Joe Robertson MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Social Services: CharitiesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what representation not-for-profit social care providers will receive on the proposed Adult Social Care Negotiating Body.
Answer: As currently drafted, the Employment Rights Bill requires that membership of the Adult Social Care Negotiating Body must include, “officials of one or more trade unions that represent the interests of social care workers” and “persons representing the int...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordSocial Services: CharitiesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that fees paid by commissioners take into account changes in the costs faced by not-for-profit social care providers.
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 to meet the diverse needs of all local people. This in...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20773More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2024 to Question 16662 on NHS: Public Consultation, what the total budget is for deliberative engagement in the 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: Following an invitation to tender competition process, we appointed Thinks Insight, Kaleidoscope Health and Care, and IPPR to support us to run the 10-Year Health Plan engagement exercise. The awarded value of the contract is up to £2.96 million, and incl...
Answered 31 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20503More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the refreshed NHS workforce plan will include policies on the palliative care sector.
Answer: The refreshed Long Term Workforce Plan will deliver the transformed health service that we will build over the next decade and will ensure that patients get the treatment they need, when and where they need it, including those at the end of their lives. I...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20502More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the 10-year health plan will include policies on palliative care.
Answer: We have committed to developing a 10-year plan to deliver a National Health Service fit for the future. We will carefully be considering policies, including those that impact people with palliative and end of life care needs, with input from the public, p...
Answered 30 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 16 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20290More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 14178 on Domestic Waste: Waste Disposal, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the removal of the minimum r
Answer: Local authorities are already legally required to deliver waste collection services to all households in their area. Simpler Recycling in England will go further by mandating weekly food waste collections under the Environment Act 2021. Local authorities ...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Agency: Motor Vehicles and StaffDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20099More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the ratio of staff to road vehicles in the Environment Agency (a) is and (b) was in each of the last three years.
Answer: A breakdown of how much the Environment Agency spent on its commercial fleet’s maintenance by vehicle type and fuel type in the last three financial years is shown in the table below. This does not include leased vehicles as maintenance costs are included...
Answered 30 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Agency: Motor VehiclesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20098More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency has spent on custom wheel lug nuts for Agency vehicles in each of the last three years; and for what purpose.
Answer: A breakdown of how much the Environment Agency spent on its commercial fleet’s maintenance by vehicle type and fuel type in the last three financial years is shown in the table below. This does not include leased vehicles as maintenance costs are included...
Answered 30 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEnvironment Agency: Motor VehiclesDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20097More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much the Environment Agency spent on road vehicle fleet maintenance by (a) vehicle type, (b) fuel type and (c) non-essential modifications in each of the last three financial years
Answer: A breakdown of how much the Environment Agency spent on its commercial fleet’s maintenance by vehicle type and fuel type in the last three financial years is shown in the table below. This does not include leased vehicles as maintenance costs are included...
Answered 30 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19923More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what (a) his Department’s policy is and (b) what guidance has been given to local authorities on the use of microchips in household wheelie bins.
Answer: No, the department has not outlined a policy relating the use of microchips in household wheelie bins and has not issued guidance to local authorities in relation to this topic.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19922More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what guidance has been produced by his Department on the issuing of fines by local authorities on householders who leave items by the curtilage of their property to be given away and r
Answer: The department has not produced guidance for local authorities on issuing fixed penalty notices for householders who leave items by the curtilage of their property to be given away and re-used. The principles of the Regulators’ Code applies, however, to e...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWaste: Codes of PracticeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19918More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 19 November 2024, to Question HL2390, on Waste: Codes of Practice, when his Department plans to respond to the consultation on making the Code of Practice a s
Answer: The Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse is already a statutory document, and Local Councils must have regard to it when carrying out their duty to keep relevant land clear of litter and refuse. Separate guidance on enforcement was published in 2019 and ...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19916More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information (a) his Department and (b) its agencies holds on the number of household receptacles required for rubbish and recycling collections by each local waste collection auth
Answer: Defra and the Environment Agency do not routinely collect data on the number of containers required for waste and recycling collections by each waste collection authority.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19914More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what information his Department holds on the frequency of household residual bin collections by local waste collection authorities.
Answer: Defra does not routinely collect data on the frequency of household residual bin collections by waste collection authorities.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: RecyclingDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19909More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any (a) grant scheme, (b) core departmental and (c) other funding for local authorities is linked to their recycling rates of household waste.
Answer: From 1 January 2025, the Producer Responsibility (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024, alongside simpler recycling and the deposit return scheme, will deliver transformational change, creating thousands of new jobs, helping communities to clea...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDomestic Waste: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19907More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the frequency of residual waste household collections on (a) public health and (b) local amenities.
Answer: Under section 89 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, there is a duty on local authorities to keep land and highways clear of litter. We recognise that as recycling services are expanded and improved under Simpler Recycling in England, local authorit...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19826More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding (a) his Department and (b) NHS England has provided for the Global Majority Fellowship Programme in the last year for which figures are available.
Answer: There is no such thing as the Global Majority Fellowship Programme. The NHS Global Fellowship programme offers volunteer reciprocal leadership development opportunities for clinical and non-clinical staff to experience health systems across the globe.NHS ...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19799More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the delay to community pharmacy funding negotiations on community pharmacies.
Answer: As identified by Lord Darzi’s review, primary care is under pressure and in crisis. The Government inherited a system that has been neglected for too long, and it remains very difficult for pharmacists to deliver for patients at a local level. I am commit...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18800More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support community pharmacies to ensure (a) financial sustainability, (b) consistency in the provision of services, and (c) dispensing of prescriptions.
Answer: Pharmacies play a vital role in our healthcare system. We are committed to expanding the role of pharmacies and better utilising the skills of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. That includes making prescribing part of the services delivered by communi...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPharmacyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18799More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on community pharmacies.
Answer: We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, and this enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26. Now ...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Public ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 December 2024 to Question 16662 on NHS: Public Consultation, what the budget is for deliberative engagement by type of spend in the 2024-25 financial year.
Answer: The public and staff must be at the centre of the development of the plan to make the National Health Service fit for the future, so that it makes a positive impact on their day-to-day lives. That is why we are running as series of in-depth deliberative e...
Answered 16 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHospices: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18295More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions at the Autumn Budget 2024 on children's hospices.
Answer: We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, which enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26. The ris...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordLearning Disability: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17701More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a learning disability strategy that includes measures on (a) health, (b) housing, (c) social care and (d) employment.
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan will set the vision for what good joined-up care looks like for people with a combination of complex health and care needs, such as people with a learning disability. It will set out how to support and enable health and social care...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17700More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential risks of omitting people with learning disabilities from the (a) 2025 and (b) spring 2026 covid-19 booster vaccination programme.
Answer: The Government is committed to protecting those most vulnerable to COVID-19 through vaccination, as guided by the independent Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). On 13 November 2024, the JCVI published advice on the COVID-19 vaccinatio...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: PublicationsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17699More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will have discussions with representatives of (a) NHS England and (b) other departmental bodies on the use of the term global majority in departmental (i) publications and (ii) internal docum
Answer: This is not a term the Department, NHS England, or other departmental bodies would use officially.
Answered 10 Dec 2024
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