Luke Murphy MP: written questions
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T-levelsDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35501More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many planned learning hours an average T-level student is expected to undertake in 2024-25.
Answer: T Levels range in size, with planned learning hours varying across pathways depending on the needs of individual sectors. Individual providers have freedom to plan their curriculum and structure their teaching hours based on local needs, and there are sig...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: Voluntary WorkDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35500More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to use volunteers to help deliver NHS (a) resilience and (b) career pathways, in the context of the forthcoming 10 Year Plan.
Answer: The National Health Service has always benefited from the generous support of volunteers and voluntary sector organisations. Volunteers have, and will continue to have, an important and complementary role in the NHS and care system, supporting patients, f...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDefibrillators and Heart Diseases: BasingstokeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35499More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase (a) survival rates from out-of hospital cardiac arrests and (b) the availability of defibrillators in Basingstoke.
Answer: To improve patients' survival rates following out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, the Government has committed to improving access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public spaces and reducing inequalities in access to these life saving devices. ...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDefibrillators: BasingstokeDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35498More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to encourage community organisations in Basingstoke to register automated external defibrillators with the national defibrillator network.
Answer: To improve patients' survival rates following out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, the Government has committed to improving access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public spaces and reducing inequalities in access to these life saving devices. ...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHeat Pumps: Planning PermissionMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35497More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the press notice entitled Help to save households money and deliver cleaner heat to homes, published on 21 November 2024, when her Department will announce a da
Answer: Further announcements on permitted development rights for air source heat pumps and electric vehicle charging points will be made in due course.
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLeasehold: ReformMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what her Department's timetable is for bringing forward proposals for a Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill; and what plans she has to consult leaseholders on those proposals.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244).
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRight to Manage CompaniesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the forthcoming Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill will include provisions to enable multi-building developments to apply for the right to manage as a single entity.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement I made on 21 November 2024 (HCWS244).
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCoeliac Disease: Gluten-free FoodsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26990More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of clinical commissioning groups that have implemented more restrictive policies on the prescription of gluten-free products for people with coel
Answer: The Department and NHS England do not hold this information and are not monitoring the potential impact of those policy changes on the affected groups.Decisions about the commissioning and funding of local health services, including the prescription of gl...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordElectric Vehicles: Hire ServicesTreasuryTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26785More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to allow public sector employees to sacrifice salary to lease an electric vehicle.
Answer: I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave to PQ UIN 25529.
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPolice and Crime Commissioners: FinanceMinistry of JusticeTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25530More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2025 to Question 23643 on Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner, for what reasons funding amounts for individual Police and Crime Commissioner areas are not routinely publis
Answer: Funding amounts for the commissioning of victims’ services by individual Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) have not previously been systematically published on gov.uk.Individual PCCs publish annual reports which includes funding for victim services. F...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCycle to Work Scheme: Public SectorTreasuryTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25529More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has plans to (a) implement and (b) allow public sector employees to utilise existing private cycle to work style salary sacrifice schemes to (i) lease and (ii) purchase electric vehicles at reduced rates
Answer: The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is crucial to decarbonising transport and will support growth and productivity across the UK. There are now more than 1 million EVs on our roads. The government has committed to phasing out new cars that rely sole...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHampshire Police and Crime CommissionerMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much funding has been allocated to the Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner (a) in total and (b) for support services for survivors of sexual assault and abuse since 2012.
Answer: The 42 Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales receive annual grant funding from the Ministry of Justice’s victim and witness budget to commission local practical, emotional, and therapeutic support services for victims of all crime typ...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPupils: QualificationsDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the (a) retention and (b) pass rate is for 16 to 19 year olds studying three A level-equivalent (i) applied general and (ii) tech level qualifications.
Answer: The department does not publish retention and pass rate data for 16 to 19-year-olds for applied general and tech level qualifications equivalent in size to three A levels.However, the department does publish data on pass rates and the proportion of studen...
Answered 16 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth: Food PovertyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21416More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of food poverty on (a) malnutrition, (b) obesity and (c) other health conditions in (i) Basingstoke, (ii) Hampshire and (iii) England in the pa
Answer: The relationship between food poverty, or food insecurity, nutritional intake, and physical and mental health in the United Kingdom is currently unclear. However, international evidence suggests that in the long-term, food insecurity may be associated wit...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitals: AdmissionsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20738More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the rate of hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge was for (a) Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, (b) Hampshire and (c) England in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The following tables show published experimental statistics by NHS England on the percentage of emergency admissions to any hospital in England within 30 days of the most recent discharge from hospital at a trust and national level: YearLevel descriptionI...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight: ExpenditureDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20737More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board received in each of the last ten years; and what (a) that funding and (b) the national average in England was per capita.
Answer: The Integrated Care Boards (Establishment) Order 2022 legally established 42 integrated care boards (ICBs), with effect from 1 July 2022. Further information is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/integrated-care-boards-...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordAccident and Emergency Departments: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20736More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time at A&E in (a) Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, (b) Hampshire and (c) England was in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The data is not available in the format requested. Official data on the total amount of time patients wait in accident and emergency is collected and published by NHS England. This information is published monthly, including by National Health Service tru...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20735More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for children and young people to access (a) CAMHS and (b) other NHS mental health services was in (i) Basingstoke constituency, (ii) Hampshire and (ii) England in each
Answer: The following table shows the waiting time, measured in the number of days, between referral and first contact for children and young people aged under 18 years old in England, from 2020/21 to 2023/24: YearMean average waiting time between referral and fi...
Answered 30 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDental Services: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20734More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for an NHS dental appointment in (a) Basingstoke constituency, (b) Hampshire and (c) England was in each of the last ten years.
Answer: Patients in England are not registered with a National Health Service dental practice, although many NHS dental practices do tend to see patients regularly. There is no geographical restriction on which practice a patient may attend. Dental practices may ...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDental Services: PatientsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20733More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new patients NHS dental practices in (a) Basingstoke constituency, (b) Hampshire and (c) England accepted in each of the last ten years.
Answer: Data on the number of new patients seen since March 2024 as part of the New Patient Premium scheme will be published by NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) in due course. This will be available at national as well as integrated care board (ICB) level...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHospitals: DischargesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20732More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many delayed discharges there were (a) at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, (b) in Hampshire and (c) in England in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The data collection used for monitoring delayed discharges was changed in 2020. In addition, the Department and NHS England do not hold data on the number of delayed discharges at hospital level, and trust level data was published from 2022 onwards. As su...
Answered 8 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordGeneral Practitioners: VacanciesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20731More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the vacancy rate for GP roles in (a) Basingstoke constituency, (b) Hampshire and (c) England was in each of the last ten years.
Answer: The data requested is not held centrally.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordRespiratory Diseases: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the age of 18 in (a) Basingstoke constituency, (b) Hampshire and (c) England were diagnosed with respiratory conditions associated with poor (i) air quality and (ii) housing
Answer: The Department does not hold information on diagnosed respiratory conditions caused by air quality and housing conditions.The Government is committed to a preventative approach to the public’s health, and is determined to improve air quality for everyone....
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: Anti-social BehaviourHome OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the impact of the proposed Respect Orders on anti-social car meets and illegal street racing in Basingstoke.
Answer: Acts of anti-social behaviour (ASB) - such as the arrangement of illegal car meets – cause great harm, distress and nuisance to our communities, and, if left unchecked, can lead to even more serious offending. That is why tackling ASB is a top priority fo...
Answered 27 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordMotor Vehicles: Anti-social BehaviourHome OfficeTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether additional guidance will be provided to (a) police forces and (b) local councils on the use of Respect Orders to target anti-social car meets and illegal street racing.
Answer: Acts of anti-social behaviour (ASB) - such as the arrangement of illegal car meets - cause great harm, distress and nuisance to our communities, and, if left unchecked, can lead to even more serious offending. That is why tackling ASB is a top priority fo...
Answered 21 Jan 2025
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