Sharon Hodgson MP: written questions
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Social Rented HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40445More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure investment in social rent homes at the spending review.
Answer: At Spring statement, the government announced an immediate injection of £2 billion to support delivery of the biggest boost in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation and contribute to our ambitious Plan for Change milestone of building 1.5 mi...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBritish Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme and Mineworkers' Pension SchemeDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38961More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for what reason the investment reserves for the (a) Mineworkers Pension Scheme and (b) British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme were not transferred to members at the same time.
Answer: The transfer of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme investment reserve was a manifesto commitment which the Government has fulfilled. The BCSSS scheme has some differences to the MPS, but we are working with the BCSSS Trustees to consider their proposals.
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHernias: Surgical Mesh ImplantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38561More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hernia mesh surgeries have taken place in each of the last 20 years; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients are informed of the risks of mesh complications.
Answer: The following table shows the count of Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs) where there was any procedure for 'hernia mesh surgeries', recorded for the years 2004/05 to 2023/24, in English National Health Service hospitals and English NHS commissioned acti...
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: RegistrationDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36618More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what support she plans to provide to the Office for Students to (a) allow more providers to complete the registration process for the Lifelong Learning Entitlement and (b) support additional applications from s
Answer: The government is committed to delivering the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) as set out in the Autumn Budget statement in October 2024. From the LLE’s launch in January 2027, the Office for Students (OfS) will regulate all providers offering LLE-fun...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHigher Education: RegistrationDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether providers receiving educational oversight from Ofsted for Level 5 and 6 provision will have a third category route to registration with the Office for Students during the implementation of the Lifelong
Answer: The government is committed to delivering the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) as set out in the Autumn Budget statement in October 2024. From the LLE’s launch in January 2027, the Office for Students (OfS) will regulate all providers offering LLE-fun...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArthritis: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take through the 10-year health plan to support children and young people with arthritis.
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan will deliver the three big shifts our National Health Service needs to be fit for the future: from hospital to community; from analogue to digital; and from sickness to prevention. All of these are relevant to improving arthritis c...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArthritis: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support older children with arthritis as they transition to adult health and care services.
Answer: The Department has not yet considered the recommendations of the report published by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death on 13 February 2025, Joint Care? A review of the quality of care provided to children and young adults wi...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArthritis: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36055More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to NCEPOD's report entitled Joint Care? A review of the quality of care provided to children and young adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, published on 13 February 2025, wheth
Answer: The Department has not yet considered the recommendations of the report published by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death on 13 February 2025, Joint Care? A review of the quality of care provided to children and young adults wi...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: ArthritisDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) promote and (b) monitor the use of individual healthcare plans in schools to support young people living with arthritis.
Answer: Section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014 places a duty on maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units to make arrangements for supporting pupils with medical conditions. Some children with medical conditions may be considered to be dis...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: ArthritisDepartment for EducationTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36053More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support children living with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in schools.
Answer: Section 100 of the Children and Families Act 2014 places a duty on maintained schools, academies and pupil referral units to make arrangements for supporting pupils with medical conditions. Some children with medical conditions may be considered to be dis...
Answered 29 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: WomenDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 31428More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her plans to improve the safety of the rail network for women and girls will include changes to existing roles and responsibilities on (a) safety and (b) tackling (i) crime and (ii) anti-social behaviou
Answer: Ensuring the safety of passengers on the rail network is a priority for the department. We work closely with BTP, the rail industry, and Home Office police forces for cross government strategies to tackle violence against women and girls, and we have ambi...
Answered 27 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: Period PovertyDepartment for EducationTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30061More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the impact of period poverty on educational attainment in England.
Answer: We do not hold data on the impact of period poverty on educational attainment in England.The Period Products Scheme removes periods as a barrier to accessing education and addresses pupils being unable to afford period products. Since its launch in Januar...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPeriod Poverty TaskforceWomen and EqualitiesTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30060More
Question: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when the Period Poverty Taskforce (a) last met and (b) next plans to meet.
Answer: The Period Poverty Taskforce was an initiative under a previous government, and last met in 2020. I thank them for their hard work. Rather than re-launch a standalone initiative, this Government's approach is to resolve the issue at the source by tackling...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29434More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Children and Young People with Cancer Taskforce will recognise that teenagers and young adults with cancer have different needs to children.
Answer: The Department is committed to improving outcomes and patient experience for children, teenagers, and young adults with cancer, from birth to 24 years of age. That is why we have relaunched the Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce, which will identi...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29433More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Children and Young People with Cancer Taskforce will recognise that cancer is different in (a) young people and (b) children.
Answer: The Department is committed to improving outcomes and patient experience for children, teenagers, and young adults with cancer, from birth to 24 years of age. That is why we have relaunched the Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce, which will identi...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren and Young People Cancer TaskforceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29432More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the age range of the Children and Young People with Cancer Taskforce is.
Answer: The Department is committed to improving outcomes and patient experience for children, teenagers, and young adults with cancer, from birth to 24 years of age. That is why we have relaunched the Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce, which will identi...
Answered 17 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversity College Hospital: Surgical Mesh ImplantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 6 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many removals of surgical mesh have taken place at the University College London Hospital in each month since this service began.
Answer: There are nine specialist mesh centres across England, ensuring that women in every region with complications of mesh inserted for urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse gets the right support. Each mesh centre is led by a multi-disciplinary team to en...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical Mesh ImplantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the average waiting times for mesh centres; and what steps he is taking to reduce this.
Answer: There are nine specialist mesh centres across England, ensuring that women in every region with complications of mesh inserted for urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse get the right support. Each mesh centre is led by a multi-disciplinary team to ens...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSurgical Mesh ImplantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on (a) how much each mesh centre received in specialised commissioning funding and (b) how many removals took place in each month since this service began.
Answer: The Department does not hold information on how much each mesh centre received in specialised commissioning funding and on the number of removals that have taken place each month since the service began.There are nine specialist mesh centres across Englan...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBreast CancerDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27847More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department collects data on the number of people who (a) have been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer after finishing hormone therapy and (b) are living with secondary breast cancer
Answer: The National Disease Registration Service within NHS England, as the national cancer registry, collects diagnosis and treatment data on cancer patients in England.Using the data behind the Accredited Official Statistics on Cancer Registrations combined wi...
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: SafetyDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27130More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will publish a passenger focused plan on train travel post rail-reform which includes recommendations on ensuring the safety of women and girls on trains.
Answer: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a priority for the Government. We have set ourselves the ambitious target to halve VAWG offences in the next decade using every lever available to us. My Department and the rail industry, including the B...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Gender Based ViolenceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27129More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of (a) arrests and (b) prosecutions in relation to cases of violence against women and girls on trains in the last five years.
Answer: The British Transport Police (BTP) are responsible for policing the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales. The force has provided the following information on arrests and prosecutions against female victims for Violence, Sex and Public Order (Seriou...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRailways: Gender Based ViolenceDepartment for TransportTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27128More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with the (a) British Transport Police and (b) National Police Chiefs Council on levels of violence against women and girls on trains.
Answer: The department and ministers are in regular contact with the British Transport Police (BTP), who are a member of the National Police Chiefs Council, regarding their commitment to tackling VAWG offences on the rail network. The Force are a key partner in s...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHoliday Activities and Food ProgrammeDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26802More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of expanding the Holiday Activities and Food programme to all (a) families in receipt of Universal Credit and (b) children and young people living in areas o
Answer: The holiday activities and food programme (HAF) supports disadvantaged children and their families during the Easter, summer and Christmas holidays with enriching activities, providing them with healthy food, helping them to learn new things, improving so...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFree School MealsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25181More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to expand free school meal eligibility as part of the work of the child poverty strategy.
Answer: The government is committed to delivering an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty by tackling the root causes and giving every child the best start in life. To support this, a new Ministerial taskforce has been set up to develop a Child Poverty Stra...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
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