Tessa Munt MP: written questions 2025

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Written questions

Radiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25186More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the letter from NHS England to NHS Trusts of 24 December 2024, for what reasons the radiotherapy machines fund guidelines exclude the cost of updating critical bunker protections.
Answer: The £70 million of funding is for new radiotherapy machines. The responsibility for costs relating to other aspects of radiotherapy treatment remains with local systems.
Answered 24 Jan 2025
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Radiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 25185More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what involvement (a) he and (b) his Ministers had in setting the (i) guidance and (ii) spending limits for the Government's radiotherapy machine fund.
Answer: The £70 million of funding for new radiotherapy machines will be allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. Officials from the Department have been engaged with NHS England officials in discussions about how the funding will be all...
Answered 24 Jan 2025
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Tyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if his Department will take steps to ensure that recovered tyres exported to India are not shipped in a form which enables them to be used in batch pyrolysis plants.
Answer: The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
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Tyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of recovered used tyres exported from the UK to India in the last 12 months.
Answer: This data is publicly available on the HMRC’s trade database which is available at https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data.
Answered 27 Jan 2025
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Tyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what his planned timetable is to introduce regulations to remove the T8 waste exemption on used tyres.
Answer: Removal of the T8 waste exemption is one measure among a package of possible reforms to the waste exemptions regime. This Government is currently considering priorities for waste and resources and reform of the waste exemptions regime including related to...
Answered 21 Feb 2025
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Tyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has had discussions with his Indian counterpart on steps to ensure that recovered tyres exported to India are not used to breach Indian domestic law.
Answer: The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
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Tyres: Waste DisposalDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that recovered tyres exported from the UK to India are not exported in a form that allows them to be refitted to vehicles in India.
Answer: The UK has strict controls on the export of waste to ensure that the waste is treated in an environmentally sound manner. These controls are established in UK legislation and enforced by the UK’s waste shipment competent authorities. Defra and the Environ...
Answered 11 Feb 2025
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Radiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will extend the 22 January deadline for NHS Trusts to apply for funding towards new radiotherapy machines.
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients ha...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
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Radiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring NHS England to include the cost of AI products in the funding for updating radiotherapy machines.
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients ha...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
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Radiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if NHS England will publish the data it holds on the effectiveness of radiotherapy machines which deliver more doses of radiation; and for what reason guidance on future purchases of radiotherapy m
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients ha...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
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Radiotherapy: Medical EquipmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 17 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 24638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether additional funding to update radiotherapy machines includes a commitment to renew every machine aged 10 years and older commissioned by the NHS to deliver radiotherapy.
Answer: The funding for new radiotherapy machines will be used to replace outdated machines, and allocated to trusts using criteria that NHS England has developed. The new machines will support the recovery of cancer waiting times and help ensure that patients ha...
Answered 22 Jan 2025
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