Monica Harding MP: written questions
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Huntington's Disease: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36979More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of integrated care boards have specialist clinicians for Huntington’s Disease; and whether Surrey Heartlands ICB has specialist clinicians for Huntington’s Disease.
Answer: Working under the UK Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases, such as Huntington’s Disease.Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (ICB) commissions a specialist service that provides ...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordHuntington's Disease: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 10 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36978More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he (a) has taken and (b) is taking to (i) increase and (ii) improve the availability of specialist clinical provision for people with Huntington’s Disease.
Answer: Working under the UK Rare Diseases Framework, the Government is committed to improving the lives of those living with rare diseases, such as Huntington’s Disease.Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board (ICB) commissions a specialist service that provides ...
Answered 18 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordUSA: Development AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29163More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to help mitigate the potential impact of USAID’s funding pause on the UK’s international development programmes.
Answer: We are currently working to assess the implications of the US funding pause across development sectors. We welcome the news that emergency food aid and life-saving humanitarian assistance should be exempt from the pause in US foreign aid.The UK's commitme...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordUSA: Development AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29162More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his counterparts in other donor countries on responding to the decision to pause USAID funding.
Answer: Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals requires collective action, and the UK will continue to work with all international partnerships toward that vision. We are currently working to assess the implications of the USAID funding pause and work...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment AidForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 29161More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many UK aid programmes have been (a) paused and (b) otherwise affected by the USAID funding pause.
Answer: We are currently working to assess the implications of the US funding pause across development sectors. We welcome the news that emergency food aid and life-saving humanitarian assistance should be exempt from the pause in US foreign aid. We are assessing...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSudan: United NationsForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28707More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what diplomatic steps he is taking to help support the expansion of the UN’s operational presence in (a) South Darfur and (b) other conflict-affected areas in Sudan.
Answer: On 11 February, I met with the ERC, Tom Fletcher, to discuss how the international community can support the UN-led humanitarian response in Sudan through supporting efforts to establish UN presence in areas of greatest need, including Darfur, and South K...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOccupied Territories: UNRWAForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26257More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the continuity of UNRWA's operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Answer: Israeli legislation means United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) faces a cliff edge in its ability to support Palestinian refugees across the West Bank and Gaza. We remain opposed to the legislation, and uneq...
Answered 29 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordEnergy: HousingDepartment for Energy Security and Net ZeroTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 901854More
Question: What steps he is taking to improve the energy efficiency of homes in winter 2024-25.
Answer: We have announced a target to deliver 300,000 home upgrades this year, as we know that too many families are living in poor quality housing and paying over the odds to heat their homes. The Warm Homes Plan will be critical to ending the scourge of energy ...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHydrocephalus: BabiesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of infants with hydrocephalus initially present symptoms after 8 weeks of age.
Answer: It is vitally important that babies are diagnosed as early as possible so treatment can be provided. Current National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance recommends measuring the head circumference of babies in the first week, at appr...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHydrocephalus: BabiesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19566More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of routine monitoring of infant head circumference after 8 weeks of age as a diagnostic tool for early identification of hydrocephalus.
Answer: It is vitally important that babies are diagnosed as early as possible so treatment can be provided. Current National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance recommends measuring the head circumference of babies in the first week, at appr...
Answered 18 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordRiver Mole: SewageDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16589More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 20 November 2024 to Question 13669 on Rivers: Sewage, which six sewage treatment works in the River Mole catchment have been inspected by the Environment Agen
Answer: The Environment Agency (EA) has confirmed that the six Wastewater Treatment works (WwTW) inspected in the River Mole Catchment in the current financial year, referenced in the response to PQ 13669 on Rivers: Sewage, are as follows: Burstow WwTWCrawley WwT...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: ClosuresDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16045More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of community pharmacy closures on (a) local health provision and (b) patient outcomes in (i) England and (ii) Surrey.
Answer: Since 2019, there have been a total of 39 pharmacy closures in Surrey, and four in the Esher and Walton Constituency. In Surrey, this has broken down as: seven closures in 2019; six in 2020; four in 2021; two in 2022; and 15 in 2023, with a further five h...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPharmacy: SurreyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 25 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16044More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many community pharmacies have closed in (a) Surrey and (b) Esher and Walton constituency in each year since 2019.
Answer: Since 2019, there have been a total of 39 pharmacy closures in Surrey, and four in the Esher and Walton Constituency. In Surrey, this has broken down as: seven closures in 2019; six in 2020; four in 2021; two in 2022; and 15 in 2023, with a further five h...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15583More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for which local authorities her Department has provided (a) support and (b) intervention for safety valve agreements since 2019.
Answer: The department has made Safety Valve agreements with 38 local authorities. These are: Bath and North East Somerset, Barnsley, Bexley, Blackpool, Bolton, Bracknell Forest, Bristol, Bury, Cambridgeshire, Croydon, Darlington, Devon, Dorset, Hammersmith and F...
Answered 27 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15582More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what formula her Department is using to calculate Special Educational Needs and Disability high needs funding allocations for local authorities next year.
Answer: The high needs national funding formula will be used to allocate high needs funding to local authorities in the 2025/26 financial year. Provisional 2025/26 national funding formula allocations for local authorities have now been published and can be found...
Answered 28 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: SurreyDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 21 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15576More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what flood (a) prevention and (b) relief measures have been put in place to support communities along the Thames between Weybridge and Long Ditton in the event of flooding in winter 20
Answer: Following Storm Henk, the Environment Agency (EA) has undertaken a significant amount of debris clearance on weir structures, including the removal of a number of sunken & stricken vessels. The cost of the clean-up operation undertaken by our teams an...
Answered 2 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordGP Practice ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14858More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average GP practice patient list is; what the largest patient list was at a GP practice in 2023-4; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of GP list sizes on p
Answer: Data on patients registered at a general practice (GP) is published on a monthly basis, and is as follows for 2023/24: at the beginning of 2023/24, 1 April 2023, the largest practice had 106,308 patients, and the median average practice had 8,383 patients...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14857More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average per-patient funding for GP practices was in (a) England and (b) NHS Surrey Heartlands in 2023-4.
Answer: This data is published annually by NHS England in the NHS Payments to General Practice Report and will be available in due course.
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordGeneral PractitionersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 18 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14856More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve the (a) performance of and (b) patient experience at the GP practices in the bottom 5% of the 2024 GP Patient Survey.
Answer: We know that general practices (GPs) are working hard to deliver for their patients, and are delivering more appointments than ever before, however we know that some patients are struggling to access the care they need, and GPs are struggling to deliver i...
Answered 21 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: SurreyMinistry of JusticeTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14277More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information her Department holds on the number of education, health and care plan tribunals that were lost by Surrey County Council in each year from 2019 to 2024 to date.
Answer: Information about appeals to the First-Tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics. The table below sets out the number of appeals to the SEND Tribunal against d...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: SurreyDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14276More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of her Department's Safety Valve Agreement with Surrey County Council on (a) funding per EHCP in Surrey and (b) quality of SEND provision in Surrey.
Answer: The Safety Valve programme helps local authorities provide an improved special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) service by maximising the impact of their high needs budget and promoting a more stable and effective system for children and young pe...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14275More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to (a) ensure that deficit reduction measures taken by local authorities as part of their safety valve agreements do not reduce the (i) level and (ii) quality of support f
Answer: The Safety Valve programme helps local authorities provide an improved special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) service by maximising the impact of their high needs budget and promoting a more stable and effective system for children and young pe...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 13 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 14227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will take steps to ensure the uplift for SEND funding announced in the Autumn Budget 2024 is allocated by local authorities to families assessed as being in the most urgent need; what steps he
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or in alternative provision receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life. The department is...
Answered 18 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFreehold: Service ChargesMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13718More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will take steps to (a) improve the transparency of estate charges for freeholders, (b) give freeholders the power to challenge estate charges and (c) give freeh
Answer: The government is committed to taking steps to bring the injustice of ‘fleecehold’ private estates and unfair maintenance costs to an end and we will consult on the best way to achieve this.In the interim, we will act to provide residential freeholders wi...
Answered 15 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordRivers: SewageDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 11 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13669More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to reduce sewage discharges into (a) the River Mole and (b) other rivers.
Answer: For too long, water companies have discharged record levels of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas. That is why we are placing water companies under special measures through the Water Bill, which will strengthen regulation, including delivering new pow...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
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