Jo Platt MP: written questions
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Charities: Gift AidDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 16 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52884More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an estimate of the potential impact of banning the charging commission on Gift Aid on revenues to charities.
Answer: Fundraising platforms are commercial organisations that provide an important service to charities and donors. Many charities ask online fundraising platforms to claim Gift Aid on donations made on their platform for the charity, and pay a fee for this ser...
Answered 23 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCredit Unions: FinanceDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 1 May 2025AnsweredUIN 49782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will request that the British Business Bank make an assessment of the potential merits of support for a central finance facility for credit unions.
Answer: Credit Unions offer vital support, advice, and affordable finance to members. While there are no immediate plans for a central finance facility for Credit Unions, the government is committed to supporting underserved communities in all the nations and reg...
Answered 20 May 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: CarersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44265More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support employees who leave employment to provide unpaid care to return to work.
Answer: Our Get Britain Working plan aims to reduce economic inactivity levels and take the first steps to delivering our long-term ambition to achieve an 80% employment rate. We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunities they need to achieve and thrive, ...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment Schemes: CarersDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to provide specialist employment support for unpaid carers to get into work.
Answer: Our Get Britain Working plan aims to reduce economic inactivity levels and take the first steps to delivering our long-term ambition to achieve an 80% employment rate. We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunities they need to achieve and thrive, ...
Answered 14 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordTeachers: Special Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of trends in levels of teacher shortages on SEND provision in schools serving communities with higher levels of disadvantage.
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. We are committed to improving inclusivity and...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of increases in numbers of pupils with SEND on (a) budgets, (b) teacher workloads and (c) quality of provision for schools serving disadvantaged c
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. We are committed to improving inclusivity and...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 43977More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that schools serving communities with higher levels of disadvantage are adequately supported to provide for the needs of SEND pupils.
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. We are committed to improving inclusivity and...
Answered 10 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42621More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-evaluating the Units of Dental Activity formula.
Answer: To rebuild dentistry in the long term and increase access to National Health Service dental care, we will reform the dental contract, with a shift to focus on prevention and the retention of NHS dentists.There are no perfect payment systems and careful co...
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDental Services: Leigh and AthertonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 42620More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve (a) patient access to and (b) staff retention in NHS dentistry in Leigh and Atherton constituency.
Answer: The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments from April 2025 and recruit new dentists to areas that need them most. To...
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: TrainingDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41981More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities training provided in Initial Teacher Training programmes; and what steps she is taking to improve that train
Answer: High quality teaching is the most important in-school factor for improving outcomes for all children, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or from disadvantaged backgrounds, and we are committed to ensuring that all pu...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: TrainingDepartment for EducationTabled 27 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41980More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) including training on (i) dyslexia and (ii) neurodiversity in mandatory Continuing Professional Development requirements for teachers and
Answer: The department is committed to improving support for all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including those with dyslexia and other neurodiverse conditions. The government is focusing on improving inclusivity...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordLong Covid: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40555More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on (a) diagnostics and (b) treatment pathways for people with long covid.
Answer: There are no diagnostic tests for long COVID currently approved for use in the United Kingdom, and clinicians must rule out other conditions which present with similar symptoms to diagnose long COVID. Researchers are also working to identify blood-based b...
Answered 1 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDementia: Leigh and AthertonDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40554More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has plans to help increase dementia diagnosis rates to pre-Covid-19 levels in Leigh and Atherton constituency.
Answer: We are committed to recovering the dementia diagnosis rate (DDR) to the national ambition of 66.7%, which in England, at the end of February 2025, was 65.4%.To support recovery of the DDR and implementation of the Dementia Care Pathway, we have developed ...
Answered 31 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordBreakfast ClubsDepartment for EducationTabled 18 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 39072More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether schools will be able to refer demand for breakfast clubs to existing out-of-school clubs.
Answer: The department is committed to delivering free breakfast clubs across England. Schools can work with private, voluntary and independent providers such as existing out-of-school club providers to deliver this commitment.
Answered 26 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordTourette's Syndrome: Diagnosis and Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38664More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to establish full clinical guidelines for the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of people with Tourette'
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has established a prioritisation board that takes decisions on which topics should be prioritised for the development of a clinical guideline, in line with the routing criteria set out in the NI...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCinemas: FinanceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 13 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 38118More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to support independent cinemas to access funding for (a) infrastructure and (b) urgent works.
Answer: The government recognises the importance of cinemas as part of the UK’s film industry and as community assets, and we continue to work closely with the British Film Institute (BFI) and the cinema sector. The Government’s tax incentives, including the new ...
Answered 24 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCannabis: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 37268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing electronic prescriptions for medicinal cannabis.
Answer: Cannabis-based products for medicinal use are Schedule 2 controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001. Electronic prescribing of Schedule 2 and 3 Controlled Drugs in National Health Service primary care settings has been operational since 2...
Answered 19 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: CopyrightDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that visual artists and creators (a) nationally and (b) in Leigh and Atherton can access licensing deals with AI developers.
Answer: The Government published a consultation on Copyright and AI in December 2024.This consultation sought views on creating an effective rights reservation system. This would provide rights holders across the UK, including those in Leigh and Atherton, with th...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: CopyrightDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36747More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of technical solutions put forward by AI developers to allow individual rightsholders in the creative industries to effectively and efficiently o
Answer: The Government’s consultation on Copyright and AI closed on 25th February.It sought views from both AI developers and rights holders on creating an effective rights reservation system. We will not move forward with any option until we are confident that i...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Long Covid and ME/CFSDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 6 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36122More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2025 to Question 30791 on Employment: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long Covid, whether the proposed reforms will (a) ensure appropriate assessment of the work capab
Answer: The Government believes there is a strong case to change the system of health and disability benefits across Great Britain so that it better enables people to enter and remain in work and to respond to the complex and fluctuating nature of the health cond...
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLong CovidDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 34920More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to supporting people with Long Covid in the context of the closure of Long Covid clinics.
Answer: Across the National Health Service in England there are services supporting people with post-COVID syndrome, also known as long COVID. These services offer physical, cognitive, and psychological assessment, and, where appropriate, refer patients onto exis...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLong Covid and ME/CFS: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2025 to Question 26770 on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Health Services, whether the results from the NHS England stocktake will be published.
Answer: NHS England’s long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, stocktake aimed to collate information about service commissioning, activity, and delivery, to provide a national overview of the services commissioned by inte...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFilm and Television: SubscriptionsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34307More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's consultation on the implementation of the new subscription contract regime under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024,
Answer: The Consultation on the implementation of the new subscriptions contract regime closed on 10 February 2025. We are analysing the responses, including submissions from the film and television sectors. Officials have also met with relevant trade association...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordFilm and Television: SubscriptionsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34306More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's consultation on the implementation of the new subscription contract regime under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, what assessment he has made
Answer: The Consultation on the implementation of the new subscriptions contract regime closed on 10 February 2025. We are analysing the responses, including submissions from the film and television sectors. Officials have also met with relevant trade association...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordPatient Choice SchemesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 33557More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to take steps to ensure a patients right of choice is not impacted by the proposed 2025-26 NHS payment scheme.
Answer: A patients’ right to choose is set out in legislation, and the proposed 2025/26 NHS Payment Scheme (NHSPS) makes no changes to this right. As required by the Health and Care Act 2022, NHS England has conducted an assessment of the impact of the proposed N...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
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