13 Nov 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat steps he is taking to help improve women's health in Gosport constituency.
ReplyWe are committed to moving towards a neighbourhood health service, with more care delivered in local communities to spot problems earlier. Women’s health hubs are an example of this approach and can play a key role in delivering the Government’s commitmen...
13 Nov 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhether his Department is providing financial resources to integrated care boards to allow them to allocate resources effectively.
ReplyThe Department provides funding to NHS England, which in turn allocates a large part of its funding to the integrated care boards. Planned spend by integrated care boards is currently £141 billion for the financial year 2024/25, with boards responsible fo...
13 Nov 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhat recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the police allocation formula on (a) policing, (b) crime and (c) council tax in Hampshire.
ReplyThe government will consider police funding, including the allocation of funding to forces including Hampshire Police, in the round as part of phase 2 of the Spending Review.Each year the Home Office produces a Police Grant Report which is published and v...
24 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of delays to fitness to practice investigations on dentists' mental health.
ReplyNo assessment has been made by the Department. The General Dental Council (GDC) is the independent regulator for dentists and dental care professionals in the United Kingdom. The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) is respons...
24 Oct 2024·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·Answered
AskedMedia and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure that large scale lotteries meet social responsibility requirements.
ReplyThere are around 500 large society lotteries licensed by the Gambling Commission. The Gambling Act 2005 has licensing objectives that underpin the responsible functions that any Lottery must meet. These include:preventing gambling from being a source of c...
24 Oct 2024·Treasury·Answered
AskedWhat estimate her Department has made of the potential revenue loss from large society lotteries who should be paying lottery duty due to not meeting social responsibility requirements but have not.
ReplyExemptions are permitted from Lottery Duty including for lotteries run as Large Society Lotteries under the terms of the Gambling Act 2005. Regulatory responsibility for those lotteries lies with the Gambling Commission. Society lotteries require a licenc...
23 Oct 2024·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·Answered
AskedMedia and Sport, if she will make it her policy to hold a consultation on a text and data mining exception to copyright legislation.
ReplyWe recognise the important role that the UK copyright framework plays in supporting investment into the creative industries and ensuring that talent and creativity are rewarded. Finding the right balance between rewarding human-centred creativity, fosteri...
23 Oct 2024·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·Answered
AskedMedia and Sport, whether she has had recent discussions with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of a text and data mining exception to copyright legislation.
ReplyWe recognise the important role that the UK copyright framework plays in supporting investment into the creative industries and ensuring that talent and creativity are rewarded. Finding the right balance between rewarding human-centred creativity, fosteri...
23 Oct 2024·Department for Culture, Media and Sport·Answered
AskedMedia and Sport, whether her Department has had recent discussions with representatives of the creative industries on proposals for a text and data mining exception to copyright legislation.
ReplyWe recognise the important role that the UK copyright framework plays in supporting investment into the creative industries and ensuring that talent and creativity are rewarded. Finding the right balance between rewarding human-centred creativity, fosteri...
23 Oct 2024·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·Answered
AskedInnovation and Technology, if she will make an assessment of the implications for her policies of the open letter entitled Statement on AI Training, published on 23 October 2024.
ReplyThe Minister for Creative Industries, Arts, and Tourism and I held roundtables with the creative, media and AI sectors last month and our departments continue to engage with those stakeholders to inform our approach. The Statement on AI Training provides ...
22 Oct 2024·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·Answered
AskedCommunities and Local Government, if she will amend the Future Homes and Buildings Standards to ensure that all newbuild homes include solar photovoltaic panels.
ReplyFuture standards next year will set our new homes and buildings on a path that moves away from relying on volatile fossil fuels and ensures they are fit for a net zero future. This will support our ambition that the 1.5 million homes we will build over th...
22 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedWhat assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing the recommendations of the National Centre for Creative Health's review entitled Creative Health Review, published on
ReplyNo specific assessment has been made.
22 Oct 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedWhether she plans to review the police funding formula.
ReplyAny future changes to the funding and resourcing of police forces in England and Wales will be considered and awarded in the normal way.
22 Oct 2024·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·Answered
AskedInnovation and Technology, with reference to the publication entitled Annual statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2023, published on 11 September 2024, what steps he plans to take
ReplyThe Government has committed to partnering with scientists, industry, and civil society as we work towards the requirements for phasing out of animal testing and we are currently engaging with the sector as to how to take this commitment forward.The Gover...
22 Oct 2024·Home Office·Answered
AskedHow many applications for project licences to conduct experiments on animals under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were refused permission between 1 January 2023 and 30 September 2024.
ReplyFrom 1 January 2023 to 30 September 2024, no applications for a project licence under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 have been refused.The Government publishes extensive guidance for the regulated sector on applying for project licences. App...
22 Oct 2024·Department of Health and Social Care·Answered
AskedPursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7738 on General Practitioners: Gosport, what steps he plans to take to introduce Neighbourhood Health Centres in Gosport constituency.
ReplyWe have committed to trialling Neighbourhood Health Centres to bring together a range of services, ensuring healthcare is closer to home and patients receive the care they deserve. This is part of our broader ambition to move towards a Neighbourhood Healt...
22 Oct 2024·Department for Education·Answered
AskedWhether her Department has made an estimate of the number of private school pupils with an education, health and care plan who will (a) enter mainstream state education, (b) enter specialist state education and
ReplyThe department has not made any estimate of the number of pupils with an education, health and care (EHC) plan who will enter state-funded mainstream or special schools or leave private mainstream education as a result of the proposed application of VAT t...
22 Oct 2024·Department for Transport·Answered
AskedWhat assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the availability of driving tests within (a) half an hour, (b) an hour and (c) two hours travel of the Gosport peninsula.
ReplyThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA’s) main priority is to reduce car practical driving test waiting times, whilst upholding road safety standards.DVSA continues to take measures to increase test availability. These include the recruitment of ...
22 Oct 2024·Department for Work and Pensions·Answered
AskedPursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 6049 on Pension Credit: Gosport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding the survey sample sizes for entitled non-recipi
ReplyThe take-up statistics which include the estimated number of entitled non-recipients for Pension Credit, are based on survey data from the Family Resources Survey. The Family Resources Survey is designed to produce robust regional estimates and does not i...
21 Oct 2024·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·Answered
AskedFood and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 9 October 2024 to question 6040 on Flood Control: Alverstoke, what discussions he has had with the Environment Agency on Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Manage
ReplyDefra Ministers regularly meet with the Environment Agency’s leadership team to discuss delivery of departmental priorities, including the floods investment programme. We have inherited a programme which is behind schedule due to the impacts of inflation,...