Christopher Chope MP: written questions
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Vaccine 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
Original Parliament recordVaccine 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
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