Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the number of (a) coroner and (b) serious incidence reports that have cited (i) ambulance delays to see a patient and (ii) waits outside of hospital in an ambulance as factors in (A) England, (B) Yorkshire and (C) York, in the latest year for which data is available.

Answered by Will Quince

The publication of Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports, and the Department’s response, is a matter for the Chief Coroner under the Coroners (Investigations) Regulations 2013. Reports are published by the Chief Coroner at the following link:

https://www.judiciary.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/office-chief-coroner/https-www-judiciary-uk-subject-community-health-care-and-emergency-services-related-deaths/

The total number of PFD reports is not held centrally by the Department. This is because the Department is not a recipient of all reports, as some reports are sent directly to the relevant National Health Service trust and/or NHS England. Similarly, the information requested on serious incident reports is not held in the format requested.

Information on patient safety incidents, including those relating to ambulance services, is published by NHS England as part of the National Reporting and Learning System. This does not specifically include a category of waits outside a hospital but does include safety incidents relating to ‘Access, admission, transfer, discharge (including missing patient)’. Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/national-patient-safety-incident-reports/

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of training provided to NHS staff on dignity at work.

Answered by Will Quince

Staff training is provided and monitored locally, by employers. The underlying statutory duty to ensure staff are safe and protected under health and safety law rests with the employer, and we are committed to supporting trusts and systems to fulfil that duty.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the retention of staff in the NHS.

Answered by Will Quince

The NHS People Plan and People Promise set out a comprehensive range of actions to improve staff retention. They provide a strong focus on creating a more modern, compassionate and inclusive National Health Service culture by strengthening health and wellbeing, equality and diversity, culture and leadership and flexible working.

NHS priorities and operational planning guidance 2023/24 has asked systems to refresh their 2022/23 whole system workforce plans to improve staff retention through a systematic focus on all elements of the NHS People Promise. Staff wellbeing should be strategically aligned with elective recovery plans, including workforce demand and capacity planning.

In addition, the NHS Retention Programme is continuously seeking to understand why staff leave, resulting in targeted interventions to support staff to stay whilst keeping them well. A staff retention guide has been updated and includes information on supporting staff in their late and early career with specific focus on induction, reward and recognition and menopause support.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patient safety incident reports, reported on by Yorkshire Ambulance Service, were made by (a) GPs and (b) other non-Yorkshire Ambulance Service clinicians which related to delayed Yorkshire Ambulance Service responses to 999 calls in each of the last three years.

Answered by Will Quince

This information is not held in the format requested.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department collects data on the mental health of NHS staff.

Answered by Will Quince

NHS England does not hold or gather data on the mental health of National Health Service staff nationally. Rather, this is held at a local level, for example with occupational health teams.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the serious incidences reported by Yorkshire Ambulance Service in each of the last two years; what information his Department holds on the lessons learned following those incidences; and what steps his Department has put in place to help address those within the NHS.

Answered by Will Quince

Whilst the Department holds no specific information about lessons learned from serious incidents reported by Yorkshire Ambulance Service in the last two years, these incidents should be closed by the relevant commissioner when they are satisfied that the investigation report and action plan meet the required standard. This ensures that the fundamental purpose of investigation, which is to ensure that lessons can be learnt to prevent similar incidents recurring, is realised.

NHS England published the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework in August 2022. It replaces the Serious Incident Framework and fundamentally shifts how the National Health Service responds to patient safety incidents for learning and improvement. All providers are expected to transition to the new framework by Autumn 2023.

To address the pressures the ambulance service is facing, the NHS has published a delivery plan for recovering emergency care, which aims to reduce Category 2 ambulance response times to 30 minutes next year with further improvements towards pre-pandemic levels the following year. Backed up by a £1 billion dedicated fund, the plan will include the delivery of 800 new ambulances including specialist mental health ambulances.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps is he taking to ensure the provision of wellbeing services to support the (a) physical and (b) mental health of (i) NHS staff and (ii) people contracted to undertake NHS work.

Answered by Will Quince

The Government is committed to supporting the health and wellbeing of all National Health Service staff.

NHS planning guidance for 2023/24 emphasised the need to support staff and has asked systems to refresh their workforce plans to improve staff experience and retention through a systematic focus on all elements of the NHS People Promise.

The NHS People Plan and People Promise set out a comprehensive range of actions to strengthen health and wellbeing, equality and diversity, culture and leadership and increase opportunities for flexible working.

NHS England has developed a range of health and wellbeing initiatives, which include a wellbeing guardian role, a focus on healthy working environments, empowering line managers to hold meaningful conversations with staff to discuss their wellbeing, and a comprehensive emotional and psychological health and wellbeing support package.

NHS England has also published a ‘Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing Together’ strategy. This sets out a roadmap for the NHS and partner organisations to work together to develop and invest in occupational health and wellbeing services for NHS staff over the next five years.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on the implementation of the delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services; and whether the plan is being delivered on schedule.

Answered by Will Quince

The Department and NHS England are working closely together to ensure robust governance arrangements are in place to support the implementation of the plan. Good progress has been made and work is ongoing to deliver the interventions ahead of next winter.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the closure of the 85 BUPA dental practices on the provision of dentistry in (a) York and (b) the UK.

Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Education)

Following BUPA’s notice to NHS England of closures, regional teams and integrated care boards across England are working together to ensure that patients continue to have access to National Health Service dental care. This includes an assessment to identify potential gaps in NHS dental service provision and to consider what actions may be required.

NHS dentists are required to keep their NHS.UK profiles up to date so that patients can find a dentist more easily. This includes information on whether they are accepting new patients.

State-funded healthcare within the United Kingdom but outside of England is a devolved matter and the responsibility of the devolved Governments.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether the Victims Bill will include provisions on (a) mental and emotional wellbeing and (b) other support for children and young people.

Answered by Edward Argar - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Victims are likely to experience a range of impacts following a crime and may require advice, recovery and support services, which could be medical, therapeutic, practical and/or emotional. The Victims and Prisoners Bill will improve the support offered to children and young people. Child victims are covered by the definition of victim in Part 1 of the Bill and are already covered in the current Victims’ Code. The Bill’s definition of a victim has been amended to align with the full Part 1 definition of domestic abuse as it appears in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which will also be set out in the new Victims’ Code. This clearly defines child victims who see, hear or experience the effects of domestic abuse as victims in their own right. Child victims will continue to be covered in the new Victims’ Code as well as being covered from the full suite of measures in Part 1 of the Bill. For example:

The Bill recognises the role that ISVAs (Independent Sexual Violence Advisors) and IDVAs (Independent Domestic Violence Advisors) have in working with children, young people, and their families.

The Bill will place a duty on Police and Crime Commissioners, local authorities and Integrated Care Boards in England to collaborate when commissioning victim services. This includes a range of services which may support victims with a range of emotional mental health support.

In response to pre-legislative scrutiny, we emphasised where the needs of children should be considered by requiring commissioners to specifically have regard to any assessments they have carried out that reflect the needs of child victims, as distinct from adult victims.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to enable child victims of sexual violence to (a) provide video evidence ahead of a trial and (b) receive counselling immediately.

Answered by Edward Argar - Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Child victims of sexual violence are eligible for special measures, including pre-recording their evidence, under Section 16 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (YJCEA), which considers all children as vulnerable witnesses. This enables the recording to be presented during the trial without the witness needing to attend, which helps them give their best evidence to the court and mitigate some of the stress associated with giving evidence. The aim is to enhance the quality and reliability of evidence by improving experiences of cross-examination and enhancing event recall by reducing the time between complaint and cross-examination.

Under the Victims’ Code, all victims, including children, have the right to receive information about and be referred to support services, including therapy and counselling, regardless of whether anyone has been charged or convicted of a criminal offence, or whether they decide to report the crime to the police or do not wish to cooperate with the investigation.

The Ministry of Justice is more than quadrupling funding for victims and witness support services by 2024/25, up from £41m in 2009/10. This includes funding for Police and Crime Commissioners to commission services supporting victims of sexual violence, including services providing counselling to children.

The Ministry of Justice is currently recommissioning the Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Fund, to make sure it meets the needs of all victims in the most effective way, including child victims of sexual violence. This funding is available to specialist, community-based sexual abuse support services to deliver a range of help, including counselling, to child and adult victims to cope, recover, build resilience and move forward with daily life.

Additionally, NHS England commissions 48 Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) across England with at least one in each county/region to ensure equitable spread. SARCs offer medical, practical and emotional support to anyone who has been raped, sexually assaulted or abused, including child victims of sexual violence.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of bullying in the NHS have been successfully challenged in Employment Tribunals in the latest period for which data is available.

Answered by Will Quince

NHS England does not currently have a national mechanism to capture data on the number of National Health Service staff who report bullying, harassment and discrimination; this is held at local level. NHS England also does not hold data on cases challenged in Employment tribunals.

The underlying statutory duty to ensure staff are safe and protected under health and safety law rests with the employer, and we are committed to supporting trusts and systems to fulfil that duty. However, there are questions related to these topics within the NHS annual national staff survey, which is self-reported data for around 636,000 staff. This data is publicly available for all trusts at the following link:

www.nhsstaffsurveys.com

The NHS People Plan and People Promise set a vision that places a compassionate and inclusive culture at the heart of the NHS and emphasise that all NHS employees and employers are responsible for tackling bullying and harassment. NHS England have developed an NHS Civility and Respect programme which aims to tackle bullying and harassment in the NHS and to create positive workplace cultures of civility and respect which will improve staff experience, and ultimately patient care outcomes.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number and proportion of NHS staff reporting (a) bullying, (b) harassment and (c) discrimination in each NHS provider trust in the last five years; and what steps he is taking to tackle (i) bullying, (ii) harassment and (iii) discrimination.

Answered by Will Quince

NHS England does not currently have a national mechanism to capture data on the number of National Health Service staff who report bullying, harassment and discrimination; this is held at local level. NHS England also does not hold data on cases challenged in Employment tribunals.

The underlying statutory duty to ensure staff are safe and protected under health and safety law rests with the employer, and we are committed to supporting trusts and systems to fulfil that duty. However, there are questions related to these topics within the NHS annual national staff survey, which is self-reported data for around 636,000 staff. This data is publicly available for all trusts at the following link:

www.nhsstaffsurveys.com

The NHS People Plan and People Promise set a vision that places a compassionate and inclusive culture at the heart of the NHS and emphasise that all NHS employees and employers are responsible for tackling bullying and harassment. NHS England have developed an NHS Civility and Respect programme which aims to tackle bullying and harassment in the NHS and to create positive workplace cultures of civility and respect which will improve staff experience, and ultimately patient care outcomes.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will hold discussions with NHS Property Services on the future use of Bootham Park Hospital.

Answered by Will Quince

The combined holding costs to NHS Property Services (NHSPS) and the local health system for the former Bootham Park Hospital site from 2017 to date have totalled £2,636,808. These costs are for the entire site, part of which remains in occupancy, and includes security, utilities, site and waste management.

The former Bootham Park Hospital was declared surplus to healthcare requirements by the then local Clinical Commissioning Group in 2016 and the site was vacated by the National Health Service, with the exception of the separate chapel building, in late 2017. The property was subsequently occupied by the NHSPS facilities management team, with the majority of the main building mothballed, and was then prepared for marketing and sale by NHSPS to release the health system from the considerable ongoing costs of managing this property, which is classified as a heritage asset.

NHSPS’s current assessment is that the costs of returning the property to any form of operational healthcare use would be very significant given the current estimate for backlog maintenance and operating costs.

An initial proposed sale did not proceed, and the site was remarketed with the new prospective purchaser developing a scheme and obtaining planning permission for a 172-unit retirement village, which was approved by City of York Council in February 2023. As it is a heritage asset, this matter is now referred to the Secretary of State for the Department of Housing, Levelling Up and Communities to consider, on which a decision is expected shortly, and this will establish beneficial planning consents. Recently, NHSPS has been informed that the prospective site purchaser has withdrawn from the sale contract and the site will therefore shortly be remarketed.

Whilst the former Bootham Park Hospital has been declared surplus to healthcare requirements, if other public sector bodies wish to facilitate the delivery of alternative public services from the building, they would be able to register their interest and make an offer. This will be assessed by NHSPS through the process for sale of surplus assets in accordance with requirements set out in HM Treasury guidance on Managing Public Money and Disposal of Heritage Assets.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing Bootham Park Hospital for use as housing for refugees.

Answered by Will Quince

The combined holding costs to NHS Property Services (NHSPS) and the local health system for the former Bootham Park Hospital site from 2017 to date have totalled £2,636,808. These costs are for the entire site, part of which remains in occupancy, and includes security, utilities, site and waste management.

The former Bootham Park Hospital was declared surplus to healthcare requirements by the then local Clinical Commissioning Group in 2016 and the site was vacated by the National Health Service, with the exception of the separate chapel building, in late 2017. The property was subsequently occupied by the NHSPS facilities management team, with the majority of the main building mothballed, and was then prepared for marketing and sale by NHSPS to release the health system from the considerable ongoing costs of managing this property, which is classified as a heritage asset.

NHSPS’s current assessment is that the costs of returning the property to any form of operational healthcare use would be very significant given the current estimate for backlog maintenance and operating costs.

An initial proposed sale did not proceed, and the site was remarketed with the new prospective purchaser developing a scheme and obtaining planning permission for a 172-unit retirement village, which was approved by City of York Council in February 2023. As it is a heritage asset, this matter is now referred to the Secretary of State for the Department of Housing, Levelling Up and Communities to consider, on which a decision is expected shortly, and this will establish beneficial planning consents. Recently, NHSPS has been informed that the prospective site purchaser has withdrawn from the sale contract and the site will therefore shortly be remarketed.

Whilst the former Bootham Park Hospital has been declared surplus to healthcare requirements, if other public sector bodies wish to facilitate the delivery of alternative public services from the building, they would be able to register their interest and make an offer. This will be assessed by NHSPS through the process for sale of surplus assets in accordance with requirements set out in HM Treasury guidance on Managing Public Money and Disposal of Heritage Assets.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to make the building at Bootham Park Hospital available for use by public services.

Answered by Will Quince

The combined holding costs to NHS Property Services (NHSPS) and the local health system for the former Bootham Park Hospital site from 2017 to date have totalled £2,636,808. These costs are for the entire site, part of which remains in occupancy, and includes security, utilities, site and waste management.

The former Bootham Park Hospital was declared surplus to healthcare requirements by the then local Clinical Commissioning Group in 2016 and the site was vacated by the National Health Service, with the exception of the separate chapel building, in late 2017. The property was subsequently occupied by the NHSPS facilities management team, with the majority of the main building mothballed, and was then prepared for marketing and sale by NHSPS to release the health system from the considerable ongoing costs of managing this property, which is classified as a heritage asset.

NHSPS’s current assessment is that the costs of returning the property to any form of operational healthcare use would be very significant given the current estimate for backlog maintenance and operating costs.

An initial proposed sale did not proceed, and the site was remarketed with the new prospective purchaser developing a scheme and obtaining planning permission for a 172-unit retirement village, which was approved by City of York Council in February 2023. As it is a heritage asset, this matter is now referred to the Secretary of State for the Department of Housing, Levelling Up and Communities to consider, on which a decision is expected shortly, and this will establish beneficial planning consents. Recently, NHSPS has been informed that the prospective site purchaser has withdrawn from the sale contract and the site will therefore shortly be remarketed.

Whilst the former Bootham Park Hospital has been declared surplus to healthcare requirements, if other public sector bodies wish to facilitate the delivery of alternative public services from the building, they would be able to register their interest and make an offer. This will be assessed by NHSPS through the process for sale of surplus assets in accordance with requirements set out in HM Treasury guidance on Managing Public Money and Disposal of Heritage Assets.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment has he made of the cost to NHS Property Services of Bootham Park Hospital since that hospital closed.

Answered by Will Quince

The combined holding costs to NHS Property Services (NHSPS) and the local health system for the former Bootham Park Hospital site from 2017 to date have totalled £2,636,808. These costs are for the entire site, part of which remains in occupancy, and includes security, utilities, site and waste management.

The former Bootham Park Hospital was declared surplus to healthcare requirements by the then local Clinical Commissioning Group in 2016 and the site was vacated by the National Health Service, with the exception of the separate chapel building, in late 2017. The property was subsequently occupied by the NHSPS facilities management team, with the majority of the main building mothballed, and was then prepared for marketing and sale by NHSPS to release the health system from the considerable ongoing costs of managing this property, which is classified as a heritage asset.

NHSPS’s current assessment is that the costs of returning the property to any form of operational healthcare use would be very significant given the current estimate for backlog maintenance and operating costs.

An initial proposed sale did not proceed, and the site was remarketed with the new prospective purchaser developing a scheme and obtaining planning permission for a 172-unit retirement village, which was approved by City of York Council in February 2023. As it is a heritage asset, this matter is now referred to the Secretary of State for the Department of Housing, Levelling Up and Communities to consider, on which a decision is expected shortly, and this will establish beneficial planning consents. Recently, NHSPS has been informed that the prospective site purchaser has withdrawn from the sale contract and the site will therefore shortly be remarketed.

Whilst the former Bootham Park Hospital has been declared surplus to healthcare requirements, if other public sector bodies wish to facilitate the delivery of alternative public services from the building, they would be able to register their interest and make an offer. This will be assessed by NHSPS through the process for sale of surplus assets in accordance with requirements set out in HM Treasury guidance on Managing Public Money and Disposal of Heritage Assets.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with businesses on offering surplus food stocks to food banks.

Answered by Rebecca Pow

The Food and Drink Waste Hierarchy includes the expectation that all businesses prioritise surplus redistribution before disposal. Government works closely with businesses through our delivery partner the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to overcome any barriers to this requirement. This includes the development of guidance and best practice through a sector wide working group, and support for the Target Measure Act (TMA) approach to understanding and acting on food waste in supply chains, including the redistribution of any surplus should it arise.

Since 2018, Defra funding of nearly £13m has supported both large and small redistribution organisations across the country to make sure more surplus food gets to charities.

Surplus food redistribution | WRAP

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the triage of patients by the ambulance service.

Answered by Will Quince

The triage of ambulance patients is an operational matter for National Health Service ambulance trusts. Accordingly, we have no plans to undertake such a review.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to review (a) the trends in the level of and (b) reasons for coroner requests for information to his Department relating to ambulance delays (i) nationally, (ii) in Yorkshire and (iii) in the city of York.

Answered by Will Quince

The Department has reviewed and assessed each Prevention of Future Deaths report addressed to the Department and has addressed the Coroners’ concerns accordingly.

To address the pressures the ambulance service is facing, the National Health Service has published a delivery plan for recovering emergency care, including in Yorkshire and the city of York. This will deliver a reduction in Category 2 ambulance response times to 30 minutes next year with further improvements towards pre-pandemic levels the following year. Backed up by a £1 billion dedicated fund, the plan will include the delivery of 800 new ambulances including specialist mental health ambulances.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the level of food poverty among (a) local authorities and (b) communities accommodating asylum seekers.

Answered by Mims Davies - Shadow Minister (Women)

Statistics on food security and foodbank use for local authorities or communities accommodating asylum seekers specifically is not collected.

National statistics on food bank use for 2021/22 are available here. We aim to publish statistics for 2022/23 in March 2024.

The latest statistics show that in 2021/22, 93% of individuals were food secure, down from 94% in 2020/21.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) serious incident and (b) coroner reports relating to mortality due to ambulance delays there were in each Ambulance Trust in the last year; and what steps he is taking to tackle such delays.

Answered by Will Quince

The total number of Prevention of Future Deaths (PFD) reports is not held centrally by the Department. This is because the Department is not a recipient of each PFD report, as some reports are sent directly to the relevant National Health Service trust and/or NHS England.

Information on serious incident reports is not held in the format requested.

To address the pressures the ambulance service is facing, the NHS has published a delivery plan for recovering emergency care, which aims to deliver one of the fastest and longest sustained improvements in waiting times in history by reducing Category 2 ambulance response times to 30 minutes next year, with further improvements towards pre-pandemic levels the following year. Backed up by a £1 billion dedicated fund, the plan will include the delivery of 800 new ambulances, including specialist mental health ambulances.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what grants his Department provides to (a) individuals and (b) businesses to promote energy efficiency.

Answered by Graham Stuart

The Government provides grant funding through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) and Home Upgrade Scheme (HUG), with HUG grant funding being delivered through Local Authorities.

The Government also provides support through the Social Housing Decarbonisation and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) Scheme. The ECO4 scheme and newly announced Great British Insulation scheme, being launched in Spring 2023, are delivered through a supplier obligation.

Through the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund, £500 million of grant funding will support industry with high energy usage to cut their energy bills and carbon emissions by investing in energy efficiency and low carbon technologies. The BUS also supports the installations of low carbon heating measures in small non-domestic buildings.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make it his policy to phase out use of biomass.

Answered by Graham Stuart

The Government has no plans to remove support for biomass generating stations that are already supported under the Renewables Obligation and the Contracts for Difference schemes. Such generators undertook their investments in establishing their stations under these schemes and have a statutory right to their existing support.

The Government has committed to developing a Biomass Strategy, which will be published by the end of quarter two this year. The Strategy will review how sustainable biomass could be best utilised across the economy to help achieve the UK’s net zero, and wider environmental, commitments while also supporting energy security.

Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what his priorities are for tackling climate change.

Answered by Graham Stuart

Britain is leading the world on tackling climate change. Between 1990 and 2021 the UK has cut emissions by 48% while growing the economy by 65%, decarbonising faster than any other G7 country. The Government’s plan, as set out in Powering Up Britain, shows how the Government will enhance our country’s energy security, seize the economic opportunities of the transition and deliver on its net zero commitments.

The Powering Up Britain publication can be found here.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people completed the Restart scheme since its establishment; and how many of those people were sanctioned while on the Restart scheme in (a) York and (b) the UK.

Answered by Guy Opperman

The Restart Scheme is delivered over 12 Contract Package Areas (CPAs) throughout England and Wales. CPA2a encompasses Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire, East Yorkshire, North and Northeast Lincolnshire. The scheme offers participants up to 12 months of support to move into sustained employment. Participants complete the scheme at the end of the 12 months support period but can do it sooner if they achieve a job outcome prior to that point.

A job outcome is achieved when a participant either:

• Earns the equivalent of working 16 hours per week for 26 weeks at the National Living Wage (25+)
• Has 6 months in gainful self-employment.

The table below shows the numbers of starts on the scheme, and of those starts the numbers so far of: participants who are completers, job outcomes, and completers without an outcome yet, in CPA2a and nationally.

Source: DWP Management Information

Information regarding how many of those people were sanctioned while on the Restart Scheme cannot be provided because this information is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Please Note:

Starts on the scheme is the number of people who have had their first initial appointment with a Restart provider, since the scheme started in June 2021.

Total completers so far is the number of participants who have either achieved a job outcome or have completed 12 months on the scheme and have not yet achieved a job outcome. As more time elapses more of these starts will complete.

Job outcomes achieved so far is the cumulative number of participants who have achieved a job outcome so far. Many starts who have started more recently will not yet have had time to achieve an outcome, therefore, as more time elapses more job outcomes will be achieved from these starts.

Completers without a job outcome so far is the number of participants who have completed 12 months on the scheme but who have not yet achieved a job outcome. Participants have 18 months in which to achieve a job outcome after starting on the scheme and so some of this group may still go on to achieve a job outcome. Therefore, the number of completers without a job outcome from these starts will reduce.

All numbers are cumulative and contemporary as of 28 February 2023.

Volumes are rounded and therefore may not sum exactly.

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to encourage businesses to launch corporate volunteering programmes.

Answered by Stuart Andrew - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

The Government wants to see employers develop their own strong corporate responsibility programmes and to encourage businesses, the public sector and charities to consider the role that employer-supported volunteering can play as part of their impact on society.

The Government strongly encourages employers to consider offering volunteering leave as part of their employee benefits package. Employees have the right to reasonable time off work to carry out specified public duties, as established in Section 50 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. However, time off for other voluntary duties is a matter for individual employers.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the impact of increased prescription costs from 1 April 2023 on people living with long-term condition such as cystic fibrosis.

Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Education)

No specific assessment has been made.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he last reviewed the prescription charge exemption list; and if he will review that list in 2023 in the context of the recent increase in prescription charges.

Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Education)

The prescription charge exemption list was last reviewed in 2009, with the addition of cancer.

While the Department has no plans to review the exemption list, there are a wide range of exemptions from prescription charges already in place for those with the greatest need. Approximately 89% of prescription items are currently dispensed free of charge.

In addition, those on a low income can apply for additional support through the NHS Low Income Scheme. This provides both full and partial help with a range of health costs, not just prescription charges. Those who do not qualify for low-income help, may benefit from the purchase of a prescription pre-payment certificate. This caps the cost of prescriptions at £111.60 per year, helping people to get all the medicines they need for just over £2 per week.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will take steps to help prevent the sale of disposable barbecues in order to protect rural landscapes and wildlife.

Answered by Trudy Harrison

The public are encouraged to always behave responsibly when using products which have a fire risk.

There are no plans to prohibit the sale of disposable barbeques or sky lanterns at this time, and there are existing powers available that limit the use in certain places.

Current 'Byelaw' legislation allows for local authorities to restrict the use of disposable barbecues in parks and public spaces. These are steps that Dorset Council and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council among others have already taken. The Government encourages all local authorities to use these existing powers to take similar steps if they feel it necessary.

There are also existing powers in legislation which can be used to regulate and prohibit the lighting of fires on access land in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) and National Parks. The New Forest and Peak District National Park Authorities have already banned the use of disposable barbecues within their boundaries and have successfully collaborated with several retailers to remove disposable barbecues from a great many stores.

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the safety of LGBTI people in Kenya; and whether his Department is taking steps to help ensure the safety of those people.

Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)

LGBT+ rights are fundamental human rights. The UK is aware that the Family Protection Bill will increase criminalisation of LGBT+ persons in Kenya, which threatens minority rights and risks persecution and discrimination of people across Kenya. Through our High Commission in Nairobi, we make regular representations to the Government of Kenya and other relevant stakeholders calling for the human rights of LGBT+ people to be upheld. The UK will continue to encourage diversity and tolerance and stands in solidarity with the LGBT+ community in Kenya and all those working to defend and protect their rights. The UK Government is firmly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances and in every country.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it remains his policy to invest up to £25 million to work with the sector to kick start a change in the services provided to support unpaid carers as set out in the People at the Heart of Care Adult Social Care Reform White Paper, CP 560, published in December 2021.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

The Government will be investing up to £25 million for unpaid carers, in line with the funding commitment in the ‘People at the Heart of Care’ white paper. Further detail will be set out in due course.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of energy costs on hospices; and what steps is he taking to support hospices with rising energy costs.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

No assessment has been made. Following a HM Treasury-led review into the Energy Bill Relief Scheme, the new Energy Bill Discount Scheme will run from April 2023 until March 2024 and continue to provide a discount to eligible non-domestic customers, including hospices. At a national level, NHS England has released £1.5 billion additional funding to integrated care boards (ICBs) to provide support for inflation, with ICBs deciding how best to distribute this funding within their system, including to palliative and end of life care providers such as hospices.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing routes for the resettlement of LGBTI people from Kenya in the UK; and whether her Department is taking steps to help ensure the safety of those people.

Answered by Robert Jenrick - Shadow Secretary of State for Justice

The UK has a proud history of supporting refugees. Since 2015, we have offered a place to just under half a million individuals seeking safety.

Whilst the UK has made a generous resettlement offer, with worldwide displacement now standing at around 100 million people, we are unable to make routes available for every eventuality.

The UK continues to welcome refugees and people in need through existing resettlement schemes which include the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS), Community Sponsorship, the Mandate Resettlement Scheme, and the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS).

Referrals for the UKRS, Community Sponsorship and the Mandate Resettlement and are assessed and submitted by UNHCR. These assessments are based on people’s needs and vulnerabilities and the UK does not seek to influence which cases are referred by UNHCR.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the responsiveness of crisis teams in mental health services; and if he will set national standards for that responsiveness.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

No specific assessment has been made. As part of its clinically-led review of National Health Service access standards, NHS England published the outcomes of its consultation on the potential to introduce five new access and waiting time standards for mental health services in February 2022. Two of these relate to community-based mental health crisis services, including: an ‘urgent’ referral to a community based mental health crisis service, for which a patient should be seen within 24 hours from referral, across all ages; and a ‘very urgent’ referral to a community based mental health crisis service, for which a patient should be seen within four hours from referral, for all age groups.

As a first step, NHS England has shared and promoted guidance with its local system partners to consistently report waiting times to support the development of a baseline position.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what percentage of all NHS diagnostic activity took place in Community Diagnostic Centres in each month of the last financial year for which figures are available.

Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

This information is not held.

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 reduce waiting times for elective procedures relating to children and young people.

Answered by Will Quince

In February 2022, the National Health Service published a delivery plan setting out a clear vision for how the NHS will recover and reduce waiting times for elective services including treatment for children and young people.

To support this recovery the Government plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25, in addition to the £2 billion Elective Recovery Fund and £700 million Targeted Investment Fund already made available to systems in 2021/22 to help drive up and protect elective activity.

Steps being taken include increasing capacity, seeking alternate capacity in other trusts or the independent sector and engaging with patients to understand their choices.

Having virtually met our target to eliminate long waits of two years or more for elective procedures in July, we have also made significant progress in tackling waits of 78 weeks or more for elective services including child health services.

NHS England will soon publish statistics that demonstrate what has been achieved to date.

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to ban the use of cages for farmed hens.

Answered by Mark Spencer

I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 28 March 2023 to the hon. Member for Hampstead and Kilburn, PQ UIN 173051.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has made an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential merits of providing therapeutic placements instead of prison sentences for people with mental health, neurodiversity or learning difficulties.

Answered by Damian Hinds

The Ministry of Justice is committed to continuing to work closely with health and justice partners to increase the use of therapeutic alternatives to custody, to better address the underlying causes of offending behaviour and divert people from prison, where appropriate. This includes supporting health partners to scale up the availability of primary Mental Health Treatment Requirements, which provide a vital non-custodial pathway for those with mental health needs. NHS England are on track to achieve 100% coverage across every court in England by 2024. Specialist input has also been provided to ensure that all Community Sentence Treatment Requirements are accessible and appropriate for individuals with neurodiverse needs.

Evaluation of MHTRs is ongoing which will explore the benefits of this approach, the latest report was published on 31 March 2023 and can be found here: https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/publications/community-sentence-treatment-requirement-multisite-report-july-20-5.

In addition, NHS England provide a flagship Liaison and Diversion service, which helps to identify and support people who have mental health, substance misuse or neurodiverse needs when they first come into contact with the criminal justice system. This service is available in police custody suites and courts across England, to support people to access health or social care in the community and enable them to be diverted away from the criminal justice system into a more therapeutic setting, where appropriate.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of people with (a) autism, (b) learning difficulties and (c) mental health challenges who are placed in residential provision out of area; and what steps he is taking to help ensure that placements are local.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

No estimate has been made. Under the Care Act, local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the care and support needs of their local population. Care Quality Commission assessments of local authorities’ delivery of their Care Act duties, which went live from 1 April 2023, will examine how well local authorities work with local people to understand their needs, and the extent to which this leads to local populations having access to a diverse range of high quality, sustainable, person-centred care and support services that meet their needs.

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 ensure that all local authorities assess the placement needs of its locality for people who require residential care provision for people with autism, learning difficulties and/or mental health challenges.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

Under the Care Act 2014, local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the care and support needs of their local population. Local authorities are tasked with the duty to shape their care market to ensure a diverse range of high quality, sustainable, person-centred care and support services are available.

The ‘People at the Heart of Care: adult social care reform white paper’ set out a new ambition for market shaping which is centred around understanding what people with lived experience want from care and support, building on existing community assets and working in a more collaborative and integrated way.

The Health and Care Act 2022 places a new duty on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to assess the performance of local authorities’ delivery of their adult social care duties under the Care Act 2014. This duty commenced on 1 April 2023. CQC assessment will increase transparency and accountability, allowing the public and the government to better understand how well local authorities are delivering their adult social care services.

Under the Care Act, local authorities are best placed to understand and plan for the care and support needs of their local population. CQC assessments will examine how well local authorities work with local people to understand what they want from care and support, and the extent to which this leads to local populations having access to a diverse range of high quality, sustainable, person-centred care and support services that meet their needs.

Local authorities assessment will make good practice, positive outcomes and outstanding quality easier to spot locally and share nationally, while also identifying where improvement and additional support is needed. This will drive innovation and improvement across the sector, benefitting those who draw on care and support.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on in-patient NHS dental treatment for (a) children and (b) adults in each of the last five years.

Answered by Neil O'Brien - Shadow Minister (Education)

The information requested is not collected.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the number of people who have been detained in (a) prison or (b) a police cell due to not being assessed by a mental health crisis team under Section 47 of the Mental Health Act 1983.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

No estimate has been made.

Proposals to forcibly displace and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Gaza

Mobile phone theft

Detainment of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

Puppy smuggling bill

Care for PANS and PANDAS

Family visas

National insurance increase and the social care sector

OVO Energy monthly fees for paper format bills

Detention and trial of Frenchie Mae Cumpio

Islamophobia Awareness Month 2024

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medication shortages

2% wealth tax

Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s new memorial in South Africa

President Jimmy Carter

Environmental impact of Israel’s bombing

Israel’s military action in Syria

Syrian self-determination

International Human Rights Day

Sexual violence in Sudan

Prison maintenance insourcing

Christmas

Flood recovery framework

Public toilets

Cuckooing awareness

Democracy and human rights in Myanmar

Ofwat price review

Sale of the Observer newspaper

Water quality in Sri Lanka

UK support for the global effort to feed children at school

British Nuclear Testing Programme veterans

Medicinal cannabis

Institutes of Technology

ICC arrest warrant for General Min Aung Hlaing

Review into breast cancer screening

Impact of the Work Capability Assessment on disabled people

75th anniversary of National Parks

Registration scheme for short-term lets and local communities

Red Wednesday campaign

Certificate of Common Sponsorship

Strengthening UK relations with the Kurdistan Region in Iraq

Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures

Bowel Cancer UK report into NHS services

Migrants and domestic abuse

Funding for domestic abuse services

Domestic abuse and the workplace

Domestic abuse and public life

Equal pay and prize money in women’s football

Lobby of Parliament by refugee groups

Ukraine energy security Marshall plan

Fuel Poverty Awareness Day

Union derecognition by RELX at LexisNexis and LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Reducing the age for bowel cancer screening offered on the NHS

Insourcing of cleaning staff at City St George’s College

Suspension of Israel from international sports competitions

Carers Rights Day 2024

Carers Rights Day

Violence against women and girls

Emergency care

Palestine Statehood (Recognition) (No. 2) Bill

Knowsley Livv Housing industrial dispute

Cuba

30th anniversary of Swarcliffe good neighbours scheme

Triple negative breast cancer

Protecting wild sea birds and sand eels

Children's Grief Awareness Week 2024

Scientific hearing on animal experiments (No. 3)

Redundancies at TGI Fridays

35 Years of the Edinburgh Interfaith Association

Humanitarian situation in Sudan (No. 2)

World Diabetes Day 2024

Use of swift bricks

Disclosure of Special Branch files

Occupational Therapy Week 2024

National insurance increase and the voluntary sector

Contribution of animals to the Armed Forces

Work of St John Ambulance

Humanitarian situation in Sudan

Support for endometriosis care

National Engineering Day 2024

Abuse of anabolic steroids

Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly elections

Release of Emily Damari

Support for community energy initiatives

Release of fire appliance and life-saving equipment to Palestine

Israeli Knesset decision to ban UNRWA

Support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency

Drug deaths

SEND provision at Kingsbury High

Disarmament Week

Outdoor education

United Nations Day

Reductions in jobs and services at the BBC

Human rights in Pakistan

30th anniversary of Bexley SNAP

Impact of austerity on the Fire and Rescue Service

Oscar Mayer strikes

Zoe’s Place and funding for children’s hospices

FareShare’s 30th anniversary

Iraqi Women’s League and rights in Iraq

Establishment of the Women’s Caucus in Westminster

Infant head measurements

Socio-economic Duty

World Food Day

Home insulation measures and consumer protections

Veterans and the Winter Fuel Payment

World Mental Health Day 2024

Hospice funding

UN Special Rapporteur's report on atrocity crimes in Iran

World Homelessness Day 2024

Deaths in the Tabas mine in Iran

NHS Parliamentary Awards

School nurses

Transition to animal-free research and testing

20th anniversary of Parkrun

Value of grasslands

Immediate ceasefire in Lebanon

Grangemouth refinery

Scientific hearing on animal experiments

Durham Learning Alliance

Supreme Court ruling on Tesco and fire and rehire practices

Four day working week

Sycamore Gap

Journalists and anti-terror legislation

The Legal Dragnet Joint Enterprise Report

Challenging stigma

50th anniversary of the Federation of Small Businesses

Gas and carbon monoxide safety

King’s Award for Voluntary Service, HealthBus Trust

Football ticket prices

World Suicide Prevention Day 2024

Penguins at Sea Life London Aquarium

Spot Leukaemia campaign

Mutual Defence Agreement

The Wiggles and childhood obesity

Bullying in parish and town councils

Gambling regulations

Voter identification

Ban trophy hunting imports

Alcohol harm

NHS staff car parking charges

Treatment of female activists in Iran

Community Ownership Fund

Recognition of the state of Palestine

Tax on private jets

UK arms exports to Israel

Student protests in Bangladesh

Dismissal of trade union representatives at HMRC Benton Park View

Welsh athletes at the Paris Olympic Games 2024

Protests in Bangladesh

Treatment of women and girls in Afghanistan

Fire Brigades Union

10th anniversary of the Yazidi genocide

Ending Outsourcing in Government departments and agencies

United Nations Relief and Works Agency

165th Great Yorkshire Show

Team GB and ParalympicsGB at Paris 2024

Jagtar Singh Johal

Dental provision in the South West of England

Flooding in Bangladesh

School minibus safety

75th anniversary of Keele University’s foundation

Gareth Southgate resignation as England Manager

Child poverty and the two-child benefit cap

State pension age and 1950s-born women

International Criminal Court, Gaza and the Rule of Law

Peace in Israel and Gaza

Cumbria coal mine court appeal

Hartlepool Carers' 30th anniversary

Ending the two-child benefit cap

Public ownership of water

4 day working week

Ticket offices and station staff

UN’s resolution on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and sanctions

Ban on prison officer industrial action

The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024

Radiotherapy

Gaza

Durham Miners' Gala 2024

Avoidable deaths

The West Highland Way

Skin cancer awareness month

Protecting Our Democracy from Coercion report

Essentials guarantee and minimum income guarantee

Children's Hospice Week

Royal Fleet Auxiliary pay settlement

The Venerable Tricia Hillas

Imperial War Museums and union derecognition

Youth mobility visas

World Hypertension Day 2024

Diagnosing Coeliac disease

World Inflammatory Bowel Disease Day 2024

19th Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony

Energy transition treaty

Scrutiny of the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and arms exports to Israel

Pesticide use in towns and cities

15th anniversary of the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War and support for the Tamil community

Maasai evictions in Tanzania

Dementia Action Week

Declaration to mark the visit of Father Gabriel Romanelli to Scotland

Water sports and pollution

Government surveillance of bank accounts

World Press Freedom Day

Trial and release of Jagtar Singh Johal

46th anniversary of the murder of Altab Ali

Allocation of levelling up funding

Contribution of university research

Price cap on baby milk formula

Bahrain's sponsorship of the Royal Windsor Horse Show

Building societies

Armenian Genocide

Border Force staff at Heathrow Airport

World Malaria Day 2024

Student debt

Disability benefits assessment process

Work Capability Assessment reforms

National Stalking Awareness Week

Safety of electric powered vehicles and lithium-ion batteries

Multiple sclerosis (MS) Awareness Week

Civil Service Pay

War in Sudan

Public ownership of water

Alcohol-related deaths

Diversion schemes for drug-related offending

The cost of private rent in England and rent controls

Baha'i, Iran

50th anniversary of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster Mission Board

Immigration changes for carers and Ukrainians

Female genital mutilation legislation in The Gambia

Food price inflation and the Easter festive period

Access to State Pension for people with a terminal illness

Let Girls Play campaign

Stage two report of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman on women's state pension age

British Youth Council

No Falls Week 2024

The Big Plastic Count

Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI)

Trapped podcast on IPP sentences

Four-day working week

Office of National Statistics and mandatory attendance at workplaces

One year anniversary of the kidnapping of Elizabeth Tsurkov

Teachers’ Pension Scheme and universities

Neurodiversity Celebration Week

Treatment of Tibetan protesters in Dege County, Tibet

Government legal advice on Israeli Government actions and international law

World Down Syndrome Day 2024

National Mentoring Day 2023

Detention of Palestinian human rights lawyer Diala Nader Ibrahim Eideh

Tanks, vehicles and aircraft for Ukraine

Palestinians and the Researchers at Risk scheme

World Glaucoma Day 2024

Vitamin B12 deficiency

Centenary of Eric Liddell's Olympic Gold medal

Alleged comments by Frank Hester

World Water Day 2024

World Kidney Day 2024

Pre-1997 non-indexed company pensions

Cost of living payment at National Museums Liverpool

Public Accounts Committee report entitled Reducing the harm from illegal drugs

Pay transparency

YMCA campaign

Razor attacks in prisons

Ronnie Campbell

40th anniversary of the 1984-85 Miners' Strike (No. 2)

Women Against Pit Closures

Fracture liaison services and osteoporosis

Democracy and human rights in Senegal

Funding for children's hospices

Withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty (No. 2)

Wildlife area in Longford

Serco contracts

School minibus safety

Access to the countryside

Mobile phone tariffs and inflation

Rare Disease Day 2024

Diversity of London

Great Daffodil Appeal 2024

Conduct of the hon. Member for Ashfield and the Rt hon. Members for Fareham and South West Norfolk

Islamophobia

Defective cavity wall insulation

Closure of the Inter Faith Network

Administration of SSB Law

Sanctions against Russia

Retirement of Rt Revd Paul Butler

Political reform

Bus services

Household Support Fund (No. 2)

Detention of Frenchie Mae Cumpio

Use of artificial intelligence in journalism

International Mother Languages Day 2024

Pathological Demand Avoidance

Achieving clean air

UK funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

Hospitality and VAT

St Leonard’s Catholic School, City of Durham

Gellings Riding School

International Court of Justice Ruling on Gaza and the UK’s duties under the Genocide Convention

VAT Cut for Hospitality Sector

Murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

Jagtar Singh Johal

50th anniversary of the loss with all hands of the trawler fishing vessel Gaul

Local government services

Provision of council homes at social and living rents

The Pioneers display and Peter McLagan

200th anniversary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution

LGBT History Month 2024

Support for bereaved children

Mortgage prisoners

Fuel poverty and the private rented sector

Independent Panel Inquiry into the death of Zane Gbangbola

Jay Abatan

Persecution of Christians

Withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty

Barnet mental health union dispute

LGBT+ History Month

Woodland Trust MOREwoods scheme

NHS dental services in Northern Ireland

National Supported Internship Day 2024

Appeal of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine for humanitarian and military aid

Childhood cancer

Health workers in Gaza and the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize

Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem

Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain documentary series

Postural Tachycardia Syndrome awareness

Poverty in the UK

Children's Mental Health Week 2024

Youth services

World Lewy Body Day

Inheritance tax

Access to medications

Alan Bates and the Freedom of the City of Liverpool

Transport for London and London Underground maintenance workers

Cash payments and Avanti West Coast catering services

English National Opera

Right to Buy (No. 2)

Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2024

Public sector pay 2024-25

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Young Lives vs Cancer

Water quality in Sri Lanka

Deaths of journalists in Gaza

Big Garden Bird Watch 2024

Journalists in Gaza

Proceedings instituted by South Africa against the State of Israel at the International Court of Justice

Holocaust Memorial Day

Hosting refugees and asylum seekers: Council Tax Single Person Discount

Flood resilience

Occupied Palestinian Territories and arms exports to Israel

Right to Buy

Government legal advice on Gaza

Short-term medical evacuation of children from Gaza

Removal of CBE awarded to Paula Vennells

Illegal street racing

School Meals Coalition

Short-term lets

Radiotherapy

Speed enforcement revenue

Pension restitution for women born in the 1950s

Compensation for Equitable Life policyholders

Long March in Balochistan

Integrated Care Board funding for children’s hospices in England

Child poverty (No. 2)

The work of people across the Parliamentary Estate

Members of Parliament (Oil and Gas Companies) Bill

Specialist paediatric dentists

Oral health strategy for children

Honours system

Manufacturing in the UK

Girlguiding UK and the British Overseas Territories and military bases

Imprisonment of Jimmy Lai

Council funding

Fuel poverty

The Pensions Regulator pay

Rwanda Treaty

Raising awareness of Rett syndrome

UN Security Council vote on a ceasefire in Gaza

Household Support Fund

Domestic abuse and the workplace

Arms to Israel

Funding domestic abuse services

Clothing poverty awareness

Sewage discharges by United Utilities

Two child benefit cap

Migrants and domestic abuse

Government Property Agency, ISS and outsourced workers

Sky lanterns

Pay for Royal Fleet Auxiliary Seafarers

Medical support for children in Gaza

Dermatology services

75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Glencore’s mining activities in Colombia and Peru (No. 3)

Teachers' pay in Northern Ireland

Verification of gestational age for at-home abortions

Sub-postmasters

Palestinian family visa scheme

Adult literacy

Reductions in railway funding

BBC investigative journalism

Food banks

85th anniversary of Kristallnacht and antisemitism

Myalgic encephalomyelitis research and treatment

Community Land Trust Organisations

Section 21 evictions

Scientific hearing on animal experiments

Islamophobia Awareness Month

Night Riviera Sleeper Service

Disability History Month 2023

Cost of court transcripts

Newsquest Local Democracy Reporter pay

Awareness of Postural Tachycardia Syndrome

Immigration

Sixth year of detention of Jagtar Singh Johal

Addressing the climate emergency

UN Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement

70 years of Panorama

Launch of The Rational Policy-Maker’s Guide to the NHS report

Anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak

COP28

HALO Trust mine clearance record

Nuclear test veterans

154th anniversary of the founding of the Durham Miners’ Association

Free school meals

The Fire Brigades Union's DECON Campaign

Go North East bus strike

Rwanda asylum scheme and the UK's legal obligations

Cost of applying for indefinite leave under the bereaved partner concession

Age Scotland’s 80th Anniversary

Reinstatement of the Access to Elected Office Fund

Asbestos-related lung cancer

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month

Paxlovid and clinically vulnerable patients

Hearings on the return of African artefacts and ancestral remains