Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether she has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the provision of cross-departmental funding for women’s centres.
Answered by Damian Hinds
Women’s centres play a vital role in supporting women in the community and the Ministry of Justice is investing up to £24 million in community support for women in 2022-25.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the timing of the publication of the gambling white paper on (a) the economy and (b) society.
Answered by Paul Scully
The Gambling Act Review is an extensive evidence-led review, which aims to ensure regulation is fit for the digital age. We will publish a White Paper setting out our vision and next steps in the coming weeks.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the nature of the financial relationship between the EFL and SkyBet.
Answered by Paul Scully
Football clubs can enter a wide variety of commercial partnerships and all partnerships with gambling operators must be conducted in a socially responsible fashion and never target children or vulnerable people. Sky Bet’s title sponsorship of the EFL is a long-standing commercial arrangement established in 2013 with the current contract running to 2024. The arrangement includes a number of social responsibility commitments, such as ensuring there is no branding in family areas of the stadia and mandatory inclusion of safer gambling messaging on kits and in stadia.
Gambling sponsorship and the relationship between sports and gambling is included in the scope of the government's wide-ranging Review of the Gambling Act. A White Paper setting out our conclusions and next steps will be published in the coming weeks.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made a comparative assessment of taxation rates for (a) land-based and (b) remote gambling operators.
Answered by James Cartlidge - Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
A range of duty rates apply to different forms of gambling. Bingo duty is 10% of gross profit. Lottery Duty is 12% of ticket value. General Betting Duty is 15% of gross profit for general bets, 10% of gross profit for sports spread betting or 3% of gross profit for financial spread betting. Pool Betting Duty is 15% of gross profit. Remote Gaming Duty is 21% of gross profit. Gaming Duty is 15-50% of gross gaming yield. Machine Games Duty is 5% of gross profit at the lower rate, 20% of gross profit at the standard rate and 25% of gross profit at the higher rate.
As with all taxes, the Government keeps gambling taxation under constant review and welcomes representations from stakeholders to inform policy development.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average sentence length was for (a) women and (b) men sentenced to prison in each month since January 2021.
Answered by Baroness Maclean of Redditch
The Ministry of Justice publishes these figures on an annual basis, by quarter, on the GOV.UK website in the Outcomes by Offence data tool (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 21 MB) as part of the Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2021 publication published in May 2022. Figures for 2022 will be published in subsequent releases of the data.
Please see the accompanying table, and associated notes, for a breakdown by month for the year 2021. These figures are not routinely published as monthly averages can be influenced by cyclical factors that need to be considered when considering average custodial sentence length (ACSL) – for example, ACSL will depend on the mixture of offences sentenced within that month. Monthly averages will also be more likely to fluctuations due to relatively small volumes of offenders in each period.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the National Telephone Service for Universal Credit has been used by (a) female and (b) prison leavers in each month since that service was introduced.
Answered by Baroness Prentis of Banbury
(a) Information not held.
(b) Call volumes to the Prison Leavers helpline are as follows:
| Apr-20 | May-20 | Jun-20 | Jul-20 | Aug-20 | Sep-20 |
Calls Offered * | 2,238 | 4,089 | 4,686 | 4,589 | 3,718 | 3,985 |
Calls Answered | 1,946 | 3,818 | 4,348 | 3,521 | 2,823 | 2,982 |
PCA | 87.0% | 93.4% | 92.8% | 76.7% | 75.9% | 74.8% |
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| Oct-20 | Nov-20 | Dec-20 | Jan-21 | Feb-21 | Mar-21 |
Calls Offered | 4,273 | 4,619 | 4,865 | 4,523 | 4,585 | 5,045 |
Calls Answered | 3,894 | 4,567 | 4,665 | 4,126 | 4,444 | 5,020 |
PCA | 91.1% | 98.9% | 95.9% | 91.2% | 96.9% | 99.5% |
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| Apr-21 | May-21 | Jun-21 | Jul-21 | Aug-21 | Sep-21 |
Calls Offered | 3,703 | 2,947 | 3,285 | 3,053 | 3,385 | 4,106 |
Calls Answered | 3,662 | 2,909 | 3,236 | 2,977 | 3,237 | 3,581 |
PCA | 98.9% | 98.7% | 98.5% | 97.5% | 95.6% | 87.2% |
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| Oct-21 | Nov-21 | Dec-21 | Jan-22 | Feb-22 | Mar-22 |
Calls Offered | 3,838 | 3,930 | 3,951 | 3,791 | 3,610 | 3,934 |
Calls Answered | 3,654 | 3,809 | 3,796 | 3,713 | 3,436 | 3,826 |
PCA | 95.2% | 96.9% | 96.1% | 97.9% | 95.2% | 97.3% |
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| Apr-22 | May-22 | Jun-22 | Jul-22 | Aug-22 | Sep-22 |
Calls Offered | 3,644 | 3,780 | 3,858 | 3,557 | 3,903 | 3,571 |
Calls Answered | 3,430 | 3,448 | 3,494 | 3,228 | 3,535 | 3,318 |
PCA | 94.1% | 91.2% | 90.6% | 90.8% | 90.6% | 92.9% |
*Calls Offered. The total volume of calls entering a queue to await answer.
Please note this information is derived from the Department’s management information designed solely for the purpose of helping the Department to manage its business. As such, it has not been subjected to the rigorous quality assurance checks applied to our published official statistics. As DWP holds the information internally, we have released it. However, it is possible information held by DWP may change due to operational reasons and we recommend that caution be applied when using it.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will set a numerical target for the commitment in the Female Offenders Strategy on reducing the number of women entering prison.
Answered by Rob Butler
We remain committed to the aims in the Female Offender Strategy (2018) of seeing fewer women offending and reoffending; fewer women in custody, especially on short sentences, with more managed effectively in the community; and better conditions for women in custody that support effective rehabilitation.
As we have an independent judiciary, setting a numerical target as proposed is not appropriate and may have unintended consequences. We are working to ensure that interventions and pilot projects are, where possible, evaluated so that we can understand their impact on the numbers and make-up of the population.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the funding his Department provided for the provision of home dialysis to NHS trusts in England was passed on to patients in the last 12 months.
Answered by Will Quince
This information requested on funding in 2022 is not currently held centrally. However, in 2021/22, NHS England provided approximately £117 million to renal providers in England for the provision of home dialysis therapy. This is inclusive of haemodialysis and all modalities of peritoneal dialysis. The following table shows funding provided by NHS England to each specialist renal provider in England in 2021/22.
Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £996,247
Barts Health NHS Trust £9,873,038
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £841,162
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,297,309
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust £510,650
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £933,545
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust £1,832,292
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust £2,210,524
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust £919,822
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust £3,800,712
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £135,252
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust £3,191,945
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust £1,344,022
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust £6,704,239
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £5,583,181
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £2,356,531
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust £1,806,242
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,772,510
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust £4,634,713
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust £2,668,753
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust £1,430,263
North Bristol NHS Trust £2,128,904
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust £731,871
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust £3,111,524
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £2,169,549
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust £4,819,664
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust £1,483,022
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust £2,091,381
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust £5,252,797
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust £2,718,068
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £3,413,902
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust £2,027,726
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £857,527
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust £1,294,611
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,699,134
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust £976,574
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,843,691
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust £2,340,870
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust £5,578,386
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust £2,410,502
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation
Trust £3,127,492
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust £4,318,784
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust £3,006,318
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust £836,807
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust £2,199,773
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £1,056,816
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £267,484
Total £116,606,127
The information requested on funding passed to patients is not held centrally as renal providers have local arrangements in place with patients to facilitate reimbursement.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department has provided for the provision of home dialysis to each NHS trust in England in the last 12 months.
Answered by Will Quince
This information requested on funding in 2022 is not currently held centrally. However, in 2021/22, NHS England provided approximately £117 million to renal providers in England for the provision of home dialysis therapy. This is inclusive of haemodialysis and all modalities of peritoneal dialysis. The following table shows funding provided by NHS England to each specialist renal provider in England in 2021/22.
Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £996,247
Barts Health NHS Trust £9,873,038
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £841,162
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,297,309
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust £510,650
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £933,545
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust £1,832,292
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust £2,210,524
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust £919,822
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust £3,800,712
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £135,252
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust £3,191,945
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust £1,344,022
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust £6,704,239
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £5,583,181
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £2,356,531
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust £1,806,242
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,772,510
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust £4,634,713
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust £2,668,753
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust £1,430,263
North Bristol NHS Trust £2,128,904
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust £731,871
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust £3,111,524
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £2,169,549
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust £4,819,664
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust £1,483,022
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust £2,091,381
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust £5,252,797
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust £2,718,068
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £3,413,902
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust £2,027,726
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £857,527
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust £1,294,611
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,699,134
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust £976,574
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust £1,843,691
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust £2,340,870
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust £5,578,386
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust £2,410,502
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation
Trust £3,127,492
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust £4,318,784
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust £3,006,318
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust £836,807
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust £2,199,773
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £1,056,816
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust £267,484
Total £116,606,127
The information requested on funding passed to patients is not held centrally as renal providers have local arrangements in place with patients to facilitate reimbursement.
Asked by: Carolyn Harris (Labour - Neath and Swansea East)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness amongst clinicians that brain fog can be a symptom of both dementia and menopause.
Answered by Maria Caulfield
A Women’s Health Ambassador for England has been appointed to raise the profile for women’s heath, including the menopause and long term conditions, such as dementia. The Ambassador will support implementation of the Women’s Health Strategy, in which the menopause is a priority area.
NHS England is supporting clinicians to deliver improved menopause care through a clinical pathway being developed by a menopause clinical reference group, which will include the symptoms of concentration-loss or ‘brain fog’.
The NHS Health Check for adults in England aged 45 to 74 years old is designed to identify early signs of stroke, kidney disease, heart disease, type 2 diabetes or dementia. Since 2018, dementia risk reduction has been incorporated within the NHS Health Check to increase awareness and motivate people to reduce their risks. In addition, those aged 65 years old and over are made aware of the signs and symptoms of dementia and guided to memory clinics.