Saqib Bhatti MP: written questions
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Gender Dysphoria: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52700More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the age of seven have been treated for gender dysphoria since 1 April 2024.
Answer: No children under the age of seven have been treated for gender dysphoria since 1 April 2024.
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGender Dysphoria: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52699More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the recommendations on the minimum age for treatment for gender dysphoria in the Cass Review, published in April 2024.
Answer: Last year, NHS England held a public consultation regarding an updated referral pathway policy for children and young people to access NHS Children and Young People's Gender Services in line with the recommendations of the Cass Review.The public consultat...
Answered 2 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordGender DysphoriaDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 15 May 2025AnsweredUIN 52698More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the NHS follows guidance on the minimum age for gender dysphoria.
Answer: On 7 August 2024, NHS England published a new service specification that describes the pathway onto the waiting list for NHS Children and Young People's Gender Services in line with the recommendations of the Cass Review. The service specification was agr...
Answered 10 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordFundraising: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49463More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that tipping sliders on online fundraising platforms can be dragged to zero.
Answer: Fundraising platforms are commercial organisations that provide an important service to charities and donors. Most platforms are registered with the Fundraising Regulator, which is the independent, non-statutory regulator of charitable fundraising in Engl...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFundraising: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49462More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her Department's policies of the use of tipping sliders by online fundraising platforms.
Answer: Fundraising platforms are commercial organisations that provide an important service to charities and donors. Most platforms are registered with the Fundraising Regulator, which is the independent, non-statutory regulator of charitable fundraising in Engl...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFundraising: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49461More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with the Fundraising Regulator on the transparency of fees on online fundraising platforms.
Answer: Fundraising platforms are commercial organisations that provide an important service to charities and donors. Most platforms are registered with the Fundraising Regulator, which is the independent, non-statutory regulator of charitable fundraising in Engl...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFundraising: InternetDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49460More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to increase the transparency of fees on online fundraising platforms.
Answer: Fundraising platforms are commercial organisations that provide an important service to charities and donors. Most platforms are registered with the Fundraising Regulator, which is the independent, non-statutory regulator of charitable fundraising in Engl...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordFundraising: InternetTreasuryTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49459More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that Gift Aid claimed by online fundraising platforms goes to charities.
Answer: Charities have the flexibility to decide on their own strategy for fundraising and are free to partner with other organisations to process their Gift Aid claims. It will ultimately be a commercial decision on the part of a charity to work with a fundraisi...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordGift AidTreasuryTabled 30 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 49458More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to ban the charging of commission on Gift Aid.
Answer: Charities have the flexibility to decide on their own strategy for fundraising and are free to partner with other organisations to process their Gift Aid claims. It will ultimately be a commercial decision on the part of a charity to work with a fundraisi...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: Per Capita CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48568More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether Integrated Care Boards will receive extra funding to meet costs adjusted for population.
Answer: Integrated care boards (ICBs) receive funding allocations from NHS England to pay for the services they commission, and NHS England is responsible for decisions on the weighted capitation formula used to allocate resources between ICBs. This process is in...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordIntegrated Care Boards: Operating CostsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48567More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to make an announcement on future running costs for integrated care boards.
Answer: NHS England has asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to act primarily as strategic commissioners of health and care services, and to reduce the duplication of responsibilities within their structure to achieve a 50% cost reduction in their running cost...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordSolihull Hospital: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48566More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the 50 per cent cut to Integrated Care Boards on Solihull Hospital.
Answer: NHS England has asked the integrated care boards (ICBs) to act primarily as strategic commissioners of health and care services, and to reduce the duplication of responsibilities within their structure to achieve a 50% cost reduction in their running cost...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDigital Technology: DisadvantagedDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47840More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to publish the evidence from the Digital Inclusion Strategy Call for Evidence.
Answer: The Government published the Digital Inclusion Action Plan in February, which sets out the first steps we are taking towards our ambition of delivering digital inclusion for everyone across the UK, regardless of their circumstances. The Government also pu...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDigital Technology: DisadvantagedDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47839More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to tackle digital exclusion.
Answer: The Government published the Digital Inclusion Action Plan in February, which sets out the first steps we are taking towards our ambition of delivering digital inclusion for everyone across the UK, regardless of their circumstances. The Government also pu...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDigital Technology: DisadvantagedDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47838More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress he has made on establishing the Digital Inclusion Action Committee.
Answer: The Digital Inclusion Action Committee is an external advisory body that will work closely with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. It will be made up of national and local experts to tackle digital exclusion. Its role is to scrutinise,...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDigital Technology: DisadvantagedDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47837More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much money the Government has committed for the Digital Inclusion Fund; and how it will be allocated.
Answer: Digital inclusion is a priority for Government. The Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund is designed to support initiatives that increase digital participation and to identify innovative best practice with an ambition to scale and replicate successful digita...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDigital Technology: RecyclingDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47836More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress his Department has made with the Digital Poverty Alliance on providing re-purposed Government laptops to people who need them.
Answer: The Government is implementing a device donation pilot by working with the Digital Poverty Alliance to refurbish end-of-life laptops from DSIT, DESNZ and DBT and distribute them to those who need them most. This pilot will be in effect until Autumn 2025.W...
Answered 2 May 2025
Original Parliament recordDigital Technology: DisadvantagedDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 47835More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what progress he has made on the Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund, announced in February 2025.
Answer: Digital inclusion is a priority for Government. The Digital Inclusion Innovation Fund is designed to support initiatives that increase digital participation and to identify innovative best practice with an ambition to scale and replicate successful digita...
Answered 30 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46872More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to include measures on reforming funding allocations for (a) palliative and (b) other end of life care services in the comprehensive spending review.
Answer: We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life. The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families ...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46871More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on using the transformation fund announced in the Spring Statement 2025 on support for the palliative and end of life care sector
Answer: We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life. The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families ...
Answered 7 May 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46870More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to repurpose spending on (a) hospital care and (b) emergency admissions for people at the end of life into community care services.
Answer: We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life.The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and their families r...
Answered 28 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46869More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with palliative care providers on the adequacy of funding for (a) palliative and (b) other end-of-life care services.
Answer: Palliative care services are included in the list of services an integrated care board (ICB) must commission. This promotes a more consistent national approach and supports commissioners in prioritising palliative and end of life care. To support ICBs in ...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative CareDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46868More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the increase in the number of people that will need palliative care over the next 10 years.
Answer: Currently, approximately 600,000 people die per year in the United Kingdom. It is estimated that up to 90% of deaths could benefit from palliative and end of life care.The Office for National Statistics has projected that, by 2040, approximately 800,000 p...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordPalliative Care: StandardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 22 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 46867More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is planning to take in the 10-year NHS Plan to improve (a) palliative and (b) end of life care.
Answer: We want a society where every person receives high-quality, compassionate care from diagnosis through to the end of life. The Government is determined to shift more healthcare out of hospitals and into the community, to ensure patients and families receiv...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordChildren: MaintenanceDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45927More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment the Child Maintenance Service has made of the potential merits of working with authorities with investigatory powers to help paying parents to find supporting information.
Answer: If a paying parent believes that the Child Maintenance (CM) liability should cease because a qualifying child (QC) no longer meets the statutory definition of a qualifying young person but checks with His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) disagree, the...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
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