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1640436

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date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Solar Power: Congleton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure that investment in solar energy generation at factory sites in Congleton constituency are incentivised by the policies of the local electricity network operator.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	186834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with network companies to release network capacity and improve the connection process to reduce connection timescales, including for onsite solar generation. Ofgem has also reduced connection costs for ‘final demand’ users, such as factory sites installing onsite generation capacity below their maximum demand, by deciding that they should no longer be charged for distribution network reinforcement costs.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 05/06/2023 10:52:11 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce

1640440

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of an underspend in the primary dentistry budget on the availability of dentistry services.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	186838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>We have assessed the utilisation of underspends in National Health Service dentistry budgets on NHS dentistry services. NHS England has provided guidance for integrated care boards (ICBs) that requires dental funding to be ringfenced, with any unused resources re-directed to improve NHS dental access in the first instance. A schedule setting out the dental ringfence has been issued to ICBs. NHS England’s 2023/24 revenue finance and contracting guidance, which provides more detail, is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2023-24-revenue-finance-and-contracting-guidance/</a></p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 05/06/2023 10:52:51 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1640441

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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
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 he is taking to support dentists to take on new NHS patients.
tabling member constituency	Worsley and Eccles South
tabling member printed	Barbara Keeley
uin	186839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>In July 2022, we announced a package of dental system improvements to increase access for National Health Service dental patients and make NHS dentistry more attractive to practices.</p><p>NHS England has negotiated amendments to the NHS dental contract with the British Dental Association and other stakeholders. These improvements, which came into effect in November 2022, include enabling commissioning of up to 110% of contracted Units of Dental Activity to increase NHS care; fairer remuneration for practices providing complex treatment within current Band 2 treatments; and removing barriers around use of staff skills mix in NHS dentistry teams.</p><p>We will announce our plan for further reform of the NHS dental system later this year. It will outline a number of additional actions across a number of areas to support and recover NHS dentistry.</p> answering member constituency Harborough answering member printed Neil O'Brien question first answered 05/06/2023 10:43:54 answering member 4679 label Biography information for Neil O'Brien
tabling member	1588 label Biography information for Barbara Keeley

1640496

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept id	215
answering dept short name	Energy Security and Net Zero
answering dept sort name	Energy Security and Net Zero
hansard heading	Energy Bills Rebate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he is taking steps to ensure that persons in supported accommodation without bank accounts are able to receive payments under the Energy Bill Support Scheme.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	186869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The Energy Bills Support Scheme Alternative Funding is delivered by local authorities in Great Britain who are only able to make payments into UK current accounts. The Government has recommended throughout the scheme that any applicants who do not have a bank account open one to receive payment, such as opening a basic bank account, which are free to open. Appointees of eligible households can also apply on behalf of an applicant, using their appointee bank account details.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 05/06/2023 10:50:53 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1640561

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Witnesses: Video Recordings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time is between a case being reported where section 28 evidence is recorded and the start of trial where the evidence is presented to the court.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	186903
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/06/2023 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice does not hold information on the average length of time between a case being reported where section 28 evidence is recorded and the start of a trial where the evidence is presented to the court.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 05/06/2023 10:36:39 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1640668

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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	Food: Production
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to (1) maximise food production in the UK, and (2) enhance food security.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
uin	HL8148
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2023 answer text <p>The UK has a highly resilient food supply chain, as demonstrated throughout the Covid-19 response. It is well equipped to deal with situations with the potential to cause disruption.</p><p> </p><p>Our high degree of food security is built on supply from diverse sources; strong domestic production as well as imports through stable trade routes. We produce 61% of all the food we need, and 74% of food which we can grow or rear in the UK for all or part of the year, and these figures have changed little over the last 20 years.</p><p> </p><p>The Government committed to broadly maintain current levels of domestic food production in its Food Strategy, which also set out what we will do to create a more prosperous agri-food sector.</p><p> </p><p>We have taken several steps to support the long-term resilience and profitability of the agricultural sector. For example, we are making Direct Payments in England in two instalments each year for the remainder of the agricultural transition period, to help farmers with their cashflow; we are committed to spend around £600 million on grants and other support for farmers to invest in productivity, animal health and welfare, innovation over three years; and we have provided 10,000 farmers with help and advice through the Future Farming Resilience Fund, which provides farmers with free advice to help farmers work out what to do for their business.</p><p> </p><p>Recognising the importance of food security, in the Agriculture Act 2020, the Government made a commitment to produce an assessment of our food security at least once every three years. The first UK Food Security Report was published in December 2021. It recognises the contribution made by British farmers to our resilience and considers the UK's food supply sources overall, noting that domestic production and diversity of supply are both important to our food security. The next Food Security Report will be published in 2024.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 31/05/2023 13:06:40 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

1640683

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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	Food: Prices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of food inflation on family budgets in (1) Northern Ireland, (2) England, (3) Scotland, and (4) Wales.
tabling member printed	Lord Rogan
uin	HL8164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2023 answer text <p>Tackling inflation is this government’s number one priority, with a plan to more than halve inflation this year.</p><p> </p><p>Annual food price inflation, reported by the ONS, was 19.1% in April 2023. This was a decrease of 0.1 percentage points on the March 2023 rate. Overall CPI inflation decreased to 8.7% in April 2023 down from 10.1% in March 2023. The rate of food price inflation in the UK equalled the average rate for the EU in March 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The recent high levels of inflation have primarily been driven by higher energy prices and pressures on global supply chains and there are signs those are beginning to ease. Industry analyst expectations are that we are either at or approaching the food price inflation peak, from which point they expect food price inflation to gradually decrease over the remainder of 2023. We will need several more months of data to be confident that the fall this month is a reflection that the peak has already been reached.</p><p> </p><p>While we do not have individual data on food price inflation rates for the devolved nations, we do have some statistics from the Office of National Statistics on differences in average household spend for the different devolved nations. For the year from April 1st 2020 to March 31st 2021, UK households spent on average £64.90 on food and non-alcoholic beverages, compared to £65.50 for England, £62.20 for Wales, £60.10 for Scotland and £70 for NI. As a proportion of total expenditure, this was 11.7% for UK, 11.5% for England, 12.7% for Wales, 12.4% for Scotland and 14.6% for Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>The average impact of food inflation on household budgets within each of the devolved administrations will depend on both the relevant food inflation rate, and the proportion of total expenditure spend on food per household in that region.</p><p> </p><p>The Government understands the pressures people are facing with the current exceptionally high cost of living. To protect the most vulnerable from the worst of cost-of-living pressures, the Chancellor recently announced a package of targeted support worth £26 billion, which includes continued support for rising energy bills.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 02/06/2023 11:18:37 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	2478 label Biography information for Lord Rogan

1640684

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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	Nature Conservation: EU Law
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what are their current plans for exercising powers to be granted to them under the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Repeal) Bill in relation to the Habitats Directive.
tabling member printed	The Lord Bishop of St Albans
uin	HL8165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2023 answer text <p>Defra has been clear in its commitments to uphold and not weaken environmental protections. That is why our approach has always been to keep REUL, unless there is a good reason to either remove it from the statute book or reform it. That approach is now also reflected in the legislation, as the recently tabled Government amendment will mean that REUL is retained unless it is specifically cited in the revocation schedule. The Habitats Regulations are not on the schedule and therefore will not be revoked by the Bill. Defra is carefully considering the use of REUL Bill powers in the context of the Habitats Regulations.</p><p>We remain committed to our ambitious plans of the Net Zero Strategy and the Environment Improvement Plan 2023. We are clear that any REUL reform must be consistent with international obligations, including the various Multilateral Environment Agreements we are signatory to, such as the Bern Convention and the Convention on Biological Diversity.</p> answering member printed Lord Benyon question first answered 31/05/2023 12:53:06 answering member 1547 label Biography information for Lord Benyon
tabling member	4308 label Biography information for The Lord Bishop of St Albans