Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the impact of the extension of secondary preferential creditor on levels of (1) business insolvencies, (2) job losses, and (3) the value of economic growth and taxes foregone, in 12 months’ time.
Answered by Lord Agnew of Oulton
The Government undertook careful work to assess the impact of the measures ahead of announcement and implementation. As with all tax policy changes, the Government published this assessment in a tax information and impact note which can be found on GOV.UK.[1]
The policy will be monitored through continuing communications with affected taxpayer groups and insolvency practitioners.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-protect-tax-in-insolvency-cases
Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to announce the initial funding allocations to be made from the previously announced Youth Investment Fund.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Shadow Minister (Education)
DCMS officials continue to assess how COVID-19 is impacting on young people and youth services. We will keep engaging with the youth sector as plans for the Youth Investment Fund develop, and expect to publish further details in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to announce a decision on the continuation of the Primary PE and Sport Premium for the next academic year.
Answered by Baroness Berridge
The government will confirm arrangements for the PE and Sport Premium in the 2020-21 academic year as soon as possible.
Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to publish their standard operating procedure for children’s hospices and community-provided children’s palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Answered by Lord Bethell
Working with key stakeholders, NHS England and NHS improvement have developed a standard operating procedure (SOP), for palliative care for children and young people in community and hospice settings during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is due to be published shortly.
The SOP is aimed at supporting staff who are providing care or supporting children and young people, and their families, who have palliative and/or end of life care needs in the community, including home and hospice care. Palliative care will include some children and young people who have life-limiting long-term conditions and complex health needs. It encourages all providers of children’s palliative care (statutory and voluntary sector) to work collaboratively and flexibly across health settings to support this group of children and young people and keep them safe during the pandemic.
Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans have been granted access to the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre through the Veterans Prosthetic Panel in the last 12 months.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
Twelve veteran patients have been seen at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre in the last calendar year.
Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans were granted access to Headley Court in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
Since 2016, veterans with amputation-related complications can be referred by the NHS to the Complex Prosthetics Assessment Clinic (CPAC) at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, which relocated from Headley Court to the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate in 2018. To date, 41 patients have been seen at the CPAC since it began. A breakdown of patients by year is not available.
Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many veterans requested but were refused access to Headley Court in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
Veteran referrals and requests for DMRC treatment can be received in many different ways, for which there is no central record. Consequently, an answer to this question cannot be provided.
Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to grant veterans access to Stanford Hall for rehabilitation purposes.
Answered by Tobias Ellwood
The Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) mission is to provide sick and injured Service personnel the rehabilitation they require to be able to return to duty or transition back into civilian life, at which point the NHS becomes responsible for their care.
The access policy at the new DMRC Stanford Hall remains unchanged from that previously in place at DMRC Headley Court, in that there is no provision generally for veterans to access the facility. We have, however, in collaboration with the NHS, established a specialist clinic whereby NHS Limb Fitting Centres can refer selected veterans (who are ex-DMRC patients) back to the DMRC for assistance with the management of amputation-related complications.
This Complex Prosthetics Assessment Clinic (CPAC) has also been used to identify suitable candidates (serving and veterans) for the LIBOR-funded MOD/NHS osseointegration surgical pilot. After surgery all these patients (including veterans) are rehabilitated at the DMRC. We are also currently exploring options for a limited expansion of the CPAC eligibility criteria to include those non-amputee patients that have been fitted with medical devices such as offload braces.
Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which railway stations were considered for Access for All funding in Control Period 6 but were not successful.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
The Department for Transport asked the industry to nominate stations for the new funding by 16 November last year, and received nominations for over 300 stations. In the Loughborough constituency, Loughborough Station was nominated unsuccessfully as it was made step-free under Access for All in 2011/12. Neither Barrow-Upon-Soar nor Sileby Stations were nominated.
In total 73 stations are set to benefit from this funding by 2024. This is in addition to the 24 Access for All projects that are currently in design or construction.
Asked by: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ring-fencing Medical Research Council funds for biomedical research on myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in order to ensure that overall research funding for ME is proportional to that spent on research into similarly prevalent health conditions.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
I refer my rt. hon. Friend to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for North West Norfolk on 20th March 2019 to Question 231931.