Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to provide financial or logistical support to small craft manufacturers struggling with high import duties when bringing their own work back into the UK after exhibiting abroad.

Answered by Lord Livermore - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)

Relief from import duties can be claimed when bringing goods back into the UK. Returned Goods Relief allows individuals and businesses to claim relief from customs duty and import VAT on goods which are exported from the UK and subsequently returned to the UK, subject to meeting the relief’s conditions.

Guidance on the financial and logistical support which may be available for moving goods temporarily between the UK and other countries without payment of import duties can be found on GOV.UK.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review the salary threshold of £38,700 for a Skilled Worker visa.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

In the Home Secretary’s Written Ministerial Statement on 30^th July, she outlined that the UK government would be retaining the salary thresholds set in April this year. Further details can be found here: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024- 07-30/hcws51.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to add critically endangered crafts on the Radcliffe Red List to the Shortage Occupation List to help UK-based heritage craft businesses recruit skilled artisans.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

Any job which meets the skill requirement of the Skilled Worker immigration route can be sponsored for a visa. The majority of the occupations on the red list are eligible to be sponsored.

The Shortage Occupation List (SOL) was replaced with the Immigration Salary List (ISL).

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what evaluations have been conducted on NHS-developed electronic health record systems in Leeds, Birmingham and Southampton; what benefits and risks have been identified in comparison to commercial systems developed by EPIC, Cerner and Infosys; and whether they plan to replace the NHS-developed systems with these commercial solutions.

Answered by Baroness Merron - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

NHS England carried out an evaluation of National Health Service-developed electronic health record (EHR) solutions in late 2022, the findings of which were endorsed at the NHS England Digital, Data and Technology Committee in March 2023. The review found that while NHS-developed EHR systems have some benefits, the lack of appetite for their adoption in neighbouring organisations was a limiting factor in their broader use, at a time when sharing EHRs across organisations is being encouraged. The review concluded that there was no current basis to replace NHS-developed solutions, except where, through local decision making, it was deemed appropriate to do so.

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