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1736985

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date	24/10/2024
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	British National (Overseas): Diplomatic Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that Hongkongers who have (a) arrived in the UK under the BN(O) scheme and (b) will be naturalised as British citizens have access to UK (i) consulates and (ii) consular services.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	11054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2024 answer text <p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) provides consular assistance to British nationals abroad. This includes British Nationals (Overseas) who, under the Memoranda to the Joint Declaration, are eligible for consular assistance in third countries, but not in Hong Kong, Macao or mainland China. The help we can provide to dual nationals depends on the circumstances and the agreement of the country of the individual's other nationality. China does not recognise dual nationality and considers anyone born in China to a Chinese parent Chinese. This applies to all British citizens travelling to China including those naturalised under the BN(O) scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Friern Barnet answering member printed Catherine West question first answered 30/10/2024 17:55:21 answering member 4523 label Biography information for Catherine West
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1736196

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Misuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies on tackling drug-related harms of all of the recommendations made by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs between 2010 and 2014.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	10493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2024 answer text <p>The Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention met the Chair of the ACMD, Professor Owen Bowden-Jones on the 29<sup>th</sup> October 2024, as part of this Government’s wider work on tackling the harms associated with drug misuse.</p><p>Regular meetings with the ACMD or its Chair will be held as appropriate, in accordance with the important work it does in assessing the evidence of drug harms.</p><p>The government will consider outstanding and forthcoming reports carefully.</p><p>The ACMD is independent. The publication of its annual report is a matter for the ACMD.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson grouped question UIN 10494 10495 question first answered 30/10/2024 16:45:53 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1736197

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has not published an annual report since 2019; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of ensuring that the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs resumes publishing these reports.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	10494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2024 answer text <p>The Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention met the Chair of the ACMD, Professor Owen Bowden-Jones on the 29<sup>th</sup> October 2024, as part of this Government’s wider work on tackling the harms associated with drug misuse.</p><p>Regular meetings with the ACMD or its Chair will be held as appropriate, in accordance with the important work it does in assessing the evidence of drug harms.</p><p>The government will consider outstanding and forthcoming reports carefully.</p><p>The ACMD is independent. The publication of its annual report is a matter for the ACMD.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson grouped question UIN 10493 10495 question first answered 30/10/2024 16:45:53 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1736198

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what meetings she has had with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs since 5 July 2024.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	10495
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2024 answer text <p>The Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention met the Chair of the ACMD, Professor Owen Bowden-Jones on the 29<sup>th</sup> October 2024, as part of this Government’s wider work on tackling the harms associated with drug misuse.</p><p>Regular meetings with the ACMD or its Chair will be held as appropriate, in accordance with the important work it does in assessing the evidence of drug harms.</p><p>The government will consider outstanding and forthcoming reports carefully.</p><p>The ACMD is independent. The publication of its annual report is a matter for the ACMD.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson grouped question UIN 10493 10494 question first answered 30/10/2024 16:45:53 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1736244

registered interest
date	22/10/2024
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	Hong Kong: Travel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to communicate the risks associated with travel to Hong Kong to Hongkongers who have (a) arrived in the UK under the BN(O) scheme and are (b) due to be naturalised as British citizens.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	10496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2024 answer text <p>FCDO's Travel Advice for Hong Kong explains that Hong Kong does not recognise dual nationality and anyone born in China to a Chinese national parent would be considered by authorities to be of Chinese nationality and treated as a Chinese citizen. Anyone with both British and Chinese nationality may be treated as a Chinese citizen by local authorities, even if they enter on a British passport. This advice applies to all British citizens travelling to Hong Kong, including those naturalised under the BN(O) scheme.</p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Friern Barnet answering member printed Catherine West question first answered 30/10/2024 17:49:39 answering member 4523 label Biography information for Catherine West
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1735447

registered interest
date	18/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will ask the Office for Budget Responsibility to review its (a) price elasticity of demand and (b) other forecasting methodology for alcohol duty revenues.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	9952
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>The OBR regularly reviews its forecasting methodology. Its forecast is informed by economic factors including real household consumption and underlying trends in alcohol consumption.</p><p>The OBR published updated price elasticities for alcohol in July 2024.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 28/10/2024 16:58:43 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1735448

registered interest
date	18/10/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Alcoholic Drinks: Excise Duties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to end the duty stamps scheme.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	9953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2024 answer text <p>The government will set out plans for the future of Alcohol Duty Stamps in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ealing North answering member printed James Murray question first answered 28/10/2024 16:48:21 answering member 4797 label Biography information for James Murray
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1735152

registered interest
date	17/10/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Fires
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of fires that have been caused by the batteries of (a) e-scooters and (b) e-bikes in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	9791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2024 answer text <p>The Home Office collects data on incidents attended by Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs), with this data including the cause of the fire and the source of ignition. This data is published in a variety of publications, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fire-statistics" target="_blank">Fire statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>Data collected through the Incident Recording System (IRS) does not include data on whether fire incidents attended were caused by or involved batteries of either e-bikes or e-scooters..</p><p>We are reviewing the IRS, and the data it collects, and considering what categories to record in the future. Adding new categories, including lithium-ion batteries, electric vehicles, e-scooters and e-bikes, to the data collection will be considered as part of the work to reform the IRS with a modern, secure, and flexible system.</p> answering member constituency Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham answering member printed Dame Diana Johnson question first answered 24/10/2024 11:29:01 answering member 1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1734921

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
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	Personal Independence Payment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress her Department has made on reviewing the fairness of PIP assessments.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	9647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2024 answer text <p>The Department is not currently undertaking a review of the fairness of Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments.</p><p> </p><p>PIP is designed to treat all claimants fairly, focusing on the needs arising from a long-term health condition or disability, rather than the condition itself. Individuals can be impacted by their health conditions in different ways, so the PIP assessment considers the needs of each individual claimant against the assessment criteria set out in legislation, regardless of whether those needs relate to a physical or non-physical impairment.</p><p> </p><p>DWP has set standards for the quality of assessments and closely monitors all aspects of the process including the performance of the assessment suppliers. Our audit process considers the initial review, evidence collection, further evidence provided, and the advice within the assessment report completed by a health professional (HP). The check is completed against a set of guidelines to ensure a consistent approach is taken. This ensures that assessment reports are fit for purpose, clinically justified and sound, and provide sufficient information for the department to make an informed decision on entitlement to benefit.</p><p> </p><p>All assessment suppliers work with the department on plans to continuously improve assessment quality through a range of measures including audit procedures, clinical observations, tailored training and development plans, providing feedback and in the support available to HPs.</p><p> </p><p>All claimants have the right to request a Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) if they disagree with their PIP decision. If they disagree with the outcome of their MR, they are able to appeal to an independent tribunal.</p><p> </p><p>We are exploring potential changes to modernise the PIP service to improve claimants’ experience and trust in our services and decisions. We will set out the detail of any changes in due course.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency East Ham answering member printed Sir Stephen Timms question first answered 25/10/2024 10:01:02 answering member 163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1734945

registered interest
date	16/10/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Educational Institutions: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to embed a Whole Education Approach to mental health and wellbeing in all education settings.
tabling member constituency	Warrington North
tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
uin	9671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2024 answer text <p>​​The government is committed to improving mental health outcomes for all children and young people, as this is critical to breaking down barriers to opportunity and learning.</p><p>The department, along with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, provides guidance to schools and colleges on a whole school or college approach to promoting and supporting mental health and wellbeing, which can be found here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/614cc965d3bf7f718518029c/Promoting_children_and_young_people_s_mental_health_and_wellbeing.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/614cc965d3bf7f718518029c/Promoting_children_and_young_people_s_mental_health_and_wellbeing.pdf</a>. The department has also provided a free to access resource hub for mental health leads, which can be found here: <a href="https://www.mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/whole-school-or-college-resources/" target="_blank">https://www.mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/whole-school-or-college-resources/</a>.</p><p>Over 70% of all schools and colleges have accessed grants from the department to train a senior mental health lead, who develops their knowledge and skills to embed a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing. Information is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/senior-mental-health-lead-training" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/senior-mental-health-lead-training</a>. In addition, as of April 2024, Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) cover 44% (4.2 million) of pupils in schools and learners in further education (FE) in England. Coverage of MHSTs is expected to cover at least 50% by the end of March 2025.</p><p>A key part of our approach is ensuring the right support is available to every young person that needs it, which is why we have committed to provide access to specialist mental health professionals in every school. The government will also be putting in place new Young Futures hubs, including access to mental health support workers, and will recruit an additional 8,500 new mental health staff to treat children and adults.</p><p>For early years settings, the early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework sets the standards and requirements that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children have the best start in life and are kept healthy and safe. The EYFS statutory framework can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2</a>.</p><p>The department works closely with the FE sector to support providers to develop and implement a whole college approach to mental health and wellbeing. This is supported by the Association of Colleges refreshed Mental Health and Wellbeing Charter, which was published in March 2024.</p><p>To raise standards in the higher education sector, the Office for Students has provided £400,000 of funding to the student mental health charity, Student Minds. This has enabled significant expansion of the University Mental Health Charter Programme, with 113 universities now signed up. The programme helps universities to adopt a whole institution approach to mental health.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Portsmouth South answering member printed Stephen Morgan grouped question UIN 9423 9442 question first answered 25/10/2024 10:22:18 answering member 4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan
tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols