Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP: written questions 2024
182 published records · newest first.
Written questions
Ambulance Services: MisuseDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12730More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the impact on the NHS from individuals who repeatedly misuse emergency ambulance services.
Answer: Inappropriate calls to 999 for an ambulance can impact on the availability and timeliness of services in a real emergency. All ambulance trusts have policies to deal with inappropriate or vexatious calls, and to manage frequent callers.NHS England deliver...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordFire and Rescue Services and Police: Hoaxes and False AlarmsHome OfficeTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12729More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average cost is of hoax calls made to the (a) police and (b) fire service.
Answer: The Home Office does not hold this data.
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordEmergency Services: Hoaxes and False AlarmsHome OfficeTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12728More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to improve information sharing between emergency services on hoax callers.
Answer: Making a hoax phone call to the emergency services is a criminal offence. All calls to the emergency services are recorded and the number can be traced, even if withheld. Local services regularly remind the public of the serious consequences of hoax calls...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordEmergency Services: Hoaxes and False AlarmsHome OfficeTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12727More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to help reduce the number of hoax calls to the emergency services.
Answer: Making a hoax phone call to the emergency services is a criminal offence. All calls to the emergency services are recorded and the number can be traced, even if withheld. Local services regularly remind the public of the serious consequences of hoax calls...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPancreatic Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12712More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase public awareness of pancreatic cancer symptoms.
Answer: NHS England is already taking steps to deliver a range of interventions to improve awareness of pancreatic cancer symptoms. NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to enc...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMaternity Services: WomenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 5 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12711More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of trends in the level of maternal health inequalities affecting black women.
Answer: It is unacceptable that there are such stark inequalities in maternal outcomes. The Government is committed to closing the black and Asian maternal mortality gap. We are urgently considering the immediate action needed to tackle inequalities for women and...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordEquitable Life Assurance Society: CompensationTreasuryTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12481More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the compensation provided to Equitable Life investors via the Equitable Life payment scheme.
Answer: The Equitable Life Payment Scheme has been fully wound down and closed since 2016 and there are no plans to reopen any decisions relating to the Payment Scheme or review the £1.5 billion funding allocation previously made to it. Further guidance on the st...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordKnives: AmnestiesHome OfficeTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12464More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many surrender bins there were during the knife amnesty between 26 August 2024 and 23 September 2024.
Answer: Between 26 August 2024 and 23 September 2024, the Government ran a surrender and compensation scheme to allow owners of zombie-style knives and zombie-style machetes to surrender them and claim compensation before these weapons became prohibited by law on...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPension CreditDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12424More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure timely responses to Pension Credit applications.
Answer: The Department has secured funding for additional staffing to assist with the processing of the additional Pension Credit claims being made. The Department is significantly increasing the resource on Pension Credit to ensure it processes claims as quickly...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordAlzheimer's Disease and Dementia: ResearchDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12420More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the progress of research on treatments for (a) Alzheimer's and (b) dementia.
Answer: The Department funds research into dementia via the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The Government is investing into research on treatments for dementia, such as the £49.9 million NIHR Dementia Trials Network (D-TN), which will del...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12419More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to meet the target for 85% of cancer patients to be treated within 62 days of referral.
Answer: We will get the National Health Service diagnosing cancer on time or earlier, treating it faster, and we will improve patients’ experience across the system.Improving 62-day performance and early diagnosis are already key priorities for NHS England. Lord ...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPupils: AbsenteeismDepartment for EducationTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12418More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timeline is for the increase in the number of attendance mentors for schools.
Answer: On 11 October 2024, the department announced an additional £15 million to expand the attendance mentoring programme to at least 10,000 pupils across ten new areas.Mentoring support is expected to begin in April 2025. More information can be found here: ht...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSchools: Mental Health ServicesDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11895More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what specialist mental health support she plans to provide to secondary schools to help tackle absences.
Answer: Poor mental health in children and young people is a significant contributing factor in school absence, and a key barrier to opportunity and learning, that the government is committed to addressing.To tackle mental ill-health among children and young peop...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPupils: AbsenteeismDepartment for EducationTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11894More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional support she plans to provided to (a) parents and guardians and (b) children to help tackle the root causes of persistent school absences.
Answer: Tackling school absence is at the heart of the department’s mission to break down the barriers to opportunity. However, 20.7% of children remain persistently absent, missing 10% or more of lessons, and we recognise that supporting parents, guardians and c...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordNitazenesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11893More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent the use of nitazenes.
Answer: The Department is actively monitoring the threat posed by synthetic opioids such as nitazenes, and is working to increase awareness of their dangers and prevent people using them. Information on synthetic opioids and the dangers they pose is available fro...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDrugs: MisuseDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11892More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the levels of non-fatal drug overdoses.
Answer: We know that most overdoses take place in the community. They are largely transitory and hidden events, making it difficult to accurately monitor trends in non-fatal overdoses. The Department monitors hospital admissions data for drug poisonings, which pr...
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11891More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the provision of mental health services for young people in Slough.
Answer: It is the responsibility of the NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board to make available appropriate provision to meet the mental health and other care needs of children and young people in Slough.Nationally, we will recruit 8,500 additional mental health work...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Young PeopleDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11890More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of mental health services available for young people in Slough.
Answer: NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board is responsible for making adequate and appropriate provision available to meet the mental health and other care needs of children and young people in Slough.
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordKnives: AmnestiesHome OfficeTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11889More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the number of knives that were surrendered during the knife amnesty between 26 August 2024 and 23 September 2024.
Answer: We will be shortly publishing the outcome of the surrender and compensationscheme for zombie style knives and machetes. This will include the numbers surrendered under the scheme.
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordYouth Services: SloughDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11888More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to improve the provision of youth services in Slough.
Answer: As set out in section 507B of the Education Act 1996, local authorities have a statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people. At the Autumn Budg...
Answered 7 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordYouth Services: SloughDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11887More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of youth services in Slough constituency.
Answer: As set out in section 507B of the Education Act 1996, local authorities have a statutory duty to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, sufficient provision of educational and recreational leisure-time activities for young people. At the Autumn Budg...
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordKnives: CrimeHome OfficeTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11886More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to reduce knife crime in Slough.
Answer: Halving knife crime over the next decade is a key part of the Government’s Safer Streets mission, and we are taking immediate action to tackle the scourge of serious violence on our streets. We have implemented the ban on zombie-style knives and machetes,...
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPupils: AbsenteeismDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of persistent school absence rates in the last 12 months.
Answer: Detailed pupil absence data is collected as part of the school census and published on a termly basis. All absence data for England, including data at Regional and Local Authority level, is available via the National Statistics releases: https://explore-e...
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure children with high school absence rates are supported to increase their attendance in (a) the South East and (b) Slough constituency.
Answer: Detailed pupil absence data is collected as part of the school census and published on a termly basis. All absence data for England, including data at Regional and Local Authority level, is available via the National Statistics releases: https://explore-e...
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordPupils: AttendanceDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of recent trends in the level of school attendance in (a) the South East and (b) England in the last 12 months.
Answer: Detailed pupil absence data is collected as part of the school census and published on a termly basis. All absence data for England, including data at Regional and Local Authority level, is available via the National Statistics releases: https://explore-e...
Answered 4 Nov 2024
Original Parliament record
Published records only — not a full account of an MP’s work. How we work →