Tom Hayes MP: written questions 2024
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Written questions
Special Educational NeedsDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10601More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to increase (a) the number of people being trained to be educational psychologists and (b) the number of assessments of children with undiagnosed SEND.
Answer: This government’s ambition is that all children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) or in alternative provision receive the right support to succeed in their education and as they move into adult life.The SEND code of pr...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: FinanceDepartment for EducationTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10600More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of funding for education health and care plans.
Answer: The department is acutely aware of the financial pressures that local authorities are facing because of the increasing cost of supporting children and young people with education, health and care (EHC) plans. The department is acting as quickly as it can ...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordParking Offences: FinesDepartment for TransportTabled 22 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10599More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department is taking steps to review the (a) operation and (b) fines attached to Parking Charge Notices.
Answer: We have no current plans to raise on-street parking penalty charges. It is important to strike the right balance between deterrence and fairness. Organisations representing local authorities have undertaken research into penalty charge levels and shared t...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordTenants: PetsMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10357More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to publish guidance on when landlords may refuse a request from tenants to have a pet.
Answer: I refer the Hon Member to the answer given to Question UIN 9679 on 24 October 2024.
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Act 1983Department of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10335More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 to (a) abolish community treatment orders, (b) ensure people to have a right to appeal decisions, (c) ensure patients in a mental
Answer: The Mental Health Bill announced in the King’s Speech will deliver the Government’s commitment to modernise the Mental Health Act 1983. The reforms will strengthen the voice of patients by adding statutory weight to patients’ rights to be involved with pl...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Act 1983Department of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to reform the Mental Health Act 1983 to ensure that people have an automatic right to (a) assessment and (b) treatment.
Answer: The Mental Health Bill will deliver the Government’s commitment to modernise the Mental Health Act 1983. It will give patients enhanced rights and support, whilst maintaining the right balance to ensure that people get the treatment they need when necessa...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordPsychiatric HospitalsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10327More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve mental health hospitals.
Answer: The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) is currently conducting an investigation into mental health inpatient settings to identify ways we can improve mental health care for people with severe mental illness, protect patients and the public...
Answered 11 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordHealth: ChildrenDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10307More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to improve children's health.
Answer: The Government is committed to raising the healthiest generation of children ever. We have already begun work to ensure that every child has a healthy, happy start to life. To tackle obesity, we have committed to implementing a 9:00pm television watershed...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10302More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's polices of recent trends in levels of unmet need for mental health support.
Answer: Lord Darzi’s independent review of the National Health Service in England found that too many people were waiting too long for mental health support from the NHS, with approximately 1 million people waiting for mental health services as of April 2024.As p...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: BournemouthDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10301More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the availability of specialist mental health support in Bournemouth.
Answer: NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board is responsible for providing health and care services, including specialist mental health support, to meet the needs of the people of Bournemouth.Nationally we recognise that many people in Bournemouth and across England a...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: Waiting ListsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10300More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce mental health waiting lists.
Answer: It is unacceptable that too many people are not receiving the mental health care they need, and we know that waits for mental health services are far too long. That is why we will recruit 8,500 additional mental health workers across both adult, and child...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordChildren: Mental HealthDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10299More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of poor mental health on educational (a) attainment and (b) inequality.
Answer: The department has not made a formal assessment of the impact of poor mental health on educational attainment and inequality, but the department is aware of a wide range of evidence that identifies an association between mental health and educational outc...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: SchoolsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to deliver specialist mental health professionals in every school.
Answer: The Department is working across the Government to consider how to deliver our commitment of a specialist mental health professional in every school. We need to ensure any support meets the needs of young people, teachers, parents, and carers. This includ...
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordYoung Futures HubsDepartment for EducationTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10297More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to deliver new Young Futures Hubs.
Answer: Young Futures Hubs will bring together services to help improve the way that children and young people can access opportunities and support in their local communities, in doing so, promoting their development, improving mental health, and preventing young...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: VeteransDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10296More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to improve mental health support for veterans.
Answer: NHS England commissions Op COURAGE, the integrated mental health and wellbeing service for veterans. Veterans can self-refer to Op COURAGE. The service has been designed to support veterans from all areas, including rural areas, and is delivered from a ra...
Answered 14 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordCrime: Young PeopleHome OfficeTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10295More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of mental health issues on young people becoming involved in crime.
Answer: A multiagency approach to divert young people away from becoming involved in crime is pivotal. This includes partners that play a role in young people’s mental health. This is why the Government is creating the Young Futures Programme to identify young pe...
Answered 29 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordEmployment: Mental IllnessDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10294More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department has taken to help people with mental health conditions to (a) enter employment and (b) increase their hours.
Answer: Appropriate work is generally good for health and wellbeing, so we want everyone to get work and get on in work, whoever they are and wherever they live. We want people to avoid poverty, and for this to happen we must ensure that disabled people and peopl...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Act 1983Department of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10291More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Mental Health Act 1983 on black people.
Answer: We know that rates of detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 for Black people were more than three times higher than that for White people in 2023/24, with use of Community Treatment Orders for Black people being seven times higher than for White peop...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Act 1983Department of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10290More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the impact of the Mental Health Act 1983 on individuals with complex mental health needs.
Answer: The independent review: Modernising the Mental Health Act, chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely, and published in 2018, provided an assessment of how the Act is working, its impact on those detained under the Act, including individuals with complex need...
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10289More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for publishing the Mental Health Bill.
Answer: The Mental Health Bill will deliver the Government’s commitment to modernise the Mental Health Act 1983. It will give patients enhanced rights and support, whilst maintaining the right balance to ensure that people get the treatment they need when necessa...
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10288More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help improve the integration of mental health services into existing NHS provision.
Answer: We will ensure that we give mental health the same attention and focus as physical health, so that people can be confident in accessing high quality mental health support when they need it.We know wider change is needed and we have launched a national con...
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordMental Health Services: RecruitmentDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10287More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made increasing the levels of recruitment of mental heath staff.
Answer: The latest data shows that, as of June 2024, there are 152,533 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff in the mental health workforce. This includes only those people who work directly on mental health across National Health Service trusts and other core organis...
Answered 30 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordAsylum and Migrants: DisinformationDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 21 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 10284More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle misinformation on (a) migrant access to NHS services and (b) the accommodation of asylum seekers.
Answer: I refer my Hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 17 October 2024 to Question 8361.
Answered 28 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordVisas: StudentsHome OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9879More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to review the self-employment restriction on student visas.
Answer: All students applying to study within the UK are required to demonstrate that they have sufficient funds to support themselves financially throughout their studies.Working hour limits are in place to ensure students have sufficient time to devote to their...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordVisas: StudentsHome OfficeTabled 17 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9875More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the 20-hour work limit on student visas in the context of increases in the cost of living.
Answer: All students applying to study within the UK are required to demonstrate that they have sufficient funds to support themselves financially throughout their studies.Working hour limits are in place to ensure students have sufficient time to devote to their...
Answered 24 Oct 2024
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