Caroline Johnson MP: written questions
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Asylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 6 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4536More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what form of accommodation is being provided for newly arrived asylum seekers.
Answer: The Home Office continues to identify a range of options to minimise the use of expensive hotels and ensure better use of public money, tackling backlogs to reduce accommodation demands across the system as a whole.The AASC Statement of Requirements below...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMigrants: HousingHome OfficeTabled 6 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4535More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what form of accommodation has been provided to migrants who were staying on the Bibby Stockholm.
Answer: The Home Office continues to identify a range of options to minimise the use of expensive hotels and ensure better use of public money, tackling backlogs to reduce accommodation demands across the system as a whole.The AASC Statement of Requirements below...
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4401More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents are (a) making child maintenance payments through the Child Maintenance Service and (b) in arrears on those payments.
Answer: The principle of the Child Maintenance Service is to increase levels of cooperation between separated parents and encourage parents to meet their responsibilities to provide financial support for their children through their own family-based arrangements ...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordPensioners: IncomeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4400More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of pensioners who have an income lower than the (a) minimum and (b) living wage.
Answer: The National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage are hourly rates. Pensioners do not receive their income at an hourly rate. As such, the requested information is not available.
Answered 12 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHIV/AIDSDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4399More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adults and (b) children are living with HIV in each (i) region, (ii) county and (iii) local authority area.
Answer: While the information is not collected in the format requested, the following table shows the number of children in 2020, and the number of adults in 2022, living with diagnosed HIV infection in England, broken down by region: Children with HIV in 2020Adu...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: HealthDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with the Chief Medical Officer on the effect of (a) becoming cold and (b) living in a cold home on the (i) health, (ii) rate of hospitalisation and (iii) death rates of
Answer: My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care meets regularly with the Chief Medical Officer to discuss key issues affecting the public’s health, including winter pressures.The Government is committed to a preventative approach to p...
Answered 10 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordWinter Fuel Payment: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the eligibility criteria for the Winter Fuel Payment on (a) the number of (i) acute admissio
Answer: The Government is committed to a preventative approach to the public’s health. Keeping people warm and well at home, and improving the quality of new and existing homes, will play an essential part in enabling people to live longer, healthier lives, and r...
Answered 30 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for delivering 40,000 more NHS appointments per week.
Answer: Reducing elective waiting lists is a key part of getting the National Health Service back on its feet. Delivering 40,000 more NHS appointments per week is part of our commitment to get back to NHS standards, so that people can expect to wait no longer tha...
Answered 19 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMaternity ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance his Department issues on questioning patients on (a) pregnancy and (b) risk of pregnancy before (i) scans and (ii) operations.
Answer: National Health Service trusts are directed to follow clinical National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance when ensuring the delivery of safe and effective healthcare and would refer to this prior to an operation.Questions asked of p...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: EqualityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4240More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to reduce external spending on equality, diversity and inclusion programmes, in the context of NHS efficiency savings.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, along with the Department's arm’s length bodies, are fully committed to creating a fair health system that tackles health inequalities effectively. We will support appropriate spend on ...
Answered 7 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants: CompensationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4239More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to introduce a redress scheme for women affected by (a) vaginal mesh and (b) sodium valporate.
Answer: The Government is carefully considering the valuable work done by the Hughes Report, and will respond as soon as possible.
Answered 16 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTomography and Working Hours: CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4238More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an estimate of the (a) capital cost of doubling the number of MRI and CT scanners and (b) running costs of incentives to work additional hours.
Answer: The Department is working with NHS England to cost a range of investments needed to return the National Health Service to meeting the elective and cancer waiting time standards, including doubling magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scanner...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordMidwives and Nurses: TrainingDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4237More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to retain the £1000 three year continuing professional development budget for nurses and midwives.
Answer: The Department’s funding of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) ended in March 2023. NHS England’s Long Term Workforce Plan, published on 30 June 2023, set out its commitment for the National Health Service to continue to support nurses, midwives, a...
Answered 13 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordStonewallDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4236More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance he issues to (a) his Department, (b) NHS England, (c) arms length bodies and (a) NHS trusts on using public funds to subscribe to Stonewall.
Answer: The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not issued any specific guidance to the Department, NHS England, arms length bodies (ALBs) or NHS Trusts on using public funds to subscribe to Stonewall.Guidance remains the same as set by the previous...
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: PublicationsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4235More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure sex-based language is used in (a) NHS guidance and (b) NHS communications.
Answer: The National Health Service website aims to provide health advice and guidance that is clear and easy to understand, and that helps everyone who uses the website find the information they need, so they can make informed decisions about their own health.Th...
Answered 22 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4234More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made delivering the Women's Health Strategy.
Answer: The Government is committed to prioritising women’s health as we build a National Health Service fit for the future. We are considering how to take forward the Women’s Health Strategy for England.
Answered 16 Sept 2024
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