Kim Leadbeater MP: written questions
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Written questions
Dental Services: Spen ValleyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21527More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timescale is to provide funding for newly opened dental practices in Spen Valley aiming to secure NHS contracts.
Answer: This 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 and recruit new dentists to areas that need them most. To rebuild dentis...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordInfluenza: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21525More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to expand the eligibility criteria for winter flu vaccinations.
Answer: Eligibility for the seasonal influenza vaccination programme is based on the advice and recommendations of an independent expert committee, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The latest JCVI advice on seasonal influenza vaccines i...
Answered 9 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordFoetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 13 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20048More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the process for families to obtain a diagnosis for foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
Answer: The Department asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to produce a quality standard in England for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), to help the health and care system improve both diagnosis and support for people affected by FA...
Answered 19 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15686More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including people with learning disabilities in the spring 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 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCarer's AllowanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of carers losing access to Carers Allowance once they become entitled to the State Pension on those carers.
Answer: Although there is no upper age limit to claiming Carer’s Allowance, it cannot normally be paid with the State Pension. It has been a long held feature of the UK’s benefit system, under successive Governments, that where someone is entitled to two benefits...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCourt of ProtectionMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6662More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Court of Protection's communications; and whether she has had discussions with them on improving their application processes.
Answer: The central office for the Court of Protection installed a new telephone system on 29 April 2024. This has helped the court to monitor demand and move resource to address peak call times as well as using the interactive voice response technology to direct...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordFurniture: Fire PreventionDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6661More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his Department's policy is on future furniture and furnishings fire safety regulations.
Answer: The Government is committed to ensuring that only safe products are made available on the UK market, including products that fall under the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988.Following the formation of the Government in July, the D...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordCrown Prosecution ServiceAttorney GeneralTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6660More
Question: To ask the Solicitor General, what steps she is taking to ensure transparency in Crown Prosecution Service decisions.
Answer: The Code for Crown Prosecutors makes clear that, when making decisions, prosecutors must be fair and objective and act in the interests of justice. To maintain transparency around its legal decision-making, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has integrat...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPrisoners' ReleaseMinistry of JusticeTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 6659More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure public protection as part of her Department's early release scheme.
Answer: Amending the automatic release point for eligible Standard Determinate Sentences to 40% (SDS40) has allowed us to end more challenging measures like End of Custody Supervised Licence which gave us less predictability and stability in release planning. Del...
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordUrinary Tract Infections: Health Education and ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 12 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 5710More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase awareness of urinary tract infections (UTIs); and if he will (a) take steps to support research on the (i) diagnosis and (ii) treatment of UTIs and (b) have disc
Answer: The Department has a number of existing partnerships to help promote awareness of urology conditions. NHS England is partnering with P-Wave for a campaign targeted at men, specifically focussing on blood in urine as a possible symptom of cancer. The partn...
Answered 8 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: EmploymentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Sept 2024AnsweredUIN 4938More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking to steps to protect soft facilities management employment in the NHS.
Answer: National Health Service trusts are independent employers who need to determine how best their services are delivered, which includes the provision of soft facilities management.
Answered 18 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordElectronic Cigarettes: Public PlacesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3275More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to update the guidance on Use of e-cigarettes in public places and workplaces, published by Public Health England in July 2016; and if he will make an assessment of the potential
Answer: The Government is concerned about the worrying rise in vaping among children, and there are legitimate concerns about the unknown long-term harms from vaping. Whilst the evidence base on second-hand vaping is still developing, and is less strong than smok...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordCoronavirus: VaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3274More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis is for not including household members of people who are clinically vulnerable within the eligibility criteria for covid-19 booster vaccinations.
Answer: As with all United Kingdom vaccination programmes, the decision of which groups are eligible for a particular part of the programme is made following careful consideration of the groups most at risk of illness, severe illness, or death, as a consequence o...
Answered 5 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordNavy: RecruitmentMinistry of DefenceTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to update the Basic Eligibility And Entry Standards to the Royal Navy to allow applications from individuals with asthma when their condition is managed.
Answer: Joint Service Publication (JSP) 950 Leaflet 6-7-7 Section 4 Annex D sets out the current medical entry standards for the Armed Forces for respiratory conditions, including asthma. Medical entry standards, including those relating to asthma, are regularly ...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordTravel: Tax AllowancesTreasuryTabled 30 Aug 2024AnsweredUIN 3272More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has plans to review and update the Overseas Scale Rates.
Answer: Employers have a choice about whether to use the Overseas Scale Rates (OSR) or to pay the actual expenses incurred. If an employer pays actual expenses, they must check the employees’ receipts, but they do not have to do this if they use the OSR. There wi...
Answered 9 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordLong Covid: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 2563More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support (a) children and (b) other people with long covid.
Answer: NHS England has invested significantly in supporting people with long COVID. This includes setting up specialist post-COVID services nationwide for adults, and children and young people, developing digital self-management tools, and investing in ensuring ...
Answered 2 Sept 2024
Original Parliament recordParking: Codes of PracticeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 18 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 717More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is her policy to publish a statutory code of practice under the Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019.
Answer: We will set out policies on the Private Parking Code of Practice in due course.
Answered 26 Jul 2024
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