Paul Davies MP: written questions
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Cancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20761More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to ensure that the specific issues faced by teenagers and young adults with cancer are accounted for in the 10-Year Health Plan.
Answer: As part of the work to develop a 10-Year Health Plan, we will carefully be considering policies, including those that impact teenagers and young adults with cancer, with input from the public, patients, health staff, and our partners, as we develop the pl...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: HIV/AIDSMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Housing Act 1996 to help protect people living with HIV from housing discrimination.
Answer: All people diagnosed with HIV are already afforded the full protections from discrimination relating to the provision of housing or services under the Equality Act 2010. Landlords and agents may not victimise or discriminate against a person based on thei...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: HIV/AIDSMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19575More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department considers people living with HIV to have a priority need for housing.
Answer: Local authorities are required to give ‘reasonable preference’ (priority) for social housing to people who need to move on medical or welfare grounds. This includes people with chronic or progressive medical conditions such as HIV.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPoverty: KirkleesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the number of people dying in poverty in Kirklees.
Answer: The Department has noted the recommendations made in the report, and values Marie Curie as a key stakeholder which engages with us constructively in this area. The primary way the Department supports people nearing the end of life is through special benef...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWholesale Trade: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help protect wholesale workers from crime.
Answer: Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job and this Government is committed to taking retail crime seriously...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWholesale Trade: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18830More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce specific protections for wholesale workers.
Answer: Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job and this Government is committed to taking retail crime seriously...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWholesale Trade: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18829More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the levels of wholesale crime.
Answer: Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job and this Government is committed to taking retail crime seriously...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordYouth Custody: DiseasesMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17442More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing guidance to prisons on supporting children in custody in different pandemic scenarios.
Answer: The Youth Custody Service (part of HMPPS) works with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the Department for Education, and NHS England’s Health & Justice Children's Team to ensure a co-ordinated strategy for managing the health and wellbeing of chi...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordYouth Custody: DiseasesMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17441More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to develop a coordinated strategy for managing the health and wellbeing of children in custodial settings during future pandemics.
Answer: The Youth Custody Service (part of HMPPS) works with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the Department for Education, and NHS England’s Health & Justice Children's Team to ensure a co-ordinated strategy for managing the health and wellbeing of chi...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAlcoholism: DeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17440More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce alcohol-specific deaths.
Answer: A vital part of delivering the Health Mission shift to prevention will be action to reduce the health harms and resulting deaths from excess alcohol consumption. The Department is continuing to invest in improvements to local drug and alcohol treatment se...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAlcoholism and Drugs: DeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17439More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce death rates from (a) alcohol, (b) drugs and (c) suicide in (a) the North and (b) coastal regions.
Answer: A vital part of delivering the Health Mission shift to prevention will be action to reduce the number of deaths due to alcohol and drug use, especially in deprived areas. In England, rates of drug poisoning and drug misuse deaths have a marked north-south...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: PlanningCabinet OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17438More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to use evidence-based measures of community resilience for funding decisions.
Answer: The UK’s long standing resilience architecture is based upon the concept of subsidiarity, where local responders are best placed to identify the risks in their areas, understand the needs of their communities and to put appropriate plans and capability in...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: PlanningCabinet OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17437More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle regional inequalities in community resilience in the national resilience review.
Answer: The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster committed to undertaking a review of UK national resilience in his statement to the House of Commons on 19 July, in response to the Covid-19 Inquiry’s Module 1 report. The review is expected to conclude in Spring 2...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAutism: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17436More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure (a) teachers and (b) school staff have adequate (i) knowledge of and (ii) confidence in teaching autistic children.
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or in alternative provision receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. The department is...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Young PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure young people with SEND develop real skills for life.
Answer: For too long the education and care system has not met the needs of all children and young people, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve. ...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Young PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15358More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the national standards underpinning transitional support provided to young people with SEND.
Answer: For too long the education and care system has not met the needs of all children and young people, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve.T...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the commissioning of local children services to ensure that every young person with SEND has access to (a) timely and (b) quality transition support.
Answer: For too long the education and care system has not met the needs of all children and young people, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve.T...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the projected net NHS spend on medicines (a) before and (b) after accounting for forecast rebates due via the (i) Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing, Acce
Answer: Annex 3 of the document titled Annexes to the 2024 Voluntary Scheme for Branded Medicines Pricing, Access and Growth outlines the forecasts of measured sales and payments from branded medicines. This document is available at the following link:https://ass...
Answered 13 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: DrugsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13381More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a breakdown of the cost to the public purse of NHS spend on (a) branded pharmaceuticals, (b) generic pharmaceuticals and (c) companion diagnostics in the last 12 months.
Answer: On 7 November 2024, the NHS Business Service Authority published data on the costs of medicines, appliances, dressings, and medical devices prescribed within primary and secondary care in England. This report is available at the following link:https://www...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13079More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the priorities of (a) children and (b) young people with cancer are included within the ten-year plan.
Answer: We are committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster, so that more patients survive this horrible set of diseases. This includes children, teenagers, and young adults.The Department is taking steps to im...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13078More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve (a) diagnosis and (b) referral rates for 13–24-year-olds with cancer.
Answer: We are committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster, so that more patients survive this horrible set of diseases. This includes children, teenagers, and young adults.The Department is taking steps to im...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Clinical TrialsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13077More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on the NHS Long Term plan target of increasing clinical trial participation for children and young people with cancer to 50% by 2025.
Answer: The Department is committed to maximising our potential to lead the world in clinical trials and ensuring clinical trials are more accessible, including for children and young people. The Department does not hold data on the overall percentage of children...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAvian InfluenzaDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate his Department made of the number of cases of avian influenza within the game bird population.
Answer: The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) assesses the impact gamebird releases have on the likelihood of transmission of avian influenza to wild birds, and between wild birds and kept birds. These risk assessments are available as part of the APHA’s ‘Ani...
Answered 15 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMobile Phones: AerialsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11153More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with Ofcom on the adequacy of its reporting on the quality of phone signals for consumers.
Answer: Far too often the data published by Ofcom does not match consumers’ experience of using mobile networks. I wrote to Ofcom in August, asking them to set out steps to improve their mobile coverage reporting. I have also met with the regulator to discuss the...
Answered 31 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordBroadband: Colne ValleyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10948More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people in Colne Valley constituency can access a 5G signal by 2030.
Answer: Ofcom reports that basic (non-standalone) 5G is already available outside 83% of premises across the Colne Valley constituency from at least one mobile operator.But in order to realise the full economic and social benefits of 5G, our ambition is for all p...
Answered 31 Oct 2024
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