Steve Barclay MP: written questions
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Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 19 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 61156More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether the Environment Agency is taking steps to (a) control and (b) report on the potential risk of toxic contamination from the use of (i) recycled Energy Recovery Facilities incine
Answer: As was the case when he was Secretary of State for Defra, the ash residue from energy recovery facilities is normally processed into incinerator The bottom ash aggregate (IBAA). IBAA can only be used under the terms of a regulatory position statement (RPS...
Answered 7 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordMeadowgate AcademyDepartment for EducationTabled 9 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 58207More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding is available from her Department for repairs to the heating system at Meadowgate Academy.
Answer: Meadowgate Academy, as part of the Affinity Multi-Academy Trust, can access capital funding by applying to the condition improvement fund (CIF) each year. They can also apply for urgent capital support funding for urgent circumstances that cannot wait for...
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: StaffDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56199More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) filled and (b) unfilled full-time equivalent roles there were in each of the NHS regional teams in (i) 2023-24, (ii) 2024-25 and (iii) 2025-26.
Answer: The following table sets out the full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in NHS England’s regional teams as of 30 March 2025:Directorates / RegionsBudgeted FTEStaff List FTEVacant FTEVacancy RateRegion - East of England804.1650.2153.919.10%Region - London1,032.5...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHospital Beds: ICTDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56198More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the decision to discontinue the electronic Bed and Capacity Management Systems initiative on (a) A&E waits and (b) patient transfers.
Answer: The decision not to proceed with stand-alone investment into electronic bed management systems was based on value for money with other investments offering greater benefits for patients.The Government is committed to returning accident and emergency servi...
Answered 1 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordDepartment of Health and Social Care: Redundancy PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56197More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the expected in-year cost of redundancy payments in (a) DHSC and (b) NHS England is in (i) 2025-26, (ii) 2026-27 and (iii) 2027-28.
Answer: Detailed plans are being formulated by a joint Department and NHS England programme team. The remit of work includes formulation of the relevant costs. Further detail on the costs and funding mechanisms will be provided as this work develops.
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: EqualityDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56196More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to issue further guidance to the NHS organisations on ending the recruitment of dedicated equality, diversity and inclusion staff.
Answer: National Health Service organisations should be working to address inequalities, in order to ensure the best possible outcomes for all patients, as well as tackling the abuse and discrimination that some NHS staff face in the workplace. Local NHS leaders ...
Answered 12 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Neurone Disease: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 2 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 56195More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 May 2025 to Question 48901 on Motor Neurone Disease: Research, by what date he expects the total allocated to motor neurone disease research since the start of 2022-23
Answer: Government responsibility for delivering motor neurone disease research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Inn...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordReservoirs: CambridgeshireDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54754More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timeline for for the proposed Fens Reservoir is for the (a) submission of a development consent order application to the Planning Inspectorate, (b) final decision on t
Answer: Anglian Water is responsible for the development of the Fens reservoir. Proposals will be consulted on and will follow the requirements of the National Policy Statement for Water Resources Infrastructure. A traffic and transport assessment is currently un...
Answered 16 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025WithdrawnUIN 54753More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to new innovations for people living with inherited cardiac conditions in East England.
Answer: No published answer in this record yet.
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54752More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to new innovations for people living with inherited cardiac conditions in East England.
Answer: Inherited cardiac conditions (ICCs) are a group of largely monogenic disorders affecting the heart, its conducting system and vasculature. Waiting times data for ICCs is not available nationally in the Waiting List Minimum Data Set (WLDMS). Diagnosis code...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54751More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve access to (a) diagnostic equipment and (b) other services for inherited cardiac conditions in East England.
Answer: Inherited cardiac conditions (ICCs) are a group of largely monogenic disorders affecting the heart, its conducting system and vasculature. Waiting times data for ICCs is not available nationally in the Waiting List Minimum Data Set (WLDMS). Diagnosis code...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54750More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to tackle inequalities in (a) waiting times and (b) access to treatment for cardiovascular disease patients in East England.
Answer: Patients have been let down for too long whilst they wait for the care they need, including patients awaiting cardiology care. The Government has committed to returning to the National Health Service constitutional standard that 92% of patients wait no lo...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54749More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure there is adequate infrastructure to offer access to treatment for people living with inherited cardiac conditions in the East of England.
Answer: NHS England has a published a national service specification for inherited cardiac conditions. This sets out what guidance should be followed, and the services provided to support diagnosis and treatment of patients with previously undiagnosed cardiac dis...
Answered 30 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordHeart Diseases: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 May 2025AnsweredUIN 54748More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people in East England are currently awaiting treatment for inherited cardiac conditions; and if he will make a comparative estimate of the length of waiting times with the rest of the UK.
Answer: Inherited cardiac conditions (ICCs) are a group of largely monogenic disorders affecting the heart, its conducting system and vasculature. Waiting times data for ICCs is not available nationally in the Waiting List Minimum Data Set (WLDMS). Diagnosis code...
Answered 19 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordOut of Area Treatment: East of EnglandDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48903More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people who do not meet the criteria to reside were inpatients in (a) Hinchingbrooke Hospital, (b) Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn and (c) Peterborough City Hospital on 21 April 2025.
Answer: The following table shows the number of patients with no criteria to reside as of 21 April 2025, in Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn, and Peterborough City Hospital:HospitalNumbers of patients with no criteria to resideHinchin...
Answered 19 May 2025
Original Parliament recordVirtual WardsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48902More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, by what date he expects the NHS to have a virtual ward capacity of 40 beds per 100,000 people.
Answer: The NHS England 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance asks systems to improve access to urgent care services, including virtual ward, also known as hospital at home, services.No national population target has been set centrally for 2025/26 ...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordMotor Neurone Disease: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48901More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department plans to provide for motor neurone disease research in 2025.
Answer: Government responsibility for delivering motor neurone disease research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Inn...
Answered 14 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNurses: Career DevelopmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48900More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to help improve the career progression of (a) nurses from Agenda for Change Band Five to Band Six and (b) other nurses in the context of plans not to introdu
Answer: Evidence submitted through the separate nurse pay spine call for evidence highlighted that career progression issues relating to the pay system do not uniquely impact nurses.We have therefore accepted several recommendations from workstreams committed to ...
Answered 8 May 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: PayDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 29 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 48899More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the impact of providing a one per cent increase in pay to all NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts in the 2025-26 financial year on (a) total costs, (b) pension c
Answer: The following table shows the total cost of uplifting the Agenda for Change (AfC) pay scales by one percent in 2025/26, as well as the costs of employer pension contributions (EPC), employer National Insurance contributions (ENIC), and spillover elements ...
Answered 12 May 2025
Original Parliament recordCounty Councils: DebtsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 17 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 45611More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what national formula will be applied in calculating national distribution of the debt from county councils that are disbanded; and by what date that will be published.
Answer: On 5 February 2025 I formally invited unitary proposals from all the councils in two tier areas and their neighbouring small unitaries. It is for councils to develop robust and sustainable proposals that are in the best interests of their whole area. It i...
Answered 29 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInternal Drainage Boards: FinanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to explore alternative funding models of Internal Drainage Boards.
Answer: I refer to the Answer of 10 April 2025 to Question 43491 on Internal Drainage Boards: Finance.
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordInternal Drainage Boards: FinanceDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 8 Apr 2025AnsweredUIN 44967More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 5 February 2025, HCWS417 on the Flood Investment Announcement, whether he plans to provide additional support to local authorities impa
Answer: The government supports the important work internal drainage boards (IDBs) do in managing water and flood risk, benefiting communities, businesses and the environment. The government announced as part of the 2025-26 Local Government Finance Settlement, th...
Answered 25 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordDeportation: AppealsHome OfficeTabled 7 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 36391More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of (a) 14 February 2025 to Question 30619 on Deportation and (b) 25 February 2025 to Question 33426, how many appeals against deportation orders have sought to rely on rights un
Answer: The information requested is not currently available from published statistics, and the relevant data could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMeadowgate Academy: AdmissionsDepartment for EducationTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35648More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish her Department's advice issued to Cambridgeshire County Council in relation to plans to expand the number of places at Meadowgate Academy in Wisbech.
Answer: In February 2021, the department approved the expansion of Meadowgate Academy by 60 places. The department has not provided advice to Cambridgeshire County Council on plans to expand the number of places.
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordMinistry of Defence: EqualityMinistry of DefenceTabled 4 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35255More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many full-time equivalent roles there are in his Department relating to equality, diversity and inclusion; and how many of those roles are unfilled but budgeted for.
Answer: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 26 September 2024 to Question 5190 to the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe).https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-09-10/5190
Answered 12 Mar 2025
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