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1537154

registered interest
date	28/10/2022
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	Neurology
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 establish a taskforce to look at the (a) research, (b) workforce and (c) clinical needs of people who have a neurological condition.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	73865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2022 answer text <p>We have no plans to establish a taskforce to address the research, workforce and clinical needs of people with a neurological condition. The Department is committed to supporting those living with a neurological condition and the provision of services is a whole system responsibility across primary, secondary and specialist care in the National Health Service and social care. Specialised elements of neurology care are provided through the 25 specialised neurological treatment centres in England to ensure that those with more complex health needs receive the best possible care.</p><p>NHS England’s neuroscience transformation programme has worked with stakeholders, including patients and expert working groups to identify consensus on best practice, including principles on access to appropriate timely services for people with the range of neurological services. The transformation programme continues to work with patient groups and stakeholders to develop a new model for neurology services.</p><p> </p><p>The transformation programme will provide integrated care systems with the tools, information and resources such as the neurology data required to improve services, as systems assume joint or delegated responsibility for commissioning specialised neurology services from April 2023. In NHS England, patient and public voice partners are represented throughout the governance structure to ensure that the views of patients, carers and the public are addressed.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 29/11/2022 12:00:16 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1537230

registered interest
date	28/10/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Wetlands: Cambridgeshire
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the health of the remaining natural fenland in England, and (2) the prospects for the future.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL3012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>The most recent assessment of the health of natural fenland habitats in England was made in 2019 as part of UK reporting on the implementation of the EU Habitats Directive. Under the Directive member states are required to achieve Favourable Conservation Status - defined by range, extent, structure and function - for listed habitats of high conservation significance.</p><p>The results in Table 1 below show the United Kingdom's status, which is based on aggregation of data from the four countries.</p><p>Table 1</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Fen type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Conservation Status and Trend</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Future prospects</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Key areas in England</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transition mire and quaking bogs</p></td><td><p>Bad - stable</p></td><td><p>Bad</p></td><td><p>West Midlands, Cumbria, New Forest</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tall base-rich fens with saw sedge</p></td><td><p>Bad - improving</p></td><td><p>Bad</p></td><td><p>East Anglia - Broads, Fens</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Petrifying springs with tufa formation</p></td><td><p>Bad - deteriorating</p></td><td><p>Bad</p></td><td><p>North Pennines, Cotswolds, Yorkshire Dales</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Alkaline Fens</p></td><td><p>Bad - stable</p></td><td><p>Bad</p></td><td><p>Norfolk, Oxfordshire, North Yorkshire, Cumbria</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The future prospects of fens are inextricably linked to health of the wider water environment, in particular the restoration of more natural hydrological conditions in the sites and their catchments. Our environmental land management schemes will contribute to the health of fens, by improving water quality, air quality and biodiversity. The Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme, aims to restore 35,000 hectares of peatland, including fens, by 2025. We have launched the Sustainable Farming Incentive, which provides funding at a large scale for sustainable land management practices. Currently the Sustainable Farming Incentive includes actions for soil management, and we will be including more actions from 2023. Countryside Stewardship already pays for actions which will benefit fens. We are evolving Countryside Stewardship to make it more accessible, improving targeting and including additional actions. We will be publishing more detail shortly on the actions we expect to pay for in the future, including managing, restoring and creating wetland habitat such as fens, and actions to improve water quality. The Water Industry National Environment Programme will also contribute to the future of fens.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 19/01/2023 11:55:58 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

1536846

registered interest
date	27/10/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much funding (a) his Department allocated to and (b) was spent by the (i) Blue Planet Fund, (ii) Darwin Plus Overseas Territories Environment and Climate Fund and (iii) Darwin Initiative in each year since 2010; and how much funding his Department has allocated to each project in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	73123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>The requested information on allocation and spend for financial years 2010/11 to 2021/22 is provided in table 1 attached. Specific annual allocations for the Darwin Initiative, Darwin Plus and the Blue Planet Fund over the next five years will be subject to ministerial decisions and any future Spending Review. The Blue Planet Fund has a total anticipated budget of £500 million over at least five years delivered jointly by Defra and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and HM Government has committed to scaling up the Darwin Initiative and Darwin Plus.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 25/11/2022 13:50:01 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison attachment 1 file name PQ 73123 attachment.pdf title Table 1 – Allocations and spend
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1536333

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	River Wandle: Sewage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many times raw sewage has been released into the River Wandle in the past 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	72402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2022 answer text <p>This government has increased monitoring requirements on water companies to ensure greater transparency, requiring them to have event duration monitors on all Combined Sewer Overflows to enable spill counting. An annual report, which includes the number and duration of spills that occurred on the River Wandle in 2021, is available here: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenvironment.data.gov.uk%2Fdataset%2F21e15f12-0df8-4bfc-b763-45226c16a8ac&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpqteam%40defra.gov.uk%7C25c99f49a638426fadad08dad3cafa2a%7C770a245002274c6290c74e38537f1102%7C0%7C0%7C638055165972143372%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=vjOyVIeMLk1fif2Fe5c%2Frh5Gj5uFzP74Nwv33AXwYdg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Defra Data Services Platform</a></p> answering member constituency Taunton Deane answering member printed Rebecca Pow question first answered 02/12/2022 12:16:27 answering member 4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

1536357

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
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	Emergency Calls and NHS 111: Staff
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 call handlers there are for NHS (a) 111 and (b) 999 services in England.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	72333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>While NHS England collects information on the number of call handlers working in NHS 111 and 999 services, this information has not been centrally validated.</p><p>The Department’s policy paper ‘Our Plan for Patients’ outlined the aim of increasing the number of call handlers to 4,800 in NHS 111 and 2,500 in 999 by December 2022. This will help with the answering of 111 calls and dispatch of ambulances for those in greatest need following a call to 999.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 72339 question first answered 09/01/2023 15:56:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1536418

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
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	Emergency Calls and NHS 111: Staff
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 NHS 111 and 999 call handlers there were in October in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	72339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>While NHS England collects information on the number of call handlers working in NHS 111 and 999 services, this information has not been centrally validated.</p><p>The Department’s policy paper ‘Our Plan for Patients’ outlined the aim of increasing the number of call handlers to 4,800 in NHS 111 and 2,500 in 999 by December 2022. This will help with the answering of 111 calls and dispatch of ambulances for those in greatest need following a call to 999.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 72333 question first answered 09/01/2023 15:56:55 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1536436

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
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	Social Services: Finance
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 delay the charging reforms for social care in order to help Local Authorities to manage the costs and pressures of care delivery.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	72448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>We have listened to the concerns of local government and have taken the difficult decision to delay the planned adult social care charging reforms from October 2023 to October 2025. The funding intended for implementation will be retained in local authority budgets to meet current pressures.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 72449 question first answered 24/11/2022 12:41:57 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1536437

registered interest
date	26/10/2022
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	Social Services: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department will provide funding to fully cover the additional costs of (a) changing the social care charging regime and (b) increasing the number of people eligible for local authority care.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	72449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2022 answer text <p>We have listened to the concerns of local government and have taken the difficult decision to delay the planned adult social care charging reforms from October 2023 to October 2025. The funding intended for implementation will be retained in local authority budgets to meet current pressures.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 72448 question first answered 24/11/2022 12:41:57 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1535778

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she will respond to the correspondence of 17 January 2022 from the hon. Member for Angus on Guillain-Barré Syndrome, case reference DD5474.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Dave Doogan
uin	71273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>We have not received the hon. Member’s correspondence.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 01/12/2022 10:21:56 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 28792 answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4736 label Biography information for Dave Doogan

1536004

registered interest
date	25/10/2022
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when Government (a) Ministers and (b) Officials last held discussions with representatives of (i) the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCR) and (ii) the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on inclusion of (A) labour clauses or chapters and (B) the protection and promotion of human rights in trade agreements.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	Kenny MacAskill
uin	71282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2022 answer text <p>The Government has high regard for workers' rights, and we are clear that there will be no reduction in UK labour protections in signing up to new Free Trade Agreements. The UK takes our commitments to the International Labour Organization very seriously and encourage our partners to do the same.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the UK is a leading advocate for human rights around the world and we remain committed to the promotion of universal human rights. This is usually undertaken separately to negotiations on free trade agreements.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 23/11/2022 15:27:15 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4772 label Biography information for Kenny MacAskill