Tessa Munt MP: written questions
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Radiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34253More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 January 2025 to Question 23295 on Radiotherapy Equipment, for what reason NHS England did not consult (a) cancer patient groups and (b) the radiotherapy community.
Answer: NHS England invited the trusts which deliver radiotherapy services to submit an expression of interest for funding for a replacement machine. NHS England then reviewed the responses, and used allocation criteria to determine which trusts would be allocate...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34252More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 23294 on Radiotherapy Medical Equipment, what (a) guidelines, (b) regulations and (c) restrictions have been issued to trusts on the use of NHS
Answer: Trusts were given a range of potential machines to purchase, and the use of these machines is the responsibility of the trust which houses the machine. Providers of National Health Service-funded radiotherapy services are required to submit a monthly retu...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 23297 on Radiotherapy Finance, how many members of each working group have (a) clinical and (b) radiotherapy experience treating cancer.
Answer: The working groups include members with a wide range of experience and expertise across and beyond the health and care system. We have ensured that groups have a range of lived experience, organisational views, and technical expertise, as well as diversit...
Answered 4 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which trusts have been granted linear particle accelerator renewal funds from the additional funding in the Autumn Budget 2024; what criteria was used by NHS England to make those awards; and wheth
Answer: NHS England will be writing to those trusts which have been allocated funding for a replacement machine soon. The allocation criteria focused on the age of the machine being replaced, the proportion of older machines in use within the trust, and the trust...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26293More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answers of 22 January 2025 to Questions 24638, 24639 and 24640 on Radiotherapy: Medical Equipment, whether the criteria developed by NHS England for funding exclude (a) replacing ra
Answer: The criteria developed by NHS England excludes the replacement of radiotherapy machines purchased by charities. These machines fall outside the scope of National Health Service capital replacement funding, as they are not originally procured through NHS-f...
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordListed Places of Worship Grant Scheme: Wells and Mendip HillsDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which of the 106 Listed Places of Worship in Wells and Mendip Hills constituency have received Grants under the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme since its inception.
Answer: Since 2022, the Department has awarded 50 grants, totaling £173,587.94, to Listed Places of Worship in the constituency of Wells and Mendip Hills. This includes grant funding to Wells Cathedral, Holy Trinity Church and St Mary's Church East Brent.
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter from NHS England to NHS Trusts of 24 December 2024, for what reasons the radiotherapy machines fund guidelines exclude the cost of updating critical bunker protections.
Answer: The £70 million of funding is for new radiotherapy machines. The responsibility for costs relating to other aspects of radiotherapy treatment remains with local systems.
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what involvement (a) he and (b) his Ministers had in setting the (i) guidance and (ii) spending limits for the Government's radiotherapy machine fund.
Answer: The £70 million of funding for new radiotherapy machines will be allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. Officials from the Department have been engaged with NHS England officials in discussions about how the funding will be all...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to ensure that recovered tyres exported to India are not shipped in a form which enables them to be used in batch pyrolysis plants.
Answer: The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of recovered used tyres exported from the UK to India in the last 12 months.
Answer: This data is publicly available on the HMRC’s trade database which is available at https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data.
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is to introduce regulations to remove the T8 waste exemption on used tyres.
Answer: Removal of the T8 waste exemption is one measure among a package of possible reforms to the waste exemptions regime. This Government is currently considering priorities for waste and resources and reform of the waste exemptions regime including related to...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his Indian counterpart on steps to ensure that recovered tyres exported to India are not used to breach Indian domestic law.
Answer: The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that recovered tyres exported from the UK to India are not exported in a form that allows them to be refitted to vehicles in India.
Answer: The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will extend the 22 January deadline for NHS Trusts to apply for funding towards new radiotherapy machines.
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients ha...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring NHS England to include the cost of AI products in the funding for updating radiotherapy machines.
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients ha...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if NHS England will publish the data it holds on the effectiveness of radiotherapy machines which deliver more doses of radiation; and for what reason guidance on future purchases of radiotherapy m
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients ha...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether additional funding to update radiotherapy machines includes a commitment to renew every machine aged 10 years and older commissioned by the NHS to deliver radiotherapy.
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients ha...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDNACPR DecisionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20201More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is to respond to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's Report entitled End of life care: improving Do Not Attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation conversations f
Answer: I have responded to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's March 2024 report entitled End of life care: improving Do Not Attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation conversations (DNACPR), in a letter dated 5 November 2024. In this response, the Depar...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20200More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to publish the findings of the consultation entitled Improving the experiences of people with ME/CFS: interim delivery plan, published on 9 August 2023.
Answer: We are committed to improving the care and support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. We recognise how devastating the symptoms can be, and the significant impact they can have on patients and their...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLobbyingCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20199More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to respond to the Fourth Report of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee of Session 2023-24 on Lobbying and Influence: post-legislative scrutiny of the Lobbying Act 2014
Answer: The Government is grateful to the Committee for its report. The Government will consider the report alongside the development of other proposals to strengthen standards in public life and will update Parliament in due course.
Answered 24 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Disclosure of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20198More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, from which Departments he received confirmation that all the data held in relation to those Departments' transparency returns for the period from 1 July 2024 to 30 September 2024 was submitted by the end of Octo
Answer: Guidance on ministers’, special advisers’, and senior officials’ transparency returns is published on GOV.UK outlining the Cabinet Office's internal feedback process.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCabinet Office: Disclosure of InformationCabinet OfficeTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20197More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish Departmental transparency returns for the period from 1 July 2024 to 30 September 2024.
Answer: Ministers’, Senior Officials’ and Special Advisers’ transparency returns for the period of April to June 2024 were published on 28th November. Data for the period of July to September will be published in due course.
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10996More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of ring-fencing biomedical research funding for ME.
Answer: No assessment has been made on the impact of myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID on economic growth. However, the Government recognises that long-term sickness continues to be the most common reason f...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10995More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the delivery plan for ME/CFS will include measures to improve the safety of NHS care for patients with ME.
Answer: No assessment has been made on the impact of myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID on economic growth. However, the Government recognises that long-term sickness continues to be the most common reason f...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordLong Covid and ME/CFSDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10994More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made with the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the potential impact of (a) ME and (b) long covid on economic growth.
Answer: No assessment has been made on the impact of myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and long COVID on economic growth. However, the Government recognises that long-term sickness continues to be the most common reason f...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
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