Rupert Lowe MP: written questions
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Written questions
Department for Education: AviationDepartment for EducationTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16877More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many international (a) air miles and (b) flights have been completed by (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in their Department since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Data on Ministers’ overseas travel and on senior civil servants’ business expenses is published on a quarterly basis. This can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dfe-business-expenses-and-hospitality-for-senior-officials.
Answered 10 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport: AviationDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16876More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many international (a) air miles and (b) flights have been completed by (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in their Department since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Data on ministers’ overseas travel and on senior civil servants’ business expenses is published on a quarterly basis. This can be found here.
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Business and Trade: AviationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16875More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many international (a) air miles and (b) flights have been completed by (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in their Department since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Data on minister’s overseas travel and on senior civil servant’s business expenses is published on a quarterly basis. This can be found here:Ministers - DBT: ministerial gifts, hospitality, overseas travel and meetings - GOV.UK Senior Officials - DBT: sen...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: AviationDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16874More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many international (a) air miles and (b) flights have been completed by (i) Ministers and (ii) officials in their Department since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Data on minister’s overseas travel and on senior civil servant’s business expenses is published on a quarterly basis. This can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dsit-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-meetings-april-to-june-2024
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordOphthalmology: Undocumented MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many optician appointments for irregular migrants there were at what cost to the public purse in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Department and NHS England do not hold the information requested. The National Health Service is a residency-based system, which means that people who do not live here on a lawful, settled basis must contribute to the cost of their care. However, some...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordVaccination: Undocumented MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16870More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many vaccines have been administered to irregular migrants in each of the last five years.
Answer: Primary care services, such as vaccinations, are available and free to all, including people who arrive in the United Kingdom through irregular routes. New arrivals are encouraged to receive a patient health check when they register in primary care, inclu...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Undocumented MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16826More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many visits there were by NHS staff to (a) hotels and (b) other accommodation housing irregular migrants in each of the last five years.
Answer: The Department and NHS England do not hold the information requested. The National Health Service is a residency-based system, which means that people who do not live here on a lawful, settled basis must contribute to the cost of their care. However, some...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAmbulance Services: Undocumented MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16825More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many ambulance visits there were to (a) hotels and (b) other accommodation housing irregular migrants in the most recent year for which information is available.
Answer: The Department does not hold the information requested.
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAsylum and Undocumented Migrants: Mental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16824More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) irregular migrants and (b) asylum seekers attended how many NHS therapy sessions in the most recent year for which information is available; and what the cost to the public purse was o
Answer: While NHS England does hold some data on this, the information is not considered robust enough to be published, given that only a small number of providers have recorded data in a format that allows asylum seekers and refugees to be separately identified....
Answered 13 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: InterpretersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16771More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of training to raise awareness of the role of interpreting within the NHS.
Answer: The provision of interpretation services is the responsibility of the service provider. There is no national programme for training to raise awareness of interpreting within the National Health Service.
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16691More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many test results have been translated into languages other than English for each of the last five years.
Answer: The Department does not hold the requested information centrally. Integrated care boards are responsible for arranging National Health Service healthcare services to meet the needs of their respective populations, which includes translation services.The D...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16690More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing (a) family and (b) friends to provide (i) translation and (ii) interpretation during NHS appointments.
Answer: The General Medical Council’s guidance states that all possible efforts must be made to ensure effective communication with patients. This includes arrangements to meet patients’ communication needs in languages other than English.Where language is a prob...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: InterpretersDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16689More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which interpreting agencies are contracted to provide services to the NHS; and what the cost to the public purse of those contracts is.
Answer: The Department does not hold the requested information centrally. Integrated care boards are responsible for arranging National Health Service healthcare services to meet the needs of their respective populations, which includes translation services.The D...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16688More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15631 on NHS: Translation services, which languages e-RS letters sent in 2024-25 were translated into.
Answer: Please see the list below which outlines the languages which e-Referral Service letters sent in 2024/25 were translated into:- Arabic; - Bengali; - Gujarati; - Kurdish; - Persian; - Polish; - Punjabi; - Somali; - Turkish; - Urdu; - Albanian; - Chinese; - ...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16687More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of letters posted by the NHS were in each language in each of the last five years; and what the cost of translation was for those letters.
Answer: The Department does not hold the requested information centrally. Integrated care boards are responsible for arranging National Health Service healthcare services to meet the needs of their respective populations, which includes translation services.The D...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16684More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the average additional time taken during the appointments for (a) translation and (b) interpretation.
Answer: The Department does not hold the requested information centrally. Integrated care boards are responsible for arranging National Health Service healthcare services to meet the needs of their respective populations, which includes translation services.The D...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Translation ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16683More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15631 on NHS: Translation Services , what the reason was for the change in the number of e-RS letters sent out in (a) 2019/20 and (b) 2020/21.
Answer: The main reason for the change in the number of e-Referral Service (e-RS) letters sent out in 2019/20 and 2020/21 was the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced the number of referrals being created in the National Health Service e-RS. In addition, in early 202...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: FraudDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16681More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of reported (a) error and (b) fraud has not been investigated for each of the last five years.
Answer: The Department does not hold the data requested.
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordProtective Clothing: StorageDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16678More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November to Question 13915 on Protective Clothing: Storage, if he will publish a breakdown of where personal protective equipment that is unsuitable for NHS use is stor
Answer: Since April 2022, operational management of pandemic era personal protective equipment (PPE) has been carried out by the NHS Supply Chain. They report that PPE considered unsuitable for use in the National Health Service is currently held at the following...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAsylum: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16676More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average height is of male asylum seekers recorded via the National Child Measurement Programme.
Answer: The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) is a mandatory public health function of local authorities, and it collects data on the weight status of children aged four to five years old, or those in Reception, and 10 to 11 years old, or those in Year ...
Answered 3 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordSocial Security Benefits: OverpaymentsDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15043 on Social Security Benefits: Overpayments, what the reason was for the increases in Monetary Value of Fraud and Error between FYE 20 and FYE
Answer: The Department published a detailed account of its understanding of the reasons for the increase in overpayments in its Annual Report and Accounts for 2020/21. HC 422 – Department for Work and Pensions – Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordNHS: Undocumented MigrantsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16647More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many private provider contracts have been commissioned by the NHS to treat irregular migrants in each of the last ten years; and what the cost to the public purse was of those contracts.
Answer: I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 27 November 2024 to Question 14728.
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Work and Pensions: Freedom of InformationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will publish her Department’s response to FOI2024/88818.
Answer: As the Freedom of Information (FOI) request, FOI2024/88818, was submitted via WhatDoTheyKnow.com (WDTK), the FOI is already publicly available for anyone to access. The FOI can be accessed on WDTK via the following link: Universal Credit access, Refugees ...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDiego Garcia: Military BasesForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16585More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the planned cost to the public purse is of leasing the military base in Diego Garcia from Mauritius.
Answer: It is not normal practice for the UK to confirm the value of its payments for military bases anywhere across the globe. Whilst the annual 'operating costs' of some bases and training areas may be shared, this is different to the value of payments for mili...
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordAsylum and Undocumented Migrants: HousingHome OfficeTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16584More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing an official and voluntary scheme for hon. Members to house (a) asylum seekers and (b) irregular migrants.
Answer: There are currently no such Government-backed voluntary schemes for housing asylum seekers for any households in the UK, regardless of whether that household contains an MP. It is up to MPs to decide who they might wish to live with - this is not a matter...
Answered 5 Dec 2024
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