Jim Shannon MP: written questions 2025
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Hospitals: Repairs and MaintenanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23762More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse is of hospital repairs over the last 12 months.
Answer: The total cost of hospital repairs in England is collected by NHS England’s Estates Returns Information Collection (ERIC) for each financial year.The latest ERIC data, for the 2023/24 financial year, showed that capital investment reported by National Hea...
Answered 20 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSexual HarassmentHome OfficeTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23761More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of sexual harassment laws.
Answer: Everyone has the right to both feel safe and be safe going about their day-to-day lives. That is why tackling sexual harassment is an important part of this Government’s mission to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) in a decade.There is a range...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCybersecurity: EmploymentDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23760More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in the uptake in cyber security jobs over the last five years.
Answer: The Government has published the ‘Cyber security skills in the UK labour market’ report annually since 2018. These reports show an increasing demand for cyber security jobs, but also a skills shortage that increases the difficulty of filling these jobs.Th...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInflationTreasuryTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23759More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent trends in the rate of inflation on (a) consumers and (b) businesses.
Answer: Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation has normalised after an inflationary shock resulted in it peaking at 11.1% in October 2022. The independent Office for Budget Responsibility say that they expect inflation to remain close to the 2% target throughout t...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNigeria: ChristianityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria during December 2024.
Answer: The UK is committed to supporting Nigeria to address ongoing security challenges, including intercommunal violence and violent extremism, which continue to impinge on the rights of Nigerians to Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB). The root causes of this...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPakistan: Development AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23326More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking to ensure that UK aid to Pakistan is not used to support human rights abuses in Balochistan.
Answer: The UK remains deeply concerned by reports of human rights abuses in Pakistan, including in Balochistan. Whilst UK Aid does not directly deliver in Balochistan, the UK Government continues to engage with the Government of Pakistan on human rights matters....
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUkraine: Military AidMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23325More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what military funding he plans to provide to Ukraine in 2025.
Answer: The Government is committed to providing £3 billion of military support to Ukraine each financial year for as long as needed. In addition, over the next two financial years this Government will provide a further £1.5 billion of support from the first part...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordVeterans: Mental Health ServicesMinistry of DefenceTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23324More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to provide immediate mental support to veterans medically discharged from service.
Answer: Structured Mental Health Assessments are conducted by Defence GPs as part of the medical discharge process to screen for mental health concerns and enable follow up in primary care or referral to specialist mental health services if required. Where person...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBreast Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23323More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase awareness of the warning signs of lobular breast cancer.
Answer: NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase the knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of s...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23322More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle delays to care packages.
Answer: Local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the needs of their population, which is why, under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are tasked with the duty to shape their care market and to commission services to meet the diverse needs o...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAirports: DisabilityDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23321More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to help ensure that airports are accessible.
Answer: The Department for Transport launched the Aviation Accessibility Task and Finish Group in November 2024. Led by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, it brings together experts from industry and consumer representatives to develop practical and achievable industr...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRailway Stations: DisabilityDepartment for TransportTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23320More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to help ensure rail stations are step free.
Answer: Since April 2024, step free upgrades at 13 stations have been completed, with a further 18 due to be completed by April 2025. This will be the most stations completed in one year since the programme started in 2006. This Government is committed to improvi...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIndependent Commission into Adult Social CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23319More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timescale is for launching an independent commission into adult social care.
Answer: On 3 January 2025, we announced an independent commission into adult social care as part of our critical first steps towards delivering a National Care Service. The commission will begin in April 2025 and will be split over two phases. The first phase, re...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOral Cancer and Throat Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23318More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the time taken to diagnose (a) mouth and (b) throat cancer.
Answer: No specific assessment has been made on the adequacy of mouth and throat cancer diagnosis waiting times.However, it is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer as early and quickly as possible, to treat it fa...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordBovine Tuberculosis: Northern IrelandDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23317More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the outbreak of TB in Northern Irish farms.
Answer: Policy on bovine tuberculosis (TB) is devolved to Governments in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Administration is able to adopt specific animal health policies in certain cases which are different from the other UK Adm...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordOrgans: DonorsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23316More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many organs were donated for transplant in 2024.
Answer: The following table shows the number of organs donated, the number of donors, and the number and percentage of organs donated that were transplanted, from the UK Transplant Registry, between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024, as of 10 January 2025:Unite...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSick LeaveDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23315More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of how many people have been absent from work because of long term sickness over the last six months.
Answer: The latest available data for long-term sickness absence covers the period from July 2023 to June 2024. In July 2023 to June 2024, 1.55 million people in the UK had been absent from work because of long-term sickness. This statistic can be found in the em...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDementiaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22617More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of trends in levels of people diagnosed with dementia over the last five years.
Answer: The national target is for 66.7% of people estimated to be living with dementia to receive a formal diagnosis. The latest dementia diagnosis rate reported by NHS England for the end of November 2024 was 65.8%.The target had been met consistently at the na...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAmbulance Services: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22616More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of ambulance waiting times over the 2024-25 Christmas and new year period.
Answer: Ambulance response times have been below the high standards that patients should expect in recent years. The Government has committed to supporting the National Health Service to improve performance and achieve the standards set out in the NHS Constitutio...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSepsisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22615More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in the UK have been diagnosed with sepsis in the last 12 months.
Answer: There is a lack of reliable estimates of the incidence and prevalence of sepsis, due to the inconsistency in the definitions used to describe sepsis, and the differences in coding between professionals and organisations in the United Kingdom.The Office fo...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency guidance on the use of medicinal cannabis.
Answer: Rules around the electronic prescribing of cannabis-based medicines are no different to other drugs regulated in Schedule 2 to 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.In England, the NHS Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) enables the electronic trans...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Medical TreatmentsHome OfficeTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22613More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of awareness amongst police constabularies of the legislation around the use of prescribed medical cannabis.
Answer: CBPMs were placed in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 (“the 2001 Regulations’”) in 2018. This means that specialist clinicians can prescribe CBPMs where they deem it clinically appropriate and in the best interests of their patients, and...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22612More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of restrictions on the use of electronic prescriptions for the issuing of medicinal cannabis products.
Answer: Rules around the electronic prescribing of cannabis-based medicines are no different to other drugs regulated in Schedule 2 to 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001.In England, the NHS Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) enables the electronic trans...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordUniversal Credit: ApplicationsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22611More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will take steps to make the application process for Universal Credit more accessible for people (a) who are not able to go online and (b) with learning difficulties.
Answer: DWP provides alternative channels to make a claim to UC for those who are unable to use the digital channel, this includes telephone or Jobcentre attendance. A home visit may also be considered if additional support is required. A range of support is avai...
Answered 14 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInterest Rates: Low IncomesTreasuryTabled 8 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 22610More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of trends in the level of interest rates on people with low incomes.
Answer: The Government understands the importance of protecting family finances. That is why we are committed to delivering economic stability to grow the economy, maintain low and stable inflation, and keep taxes and mortgages as low as possible. Low and stable ...
Answered 13 Jan 2025
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