Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP: written questions
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Blood: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49787More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2025 to Question 48519 on Blood: Donors, what proportion of donors of (a) African heritage, (b) Caribbean heritage, (c) mixed white and African heritage, (d) mixed b
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for blood donation in England. From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, the most recent data available, 23.93% of donors with black African heritage, 18.44% of donors of Black Caribbean heritage, 13.60% of donors of mixe...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49786More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2025 to Question 48519 on Blood: Donors, what proportion of donors of (a) African heritage, (b) Caribbean heritage, (c) mixed white and African heritage, (d) mixed b
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for blood donation in England. From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, the most recent data available, 3.87% of donors with black African heritage, 0.67% of donors of Black Caribbean heritage, 0.86% donors of mixed whit...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Tagging: ContractsMinistry of JusticeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49785More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2025 to Question 46825 on Electronic Tagging: Standards, how Serco has performed against the 14 key performance indicators at the most recent performance review.
Answer: Serco has failed to meet its target performance on 11 of 14 of its KPIs. The Department continues to hold Serco to account for its failings and will not hesitate to levy contractual penalties for underperformance.
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Tagging: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49784More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2025 to Question 46823, on Electronic Tagging: Standards: what recent estimate she has made of the number of offenders not tagged as a result of the Probation Service holding an in
Answer: The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48519More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2025 to Question 45856 on Blood: Donors, how many and what proportion of the donors deferred due to the donor’s recent travel to other countries were of (a) Afric
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for blood donation in England. The following table shows the number and proportion of deferrals due to the donor’s recent travel to other countries for those of African, Caribbean, mixed white and African, and mixed...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48518More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2025 to Question 45856 on Blood: Donors, how many and what proportion of the donors deferred due to low haemoglobin levels were of (a) African, (b) Caribbean, (c)
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for blood donation in England. The following table shows the number and proportion of deferrals due to low haemoglobin levels by those of African, Caribbean, mixed white and African, and mixed white and Caribbean he...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPost OfficeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48517More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when his Department plans to launch its consultation on the future of the Post Office.
Answer: We aim to publish a Green Paper later this year which will set out several proposals for discussion on the future direction of the Post Office. As part of this work, Government will be carefully considering what customers, communities and postmasters woul...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPost Offices: LambethDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48516More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the closure of the Crown Post Office in Brixton on the community.
Answer: In order to create a long-term, sustainable future for post offices in communities across the UK, Post Office is moving to a fully franchised network. All 108 Directly Managed Branches (DMBs) – including Brixton Post Office – are in scope of these changes...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNature Conservation: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to increase the (a) role and (b) resources of (i) the National Wildlife Crime Unit and (ii) Border Force to support the (A) protection of wildlife, (B) communities and (C) ecological
Answer: Wildlife crime can have devastating consequences for our natural environments and countryside communities. We are committed to reducing crime and anyone exploiting or deliberately harming British wildlife should face the full force of the law. Recognising...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBone Marrow: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47326More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he made an assessment of the potential merits of encouraging blood marrow donation when a new blood donor registers online.
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for blood donation services in England, and also manages the NHS Stem Cell Donor Registry, previously the British Bone Marrow Registry, which facilitates the donation of stem cells either via blood or bone m...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBone Marrow: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47325More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of blood donor centres that are asking (a) new and (b) returning blood donors to sign up to donate bone marrow.
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for blood donation services in England, and also manages the NHS Stem Cell Donor Registry, previously the British Bone Marrow Registry, which facilitates the donation of stem cells either via blood or bone m...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Tagging: ContractsMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46825More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what are the performance indicators agreed with Serco as part of the contract to provide electronic monitoring services.
Answer: During the procurement of the Field and Monitoring Service contract, all suppliers were required to provide details of their vetting, staff recruitment, training and retention processes and these were assessed as part of the evaluation process. As with al...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46824More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the (a) recruitment and (b) vetting process for people employed to tag offenders.
Answer: During the procurement of the Field and Monitoring Service contract, all suppliers were required to provide details of their vetting, staff recruitment, training and retention processes and these were assessed as part of the evaluation process. As with al...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Tagging: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46823More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent estimate she has made of the number of offenders not tagged as a result of the Probation Service holding an incorrect address for the offender.
Answer: To establish the number of people who were not tagged because the probation service held and provided an incorrect address to the EM provider would require a trawl through thousands of individual case records held on prison and probation systems. Such inf...
Answered 1 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' Release: Electronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46822More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people released on licence were electronically tagged as part of a home detention curfew programme in the most recent period for which data is available.
Answer: The number of prisoners released on Home Detention Curfew (HDC) where a tag had not been fitted for the entirety of their monitoring period can be found in the attached at Annex A.All prisoners released on HDC are subject to a statutory electronically mon...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Tagging: StandardsMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46821More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners released on home curfew were not tagged for the entirety of their monitoring period in the most recent period for which data is available.
Answer: The number of prisoners released on Home Detention Curfew (HDC) where a tag had not been fitted for the entirety of their monitoring period can be found in the attached at Annex A.All prisoners released on HDC are subject to a statutory electronically mon...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Tagging: ContractsMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46820More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the average time taken for Serco to tag (a) priority one critical offenders and (b) people classified as likely to offend.
Answer: Serco’s performance has been unacceptable, and we will not hesitate to impose further penalties if our high-performance targets are not met and performance does not improve. There are regular meetings between the Minister for Prisons and Probation and the...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic Tagging: ContractsMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46819More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she had made of the adequacy of Serco's performance; and if she will undertake a review of it's electronic tagging contract.
Answer: Serco’s performance has been unacceptable, and we will not hesitate to impose further penalties if our high-performance targets are not met and performance does not improve. There are regular meetings between the Minister for Prisons and Probation and the...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordElectronic TaggingMinistry of JusticeTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46818More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to address the backlog in fitting offenders with electronic monitoring tags.
Answer: Serco’s performance has been unacceptable, and we will not hesitate to impose further penalties if our high-performance targets are not met and performance does not improve. There are regular meetings between the Minister for Prisons and Probation and the...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the blood donation eligibility requirements for recent travel.
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for blood donation in England, and blood donor selection guidelines are prepared by the Joint United Kingdom (UK) Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee (JPAC)....
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45857More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the most common reasons for cancelled NHS blood donation appointments in the last 12 months.
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for blood donation in England.NHSBT does not collect the reasons for short notice, within two days of the appointment, or advanced, further ahead, cancellations either by the donor or by NHSBT. Cancellations...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordBlood: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of NHS blood donation appointments cancelled due to (a) low iron levels, (b) low haemoglobin and (c) travel to and from other countries.
Answer: NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for blood donation in England. NHSBT tests for haemoglobin levels rather than iron levels ahead of blood donation.Data for deferrals is currently held for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025. In this pe...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPrivate Rented HousingMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45855More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of councils offering private rented properties.
Answer: It is a matter for individual local authorities as to whether they wish to include private rented accommodation as part of their wider housing offer, including through Local Housing Companies.The government is committed to delivering the biggest increase ...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFlats: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45854More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of obligating developers to conduct (a) Type 2 surveys of internal compartmentation of common parts of medium-to-high rise mu
Answer: Developers who signed the Developer Remediation Contract are obligated to remediate or pay to remediate external and internal life-critical fire safety defects due to the original design and construction in relevant building. In doing so, those developers...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordFlats: Fire PreventionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45853More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to help ensure that developers provide structural remediation works to ensure that buildings are safe for residents.
Answer: Building owners are responsible for managing building safety and performance issues in their building, including any structural issues. Under the Building Safety Act 2022, Principal Accountable Persons for higher risk buildings (buildings with 7 or more s...
Answered 24 Apr 2025
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