Christopher Chope MP: written questions
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Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme: CoronavirusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) claims and (b) mandatory reversal claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme on Covid-19 vaccinations have been outstanding for more than (i) six months, (ii) 12 months and (iii) 18 m
Answer: As of 17 January 2025, 3,714 claims and 201 mandatory reversal claims have been outstanding for more than six months. Of those, 1,041 claims and 82 mandatory reversals have been outstanding for more than 12 months, and of those, 517 claims and 32 mandator...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment Scheme: CoronavirusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25977More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2024 to Question 10667 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, what discussions he has had with Vaccine Injured and Bereaved UK, and other representatives of those wh
Answer: Ministers met with representatives from Vaccine Injured and Bereaved UK on 11 September 2024. The group highlighted the issues facing those who have suffered serious adverse effects following COVID-19 vaccination, and raised concerns around the Vaccine Da...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment Scheme: CoronavirusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22558More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of applications to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme relating to Covid-19 vaccinations have been (a) made and (b) successful for (i) Vaccine-induced thrombocytopenia an
Answer: As of 3 January 2025, the NHS Business Services Authority (NHS BSA) had received 183 assessed claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) relating to COVID-19 for vaccine-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis. These 183 claims reflect 1.9% of the...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordViral Diseases: Disease ControlDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to stop the spread of the HMPV virus from China.
Answer: Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is one of many viruses within the United Kingdom that cause illness each winter. It has been in circulation for many decades. Most people have been infected by the age of five and reinfection occurs throughout life. The UK Hea...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBlue Badge SchemeDepartment for TransportTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19234More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make it her policy that local authorities issuing Blue Badges within her Department's guideline timescale of 12 weeks will be able to recover the full costs of delivering that service.
Answer: The Blue Badge scheme is administered, funded and operated at local level by individual local authorities. There are no timescales set for administering applications other than a suggested guideline that issuing authorities should aim to complete end to e...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSmoking: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19233More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the probability of young people switching from vaping to smoking tobacco products as a result of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales.
Answer: It is very unlikely that young people will switch from vaping to smoking, as the generational ban on tobacco sales will make it illegal for children born on or after 1 January 2009 to ever legally be sold cigarettes or other tobacco products. Our modellin...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSmoking: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19232More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment of the probability of an increase in youth smoking rates of illegal tobacco products as a result of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales.
Answer: Smoking is still the biggest killer. It claims approximately 80,000 lives a year and puts huge pressure on our National Health Service, and costs taxpayers billions. By creating the first smoke-free generation we are stopping people from ever starting smo...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordContinuing Care: DorsetDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18878More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether there is a maximum time within which applications for NHS Continuing Healthcare funding to NHS Dorset must be actioned; and whether redress is available to applicants whose applications hav
Answer: Statutory guidance and assurance regimes are in place in respect of NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) so that people are assessed and receive care in a timely way. NHS CHC guidance sets the expectation that the overall assessment and eligibility decision-ma...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEquitable Life Assurance Society: CompensationTreasuryTabled 10 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18877More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech entitled Keir Starmer's speech on fixing the foundations of our country: 27 August 2024, whether she plans to increase compensation for people impacted by the regulatory
Answer: The Equitable Life Payment Scheme has been fully wound down and closed since 2016 and there are no plans to reopen any decisions relating to the Payment Scheme or review the £1.5 billion funding allocation previously made to it. Further guidance on the st...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment Scheme: CoronavirusDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16449More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme on Covid-19 vaccinations have been (a) received, (b) successful, (c) unsuccessful as a result of the claim not meeting the 60 per cent disabilit
Answer: As of 22 November 2024, the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) has received 17,379 claims related to COVID-19 vaccinations. Of these, 194 claims have resulted in a payment being awarded, 9,196 have been rejected, 7,173 are awaiting resolution, and 816 w...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16448More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any of the vials of (a) Pfizer and (b) Moderna covid-19 vaccines supplied to patients in the United Kingdom contained (i) variable and (ii) excessive levels of residual plasmid DNA.
Answer: All batches of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines released in the United Kingdom to date have passed their release specifications for DNA levels. The specifications are set in line with their respective controlled manufacturing process and in accord...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work ProgrammeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15719More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2024 to Question 14442 on Access to Work Programme, what measurements her Department takes of the time scales for processing applications to monitor whether targets
Answer: The Department for Work and Pensions uses internal management information on finalised applications to oversee performance against our aspiration to process applications in 25 days. The Access to Work scheme continues to be in high demand, and we are cons...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAccess to Work ProgrammeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 15 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14442More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many applications for Access to Work assessments have been outstanding for more than two months; what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for such applications; and if she will make it her p
Answer: We are unable to provide information with regards to the number of applications for Access to Work which have been outstanding for more than two months because this information is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate costs....
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14006More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Prime Minister's speech at COP29 in Baku on 12 November 2024, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his policies of the revised emissions targe
Answer: At COP29, the Prime Minister announced the UK’s ambitious and credible NDC target to reduce all greenhouse gas emissions by at least 81% by 2035, compared to 1990 levels, excluding international aviation and shipping emissions.This is an ambitious, econom...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCarbon EmissionsDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14005More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the impact of reductions in carbon emissions since 1990 on climate change in the UK.
Answer: The UK was the first country to set legally binding carbon budgets and the first major economy to establish a net zero target in law. The Impact Assessment of the Sixth Carbon Budget included a cost-benefit analysis which showed the economic costs and ben...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14004More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support is available from the NHS for people requiring neurological rehabilitation following a covid-19 vaccination.
Answer: In the very rare event where an individual may have suffered a severe adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine, care and support will be best met and managed by local National Health Service specialist services, augmented as appropriate by national speciali...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSchool Meals: CostsDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14003More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employers’ National Insurance contributions, as announced in the Autumn Budget 2024, on the ability of school meals providers to provide t
Answer: The government will provide funding to the public sector to support them with the additional costs associated with changes to Employers National Insurance Contributions policy.This funding will be additional to the £2.3 billion increase to core school bud...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordThyroid Diseases: PrescriptionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14002More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason there are different rules for exemptions from NHS prescription charges for people with (a) hypothyroidism and (b) hyperthyroidism.
Answer: Records are not available to enable us to explain why only hypothyroidism is listed.The list of specified medical conditions that provide exemption from prescription charges was agreed in discussion with the British Medical Association in 1968. Decisions ...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10671More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2024 to Question 9410 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, whether any line extensions to covid-19 vaccinations have been authorised to tackle reported adverse side eff
Answer: No modifications or line extensions to the original vaccines have been introduced to reduce side effects.
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date he met representatives of those (a) injured and (b) bereaved as a result of Covid-19 vaccine damage; and what steps he has taken as a result of that meeting.
Answer: My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care met with the families of those who have suffered serious side effects from the Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine on 11 September 2024. The families raised the need for the reform of the Vacc...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10669More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2024 to Question 9409 on Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme, if he will launch a consultation with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of bringing forward leg
Answer: It would not be appropriate for the Government to comment on individual claims or cases whilst there is ongoing litigation. It is right that such matters follow the appropriate legal process, which can take time. There are, however, currently no plans to ...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10668More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine Vaxrevia ended in the UK; and for what reason that vaccine is no longer available.
Answer: The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was first deployed in England in January 2021. Having reached the end of the supply agreement with the Government, the vaccine has not been used in the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 vaccination programme since 2022. Since Sept...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 23 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet with Professor Adam Finn to discuss the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (a) 60% threshold, (b) levels of payments in the context of levels of inflation and (c) the potential impact of
Answer: Whilst there are currently no plans to meet with Professor Adam Finn, the Government continues to listen carefully to the concerns raised about the Vaccine Damages Payment Scheme. As part of this consideration, my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State fo...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9410More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 8098 on Coronavirus: Vaccination, whether any line extensions to Covid-19 vaccinations have been authorised to tackle reported adverse side eff
Answer: The most common side effects observed with COVID-19 vaccines are pain and swelling at the injection site, tiredness, headaches, muscle and joint pain, chills, fever, and diarrhoea. These side effects are similar to those seen with other vaccines and are u...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordVaccine Damage Payment SchemeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9409More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to provide (a) healthcare and (b) financial support to people whose applications to the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme were rejected on the basis that they do not have a sever
Answer: We expect that individuals whose claims to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) have been rejected on the basis that they do not meet the 60% disability threshold would receive the same level of treatment and care from the National Health Service as t...
Answered 21 Oct 2024
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