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1653347

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date	17/07/2023
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	Psilocybin: Research
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 take steps to increase the level of research into the use of psilocybin for the treatment of (a) depression, (b) addiction and (c) other chronic conditions on health inequalities; and if he will take steps to fund research into the use of psilocybin.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	194303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department commissions research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), who have invested £1.1 million in a randomised controlled trial to examine if it is feasible, safe and effective to use psilocybin to treat people with treatment-resistant depression. NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including the use of psilocybin in the treatment of depression, addiction and other chronic conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p><p>NIHR infrastructure is supporting psilocybin research via the NIHR King’s Clinical Research Facility and the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre where researchers are developing and evaluating the efficacy and safety of psilocybin therapy for use in the National Health Service and other healthcare settings.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 20/07/2023 11:04:22 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1653351

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
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	Psilocybin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of psilocybin on the (a) health and (b) ability to work of people with long term health conditions; and whether his Department is taking steps to support research into these areas.
tabling member constituency	Reigate
tabling member printed	Crispin Blunt
uin	194307
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made by the Department for Work and Pensions of the potential impact of psilocybin on the health, or ability to work, of disabled people and people with long-term health conditions.</p><p> </p><p>The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), funded by the Department of Health and Social Care, welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health. This includes the potential impact of psilocybin on the health and ability to work of people with long-term health conditions. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.</p> answering member constituency Corby answering member printed Tom Pursglove question first answered 20/07/2023 10:20:01 answering member 4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove
tabling member	104 label Biography information for Crispin Blunt

1653354

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prison Accommodation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what his timeline is for delivering the 20,000 additional modern prison places announced by his Department on 18 February 2022.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	194333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>So far c.5,400 places have been delivered. This includes two new c.1,700 place prisons, HMP Five Wells, which opened last year, and HMP Fosse Way, which accepted its first prisoners at the end of May. At least 6,400 prison places are anticipated to be delivered by the end of May 2024, rising to over 8,000 by the end of May 2025, including places already delivered to date. In addition to these places, we have extended the lease at HMP Dartmoor, maintaining 680 places from December 2023.</p><p>Our prison builds are complex capital projects, which are being delivered within challenging market conditions. Securing planning permission is a significant factor in timelines; we have submitted planning appeals following refusal of three applications for sites in Lancashire, Leicestershire, and Buckinghamshire and await decisions. Given the planning appeals are ongoing and subject to a recovered decision by DLUHC, it would not be appropriate to comment further. If planning is successful, these prisons would open as soon as possible to meet the pressing demand on prison places.</p><p>We will push for earlier delivery of places wherever possible, and we are continuing to press ahead with further options to delivery capacity across the estate.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 20/07/2023 12:28:16 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1653356

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Railways: WiFi
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of a reduction in the provision of on-train WiFi on passengers using that service for (a) leisure and (b) business.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	194369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Our railways are currently not financially sustainable, and the Department has asked rail operators to provide the commercial case for retaining passenger facing Wi-Fi. A decision will be taken on a case by case basis once the responses have been analysed by the Department. This assessment will also review the potential impact on passengers using train services for leisure, commuting and business.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 20/07/2023 11:53:29 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1653369

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, What steps he is taking to reduce HMRC's response times to (a) individuals and (b) financial representatives.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	194337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>HMRC aims to improve customer service for both individuals and financial representatives through quicker and easier online services. For individuals, HMRC continues to add new services into the HMRC app and online offering, for example adding Child Benefit in 2023. For financial representatives, HMRC have created a new performance dashboard for agents to track claims/requests and inform their clients.</p><p> </p><p>Supporting those customers who can do so to move online will allow HMRC to improve telephone and post responses for customers with the most complex queries or those who are unable to access digital services.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC responds to the significant majority of calls to their Agent Dedicated Line within 10 minutes.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 20/07/2023 07:16:10 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1653372

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade to promote the Northern Ireland Investment Summit in September 2023
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	194339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office is working closely with the Department of Business and Trade as well as local Northern Ireland partners, including Invest NI, to showcase Northern Ireland’s strengths and opportunities on a global stage and secure transformational investments.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with business groups in Northern Ireland, as well as the wider diplomatic network to attract potential international investors to the NI Investment Summit 2023 and unlock opportunities for future investment that will strengthen economic growth across Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 20/07/2023 09:37:18 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1653375

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) new and (b) renewal applications for (i) general and (ii) specific Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation licences have not been processed by that Office.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	194375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Details of both general and specific licences issued by OFSI are set out in OFSI’s Annual Review, published each autumn.</p><p> </p><p>Please see <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116689/OFSI_Annual_Review_2021-22_10.11.22.pdf" target="_blank">2022 Annual Review</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 194376 question first answered 20/07/2023 11:45:29 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1653376

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many renewal applications for specific licences that are being processed by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation were submitted more than six months ago.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	194376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>Details of both general and specific licences issued by OFSI are set out in OFSI’s Annual Review, published each autumn.</p><p> </p><p>Please see <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116689/OFSI_Annual_Review_2021-22_10.11.22.pdf" target="_blank">2022 Annual Review</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen grouped question UIN 194375 question first answered 20/07/2023 11:45:29 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1653377

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
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	Electronic Cigarettes
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the UK delegation to the Tenth Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control will share with the World Health Organisation (a) the annual review of nicotine vaping commissioned by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and (b) other evidence on vaping produced by the UK academic community.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd West
tabling member printed	Mr David Jones
uin	194340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government has regularly set out our position on vaping at the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and will do so at the next conference in Panama in November 2023.</p><p>The latest ‘Vaping in England’ report published last year, which includes an array of evidence produced by the United Kingdom academic community, is publicly available online and has been shared with the World Health Organization Global Tobacco Regulators Forum.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 20/07/2023 08:23:05 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones

1653398

registered interest
date	17/07/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Rape: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to Recommendation 6 of the Joint Inspectorate’s Phase Two report into the police and Crown Prosecution Service response to rape, published in February 2022, what steps he has taken to gather quantitative and qualitative data on the use of special measures in rape cases; and if he will publish data on the (a) number and (b) proportion of rape cases prosecuted in England and Wales where special measures have been used from 1 September 2022 to 30 June 2023.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	194343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2023 answer text <p>We recently published a process evaluation of the implementation of the pre-recorded cross-examination special measure (also known as section 28) for complainants of sexual and modern slavery offences on gov.uk. This was a qualitative evaluation which explored witness and practitioner views and experiences of section 28 to understand whether the provision was working as intended.</p><p>Ministry of Justice analysts are currently scoping an impact analysis of section 28 which will give us further qualitative data on if the measure influences the outcomes and delivery in these cases or impacts on the functioning of the courts overall.</p><p>The Ministry of Justice currently holds limited quantitative data on the use of special measures in rape cases, however we expect this to improve following the rollout of the Common Platform, a digital case management system which will be able to record special measure applications. As such we are currently unable to publish data on the number or proportion of rape cases that used special measures. However, on the criminal justice delivery dashboard we have published data which shows 433 witnesses in adult rape cases gave evidence using section 28 between January 2021 and December 2022.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 20/07/2023 09:48:19 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry