Sarah Gibson MP: written questions

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Written questions

Employment: NeurodiversityDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67231More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether her Department has set any targets for improving employment rates among autistic adults; and what additional support is being provided to employers to create neurodiverse-friendly workplaces.
Answer: In the plan to Make Work Pay (October 2024), government committed to raising awareness of all forms of neurodiversity in the workplace. This includes autism. We are supporting employers to be more inclusive in their workplace practices. In January this ye...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
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Autism and Learning Disability: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67230More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many frontline NHS staff have completed both parts of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism as of July 2025; and what steps are being taken to ensure full comp
Answer: Data on completion of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism (Oliver’s Training) is held locally and is reported to NHS England by integrated care boards. This data does not differentiate between completion by frontline st...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
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Personal Independence Payment Assessment ReviewDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67229More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will publish a timetable for stakeholder engagement in the Timms Review.
Answer: We published the Terms of Reference for the review (the Timms Review) on 30 June 2025, and will be updating them shortly.As set out in the Terms of Reference, we are committed to co-producing the review with disabled people, the organisations that represe...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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Personal Independence Payment Assessment ReviewDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67228More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Timms Review is co-produced with disabled people; and what steps she is planning to take to evaluate the inclusivity of that engagement process.
Answer: We published the Terms of Reference for the review (the Timms Review) on 30 June 2025, and will be updating them shortly.As set out in the Terms of Reference, we are committed to co-producing the review with disabled people, the organisations that represe...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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Personal Independence Payment Assessment ReviewDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67227More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to establish (a) accessible formats, (b) alternative communication methods and (c) other formal consultation mechanisms to allow disabled people to contribute to the Timms Revie
Answer: We published the Terms of Reference for the review (the Timms Review) on 30 June 2025, and will be updating them shortly.As set out in the Terms of Reference, we are committed to co-producing the review with disabled people, the organisations that represe...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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Personal Independence Payment Assessment ReviewDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67226More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when she plans to publish details on how (a) disabled people and (b) representative organisations can contribute to the Timms Review of the PIP assessment.
Answer: We published the Terms of Reference for the review (the Timms Review) on 30 June 2025, and will be updating them shortly.As set out in the Terms of Reference, we are committed to co-producing the review with disabled people, the organisations that represe...
Answered 21 Jul 2025
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Dental ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67225More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to reform the units of dental activity system before the proposed full contract reform in 2026-27.
Answer: There are no current plans to fully reform the units of dental activity (UDA) system before 2026/27. As a first step to reforming the dental contract, we are consulting on a package of changes to improve access to, and improve the quality of, National Hea...
Answered 4 Aug 2025
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Dental Services: WiltshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67224More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help reduce the number of dentists moving from NHS to private practice in (a) Wiltshire and (b) other (i) rural and (ii) semi-rural areas.
Answer: The Government plans to tackle the challenges for patients trying to access National Health Service dental care with a plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to the areas that need them most.Integrated care boards...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
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Dental Services: WiltshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 11 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 67223More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of full-time equivalent NHS dentists practising in Wiltshire in (a) 2025-26 and (b) 2013-14.
Answer: The latest year in which workforce data is available is 2023/24. There were 440 dentists who undertook some level of National Health Service activity in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board (ICB).Due to changes in ...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
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Social Security Benefits: MaladministrationDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66408More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to prevent incorrect reductions in benefits due to automatic system sweeps that apply data errors without prior human verification; and what assessment she has made o
Answer: A claimant who thinks an incorrect assessment has been made can have the assessment reviewed. The number of data errors is very small. Fewer than 1% of Real Time Information (RTI) disputes processed are upheld in the customer’s favour. Where system change...
Answered 18 Jul 2025
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Maternity Services: WiltshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66407More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much capital funding her Department has provided for maternity units serving Wiltshire in each of the last five financial years.
Answer: Over the 2020/21 to 2024/25 period, £5.9 million of capital funding was invested in maternity services across the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire Integrated Care System. This funding covered a range of schemes, comprising technology, ...
Answered 16 Jul 2025
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Maternity Services: WiltshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66406More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) midwives, (b) obstetricians and (c) maternity support workers were employed in NHS Trusts serving Wiltshire as of the most recent date for which data is available.
Answer: NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. This covers staff working for hospital trusts and in integrated care in England. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
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Mental Health Services: WiltshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66405More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women in Wiltshire accessed perinatal mental health services in each of the last five years; and what the average waiting time was for an initial assessment in each year.
Answer: Information on the number of women accessing perinatal mental health services in Wiltshire, provided by the NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board, the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, and Wilt...
Answered 4 Aug 2025
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Maternity Services: WiltshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66404More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many serious incidents involving maternity care were reported by NHS Trusts covering Wiltshire in each of the last five years.
Answer: Across the last five years, there have been a total of 116 serious incidents involving maternity care reported by National Health Service trusts covering Wiltshire. The following table shows the number of incidents per year against the trusts in Wiltshire...
Answered 23 Jul 2025
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Perinatal Mortality: WiltshireDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 9 Jul 2025AnsweredUIN 66403More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) stillbirths and (b) neonatal deaths were recorded in maternity units serving Wiltshire in each of the last five years.
Answer: The maternity units serving Wiltshire are provided by the Great Western Hospitals Trust, the Royal United Hospitals Bath Trust, and the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the U...
Answered 15 Jul 2025
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