06/2023 12:40:31 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1645164

registered interest
date	15/06/2023
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	Rheumatology: Health Professions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to increase the number of NHS staff providing rheumatology care in the (a) Buckinghamshire, (b) Oxfordshire and (c) West Berkshire Integrated Care Board area and (d) England.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	189917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. Rheumatology services are generally commissioned locally by integrated care boards which have a statutory responsibility to commission healthcare services that meet the needs of their whole population.</p><p>The Government has committed to publishing the Long-Term Workforce Plan shortly. This will include projections for the number of doctors, nurses and other professionals that will be needed. The plan will provide estimates of NHS workforce as a whole; however, it will not go into detail about condition-specific workforce, such as for rheumatology. The recruitment of staff for multi-disciplinary rheumatology teams is for local determination.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 189916 question first answered 23/06/2023 12:40:31 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1645165

registered interest
date	15/06/2023
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	Rheumatology: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps his Department is taking to help increase the number of (a) doctors, (b) nurses and (c) Allied Health Professionals entering specialist rheumatology training.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	189918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2023 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 30 May 2023 to Question 185980.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/06/2023 13:52:51 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1644308

registered interest
date	13/06/2023
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	Radiology: South East
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 tackle the impact of the shortfall in clinical radiology consultants in the South East region on (a) diagnostic waiting times, (b) patient outcomes and (c) staff wellbeing in the region.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	189404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2023 answer text <p>In the South East region, local systems are taking steps to address diagnostic waiting times, patient outcomes and staff wellbeing in the area. These include initiatives such as upskilling other staff such as radiographers to undertake advanced practice; investing over £40 million in digital infrastructure while working with industry partners around artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions; rolling out the i-refer system to support general practitioners (GPs) to appropriately refer for imaging tests; creating imaging networks to enable departments to provide mutual support and aid across the region.</p><p>£2.3 billion was awarded at Spending Review 2021 to transform diagnostic services over the next three years including increasing the number of Community Diagnostic Centres up to 160 by March 2025. This investment will support the ambition for 75% of patients with an urgent GP referral for suspected cancer to be diagnosed or have cancer ruled out within 28 days by March 2024. This is in line with to NHS Long Term Plan ambitions on early diagnosis and improving patient outcomes.</p><p>The health and wellbeing of National Health Service staff is taken seriously, and NHS England have put in place a wide ranging package of support for NHS staff. This includes emotional and psychological health and wellbeing support.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 189406 question first answered 05/07/2023 12:41:05 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith