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1666598

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Defibrillators: Disadvantaged
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 is taking to steps to help increase public access to defibrillators in areas of deprivation with a high incidence of cardiac arrest.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	203876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund will provide an estimated 1,000 new defibrillators across England, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.</p><p>As of 22 September 2022, community organisations can now apply for a grant to fund an AED for their local area. Applications for funding will be submitted to Smarter Society and the London Hearts Charity, who will assess each application, ensuring that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs.</p><p>All AEDs granted by the fund must be registered on The Circuit, which is the British Heart Foundation’s national defibrillator database.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203877 203878 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:04:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666599

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Defibrillators
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 his Department is taking to help ensure equal access to defibrillators across the country.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	203877
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund will provide an estimated 1,000 new defibrillators across England, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.</p><p>As of 22 September 2022, community organisations can now apply for a grant to fund an AED for their local area. Applications for funding will be submitted to Smarter Society and the London Hearts Charity, who will assess each application, ensuring that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs.</p><p>All AEDs granted by the fund must be registered on The Circuit, which is the British Heart Foundation’s national defibrillator database.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203876 203878 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:04:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666601

registered interest
date	23/10/2023
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	Defibrillators
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 is taking steps to ensure that public access defibrillators are registered on The Circuit.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	203878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s £1 million Community Automated External Defibrillators (AED) fund will provide an estimated 1,000 new defibrillators across England, with the potential for this to double as successful applicants will be asked to match the funding they receive partially or fully.</p><p>As of 22 September 2022, community organisations can now apply for a grant to fund an AED for their local area. Applications for funding will be submitted to Smarter Society and the London Hearts Charity, who will assess each application, ensuring that each AED is installed in areas where there is a clear need for the device such as high footfall areas or rural locations with extended ambulance response times. Priority will be given to applications that are considered a cardiac health hotspot with high levels of deprivation and low numbers of AEDs.</p><p>All AEDs granted by the fund must be registered on The Circuit, which is the British Heart Foundation’s national defibrillator database.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 203876 203877 question first answered 25/10/2023 14:04:18 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1666063

registered interest
date	19/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Wholesale Trade: Theft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of thefts of (a) tobacco and alcohol and (b) other stock within the wholesale sector; and if she will meet with the Federation of Wholesale Distributors to discuss steps to reduce these levels.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	203538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office collects and publishes data on the most commonly stolen items in theft incidents for all sectors, combined, as part of the Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS). The data was most recently published in May 2023 and is available at:</p><p><a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fstatistics%2Fcrime-against-businesses-findings-from-the-2022-commercial-victimisation-survey&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Cc480badf403a41e2a9e408dbd15de7a6%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638333973466370302%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=THL%2FoyAfuHnEt2aaHtFEwq%2BDmB9NXgROfoRTGBY2zRg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Crime against businesses: findings from the 2022 Commercial Victimisation Survey - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The sample size of the CVS is not large enough to yield reliable estimates and to assess trends in specific items that are stolen of the Wholesale sector specifically.</p><p>The Home Office works closely with retailers and trade organisations, and police partners via the National Retail Crime Steering Group (NRCSG) to ensure that the response to crimes affecting the retail sector is as robust as it can be. The Federation of Wholesale Distributors is represented on the NRCSG.</p><p>On a national level, the Home Office works closely with the police-led National Business Crime Centre (NBCC) to understand the crimes affecting businesses and help ensure businesses and police are working effectively together. The NBCC has published guidance on how to prevent wholesale and warehouse thefts on its website: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnbcc.police.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKhadijah.Ishaq%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C2b4a1044bd504c3183c708dbd15774a2%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638333945759937587%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=aSk5W%2FaAneCWSprHCzQk7%2BGHwu96%2FEw7RmKIMF0pdI8%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">NBCC National Business Crime Centre</a></p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 25/10/2023 11:19:07 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1664884

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
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 his policies of the recommendations in the report by the ONE campaign entitled Getting a grip: How the Home Office should improve refugee and asylum seeker welfare and protect UK aid.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	202578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office is tackling the asylum legacy caseload so that people can receive a decision and exit the system, either by returning to their home country, or granting them asylum so they can begin to make a contribution to the UK. We have already increased the number of decision makers to over 2,500 as of January 2023. We will continue to increase the number of caseworkers to help clear the asylum backlog by the end of 2023.</p><p>We are also improving the productivity, volumes, and speed of decision making so that people spend less time in asylum accommodation. We are streamlining and modernising the end-to-end process, with improved guidance, more focused and fewer interviews, enhancing use of digital technology, and we are introducing a more efficient approach to how claims are handled by decision makers. The aim is to clear initial asylum decisions relating to claims made before 28 June 2022, when the Nationality and Borders Act measures came into force, by the end of 2023.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to making every effort to reduce hotel use and limit the burden on the taxpayer. This is why we are delivering a range of alternative accommodation sites, maximising hotel space, operationalising the Illegal Migration Act and continuing our hard work to clear the asylum backlog by the end of the year.</p><p>In line with our response to the ICAI review, FCDO published the updated UK In-Donor Refugee Costs methodology report alongside our latest Statistics on International Development.</p><p>The full methodology report can be found here. Section 3 sets our the fit for purpose assessment and current data limitations.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 24/10/2023 15:38:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1664885

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
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	Development Aid
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 he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the use of foreign aid within the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	202579
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>In May 2023, the Minister for Development and Africa and Chief Secretary to the Treasury met with Ministerial counterparts, including the Minister for Immigration from the Home Office, as part of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) Board to discuss ODA pressures and have a deep dive into in-donor refugee costs.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 24/10/2023 16:15:26 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1664991

registered interest
date	16/10/2023
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	Dementia: Clinics
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 make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the recommendation on introducing a network of brain health clinics in the report by Alzheimer’s Research UK entitled Tipping Point: The Future of Dementia, published in September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	202685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The Government is strongly committed to supporting research into dementia. Through partnerships with patients, researchers, funders, and charities we continue to play a significant role in global efforts against the disease.</p><p>NHS England has read Alzheimer’s Research UK’s report with great interest and had already been aware, through partnership discussions, of the suggestion outlined in the report to introduce a network of new brain health clinics to work alongside existing dementia services. This is a model that NHS England, and local leaders within integrated care boards, will be able to consider if, for example, new disease modifying treatments for use in early Alzheimer’s disease are licensed and recommended by NICE for routine adoption within the National Health Service.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 23/10/2023 15:55:11 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1663426

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Maternity Rights
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 hold discussions with the Fire Brigades Union on its campaign for improved maternity rights in the Fire and Rescue Service.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	201280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>Setting fire pay and conditions, including setting a minimum national maternity entitlement, is the responsibility of employers, working through the National Joint Council.</p><p>The Home Office plays no role in the negotiation or funding of firefighter pay.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 201281 question first answered 23/10/2023 11:31:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1663427

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Fire and Rescue Services: Maternity Rights
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 of the Fire Brigades Union campaign for improved maternity rights in the Fire and Rescue Service; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	201281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>Setting fire pay and conditions, including setting a minimum national maternity entitlement, is the responsibility of employers, working through the National Joint Council.</p><p>The Home Office plays no role in the negotiation or funding of firefighter pay.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 201280 question first answered 23/10/2023 11:31:55 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1663525

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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	Pakistan: Religious Freedom
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 his Department is taking to help support religious minorities in Pakistan.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	201379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2023 answer text <p>The UK regularly engages with the Government of Pakistan at a senior level to promote minority rights and Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB). We prioritise our aid to achieve maximum impact for the people of Pakistan in line with our strategic priorities, including promoting FoRB. Our Accountability, Inclusion and Reducing Modern Slavery programme (£39.5 million over the period 2018-2024) brings together community leaders and minority representatives to promote tolerance. Our Hate Speech and Disinformation programme (£4.2 million over the period 2022-2025) is working to protect marginalised communities from hate speech online. The UK's programme of support for education has helped thousands of children from religious minorities attend school and gain skills (£130 million over the period 2023-2027). Our bilateral ODA (Official Development Assistance) budget in FY 23/24 is £41.5 million. This is set to more than triple, to £133 million, next year.</p> answering member constituency Aldershot answering member printed Leo Docherty grouped question UIN 201381 question first answered 23/10/2023 15:45:20 answering member 4600 label Biography information for Leo Docherty
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day