Terry Jermy MP: written questions
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Lead: PaintDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28814More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 5973 on Lead: Paint, whether his Department is taking steps to prepare new guidance.
Answer: Defra does not currently plan to issue new guidance on lead paint.
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordAgriculture: LeadDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28813More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) assess and (b) help mitigate the risk of lead contamination in agricultural land in (i) England, (ii) East Anglia and (iii) South West Norfolk constituen
Answer: Defra monitors concentrations of ten heavy metals, including lead, in naturally-growing mosses as part of the European Moss Survey, which takes place every five years. The moss data provide a cost-effective measure of pollution deposition from the atmosph...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordInland Waterways: Pollution ControlDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28812More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) monitor and (b) stop lead contamination in waterways.
Answer: The Environment Agency identifies and prioritises sources of metal pollution, including waterways contaminated by lead, and conducts regular and routine water quality inspections, in line with their regulatory duties. The results are published on the Envi...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordFood: LeadDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28811More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps he is taking to (a) monitor and (b) stop lead contamination in the food supply chain.
Answer: Defra monitors concentrations of ten heavy metals, including lead, in naturally-growing mosses as part of the European Moss Survey, which takes place every five years. The moss data provide a cost-effective measure of pollution deposition from the atmosph...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: Health EducationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28810More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to promote awareness of ovarian cancer month.
Answer: NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, address barriers to acting on them, and encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner (GP). Previous phases of the campaign have...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordBereavement LeaveDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28809More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to increase access to bereavement leave.
Answer: The Employment Rights Bill establishes a new day one statutory right to bereavement leave for employees who have experienced the loss of a loved one. The measures in the bill set a framework for the entitlement, including providing for a minimum of one we...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLead: PoisoningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28808More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the National Screening Committee review into lead poisoning will be complete.
Answer: The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) made a recommendation not to screen children for lead poisoning in 2018. The UK NSC has not been asked to review screening adults for exposure to toxic metals. Further details on the UK NSC’s review are availab...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLead: PoisoningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28807More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of children reported to have had lead poisoning in each year since 2016.
Answer: The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) coordinates the Lead in Children Exposure Surveillance System (LEICSS), a passive surveillance system covering England, which aims to identify elevated blood lead concentrations in children under 15 years old.The foll...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordLead: PoisoningDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28806More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase testing for lead poisoning in (a) adults and (b) children.
Answer: The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) made a recommendation not to screen children for lead poisoning in 2018. The UK NSC has not been asked to review screening adults for exposure to toxic metals. Further details on the UK NSC’s review are availab...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28805More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure (a) training and (b) support is in place to help GPs diagnose ovarian cancer.
Answer: NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, address barriers to acting on them, and encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner (GP). Previous phases of the campaign have...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28804More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to take steps to tackle regional variations in the early diagnosis of ovarian cancer.
Answer: NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, address barriers to acting on them, and encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner (GP). Previous phases of the campaign have...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordOvarian Cancer: DiagnosisDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 4 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 28803More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of shortening the diagnostic pathway for ovarian cancer.
Answer: NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms, address barriers to acting on them, and encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner (GP). Previous phases of the campaign have...
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordDual Carriageways: NorwichDepartment for TransportTabled 12 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 13982More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what her policy is on the potential provision of funding for dualling the Norwich Western Link.
Answer: The Secretary of State for Transport has commissioned a review of the Department’s capital portfolio which will inform the next phase of the cross-Government Spending Review. It is too early to say how this will affect the proposed Norwich Western Link, b...
Answered 20 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordA47: Dual CarriagewaysDepartment for TransportTabled 4 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 12675More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if her Department will dual the A47 from Tilney to East Winch.
Answer: There are currently no plans to dual the A47 from Tilney to East Winch, Norfolk. The performance of this section of the A47, and the wider A47 route, has been considered by National Highways as part of its interim East of England Route Strategy, and its i...
Answered 12 Nov 2024
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