Samantha Niblett MP: written questions
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Special Educational Needs: South DerbyshireDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28254More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the time taken to process Education, Health and Care Plans for children in South Derbyshire constituency.
Answer: I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for South Derbyshire, to the answer of 5 February 2025 to Question 27930.
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: South DerbyshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28253More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of waiting times for mental health services in South Derbyshire constituency; and what steps he is taking to reduce those times.
Answer: Waiting times for those referred to mental health services are too high all across England, including in the South Derbyshire constituency.Too many people with mental health issues are not getting the support or care they need, which is why we will fix th...
Answered 10 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: South DerbyshireDepartment for EducationTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28252More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much capital funding has been allocated to increase specialist school places for children with special educational needs and disabilities in South Derbyshire constituency.
Answer: Since 2022, Derbyshire has received over £27.6 million in high needs capital funding, which it can use to create new places in special schools and support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in a mainstream setting.The department...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: ICTDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28251More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) modernise NHS IT infrastructure and (b) ensure value for money in upgrading IT systems.
Answer: Through the Frontline Digitisation programme, we will work to level up National Health Service trusts to a baseline level of digital capability. Our investment in digitising the frontline will ensure value for money and that health and care staff have acc...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDeath CertificatesHome OfficeTabled 3 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28250More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the time taken to release death certificates.
Answer: Since the implementation of the death certification reforms in September 2024, the 5-day statutory time period for an informant to register a death commences when the registrar receives a completed Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD) from a Medic...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordRetail Trade: South DerbyshireDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27934More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to help support high street businesses to compete with online retailers in South Derbyshire constituency.
Answer: We intend to introduce permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure (RHL) properties, including those on the high street, from 2026-27. This tax cut must be sustainably funded, and so we intend to apply a higher rate from 2026-27 on th...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordNeurodiversity: Labour Turnover and RecruitmentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27933More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to provide (a) funding and (b) advisory support to employers to help increase the (i) recruitment and (ii) retention of neurodivergent people.
Answer: Neurodivergent people bring many positive benefits to businesses but face particular barriers to employment, which is reflected in a poor overall employment rate. We understand the importance of encouraging employers to adopt neuro-inclusive working pract...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPrimary Care: South DerbyshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27932More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what additional (a) funding and (b) other resources his Department plans to provide to primary care providers to support preventative healthcare in South Derbyshire constituency.
Answer: The 10-Year Health Plan will describe a shared vision for the health and care system in 2035, drawing directly from the extensive engagement underway with the public, patients, and staff. It will set out how the National Health Service will deliver the sh...
Answered 18 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: South DerbyshireDepartment for EducationTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27930More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the reasons for delays in processing education, health and care plans in South Derbyshire constituency; and whether her Department is taking steps to provide additional support
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 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFlood Control: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 31 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27929More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support people affected by flooding caused inadvertently by flood relief schemes.
Answer: When building flood defences there is a legal requirement that any development cannot increase the flood risk to communities either upstream or downstream, and if an increase in risk is identified, it must be mitigated.
Answered 7 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordEmployment: DisabilityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27655More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to (a) support disabled people seeking to enter or return to work and (b) ensure those unable to work continue to receive financial support.
Answer: Appropriate work is generally good for health and wellbeing, so we want everyone to get work and get on in work, whoever they are and wherever they live. Disabled people and people with health conditions, are a diverse group so access to the right work an...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Transport: East MidlandsDepartment for TransportTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27654More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to improve public transport connections in (a) South Derbyshire constituency and (b) the East Midlands.
Answer: The government knows that a modern public transport network is vital to providing access to services and keeping communities connected. The government introduced the Bus Services (No.2) Bill on 17 December to put the power over local bus services back int...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordArmed Forces: Workplace PensionsMinistry of DefenceTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27653More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of extending pension entitlements to Army reservists who were excluded from the Armed Forces Pension Scheme between July 2000 and March 2015.
Answer: Following legal advice, the Ministry of Defence has lodged an appeal against the Milroy employment tribunal ruling. We are unable to comment further on the payment of military reservist pensions for pre-2015 service whilst the appeal is ongoing.
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPreventive Medicine: South DerbyshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to shift towards a preventative healthcare model in South Derbyshire constituency; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the preventative
Answer: The Health Mission sets out our plan to shift the National Health Service away from a model geared towards late diagnosis and treatment, to one where the NHS focuses on prevention, and where more services are delivered in local communities. Our core objec...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: South DerbyshireDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase specialist educational provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities in South Derbyshire constituency.
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. We want more chil...
Answered 5 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordVaccinationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27349More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to coordinate the roll out of (a) the Respiratory Syncytial Virus vaccine and (b) other vaccines across all English regions to maximise effectiveness.
Answer: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programmes for pregnant women, to protect newborns, and adults aged 75 to 79 years old began in England on 1 September 2024. The programmes are being delivered by general practices and commissioned maternity s...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: South DerbyshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27057More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of (a) public health and (b) adult social care services in reducing the demand on (i) primary and (ii) acute services in South Derbyshir
Answer: The NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for meeting the healthcare needs and demands of South Derbyshire's population.There is evidence that public health and adult social care interventions of different kinds can be effect...
Answered 6 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordPlanning Authorities: South DerbyshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27056More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made the adequacy of the number of local authority planning officers in South Derbyshire to help support the Government's wider planning reform
Answer: While it is for individual local authorities to make their own assessments of their workforce, the government appreciate that planning departments across the country are experiencing challenges with recruitment, retention, and skills gaps and that in many...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordCrime: Young PeopleHome OfficeTabled 28 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 27054More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of council run youth centres in tackling youth crime in South Derbyshire constituency.
Answer: This government recognises the vital role youth services play in reducing a young person’s likelihood of becoming involved in crime. This will be a vital element of our Young Futures Programme which will establish a network of Young Futures Hubs and Young...
Answered 3 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordMortgages: PylonsTreasuryTabled 23 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26183More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will hold discussions with mortgage lenders on the adequacy of their lending criteria for homes within 200 metres of a pylon.
Answer: The pricing and availability of mortgages is a commercial decision for mortgage lenders in which the Government does not intervene. However, the Government is regularly in contact with mortgage lenders on all aspects of their business, including the provi...
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordHealth Services: Digital TechnologyDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25826More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2025 to Question 23992 on Primary Health Care: Standards, what steps his Department is taking to help support (a) elderly and (b) digitally-challenged people to
Answer: Digital health tools should be part of a wider offering that includes face-to-face support, with appropriate help for people who struggle to access digital services. NHS England has successfully run a number of programmes to support patients, carers, and ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordDisability: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 20 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25042More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support people with long term physical disabilities to access secondary care including (a) hydrotherapy, (b) physiotherapy and (c) acupuncture without re-referrals.
Answer: The Government is committed to championing the rights of disabled people. Under the Equality Act (2010), health and social care organisations must make reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled people are not disadvantaged. NHS England has developed ...
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordLearning Disabilities: Labour Turnover and RecruitmentDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 16 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24545More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to promote the recruitment and retention of people who have a learning disability in the (a) private and (b) public sectors.
Answer: Our specialist initiatives to support people with learning disabilities and other disabled people into work include support from Work Coaches and Disability Employment Advisers in Jobcentres. £12.3 million has also been invested into 23 lead Local Authori...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordPrimary Care: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23992More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to support primary care to reduce the time it takes to receive (a) results and (b) appointments from secondary care services.
Answer: The Elective Reform Plan, launched as part of the Government’s Plan for Change, sets out plans to improve patients’ experience, so that it is as smooth, supportive, and convenient as possible. This includes giving them more control and flexibility, and de...
Answered 17 Jan 2025
Original Parliament recordIncinerators: Planning PermissionDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 14 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 23991More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Government to crack down on waste incinerators with stricter standards for new builds, published 30 December 2024, whether inc
Answer: Rights to appeal planning decisions are unaffected by the Residual Waste Infrastructure Capacity Note and accompanying statement. The accompanying statement set out that Government will only back new Energy from Waste projects that meet strict conditions....
Answered 17 Jan 2025
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