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1756107

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	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	Accident and Emergency Departments: Cheshire and Merseyside
	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 he has made of the average waiting times in Accident and Emergency for each Acute Hospital Trust in the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB area.
	tabling member constituency	Widnes and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24414
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2025 answer text <p>Information on accident and emergency performance is published monthly by NHS England. The headline metric used is the four-hour accident and emergency waiting time standard. This data is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/</a></p><p>Provisional data is published on median average waiting times in emergency departments by National Health Service provider. This data is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/provisional-accident-and-emergency-quality-indicators-for-england" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/provisional-accident-and-emergency-quality-indicators-for-england</a></p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 21/01/2025 10:03:55 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1756108

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	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	Hospital Beds: Cheshire and Merseyside
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the bed occupancy rate is in each Acute Hospital Trust in the Cheshire and Merseyside ICB area.
	tabling member constituency	Widnes and Halewood
	tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24415
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2025 answer text <p>Bed occupancy rates for each National Health Service trust are published monthly by NHS England. The latest data is for December 2024, and is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy/bed-data-overnight/" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy/bed-data-overnight/</a></p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 21/01/2025 10:02:31 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1756109

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help tackle barriers to export for small businesses.
	tabling member constituency	South Shropshire
	tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24476
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2025 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is committed to supporting small businesses grow and export. UK businesses can access DBT’s wealth of export support via Great.gov.uk. This comprises an online support offer and a wider network of support including the Export Academy, UK Export Finance, the International Markets network and one-to-one support from International Trade Advisers.</p><p> </p><p>DBT is also piloting an enhanced partnership with Greater Manchester Combined Authority, taking a targeted place-based approach to accelerate small business growth through exporting across the region. This will be rolled out to other regions across England over the next 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>We will bring forward further measures in due course.</p> answering member constituency Harrow West answering member printed Gareth Thomas question first answered 20/01/2025 15:11:06 answering member 177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas
	tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1756115

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	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	Suicide: Health Services
	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 publish a yearly evaluation of the suicide prevention training programme; and what steps he is taking to ensure (a) transparency and (b) accountability in the programme.
	tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
	tabling member printed	Paul Davies
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24604
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2025 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s mission to build a National Health Service fit for the future, we have set out our commitment to deliver a renewed drive to tackle the biggest killers, including suicide, while ensuring people live well for longer. As part of this, an additional 8,500 mental health workers will be recruited across children and adult mental health services, and those new workers will be specially trained to support people at risk.</p><p>We recognise that bringing in the staff needed will take time, as will ensuring they have the necessary training. We are working to develop a plan to deliver this expansion of the mental health workforce, including where they should be deployed to achieve maximum effect.</p><p>The NHS is committed to ensuring that all healthcare professionals receive the necessary mental health training to meet the current and future needs of patients. In September 2023, NHS England published its suicide prevention toolkit for NHS staff to use.</p> answering member constituency Aberafan Maesteg answering member printed Stephen Kinnock question first answered 21/01/2025 09:20:55 answering member 4359 label Biography information for Stephen Kinnock
	tabling member	5317

1756118

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing VAT on school uniforms.
	tabling member constituency	Tunbridge Wells
	tabling member printed	Mike Martin
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24579
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2025 answer text <p>VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. VAT is the UK’s second largest tax forecast to raise £171 billion in 2024/25. Taxation is a vital source of revenue that helps to fund vital public services including schools and hospitals.</p><p>Children’s clothing designed for young children, including branded school uniform, already benefits from VAT relief. To ensure that this relief is carefully targeted this relief is limited to clothing designed and labelled for children under the age of 14.</p><p>Increasing the scope of this VAT relief to all school uniform would come at a cost to the Exchequer, with no guarantee that any reliefs would be passed on to consumers. We therefore have no plans to make changes here.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 21/01/2025 17:03:29 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
	tabling member	5219

1756127

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools: Uniforms
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of section 23 of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill on schools' ability to participate in team sports.
	tabling member constituency	Tunbridge Wells
	tabling member printed	Mike Martin
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24580
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2025 answer text <p>School uniforms play a valuable role in creating a sense of common identity among pupils and reducing visible inequalities, however, too many schools require high numbers of branded uniform items which creates a significant cost burden for families. This is why the department has introduced legislation to limit the number of branded items of uniform and physical education (PE) kit that schools can require, to bring down costs for parents and remove barriers from children accessing sport and other school activities. This will give parents more choice in where to purchase uniform and allow them greater flexibility to make the spending decisions that suit their circumstances.</p><p>​The department expects schools to ensure that all pupils can participate in all aspects of school life, including PE and sport. No pupil should be discouraged from participating in any aspect of school life, such as team sports or interschool competitions, because of the cost of additional uniform requirements. This limit allows school leaders to prioritise branding the uniform and PE kit items which best reflect the needs of their school, whilst reducing costs for parents.</p><p>​Our statutory guidance on the ‘Cost of School Uniform’ already requires schools to avoid being overly specific in their kit requirements for different sports and keep the number of items, particularly the number of branded items, to a minimum. Research also tells us that the more choice that girls in particular have over what to wear for PE, the more comfortable they are and the greater the likelihood of their long term participation in sport. The research is available at the following link: <a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/43602/documents/216689/default/" target="_blank">https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/43602/documents/216689/default/</a>.</p><p>Schools will still be free to loan out specific competition kit where appropriate, however, the cost of PE and sports kit should never be a barrier to participation in PE and sport, and that is why this measure is needed.</p> answering member constituency Newcastle upon Tyne North answering member printed Catherine McKinnell question first answered 21/01/2025 14:44:49 answering member 4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell
	tabling member	5219

1756135

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	217
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Tourism: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the proposal by the Welsh government to enable local authorities to charge a visitor levy.
	tabling member constituency	Meriden and Solihull East
	tabling member printed	Saqib Bhatti
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2025 answer text <p>Tourism is a devolved policy matter and we work closely with the Devolved Administrations. My department will carefully monitor the proposal by the Welsh government. Tax policy is a matter for HM Treasury and there are currently no plans to introduce a similar tax in England.</p> answering member constituency Rhondda and Ogmore answering member printed Chris Bryant question first answered 21/01/2025 17:05:46 answering member 1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant
	tabling member	4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti

1756150

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	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 he plans to reply to correspondence of 19 November 2024 from the hon. Member for Newton Abbott on his constituent Hall. A.
	tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
	tabling member printed	Martin Wrigley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24541
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2025 answer text <p>I replied to the hon. Member’s letter on 12 December 2024 with Departmental reference PO-1548072.</p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth question first answered 21/01/2025 10:05:14 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	5111

1756153

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	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	Cancer: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England's news entitled Early cancer diagnosis in England reaches highest ever level, published on 2 January 2025, whether data on the number of cancers diagnosed at (a) Stage 1 and (b) Stage 2 is collected by cancer type.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24459
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2025 answer text <p>Data on the number of all stageable cancers diagnosed at both stage 1 and stage 2 are collected by cancer type. This data is compiled by the National Disease Registration Service and published by NHS England, with more information available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 24460 question first answered 21/01/2025 10:02:18 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1756154

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2025
	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	Cancer: Diagnosis
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NHS England's news entitled Early cancer diagnosis in England reaches highest ever level, published on 2 January 2025, if he will publish data on the number of cancers diagnosed at (a) Stage 1 and (b) Stage 2 by cancer type for each of the last five years for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	24460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2025 answer text <p>Data on the number of all stageable cancers diagnosed at both stage 1 and stage 2 are collected by cancer type. This data is compiled by the National Disease Registration Service and published by NHS England, with more information available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cancer-registration-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Bristol South answering member printed Karin Smyth grouped question UIN 24459 question first answered 21/01/2025 10:02:18 answering member 4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse