Paul Davies MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
RadiotherapyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21459More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department plans to use to determine which trusts or hospitals will receive new radiotherapy machines.
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England is currently developing. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that p...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordRadiotherapy: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 19 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21458More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that funding allocated for radiotherapy is distributed equally across England, taking into account existing regional inequalities in radiotherapy a
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England is currently developing. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that p...
Answered 7 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordMissing Persons: SafetyHome OfficeTabled 18 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 21087More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing guidance to police forces advising them to offer independent return home interviews to adults who have been missing.
Answer: Any missing person incident, especially when a person is vulnerable or has been missing previously, significantly increases the risk of harm occurring, and the Home Office continues to work with partners on the issue.The Missing Persons Authorised Profess...
Answered 10 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20767More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to tackle barriers teenagers and young adults with cancer face in accessing clinical trials.
Answer: To maximise our potential to be a world leader and develop a more competitive, efficient and accessible clinical research system, the Department is committed to implementing recommendations from the Lord O'Shaughnessy independent review of commercial clin...
Answered 3 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20766More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department taking to improve information for (a) young people and (b) their families about the symptoms of cancer.
Answer: We are committed to getting the National Health Service catching cancer on time, diagnosing it earlier, and treating it faster, so that more patients survive this horrible set of diseases. This includes in relation to children and young people.NHS England...
Answered 23 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20765More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department will take to improve the speed of diagnosis for teenagers and young adults with cancer within the 10-year Health plan.
Answer: As part of the work to develop a 10-Year Health Plan, we will carefully be considering policies, including those that impact teenagers and young adults with cancer, with input from the public, patients, health staff, and our partners, as we develop the pl...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20764More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that teenagers and young adults with cancer have access to specialist psychological support within the 10-year health plan.
Answer: As part of the work to develop a 10-Year Health Plan, we will carefully be considering policies, including those that impact teenagers and young adults with cancer, with input from the public, patients, health staff, and our partners, as we develop the pl...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Children and Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20763More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that teenagers and young adults with cancer have access to clinical trials within the 10-year Health plan.
Answer: As part of the work to develop a 10-Year Health Plan, we will carefully be considering policies, including those that impact teenagers and young adults with cancer, with input from the public, patients, health staff, and our partners, as we develop the pl...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20762More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to consult teenagers and young adults with cancer on the 10-year Health plan.
Answer: As part of the work to develop a 10-Year Health Plan, we will carefully be considering policies, including those that impact teenagers and young adults with cancer, with input from the public, patients, health staff, and our partners, as we develop the pl...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20761More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to ensure that the specific issues faced by teenagers and young adults with cancer are accounted for in the 10-Year Health Plan.
Answer: As part of the work to develop a 10-Year Health Plan, we will carefully be considering policies, including those that impact teenagers and young adults with cancer, with input from the public, patients, health staff, and our partners, as we develop the pl...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: HIV/AIDSMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 20740More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Housing Act 1996 to help protect people living with HIV from housing discrimination.
Answer: All people diagnosed with HIV are already afforded the full protections from discrimination relating to the provision of housing or services under the Equality Act 2010. Landlords and agents may not victimise or discriminate against a person based on thei...
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordHousing: HIV/AIDSMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 11 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 19575More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department considers people living with HIV to have a priority need for housing.
Answer: Local authorities are required to give ‘reasonable preference’ (priority) for social housing to people who need to move on medical or welfare grounds. This includes people with chronic or progressive medical conditions such as HIV.
Answered 20 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordPoverty: KirkleesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18832More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the number of people dying in poverty in Kirklees.
Answer: The Department has noted the recommendations made in the report, and values Marie Curie as a key stakeholder which engages with us constructively in this area. The primary way the Department supports people nearing the end of life is through special benef...
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWholesale Trade: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18831More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help protect wholesale workers from crime.
Answer: Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job and this Government is committed to taking retail crime seriously...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWholesale Trade: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18830More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to introduce specific protections for wholesale workers.
Answer: Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job and this Government is committed to taking retail crime seriously...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordWholesale Trade: Crimes of ViolenceHome OfficeTabled 9 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 18829More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the levels of wholesale crime.
Answer: Shop theft continues to increase at an unacceptable level with more and more offenders using violence and abuse against shopworkers to do this. Everybody has a right to feel safe on the job and this Government is committed to taking retail crime seriously...
Answered 17 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordYouth Custody: DiseasesMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17442More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of issuing guidance to prisons on supporting children in custody in different pandemic scenarios.
Answer: The Youth Custody Service (part of HMPPS) works with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the Department for Education, and NHS England’s Health & Justice Children's Team to ensure a co-ordinated strategy for managing the health and wellbeing of chi...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordYouth Custody: DiseasesMinistry of JusticeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17441More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to develop a coordinated strategy for managing the health and wellbeing of children in custodial settings during future pandemics.
Answer: The Youth Custody Service (part of HMPPS) works with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the Department for Education, and NHS England’s Health & Justice Children's Team to ensure a co-ordinated strategy for managing the health and wellbeing of chi...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAlcoholism: DeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17440More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce alcohol-specific deaths.
Answer: A vital part of delivering the Health Mission shift to prevention will be action to reduce the health harms and resulting deaths from excess alcohol consumption. The Department is continuing to invest in improvements to local drug and alcohol treatment se...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAlcoholism and Drugs: DeathDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17439More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce death rates from (a) alcohol, (b) drugs and (c) suicide in (a) the North and (b) coastal regions.
Answer: A vital part of delivering the Health Mission shift to prevention will be action to reduce the number of deaths due to alcohol and drug use, especially in deprived areas. In England, rates of drug poisoning and drug misuse deaths have a marked north-south...
Answered 9 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: PlanningCabinet OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17438More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to use evidence-based measures of community resilience for funding decisions.
Answer: The UK’s long standing resilience architecture is based upon the concept of subsidiarity, where local responders are best placed to identify the risks in their areas, understand the needs of their communities and to put appropriate plans and capability in...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordEmergencies: PlanningCabinet OfficeTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17437More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle regional inequalities in community resilience in the national resilience review.
Answer: The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster committed to undertaking a review of UK national resilience in his statement to the House of Commons on 19 July, in response to the Covid-19 Inquiry’s Module 1 report. The review is expected to conclude in Spring 2...
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAutism: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 2 Dec 2024AnsweredUIN 17436More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure (a) teachers and (b) school staff have adequate (i) knowledge of and (ii) confidence in teaching autistic children.
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 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Young PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15359More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure young people with SEND develop real skills for life.
Answer: For too long the education and care system has not met the needs of all children and young people, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve. ...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: Young PeopleDepartment for EducationTabled 20 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 15358More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the national standards underpinning transitional support provided to young people with SEND.
Answer: For too long the education and care system has not met the needs of all children and young people, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with parents struggling to get their children the support they need and deserve.T...
Answered 29 Nov 2024
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