Christopher Chope MP: written questions
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Undocumented Migrants: English ChannelHome OfficeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government pays the RNLI in connection with Channel crossings by asylum seekers.
Answer: Any safety of life at sea operations related to attempts to cross the Channel by migrants in small boats are directed and coordinated by HM Coastguard. The Home Office does not provide funding to RNLI but does provide maritime assets and reconnaissance ca...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMigrants: Driving InstructionHome OfficeTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43810More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her Department's policy to fund the cost of driving lessons for (a) asylum seekers and (b) other immigrants.
Answer: No.
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43412More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what was the (a) maximum and (b) minimum time between Crawford & Co completing a medical review of applications for vaccine damage payments and the applicant being informed of the decision in in th
Answer: Between January and December 2024, the maximum time between Crawford & Co completing a medical assessment of an application to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme and the applicant being informed by the NHS Business Services Authority of my Rt Hon. Frie...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordMembers: CorrespondenceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43411More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to reply to the correspondence of 5 February 2025 from the hon. Member for Christchurch relating to a constituent.
Answer: We have received the Hon. Member’s correspondence of 5 February 2025, and we will respond shortly.
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 1 April 2025 to Question 41384, what the (a) maximum and (b) minimum time was between a Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme application being made to the NHS Business Services A
Answer: The submission of applications to Crawford & Co is dependent on the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) receiving the relevant medical records from healthcare providers.As of 3 April 2025, the maximum time between an application being made to the...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason applicants seeking mandatory reversal of decisions made by the NHSBSA on vaccine damage claims are required as a precondition to adduce fresh evidence without which no mandatory rev
Answer: If a claimant to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) wants to challenge a decision about their claim, they can ask for the decision to be reviewed. This is known as a ‘mandatory reversal’.In accordance with the legislation which governs the VDPS, whe...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March to Question 39386 on NHS Business Services Authority: Crawford & Company, how much of the budget of £38.6m is set aside for the payment of VDPS claims; and what t
Answer: For the 2025/26 financial year, the budget allocated for the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme is £38.6 million. The forecasted amount within this budget for vaccine damage payments is approximately £9 million. The budget for the 2025/26 financial year is bas...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2025 to Question 39387 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, if he will make an estimate of the number of assessments that have missed the 95 per cent target; how man
Answer: Between January 2024 and December 2024, the percentage of medical assessment reports returned within 15 working days of receipt of a fully completed medical record was 99.8%. In the same period, 10 medical assessment reports were not returned within the 1...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment Scheme: CoronavirusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme claims on Covid-19 vaccinations which have been accepted following mandatory reversal based upon (a) additional evidence p
Answer: Claimants to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) can ask for a reassessment, known as a mandatory reversal, if they disagree with the decision on the eligibility of their claim. Additional evidence can be added before it is reassessed, and this can ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's contract entitled Medical Assessments: Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, procurement reference, CF-0724900D0O000000rwimUAA, whether Crawford & Company are required t
Answer: The length of time it takes to process a Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) claim varies from case to case. This is because medical records will often be gathered from claimants’ healthcare providers before a claim undergoes medical assessment, and rece...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Business Services Authority: Crawford & CompanyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what services the NHSBSA paid Crawford & Co; and what the budget for expenditure on the services of Crawford & Co is for the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme for 2025-26.
Answer: Crawford & Company currently provides a medical assessment service for the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS). The VDPS budget for 2025/26, including payments to claimants, the budget for Crawford & Company, and the budget for the operation of t...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNatural England: Annual ReportsDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for what reason Natural England's annual report and accounts for 2023/24 have not yet been presented to Parliament; and what his planned timetable is for its publication.
Answer: Natural England are working with external auditors to ensure that their Annual Report and Accounts are true and fair. The process has taken longer this year due to ensuring that new accounting judgements are robust. We are in the final stages of the audit...
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordGP Surgeries: Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38342More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the application by the South Coast Medical Group for the establishment of a surgery in Burton as a Branch of The Grove Surgery was made; and when a decision will be given.
Answer: The Department does not hold information on applications for the establishment of new surgeries as it is for integrated care boards, as part of their commissioning responsibility for primary care, to consider applications for any new general practice surg...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArms Length BodiesCabinet OfficeTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35632More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Arm's-Length Bodies there were (a) on 4 July 2024 and (b) as of 5 March 2025; and how many of the latter have an annual operating expenditure in excess of £5 million.
Answer: On 4th July 2024, there were 307 Arm’s-Length Bodies. Of these, 135 had an annual operating expenditure (RDEL spend) in excess of £5 million in FY23/24. The Cabinet Office commissions data around six months after the end of each financial year to allow fo...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment Scheme: CoronavirusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33850More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to covid-19 vaccinations have been subject to a request for mandatory reversal; how many and what proportion of such requests (a)
Answer: As of 27 February 2025, 1,657 applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to COVID-19 vaccinations have been subject to a request for mandatory reversal. Re-assessment has been completed for 1,073 of these applications, with 21, or 2% of, d...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment Scheme: CoronavirusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33849More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training medical assessors of applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to covid-19 vaccinations receive; what qualifications are needed to become such an assessor; what conti
Answer: Medical assessments are carried out by an independent, third-party supplier. The supplier manages the medical assessors' training and work arrangements, organises for each medical assessment to be peer reviewed by another medical assessor, and is responsi...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 26 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33848More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) medical assessors are in post; and how many assessors have left since the roll-out of the VDPS to covid-19 vaccinations.
Answer: The number of medical assessors is managed by a third-party supplier and varies depending on the volume of claims received, as well as the volume of medical records received from healthcare providers. Since COVID-19 was added to the Vaccine Damage Payment...
Answered 5 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment Scheme: CoronavirusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 30035More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what tribunal decisions have been used by the NHS Business Services Authority to assess claims relating to Covid-19 vaccinations under the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme.
Answer: Since taking over administration of the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme on 1 November 2021, all decisions taken by the NHS Business Services Authority that have been appealed to tribunal have been upheld.Decisions in first tier tribunals do not set a preced...
Answered 13 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28890More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has indemnified Astrazeneca in relation to covid-19 vaccine damage claims.
Answer: The Government cannot comment on the terms on which COVID-19 vaccinations were procured, which are confidential.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28889More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 20 of his Department's Opening Statement to Module 4 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, published 15 January 2025, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) de
Answer: The estimated total averted hospitalisations, severe hospitalisations, and deaths for the spring and autumn 2023 boosters were:- 1,654 hospitalisations, 108 severe, and 508 deaths for the spring 2023 booster program in those aged 75 years old and over; an...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordTattooing: EmploymentCabinet OfficeTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26279More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) employed and (ii) self-employed tattoo artists there are.
Answer: The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon. Gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 24 January is attached.
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordTattooing: ApprenticesDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26278More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to introduce an apprenticeship standard for tattoo artists.
Answer: This is a matter for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. I have asked its Chief Executive, Jennifer Coupland, to write to the hon. Member for Christchurch, and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Answered 31 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInfluenza: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25981More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people received a flu vaccine between 1 September and 31 December in each year since 2021.
Answer: The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) publishes provisional monthly data on flu vaccine uptake in eligible patient groups, which is available at the following link:https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#seasonal-flu-vaccine-uptake:-figur...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25980More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 20 of his Department's written opening statement to Module 4 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry of 20 December 2024, INQ000474799, on what evidential basis his Department said t
Answer: The evidential basis refers to page four of the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report: Week 38, published by Public Health England on 23 September 2021. The report is available at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/614c53a28...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 20 of his Department's written opening statement to Module 4 of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry of 20 December 2024, INQ000474799, on what evidential basis his Department said t
Answer: The evidential basis refers to page four of the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report: Week 38, published by Public Health England on 23 September 2021. The report is available at the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/614c53a28...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
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