Luke Evans MP: written questions
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British Coal Staff Superannuation SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41138More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether he has had recent discussions with his officials on the potential merits of transferring the British Coal Superannuation Scheme to its members.
Answer: I have asked my officials to consider the impacts of proposals put forward by the British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme Trustees.
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41137More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35774 on Pension Credit: Staff, if she will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of using (a) external providers and (b) external recruitm
Answer: My previous response (UIN 35775) advised we had deployed over 500 additional staff through a combination of internal redeployments, use of external providers and external recruitment. The 24/25 forecast cost of (a) external providers is £1.9 million, and ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPension Credit: StaffDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41134More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 11 March 2025 to Question 35774 on Pension Credit: Staff, what steps she is taking to ensure that the work previously undertaken by internal redeployed staff is continued.
Answer: My previous response reference 36448, advised redeployed colleagues to support Pension Credit were from Child Maintenance Service and Counter Fraud, Compliance and Debt. Since the redeployment, both services have continued with no deterioration in service...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMusic: Young PeopleDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40672More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory bodies her Department has consulted on opportunities for grassroots music collaboration as part of the national youth strategy.
Answer: We are developing a new National Youth Strategy with young people and cross-sector experts, and have set up a Youth Advisory Group and Expert Advisory Group as part of this engagement. Members of our Expert Advisory Group have a range of different profess...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40671More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans to use external consultants to support the transfer of NHS England responsibilities to his Department.
Answer: Ministers and senior Department officials will work with the new transformation team at the top of NHS England, led by Sir Jim Mackey, to determine the structure and requirements of the team required to support the creation of a new centre for health and ...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPlaying Fields: PlanningMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has made an assessment of the contribution of statutory planning consultees in protecting the role of playing fields for sports and exercise.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 10 March 2025 (HCWS510).
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSpeech and Language Therapy: Labour Turnover and RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the (a) recruitment and (b) retention of speech and language therapists.
Answer: Decisions about recruitment are matters for individual National Health Service employers. NHS trusts manage their recruitment at a local level, ensuring they have the right number of staff in place, with the right skill mix, to deliver safe and effective ...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordSpeech and Language TherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40611More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to speech and language therapy.
Answer: We inherited a broken National Health Service with waiting times across all areas unacceptably high. In his investigation into the NHS in England, Lord Darzi highlighted the crisis in children’s community services with too many children waiting too long f...
Answered 9 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: Employers' ContributionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40610More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an estimate of the cost to community pharmacies of the proposed increase in employer National Insurance contributions from April 2025.
Answer: NHS England commissioned Frontier Economics to undertake an independent economic analysis of National Health Service pharmacy funding in 2024. This report was published on 28 March 2025. We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the publ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: Living WageDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40609More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to community pharmacies of the proposed increase in the National Living Wage from April 2025.
Answer: NHS England commissioned Frontier Economics to undertake an independent economic analysis of National Health Service pharmacy funding in 2024. This report was published on 28 March 2025. We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the publ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: ContractsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40603More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Written Statement of 3 March 2025 on the Outcome of the 25-26 GP Contract consultation, HCWS486, which 32 targets will his Department remove from GPs.
Answer: For the 2025/26 GP Contract year, the 32 Quality and Outcomes Framework indicators that were income-protected for 2024/2025 have been permanently retired. The 32 permanently retired indicators are listed in Annex B at the following link:https://www.englan...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Consultants and General PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40602More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the minimum tapered annual allowance on trends in the levels of extra work taken on by (a) GPs and (b) consultants.
Answer: From 6 April 2023, the standard annual allowance threshold increased from £40,000 to £60,000, giving individuals scope for greater tax-free pension growth. The tapered annual allowance further restricts the amount of tax-free pension saving available to t...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: Consultants and General PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40601More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the annual allowance threshold on trends in the levels of extra work taken on by (a) GPs and (b) consultants.
Answer: From 6 April 2023, the standard annual allowance threshold increased from £40,000 to £60,000, giving individuals scope for greater tax-free pension growth. The tapered annual allowance further restricts the amount of tax-free pension saving available to t...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: Labour TurnoverDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40600More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support the retention of GPs.
Answer: We are investing an additional £889 million through the GP Contract to reinforce the front door of the National Health Service, bringing total spend on the GP Contract to £13.2 billion in 2025/26. This is the biggest increase in over a decade.Under recent...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40598More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 March 2025 to Question 33084 on Pharmacy: Finance, when he plans to publish the independent economic analysis of National Health Service pharmacy funding.
Answer: NHS England commissioned Frontier Economics to undertake an independent economic analysis of National Health Service pharmacy funding in 2024. This report was published on 28 March 2025. We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the publ...
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40597More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse is of staff being made redundant from NHS England.
Answer: As we work to return many of NHS England’s current functions to the Department, we will ensure that we continue to evaluate impacts of all kinds, and will consider carefully how any information is published. At this stage it is too early to say what the u...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40596More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the abolition of NHS England.
Answer: We recognise that there may be some short-term upfront costs as we undertake the integration of NHS England and the Department, but these costs and more will be recouped in future years as a result of a smaller, leaner centre. By the end of the process, w...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: RedundancyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40595More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish modelling outlining the estimated cost of staff being made redundant from NHS England.
Answer: As we work to return many of NHS England’s current functions to the Department, we will ensure that we continue to evaluate impacts of all kinds, and will consider carefully how any information is published. At this stage it is too early to say what the u...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40594More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 21 March 2025 to Question 38389 on NHS England and Question 38390 on NHS England: Redundancy Pay, if he will publish modelling outlining (a) how the short-term upfront co
Answer: As we work to return many of NHS England’s current functions to the Department, we will ensure that we continue to evaluate impacts of all kinds, and will consider carefully how any information is published. At this stage it is too early to say what the u...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40593More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 21 March 2025 to Question 38389 on NHS England and Question 38390 on NHS England: Redundancy Pay, what the short-term upfront costs of integrating NHS England and his Dep
Answer: As we work to return many of NHS England’s current functions to the Department, we will ensure that we continue to evaluate impacts of all kinds, and will consider carefully how any information is published. At this stage it is too early to say what the u...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40282More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his interview with BBC Radio 5 Live on 28 February 2025, if he will publish the data showing that 900 new GPs have been employed since July 2024.
Answer: Data on the number of general practitioners in the workforce is available through the General Practice Workforce series of Official Statistics, at the following link: https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/general-and-persona...
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39571More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the level of (a) importance of the Adoption and Special Guardian Support Fund to families with adopted children and (b) funding provided to families out of the Fund in the last r
Answer: As part of spending review discussions, there are regular conversations between the department and His Majesty’s Treasury. We will shortly be finalising business planning decisions on how we will allocate the department’s budget for the next financial yea...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39570More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure the continuance of the funding for the Adoption and Special Guardian Support Fund after March 2025.
Answer: As part of spending review discussions, there are regular conversations between the department and His Majesty’s Treasury. We will shortly be finalising business planning decisions on how we will allocate the department’s budget for the next financial yea...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAdoption and Special Guardianship Support FundDepartment for EducationTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39569More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she is having with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the future of the Adoption and Special Guardian Support Fund.
Answer: As part of spending review discussions, there are regular conversations between the department and His Majesty’s Treasury. We will shortly be finalising business planning decisions on how we will allocate the department’s budget for the next financial yea...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS England: Redundancy PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38390More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse is of the redundancy package for staff being made redundant from NHS England.
Answer: We recognise there may be some short-term upfront costs as we undertake the integration of NHS England and the Department but these costs and more will be recouped in future years because of a smaller and leaner centre. By the end of the process, we estim...
Answered 21 Mar 2025
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