Tom Morrison MP: written questions 2025
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NHS Greater Manchester: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35012More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help NHS Greater Manchester achieve financial balance by the end of the financial year.
Answer: NHS England has a range of mechanisms and guidance in place to support local organisations to improve their financial management. As part of the Oversight Framework, which is currently being refreshed, NHS England closely monitors the financial performanc...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS Greater Manchester: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35011More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of NHS Greater Manchester's financial deficit on (a) patient care and (b) service delivery.
Answer: NHS England has a range of mechanisms and guidance in place to support local organisations to improve their financial management. As part of the Oversight Framework, which is currently being refreshed, NHS England closely monitors the financial performanc...
Answered 27 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordNHS: FinanceDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 3 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35010More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support (a) the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care System and (b) other NHS bodies with (i) financial deficits and (ii) cash flow.
Answer: NHS England has a range of mechanisms and guidance in place to support local organisations to improve their financial management. As part of the Oversight Framework, which is currently being refreshed, NHS England closely monitors the financial performanc...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEye Cancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34671More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support is available to help patients with metastatic ocular melanoma cope with the psychological impact of limited NHS treatment options.
Answer: The National Health Service is committed to ensuring that cancer patients have access to personalised care, including a needs assessment, a care plan, and health and wellbeing information and support, as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan. Personalised ca...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordRare Cancers: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34670More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the (a) potential implications for his policies of the proportion of individual funding request applications for chemosat treatment that are rejected and (b) adequa
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published guidance in 2021, through its interventional procedures programme, that recommends that chemosaturation can be used for patients with secondary liver metastases resulting from a primar...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEye Cancer: Health ServicesDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34669More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with his counterparts in the devolved Administrations on the adequacy of funding for metastatic ocular melanoma patients in each nation.
Answer: The National Health Service is committed to ensuring that cancer patients have access to personalised care, including a needs assessment, a care plan, and health and wellbeing information and support, as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan. Personalised ca...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34668More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce barriers to NHS funding for (a) Chemosat and (b) other cancer treatments classified as medical devices.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published guidance in 2021, through its interventional procedures programme, that recommends that chemosaturation can be used for patients with secondary liver metastases resulting from a primar...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordLiver Cancer: Medical TreatmentsDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled 28 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34667More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Chemosat is made available on the NHS following its recommendation by NICE in 2021.
Answer: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published guidance in 2021, through its interventional procedures programme, that recommends that chemosaturation can be used for patients with secondary liver metastases resulting from a primar...
Answered 11 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: CompetitionDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34398More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the competitiveness of the UK creative industry.
Answer: As set out in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper published in 2024, the UK's creative industries are world-leading, with the UK, according to UN Trade and Development statistics, being the third largest creative services exporter globally (behind Ireland...
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34397More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has had discussions with AI developers on remuneration models for creatives' whose work is used to train AI models.
Answer: All these matters were addressed in the Government 10-week consultation on AI and Copyright, which was published on Tuesday 17 December and closed on 25 February. We engaged extensively with AI and creative industries stakeholders before, during and since...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: EU LawDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34396More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of replicating the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act.
Answer: The UK is committed to establishing a proportionate AI regulatory approach which is grounded in science and supports growth and innovation. As set out in the manifesto, the Government is developing legislative proposals which will establish targeted measu...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34395More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department plans to take steps to support workers in the creative industries whose work opportunities may be potentially impacted by generative AI technologies.
Answer: All these matters were addressed in the Government 10-week consultation on AI and Copyright, which was published on Tuesday 17 December and closed on 25 February. We engaged extensively with AI and creative industries stakeholders before, during and since...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34394More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential economic impact of Generative AI on employment in the creative industries.
Answer: All these matters were addressed in the Government 10-week consultation on AI and Copyright, which was published on Tuesday 17 December and closed on 25 February. We engaged extensively with AI and creative industries stakeholders before, during and since...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34393More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that consumers can differentiate between AI-generated and human-created content in creative industries.
Answer: Increasing transparency about the use of copyrighted works to train AI models and AI-generated content was one of the key issues explored in the Government’s recently closed Copyright and AI consultation. The consultation also sought views on the protecti...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34392More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department plans to introduce a mandatory labelling or watermarking system to identify AI-generated creative content.
Answer: The Government’s consultation on Copyright and AI has just closed. This included questions about the protection and labelling of generative AI outputs. Various industry initiatives exist to label AI outputs, but it may need to happen more consistently. Ou...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: CopyrightDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34391More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to require generative AI developers to (a) document and (b) disclose their use of copyrighted materials.
Answer: The Government’s consultation on Copyright and AI has just closed. This included a proposal to require AI model developers to be more transparent about how they obtain and use copyright works in their training, whether from web crawlers or other forms of ...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34390More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a licensing framework to ensure creators are compensated when their works are used in the development of gener
Answer: All these matters were addressed in the Government 10-week consultation on AI and Copyright, which was published on Tuesday 17 December and closed on 25 February. We engaged extensively with AI and creative industries stakeholders before, during and since...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordArts: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34389More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will take steps to ensure that generative AI developers obtain authorisation from copyright holders before using their creative works for training AI models.
Answer: All these matters were addressed in the Government 10-week consultation on AI and Copyright, which was published on Tuesday 17 December and closed on 25 February. We engaged extensively with AI and creative industries stakeholders before, during and since...
Answered 6 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: ChristianityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34388More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the recommendations in the Rt. Rev. Philip Mounstephen's report entitled Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review for the Foreign Secretary of FCO Support for P
Answer: An independent review of the FCDO's implementation of the Truro recommendations in 2022 was largely positive. This has now been concluded, and we are focused on the looking to the future, as we continue to champion the right to freedom of religion or beli...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: ChristianityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34387More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of UK aid in supporting Christian communities facing persecution.
Answer: We are championing the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) and promoting tolerance and mutual respect through our engagement in multilateral fora, our bilateral work and our programme funding. Including the FCDO John Bunyan Fund, a designated pr...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordEmbassies: Religious FreedomForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34386More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department has taken steps to ensure that UK (a) embassies and (b) high commissions report on violations of freedom of religion or belief.
Answer: The UK remains strongly committed to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all abroad. It is our firm opinion that no one should live in fear because of what they do or do not believe in.We continue to monitor human rights, including FoRB, across the g...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordChristianity: OppressionForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34385More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to (a) monitor and (b) respond to Christian persecution globally.
Answer: The UK remains strongly committed to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) for all abroad. It is our firm opinion that no one should live in fear because of what they do or do not believe in.We continue to monitor human rights, including FoRB, across the g...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Religious FreedomForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34384More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that staff in his Department receive training on freedom of religion or belief.
Answer: Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) is incorporated within FCDO's broader human rights training programme. This includes workshops on religious engagement for staff delivered in the UK and overseas. We also provide several additional tools for staff, par...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordDevelopment Aid: ChristianityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reductions in the international development budget on his Department's programmes supporting persecuted Christians over
Answer: The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) works to ensure that Official Development Assistance (ODA) is allocated to those who are most vulnerable and most in need of this assistance irrespective of race, religion, or ethnicity. This include...
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordOccupied Territories: ChristianityForeign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34382More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the situation of Christians in (a) Gaza and (b) the Occupied Palestinian Territories; and whether he has made representations on that is
Answer: The UK is pressing for a Palestinian-led process for recovery and reconstruction in Gaza and a strong role for civil society. This is crucial to lay the groundwork for inclusive governance, accountability, and transparency so that the needs, desires, righ...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
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