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1719416

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
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	Afghanistan: Women
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, whether he has made recent representations to the relevant authority in Afghanistan on the treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan, in the context of the resumption of stoning in that country.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	27154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>We have repeatedly condemned Taliban policies and actions that restrict the rights of Afghan women and girls, including through UN Security Council and Human Rights Council resolutions. Officials have directly raised the decision to impose capital and corporal punishments for certain so-called 'crimes' with Taliban leaders, and called on them to reverse the decision and the other discriminatory policies that target women and girls. We will continue to work with the international community to press the Taliban to alter course.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 23/05/2024 15:09:23 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1718479

registered interest
date	15/05/2024
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Equality Act 2010
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what recent progress she has made on assessing proposals to amend the Equality Act 2010 to clarify the protected characteristic of sex.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	26563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation. answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/05/2024 15:25:31 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1717545

registered interest
date	13/05/2024
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	Direct Marketing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of opt-out schemes for unsolicited mail through letterboxes; and whether her Department (a) is taking and (b) plans to take steps to (i) increase awareness of and (ii) strengthen existing schemes.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	25898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Royal Mail is legally obliged to deliver all addressed mail, including mail addressed ‘To the Occupier’ or ‘The Homeowner’. Royal Mail’s ‘door-to-door’ service should stop unaddressed mailings delivered by Royal Mail, around a quarter of all such mail.</p><p> </p><p>The UK’s data protection legislation sets out obligations on organisations processing personal data and provides individuals with certain rights in respect of their data, including the right to object to their personal data being processed for direct marketing purposes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also ensured the provision of consumer advice by providing funding for Citizens Advice, the independent consumer body, which provides free, independent and impartial advice on consumer issues and provides details of all the opt-out schemes available in relation to direct marketing on its website.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 21/05/2024 16:36:30 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1702287

registered interest
date	18/04/2024
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	Breastfeeding
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of increased rates of breastfeeding on cost savings for the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	22611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The public health benefits of breastfeeding for child and maternal health are significant and well established. Research published in the British Medical Journal suggests that increasing breastfeeding rates, both in terms of duration and exclusivity, is likely to generate substantial cost savings to the National Health Service, although the actual amounts saved will depend on the extent of this increase.</p><p>Through the Family Hubs and Start for Life Programme, we are investing £50 million to increase the range of specialist support, which is enabling more parents to access face-to-face and virtual support whenever they need it. One of the objectives of the programme is to improve the evidence base around the impact of breastfeeding interventions, and the specific combination of interventions that are effective in different circumstances. This is expected to strengthen the case for further, more widespread investment in the future.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/04/2024 11:32:06 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1692443

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken is from submission of application to granting of probate in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	16212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>HMCTS is focused on increasing outputs to reduce overall timeliness on all types of applications, and the average mean length of time taken for a grant of probate, from submission, is 12.6 weeks in the last 12 months (October 2022 to September 2023) and following receipt of the documents required, is 10.8 weeks. The probate service received record levels of applications during 2022 and this has continued to grow, with higher levels of receipts during January to September 2023 compared to the same period in 2022.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has increased staffing levels, streamlined internal processes and continued to invest in further improving the digital service.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, the number of grants issued for recent months has been at record levels, with around 16,000 more grants issued than applications received during the last four months (September to December 2023), using more recent management information published by HMCTS (which does not go through the same level of quality assurance and analysis as the Family Court Statistics Quarterly).</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants are routinely published on GOV.UK via Family Court Statistics Quarterly, and currently cover the period up to September 2023: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 16213 question first answered 07/03/2024 14:20:58 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1692444

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probate
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for the granting of probate.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	16213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>HMCTS is focused on increasing outputs to reduce overall timeliness on all types of applications, and the average mean length of time taken for a grant of probate, from submission, is 12.6 weeks in the last 12 months (October 2022 to September 2023) and following receipt of the documents required, is 10.8 weeks. The probate service received record levels of applications during 2022 and this has continued to grow, with higher levels of receipts during January to September 2023 compared to the same period in 2022.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS has increased staffing levels, streamlined internal processes and continued to invest in further improving the digital service.</p><p> </p><p>As a result, the number of grants issued for recent months has been at record levels, with around 16,000 more grants issued than applications received during the last four months (September to December 2023), using more recent management information published by HMCTS (which does not go through the same level of quality assurance and analysis as the Family Court Statistics Quarterly).</p><p>Average waiting times for probate grants are routinely published on GOV.UK via Family Court Statistics Quarterly, and currently cover the period up to September 2023: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/family-court-statistics-quarterly</a>.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer grouped question UIN 16212 question first answered 07/03/2024 14:20:58 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1692446

registered interest
date	28/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) average and (b) target response time is from submitting an online complaint to HM Courts and Tribunal Service.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	16215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>In the period July 2023 – December 2023 the average response time for complaints submitted online was 20.3 working days.</p><p>HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) acknowledges the complaint on receipt and our aim is to respond within 10 working days.</p><p>All parts of the organisation have processes in place to flag and monitor the progress of complaint responses, but timeliness can sometimes be impacted by the level of enquiry or investigation required to enable substantive response, or by the need for administrative teams to focus temporarily on higher service delivery priorities e.g. order production.</p><p>Where staff capacity or capability is identified as a primary cause of delay, steps will always be taken to address, whether targeted training or recruitment to bring staffing up to funded headcount.</p><p>HMCTS has established a dedicated project to focus on the causes of dissatisfaction/complaints, to identify root cause and improve user experience and therefore reduce the number of, and time taken to respond to complaints.</p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 07/03/2024 14:22:37 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1689180

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Drugs: Shortages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment she has made of trends in the total number of medicine shortages recorded by her Department in January (a) 2021, (b) 2022, (c) 2023 and (d) 2024.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	14113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>There are around 14,000 licensed medicines, and the overwhelming majority are in good supply. However, the medicine supply chain is highly regulated, complex and global, and supply disruption is a common issue which affects countries all around the world.</p><p>The Department’s medicine Discontinuations and Shortages portal has been collecting notifications from suppliers of potential supply issues since October 2020, and shows that there were approximately:</p><p>- 90 supply issue notifications in January 2021;</p><p>- 110 supply issue notifications in January 2022;</p><p>- 170 supply issue notifications in January 2023; and</p><p>- 160 supply issue notifications in January 2024.</p><p>Although reporting does vary each month, annual notifications have remained fairly stable at approximately 1,600 supply issue notifications in 2022 and 2023. It is important to note that not all supply issue notifications will lead to a medicine shortage.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/02/2024 11:24:53 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1689181

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Parkinson's Disease: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions she has had with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on the average licensing approval decision timelines for (a) generic and (b) biosimilar medicines to treat Parkinson's disease.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	14114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is taking urgent action to deliver improvements to decision timescales in established medicines, including those indicated to treat Parkinson’s disease. Last week we approved additional licences for this critical area. Whilst no specific discussions have taken place between the MHRA and my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on this matter, we are taking significant steps to assess applications for medicine approval within statutory timeframes and will always prioritise applications according to public health need.</p><p>We are working to reduce timelines by bringing in additional resources and developing processes that will result in significantly improved response times, while protecting patient safety. The measures we are putting in place are already resulting in significant improvements, and we will continue to publish monthly updates providing applicants with transparent information on expected timescales. As an effective regulator, we are committed to the highest of standards of performance and delivering the right outcomes for patients and public health.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 14115 question first answered 27/02/2024 11:32:52 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi

1689182

registered interest
date	16/02/2024
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	Parkinson's Disease: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to reduce the time taken to license (a) generic and (b) biosimilar medicines to treat Parkinson's disease.
tabling member constituency	Gower
tabling member printed	Tonia Antoniazzi
uin	14115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is taking urgent action to deliver improvements to decision timescales in established medicines, including those indicated to treat Parkinson’s disease. Last week we approved additional licences for this critical area. Whilst no specific discussions have taken place between the MHRA and my Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on this matter, we are taking significant steps to assess applications for medicine approval within statutory timeframes and will always prioritise applications according to public health need.</p><p>We are working to reduce timelines by bringing in additional resources and developing processes that will result in significantly improved response times, while protecting patient safety. The measures we are putting in place are already resulting in significant improvements, and we will continue to publish monthly updates providing applicants with transparent information on expected timescales. As an effective regulator, we are committed to the highest of standards of performance and delivering the right outcomes for patients and public health.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 14114 question first answered 27/02/2024 11:32:52 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4623 label Biography information for Tonia Antoniazzi